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Originally Posted by walkmyline
Must be nice having no one else on the course and playing 36 in under 5 hours?????? I rhode 18 (shot 81) yesterday on a medium length par 72, in like 4.5 hours. You were walking 18 in like 2.25 hours? Damn that would be nice. The course I played needs to do a far better job scheduling hahaha, it seemed like seniors day
My course is a little bit out of the way, so if I go on a weekday (preferably early in the afternoon or late in the morning) I can usually get around without too much traffic. I think I played through 2 or 3 groups and that was it. But a couple of other times on Friday or Saturday afternoons it's been pretty packed--it's pretty much as good as our golf weather gets from late September-early November. Sometimes during the summer I could go on a Saturday and hardly see anyone.
Anyway, had to drive up to Baton Rouge today and stopped at Pelican Point in Gonzales, LA on my way home. Played the Lakes Course there and shot 55-49 for a 104. Started off with 8s on the first two holes, then didn't have anything worse than a 7 the rest of the day. No pars, but nine bogeys. Their driving range was closed so I went in cold, but I decided I'd just try to hammer the ball off the tee and see what happened. I felt like my lower body was working really well and I had a pretty consistent playable big fade as opposed to a nasty slice (except for a few holes). Also, the course didn't have too many trees, so I could usually just aim left without having to worry. I think I had two bad slices, one pull that didn't fade much, but everything else was either the fade I was trying to play or a straight push that went just about where I wanted it to end up. 6/13 fairways (not great, but my best number in quite a while). Didn't keep distance stats since I was in a cart, but I think I think 9 of the 12 drivers I hit were 200+, with a couple in the 230-250 range. On 3 of the 4 par 5s I had LW, PW, and 8-iron 3rd shots at the green. (The other I topped my drive and hit a bad second shot, but still managed to make a double bogey). Pretty good tee shots on all of the par 3s (fortunately 4 of the 5 were either 9-irons or PW).
Beat: 3 3-putts. One of them was from 3 feet.