What'd You Shoot Today? (Golf BBV Thread)

[bonds]

Spring golf trip - 4 days

Sunday: Oak Hollow GC, High Point NC, 87
Monday: Little River, Carthage NC, 83
Monday: Southern Pines GC, Southern Pines NC, 88
Tuesday: Talamore, Southern Pines NC, 90
Tuesday: Foxfire (West), Foxfire Village NC, 86
Wednesday: Tobacco Road, Sanford NC, 81

Had great weather on Sunday. Oak Hollow is a Pete Dye course on a fairly small piece of land. Lots of small, elevated greens. Prepare to chip ... a lot.

Monday was windy. Little River is a decent course, played well. Southern Pines is an old Donald Ross design and was in much better shape than when I played it 3-4 years ago. Definitely recommended.

Tuesday was cold (high of about 50) and very windy, making for brutal conditions. Talamore has about a million sand traps and very soft sand which made for a long day. It was nice to have the course to ourselves in the afternoon - we saw one other group total.

Wednesday's course, Tobacco Road, is - for lack of a better word - unique. If tried to pay it without the yardage book you'd go crazy. Blind shots. Waste areas. Strategic options. It's nuts. Even though I generally prefer traditional layouts, I liked it. It probably didn't hurt that I was sharp, making 8 pars on the front nine. The wind came up on the back, making it that much harder.

I hit one of the most ridiculous shots I've ever pulled off on #11:



I didn't quite flush my third shot and got a terrible break as well - the ball kicked hard right down into this gigantic waste bunker. That diagram doesn't come close to doing it justice, but the 30 feet deep thing is legit. I'm a couple yards from the front wall and it just goes up and up and up. Opened up the sand wedge as far as it could go, swung hard, popped it up and it not only got out, the ball hit about two inches from the pin.

If you're in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill - Pinehurst - Fayetteville - Sanford area, you owe it to yourself to play this course at least once.

[bjohnson]

san jacinto muni course in pasadena,texas

35-43 (78)

i hit all 9 gir on the front (first time ive ever done that)

on the front i had my best ball striking round ever...if i could put i would have shot 31... on the back i got paired up with 3 guys that had extremely poor etiquette (re: 20 mulligans a piece -- no bull****...) and they still shot no better than 55 on arguably the easiest course in the area. i let my patience get to me, speeded up my swing and played like **** compared to front.

[bonds]

Originally Posted by bonds

That diagram doesn't come close to doing it justice, but the 30 feet deep thing is legit.

Shameless brag incomplete without photo (not mine) of giant waste bunker:

[Logieuk]

Played on a new course in Bristol (7200y) which is a decent testing course, first time playing it too.

Managed to shoot 77 which is the first time i've broken the 80 barrier, never realised untill 4 days later when i shot 79 on my home course (Off the whites aswell, 6500y)!

Chuffed to break the 80's twice in a week, best shot was on the bristol course hitting a 5i 210 to an elevated green and stopping 7ft from the pin, shame i balls'd the putt up. I lashed the 5i and caught it good, went dead straight.

Handed some new cards in to my course for HDCP adjustment so hopefully i might get into single digits

[AJW]

West Middlesex par 69 length 6119 yards
91 45/46 and 35 putts
I have almost no idea how I played so much better today then last time and only beat my score by 3 strokes.
My putting was much better I still three puttied twice.
My short game was better; I got up and down in two from both the bunkers I went in and only flubbed one chip.
My driving was better, on the back nine I was twenty to thirty yards in advance of my usual landing areas. I also hit six out of eleven fairways missing only one by a significant margin.
I had one blow up hole a 178 yard par 3 I pushed my tee shot right into thick trees and instead of doing the smart thing and declaring it unplayable I took two shots to hack it out one pitch onto the green and then three jacked it.
I made another horrible error of judgment by going for the green in two on the last only to get lucky and find my ball had come through the trees id blocked it into.

[bonds]

90. Nice symmetry - 3 pars, 3 doubles, 12 bogeys. 9 over on each side. Yuck. I don't think I want to go back and add up my putts, had to be at least 40.

[POKEROMGLOL]

85.... 39-46

the 39 was really nice as it was windy and I had a few silly lipouts. The 46 was a few wasted shots, two decent tee shots that got bad bounces and ended up directly behind small trees, and my personal favorite, having to hit a shot while listening to "save a horse ride a cowboy". Seriously, this disturbed me so much that I duck hooked 3 straight shots and was +6 through 3 holes.

[bjohnson]

evergreen point in baytown texas

37-44 (81)

played great on the front, missed a 2 foot putt for birdie and 3 putt from inside 8 feet...so really should have shot 34 (missed some other birdie putts too...:/)

on the back i hit a bunker shot to 2 feet on #10 and managed to 3 putt (freaking slider....) from there i mentally lost it and shot ****.

[where da ho go]

I shot 75 today so net 2 over but I am really tilted at what happened on the second hole. Its a short, 315 yard par 4 dog leg left. It plays a lot shorter than that if u can go over the trees which isnt hard to do if u play a high draw like i do. I was on the tee and hit a sweet drive that went over trees as usual which should have landed less than 20 yards away from the pin ( pin was in back left). Its a blind shot from the tee so i could not see if there were people on the green or not. I went up looking for my ball and could not find it. Looked for about 5 minutes and had to go back and reload (a drive that didn't go as well). So i finish the hole and ended up have a 6 after reloading. Now I am on the 4th hole and see some people on the fifth hole, i asked them if they saw a ball when the were playing number 2. Apparenty there was a ball (Pro V1) which was on the green!! that they thought was left by someone who had previously played the hole SO THEY PICKED IT UP . It was in fact my ball when they showed it to me and if they left it on the green i would have been about 30 feet for eagle.


i had 38 on front and 37 on back

[bjohnson]

battleground @ deer park in deer park, texas

39-41 (80)

7/14 fairways
11/18 gir

had a great ballstriking day, but could not capitalize on short putts.

3 three-putt gir and only 1 biride out of 5 approach shots or so inside 12 feet. my wedges are absolutely on fire right now so i'm getting a ton of good looks, but i simply cannot captialize on the short putt.

im very excited at where my golf game is right now, i feel like if i practice putting a bit ill become a single digit and start to break 80 with more consistency in no time at all.

[POKEROMGLOL]

my handicap is a 7 and your scores are consistently better than mine lately. ???

[bjohnson]

i found something in my swing that's letting me hit the fairway and greens now. :]

basicly i think im finally making the move from a 12 handicap to a single digit. just took a few months of practice.

[Wondercall]

Well if I had to guess I'm around a 25 (I don't keep a handicap) but today at the Ahwatukee Country Club I shot 40 (par 36). This is my best 9 hole score ever and I'm super excited. Just thought I would share.

[JavaNut]

22 stableford points, had no rythm in my swing.

[TripleH68]

Shot 82 on Easter morning. Still very rusty from the winter, but several shots are worth mentioning...

1) Par 3 playing into a breeze over water. 150 yards to the flag and I striped a 7-iron dead on the hole. It landed two feet from the cup but rolled down the slope to the back fringe. Three swipes with the putter for a bogey.

2) Par 4 green guarded by a creek in the front. Dumped my approach in the water. Took a drop and got up and down from 50 yards for par.

3) Par 5 through a corridor of trees. Pulled drive left. Try a hook that doesn't hook with a 4-iron. In the trees right. Bang out a low iron that runs into the trees left. With 95 yards left I hood down a wedge to keep it under the tree branches and pinch it with a little 5/8s swing. Two hops and hits the flagstick. Tap in par.

I think I hit four greens in regulation.