41 (par 37). 1 birdie, 1 triple bogey.

Bad breaks on the blow up hole. Ball striking was very good, putting not so much.

37 - 38 = 75
31 putts
8/14 FIR
10/18 GIR
2 birdies no doubles

40
bleh

Worst putting day ever. Got 36 in today

40 - 44 = 84
35 putts with no 3 putts (takes an insane amount of effort to have 35 putts without a 3 putt, total commitment to not making a first putt but not hitting ****ty lags)
6/14 FIR (had several recovery shots that were pitch outs or insanely hard tree trouble)
6/18 GIR
No birdies 1 double

37 - 39 = 76
34 putts with one 3 putt
8/14 FIR
11/18 GIR
1 birdie no doubles.

About the only good thing about today was in only took a few minutes over 5 hours to finish 36

Golf is weird after shooting 84 yesterday played so so so good today for me. If I had just aimed at the middle of a few greens I would have broke par, got a tad greedy since I felt really in control of where the ball was going. Only hit 2 truly bad shots one was really really awful hit a hybrid that knuckle topped into a little stream only 80 yards in front of me, but dropped stuck it to 12 feet from 98 yards and made a tricky putt. The other bad one was a bunker shot hit mostly ball and ended up on the fringe on the other side of the green like 55 feet from the pin. First 72 from the blue tees.

36 - 36 = 72
27 putts with no 3 putts (absurdly good day putting, +3.5 SGP)
11/14 FIR
9/18 GIR
3 birdies no doubles

Super happy just need to not get greedy on the pins right next to the edge of the green. Probably 5 of my missed greens landed with in 5 feet of the edge but sadly got some bad kicks away from the green.

+2 38 - Finally some good results with my swing change.

1 birdie, 3 bogeys
3/7 fairways (although my misses were just off fairway)
5/9 greens
16 putts (one 3 putt bogey)

Progress

41-41-82. No birdies, 1 double bogey.

The way I hit the ball it should have been a stress-free 75 or so. But since I have hands of stone, anything within 10 yards of the green was an adventure. There were some good 4 foot second putts, there were a couple misses from inside 3 feet.

38-41-79. 2 birdies, 2 double bogeys.

Ball striking wasn't as good today but it was still plenty good. Putting was inconsistent but mostly bad. Club champion, net division.

Played a course I hadn't played before today with my uncle. Pretty short but small greens and trouble if you are struggling or off line. Hit it really good just didn't putt well.

37 - 39 = 76 (Par 71)
34 putts with one 3 putt
12/14 FIR
12/18 GIR
1 birdie 1 double

probably my best round ever today.... not numerically but i think general play.

shot 82 off a mixed blue-white tee.......... it was very wet which was good (hitting greens and around the greens) and bad (inconsistent contact from fairway/rough)............ 2 doubles (1 of them is a hard hole) and a fair number of needless bogeys. touch wood, lots of room for immediate improvement.

my lost strokes were:

5 strokes poor irons/wedges.

2 strokes - terrible layup on par 5.

2 strokes - 3 putts or 3 strokes easy chip and putts.

1 stroke - bad drive.

my 4 semi-breakthroughs and/or positive observations:

1) i've watched top local players (pga tour guys) very closely in exhibitions. they seem to whip through the ball very flatly. never deep divots vs. me and other duffers who have giant divots... so i tried to channel their horizontal whipping through the ball.

2) tried my 2H again and did really well with it. hit some greens from over 200 yards away on wet day. gigantic roll if on fairway.... i will note having played tons of wet golf that you can usually get tons of roll if 1) hit it low and hard; 2) keep it in short grass.

3) fixed my shorter and lag putting... play ball a bit further back in stance. was pulling putts before... also more juice and less break on short putts.

4) was able to warm up hitting full pitches (which doesn't usually happen for numerous reasons).... rehearsing trapping the ball and other things helps alot............. i need access to grass driving range somewhere. this was a long way from my house and didn't have grass driving range. just a fairly big pitching area.

excited about all this stuff....... if i can tame 2H, i can see myself hitting it alot and not that much need for 5w and especially 3w (i tend to float those anyway, whereas i see to get a very hard low flight with 2h uniflex shaft)...

You will have a bigger margin for error when you swing a little flatter, way harder to chunk it as well. Sounds like a good round, especially when you can take so much good away from it

yayyy, it actually happened! So I've made some posts recently about how I'm coming off a brain trauma surgery and coma and rehab stay and how I managed to pull a +2 on 9 after being in a wheelchair, then how I pulled a +3 on a par 3 course where my goal my entire life has been to break 30, and today I finally just did it!

I played one round at the par 3 course and it didn't go too great, I 3 putt a few times and on 9 even lost my first ball in the hazard, then hit another and found it in the hazard and had to pull it. I don't even know the exact scores there. I gave myself a ? for a score, but since it's cheap to play twice in a row I played another round and it all came together. Here's my scorecard.



Yep, I pulled a +1, 28. 6 pars, 2 bogeys, and 1 birdie. The bottom number is that I'm tracking how many putts I made as a bad putter normally, and I got through these 9 with 14 putts.

There is one thing I need to change that makes this a bit too easy. I don't play from the tips, I play from the second tees. So on 5 my shot could have been from 207 out but my tee was actually 10 yards behind the women's tees, so it was only about 132 away, but I hit a decent 8 iron here.



I was very happy with my play on 7. Typically I do very poor on this hole, and this time I was about 151 out and I hit my 6 iron pretty close. I even managed to make this putt, which put me at even par on the round, and at that point I started to think "darn, I might actually break 30 this time."



Then on 9 I knew I had to not royally screw up and drop a ball or two in the hazard on the right, so I was very careful with my tee shot and ended up with a really good one:



This is the hole that I managed to 3 putt last time to shoot exactly 30 when a 2 putt would have gotten me what I've been trying to get, so I find it funny for a few reasons that I pulled a 3 putt from this close. First I was just happy because I didn't hit it in the water and I knew I was gonna make my goal.

It amuses me how I managed to 3 putt on 9 when I could've gotten lucky and broke par. Just like the book I'm re-reading is called, Golf is not a game of perfect, and I don't expect to pull what would pretty much be a perfect round for me if I went 1 under par. I don't plan to, I don't get sad when I don't, and I don't expect to do so amazingly well, but I still love the game.

One last thing I gotta say: I've gotten in FitBit walks lately and I was looking for podcasts, and I found one called Golficity and I think it's great. It's made my walks even better and I actually talked to the maker on email because I had some questions about the podcat, and I told him about my surgery stay that turned me back into golf, and he might even tell my story on a podcast, which I'm thrilled about. It's mainly because how golf can be a game for life, you can play it when you're 80 years old if you can still walk, and in some ways golf can be a game you return to if you show some dedication, no matter what you went through. I recommend it, good listen. Thanks guys.

42 (par 35). No birdies, 2 double bogeys. Not sharp.

just to expound on my great new swing feel.

i will caution that almost every minor break-thru i've ever had didn't work the next time out.............. for some reason this one feels different. felt much more control than ever before.

i would say that the following these pro's i've seen up very close (and fooling around to a certain degree so they are very loose in how they swing):

1) they definitely "swing forward" as opposed to "down" much more than any non-elite amateurs i know. it's a bit like the "skipping a stone" analogy. i know there are training aids that promote swinging downwards but i think duffers swing down too much and not in the right position... having said that if you see a tee box for a par 3 at a pga tourney there are alot of long divots... leads into point 2.

2) moe norman talked about divots being "bacon strips". i think he's right.

anyway, i play in wet, rainy pacific NW so hitting down on the ball and coming up a tiny bit behind the ball leads to a bad shot... i used to play on the great plains (near north dakota). you could definitely hit behind the ball there and get away with it.

As long as your hitting ball then ground it is all good. Fat shots get super ugly when guys try to swing down and hit 2 inches behind the ball.

Finally did it, broke par. Was looking bad for a bit but managed to birdie 18 for 71. Was 3 under after 10 so kind of made it way tight but I am happy

34 - 37 = 71
29 putts with no 3 putts
9/14 FIR
12/18 GIR
1 Eagle, 3 birdies, 4 bogeys.

awesome, congrats

Boom!

Thanks guys, glad I got that in before winter decides to end my season, probably still have 10 weeks or more if I want to golf in sub 40 weather.

That's awesome man, congrats. It's interesting to me because I think it might give me a goal I've never thought about. in the past I wanted to break 80 and I did it once. Shooting under par is crazy good at my current level but since I love the game and just want to improve, I think I'll try my best to achieve that within 5 years or so. (Yeah I could probably pull it from the easy tees on my easy par 3 course, but I'm talking about a real round of 18.)

Probably a standard goal for many golfers around, this is just one of many weird thoughts I have now.

Wow under par that's something

shot 69

lol nice, I've managed to break 60 over 18 holes before

Some real accomplishments, good job guys

Weird round today. Played great except on the holes I didn't.

36 - 39 = 75
30 putts with no 3 putts
8/14 FIR
11/18 GIR

4 birdies, 1 bogey, 3 doubles

Well I think if I managed to shoot under par, I'd return the next day and shoot over 80, so you did well there regardless.