Now that I'm back to playing most every Saturday and Sunday all year long I'm hoping to start posting in here after each round. Even if it's just so I don't pretend the bad rounds didn't happen. Picture sharing ok in here or does it clog the thread up too much? Been playing some sweet tracks around Phoenix and wanted to share some of the pictures since I love seeing pictures from other people and their courses and outtings. The Golf in Phoenix thread has been dead for awhile so this thread seemed like as good a place as any.

ec - i can't speak for others but my vote is for you doing whatever you want. i'm just happy to see more people posting.

THIS

I count fringe (within reason, not 20 feet) as putts, and also a GIR.

Wednesday - 45-41-86 - 1 birdie, lots of double +'s. This is where one of the tourney rounds is next week, which scares me. I really like the course and usually play well. Just was out of my mind lost. I couldn't hit a shot without a 40 yard slice for about 10 holes straight. Slowly figured it out by the end of the round.

CLOSING - +1 over the last 7 (yes, I sucked THAT BAD earlier)

Today

37-40-77

0 birdies, 2 doubles --- 1 eagle

Went for one of the par 4's in two, dumping it in the greenside bunker, then holed out for eagle. Stil can't make **** for putts. CLOSING - Up and down for par on 18???

One more round tomorrow then tourney on Innisbrook Copperhead Saturday morning. Beat - Course has only been open 1 week after tee to green aeration.

ec - post away imo. Maybe use spoilers if you're going to post more than half a dozen pics at a time or something?

I don't count fringe as GIR (okay, maybe if it's literally right on the edge, but otherwise no), but I also rarely bother to track anymore.

trending in the correct direction scott...looking forward to the trip report from this weekend.
i want you to impress us with how little you tried and how well you did.

Played a SoCal Country Club with a couple of pretty good pro who play Junior Circuit events. They are pretty crushed the Canadian Tour was cancelled.

I think they both shot around 69. And hit a mile. Like they all do now. One looks like Dustin Johnson.

I shot a meh 82. Pathetic.

I did birdie the #1 handicap hole. 440-yard Par 4 into the wind and uphill. Driver 5-wood to 10 feet and made putt. These guys had 8-irons.

Getting back into the groove.

Prob a very dumb question but what is "net" double bogey? As opposed just double bogey

"Net" means after your handicap is taken into account.

According to the USGA, before you have a handicap established, you should not take (for establishing a handicap purposes) a score of more than par plus 5 shots on a hole.

Once your handicap is established, you don't take a score (again, for handicap purposes), a score higher than net double bogey.

Let's say you establish a handicap and for the sake of simplicity it's 18. That means you get one stroke per hole on each of the 18 holes.

So on par 3s, a double bogey is 5, but you can take a 6 because you subtract the handicap stroke. Your gross 6 becomes a net 5. If you made a 7, you'd be limited to counting 6. Make a 10, still limited to 6.

The handicap ranking of holes is marked on the scorecard, 1-18. If your handicap is more than 18, you get extra shots on the hardest holes (with the lowest handicap number) -- if you are a 19 handicap, you get one shot on each of the 18 holes and a second shot on the #1 handicap hole. If you're a 36, you get two shots on every hole.

36-39-75

3 birdies, 2 doubles

Started out good, was -1 thru 11. Then the swing from Wednesday showed up for 3 holes. Fired 2 balls way left off the planet on 12 and 14 leading to doubles. Limped home in -1 over the last 4 holes. Went straight to the range and figured it out. Now I need to be able to fix this on the course in the middle of the round.

Solid. What course?

34-36-70. Par 60. No birdies, 1 double bogey.

Nice executive course. In great condition and played in just over 3 hours even though there were a couple stretches of waiting behind reallly slow foursomes before they let us through.

Ball striking was iffy, chipping was mostly very good, putting was shaky.

43-46-89 par 68.

8 pars no birdies. only one lost tee shot which came with the first swing of the day; intended draw pushed right and fell short of clearing the water that blocks the right side of the first fairway. after that i only lost one ball in a drainage ditch that's just a few paces to the left of the 5th/14th green. im not sure if its a free pull from the ditch, so i charged myself a stroke for the drop; i did ok to make double bogey 6 on hole 14.

i don't think i hit a fat shot all day as far as full swings go. i did **** up a few punch shots that went about 10 feet each.

its actually a nice looking scorecard if you ignore the quadruple bogey, the triple bogey, and the six double bogeys. lol.

37-41 - 78 par 71. 6873 yds 73.1\140
11\14 fairways, 9\18 greens, 30 putts

Two doubles, both after having to re-tee on par 4s. 2 birdies. One on a 200 yd par 3 when a 5 iron left me 20 ft, and the other on a par 5 that I went 1 iron, 1 iron, 8 iron to 2'. Hit a bunch of close iron shots to avoid more big numbers. On one par 4 my drive missed left and I had to punch out. A PW from 135 landed 2' behind and left of the hole and ended up 12" short and right. Had to have barely missed dropping.

A few times being unfamiliar with the course cost me, but nothing too bad. Fun course with a lot of great views.

42-43-85. No birdies, 3 double bogeys. 69.2/120/6150 yards

Fairly standard. Only clubs that are almost consistently good are the hybrids, which is 180 degrees different from my track record. Driver shaky, irons poor, chipping and putting not very good.

41-39-80 = 1 birdie, 1 double

Finished 3rd/20 - A solid 11 shots off the lead!!!

Innisbrook Copperhead

The swing gremlins were present for a good part of the day. Was able to somewhat hold it together. The lone double I short-sided myself in the bunker. Shot came out hot with no sand below the ball and went over the green.

Good thing I putted fairly well. Made up for the subpar chipping around the green. Made a lot of 6-10 footers.

Arizona Traditions
41-38 - 79, par 70. 6073 yds, 68.2\112
9\13 fairways, 6\18 greens, 31 putts. 2 birdies, 2 doubles. Disappointing round as this is the one place I usually flirt with par on. Didn't do anything particularly well today. Found a lot of fairways, but not with great drives. Irons were awful, didn't make any putts, and aside from one chip in for bridie on 17, didn't have any chips inside gimmie range. Highlight of the day was on 16, a 346 yd par 4 that doglegs hard left. Smashed a drive over the corner with a slight draw(which I never hit) and ended up pin high on the fringe, about 30 feet away. Kick in birdies are always appreciated.

Was 109 when we finished up today so needless to say it was a little warm.

46 par 34 course.

ive come to embrace the pull/draw caused by the upright lie angle of my irons.

3 pars. no birdies.

getting pretty good with a 6 iron for long chips just off the green. i find the distance control is easier than putting because i don't have to try to knock the **** out of it to make it go far.

found a couple bunkers. only took a singular swing to get out each time.

only one fat shot off the tee all day came on par 4 8th hole.

found the correct fade stance for my 5 wood. i wasn't aiming far enough to the left.

best shot of the day must be the 54 wedge from about 60 feet from light rough. downhill left to right sloped lie, up a hill to the plateaued back of the green. landed it right where i was aiming and the hill kicked it several feet tot he right. made it to the top of the hill with medium pace and it stopped about 3 feet from the pin.

don't think i hit a single green in regulation, but i consistently find the front fringe on shots within 120 yards.

made par on the par 5 second hole which is the hardest hole on the course(according to handicaps). 5 wood to the wide part of the fairway. low 6 iron with slight draw flew as intended(for control because the fairway bottlenecks to about 15 paces wide between 120 and 170 yards from the pin. theres a patch of rough separating a 120 yard out layup from a 105 yard layup which i didn't wish to find my ball in) avoiding out of bounds left and right is a bunch of trees that make balls disappear. would have liked to hit 8 iron approach, but i lost my 8 on a different course last month. so i hit a smooth 7 iron to the left fringe. chip to 8 feet and putt for par with a back hole location at the highest point on the course.

had to turn the 9 iron upside down for lefty shot on 8 from the rough because my ball stopped right next to a tree. got it into the fairway in quite awkward fashion. did well to make bogey 5 after my first two shots left me about 160 yards left to play.

lost one ball. happened on my 195 yard approach on 9. made decent contact; probably hit it well enough to clear the river in front of the green. however, that stupid tree that hangs over the river blocking the right side of the green reached out as if to mock me and knocked my ball directly down into the river. dropped and made 6.

by that time my shirt was entirely soaked with sweat so i chose not to play another 9.

played with two strangers that seemed like cool nice people.

42-40-82. No birdies, 1 double bogey. 68.3/130/5900 yards.

Arnold Palmer design I'd never played before. Overall pretty pleased, though there were a few hiccups. Driver was improved, irons a mixed bag, chipping good, putting not great.

Had a memorable shot - after blading a wedge 25 yards over the green on a 590 yard par 5 (seriously, wtf, why is there a 590 yard par 5 from the white tees with a 190 yard forced carry off the tee), flopped a 60 degree half blind over a mound, ran down to the hole ... and lipped out. Doh.

Going back and forth on changing the irons back to my other set. Hit a couple really nice wedges, but otherwise they really haven't been satisfactory.

47 par 34. Played with some teenage guys that were playing the back tees. Played pretty long considering my longest club is 5 wood.

One birdie two pars.

4th hole is par 3 over water played about 170 From the back tees to the front pin location today I put a 6 iron to about 5 feet left of the hole pin high and made the putt.

Rest was fairly standard for me. 1 quad, 1 triple, 3 doubles.

40 par 34 with the sunrise.

No birdies, 5 pars, 3 bogeys through 8. Then I 4 putt from 25 feet on 9 for triple bogey. Still tied my best 9 ever.

Best shot was a 5 wood third shot out of the rough from 200 that finished about 10 feet from the pin on par 5 second hole. Hit a high fade and it found the front of the green.

Missed the birdie by inches. Made par.

Other good shots included a Green side bunker shot to 7 feet on the par 3 sixth hole. Missed the par putt. Made par on the hard par 4 third hole by getting up and down from 110 yards after laying up. 9 iron to 15 feet on the par 3 fourth hole from 145 yards. Missed birdie by inches. Up and down from green side rough on par 4 fifth hole.

41-34-75

4 birdies, 1 double

A "never give up" round. Was +6 thru 8.

I think that probably counts as quality CLOSING.

I think I prefer late evening to early morning, but early mornings are pretty nice too.