First full round of the season and shot a 96 which was painful. Used to shoot in the mid to low 80's.

Putting showed improvement though over the end of last year. Practice seems to be helping.

Hitting a lot of fat shots / deep divots with my irons, especially short irons. Probably too steep of an attack. Need to try and add some width to my backswing I think and try to take some shallower divots.

Hit a low snap hook with my driver on the back nine and nuked a bird in the head. Dead instantly....felt kinda bad.

lol I think I've seen monkeys shoot less than this.

Played City Park. 67-54-121.

Brag: rolled in a nice breaking 15-footer on the first hole. Didn't have a single shot worse than 9, which I think is a first for me. Managed to get through 18 holes of golf while adhering fairly closely to the actual rules of golf, which is also a first. Putted fairly well (36 total). Chipping game getting better.

Beat: stunk up the front nine with an approach shot into the water on #1, two tee shots in the water on the par-3 second hole, and a snap-hook drive into the water on 8. Could've broken 50 on the very short back nine (par 32) had I finished double bogey-double bogey. Instead I shot 8-9. And while my chipping is getting better, I still had three or four chips where I only knocked the ball a few feet forward, and I missed a handful of chip shots or short lob wedge pitches over the green.

Kudos to a positive review of a 121! I love it!

Shot a 98 in the wind at Exeter CC in Rhode Island. I didnt catch the name of the hurricane that went through. But it was whipping all day.

I think I have a shot at being the worst player ever to break 100. Every time I hit my driver I hit a ground ball, usually down the middle of the fairway. Depending on how much rough is in front off the tees before the fairway starts, I can get maybe 150 yards, sometimes a few more. Then I can usually hit a low, badly hooking six-iron anywhere up to 140 yards or so. Once I get inside 90 or so I usually have a shot at getting a lob wedge on or near the green. Then chip on and two-putt. I feel like if I improve my putting, chipping, and lob wedge shots I could break 100 (at least on this par-67 course, 4800 yards from the tees I play) despite not hitting a single shot that goes more than 150 yards, and without being able to hit anything other than a lob wedge more than a few feet off the ground. (Sometimes I can hit my 3-wood and 5-wood 170-200 yards or so in the air, but they're very inconsistent, so if I can get away with hitting my driver along the ground, I do so.)

It's really stunning how bad the mental game of the 95-110 golfer is. So often I'll meet someone on the first tee and play a round, and even though they hit the ball a million times better than I do they probably only end up 10 strokes ahead of me (assuming they actually count all their penalty strokes, mulligans, etc.). I played with a guy today who sliced all but one of his drives. You'd think he'd learn to aim left and deal with it, but he didn't. Another time I played with some 20-something who thought he was way better than he was, and kept trying to hit some fancy-looking chip shot where he swung fast and had virtually no follow-through. But he blasted the ball over the green just about every time. Most bad golfers simply have no concept of EV and go for aggressive shots way more often than they should.

Yeah, back when I was that bad, my mental game sucked. It's still not great, but it's miles (or kilometers for our Canadian friends) from where it was when I was shooting 100-110.

First round of the season today, exams are finally done...42-42-84 on my local municipal course. Short game was absolutely atrocious, needs some serious work. I wanna start breaking 80 again with regularity, something I haven't done since high school.

44 (par 37). One of these days it's not going to be so windy.

Even though the score wasn't good - bad putting and a bad triple on a par 3 - it was an encouraging round. Ball striking was much better, I was on one of the par 5s in two (3 putted for par) and I had a legit shot at reaching one of the others, a hole I haven't been on in 2 in years. I kinda chunked that shot but that's beside the point.

Who knows what tomorrow may bring, but I'm looking forward to it.

Tomorrow may bring a lot of rain.

Brag: Only 10 shots worse than tiger.
Beat: Worst day of his professional career.

Shot a 44-45-89 :\

I wish. It stopped raining here by 6:00 so we just had a wet course.

49-50-99.

The only positive thing I can say about anything is that I drilled a 5 footer right in the center of the ****ing cup on 18 to avoid triple digits.

4/13 fairways, 2 greens, 44 putts.

41/45 = 86 at Piper's Heath

First time playing the course and really enjoyed it. It's kind of a hybrid links/parkland course; fescuey mounding on the sides of most of the holes, but it had a few trees too. Really big, friendly fairways and big and true greens.

I am really driving the ball well right now; I hit one snap hook all day, every other drive was a high-draw which I barely missed the fairways with. However, at 6800 yards, it was a little longer than I am used to and I struggled a bit with my irons. Didn't have a single three-putt today though and hit some really nice chips. Overall I am pretty happy with my game right now, I just need a few more things to click so I can put up the scores i'm capable of.

ordered AP2s today and also learned that apparently I have the ball back in my stance like a foot and a half.

Probably explains why I hit 3 woods like I'm a 30 handicap.

Shot a 39/36, 75 at Maple Moor Golf Course. One of the only times in my life I have played from the blue tees and shot the 3rd lowest round of my life. 29 putts,played with one ball the entire day, and only had one '3' putt. Only missed 3 fairways, and those balls were manageable in the light rough.

Hit Driver, 6 iron lay up to every par 5 and played them at -1...It is amazing what can happen when you just keep the ball in play.

40-46 86. 6/13 fairways, 9 greens, 38 putts

Much more of a standard round. A few really good shots to go with the horrible ones.

And I 4-putted the same stupid hole two days in a row. Aargh.

Haven't been playing at all this year due to family stuff (lacrosse teams, etc.) and 2 weeks at Borgata.

SO this morning was MD AM and MD Open Qualifier and had no expectations and was fortunate enough to shoot 71 (35-36) in the wind to get into both events.

You'll be happy with your new irons. I picked up a set last year and they are money.

Played 9 today, came in at a -1 with 14 putts (including a 3 jack - yuck).

Played Torrey Pines north today and shot a 93. 48-45. It is actually tied for my best round ever so I am super pumped. I also had birdie putts on all 4 par 3's which is also super rare for me. ( 3 pars and a bogie). Those were my only pars of the day but I did birdie 18 on a 520yd par 5 when I stuck a nice 30 foot putt.

It was actually a weird round because I was complete **** with my driver and that got magnified at Torrey compared to where we normally play. But I managed to hit a bunch of greens from 100-170 yards and only 3 putted like 3 times the entire round. I just started breaking 100 around a month or two ago (only been really playing since november) so hopefully I can get the occasional round in the 80's pretty soon.

Good to hear! I hit the CBs too and while they feel pretty sweet, they aren't very forgiving. It's been about 10 years since I got some new irons, so I'm really hoping that I hit more greens and hit long irons better. Based on the way I was hitting those things, I might actually leave the 3 iron in and drop my hybrid.

Shot a blistering 46 with bookend birdies. If it wasn't for a couple pesky triples I could've broken 40 maybe.

Took a trip to Portland this past weekend and carded 60-48 at heron lakes blue course then a 42-56 at chehalem Glenn. Lol consistency..

They should definitely offer up more consistency and forgiveness in your iron game. When I played yesterday I got lazy with a lay up shot on a long par 5 and caught it pretty heavy on the toe with my 6 iron - it still had a mid trajectory flight and carried quite a ways. Wanting to see the difference between a poorly struck ball, and a good one, i played another from the same spot and striped it - the difference between the two shots was a whopping 7 or 8 yards.

Score related: Played in my Monday night 4 man best ball league for the first time last night. Had great intentions when I went out, but didn't realize how tired and stiff I was getting after having played earlier in the day. Started off great by driving a short par 4, but was hit or miss after that. Our team came in at -4 for 9 holes (the same 9 i walked around at -1 earlier in the afternoon). Highlights included my 5 iron from 180 out, up hill, into a stiff wind to 9 feet then having all 4 of us miss the putt - and me hitting and honest to god shank - which hasn't happened in like.... a decade at least.

90 Year old woman hits hole in one.

The hole was 181yards

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/8656866.stm

46 (par 37). Went for the cycle, had a birdie, bogey, double, triple and quad. The other holes were boring pars.

21 putts, 4/7 fairways, 6/9 greens. At least there were a couple quality shots, there is hope.