41-51--92

Played out of my head early on the tough course. I was even through 5. Almost drove the par 4 5th which was perfect because we were pressing the 5-some in front of us to let us through. Yep, they let a 5-some out at 8:30a on a weekend. Granted it's a private course and they were all good players (including the club champion), but still.

They let us through on 6.

Swing fell apart over the last 4 holes. I need a few days off.

38-42-80. 3 birdies, 4 double bogeys.

Rough start with doubles on 1 and 3 induced by awful ball striking. Rolled in a couple of long putts for birdies on 6 and 8 (and had one dead in the throat on 7 that stopped on a downslope, you gotta love winter). Had things pretty dialed in giving myself birdie looks, finally cashing one in on 14 ... and then completely lost it making doubles on 15 and 17.

Got stuck behind a 5-some the whole way around. Not the kind of day you want to spend standing around waiting, it was not nearly as warm as the forecast. Still, it's hard to complain about golf in December.

Wasn't even that cold today, got to 49 or 50 with almost no wind

40 - 38 = 78
30 putts with one 3 putt
4/14 FIR (wasn't nearly as bad as it looks 4 or 5 of them were barely a yard off the fairway
8/18 GIR
2 Birdies, 9 pars, 6 bogeys and 1 double
If wasn't for 2 penalty shots, a few brains farts, a few lip outs and was a bit yippy on chips the round might have gone low

http://www.gamegolf.com/player/ntanygd760/round/681953

northview in vancouver, bc... where they held the pga event when vancouver had one.

very wet. so a slog and lots of potential for chunked shots.

44-45... with tons of wasted shots

very good on par 3's..........

had it really going on back 9 but pulled a FW and an short-medium iron into the water. 1st = probably terrible course management, 2nd = bad shot

3 things on short game (all good),

i bot a chipper but didn't have it with me when i played. lo and behold, my chipping and pitching was much better. think the chipper gave me an idea of how to hit those shots with wedges i.e. ball more back in stance.

similar to 1st point, but i moved the ball back a bit AND really drove my contact point forward with my legs.... this may be extremely applicable to wet golf.

i've started to putt with a much slower tempo. i think when you putt with fast tempo you tend to pull the putts (basically a yanking motion).. .this seems to get a true roll on the ball.

lastly, a 4th item, i think i need to do some work on my "slicing putts". it seems like i read the putts ok, and i putt it ok (both in my own mind) but i have big misses. makes me think i'm not putting on the line i think i am.

Played at the pretty nice 9 hole local muni today. The course is 75 years old, so that means mature trees, small greens, and 4 doglegs where a 225 yd straight ball will put you in the rough or trees. 3000 yards, par 35.

+1 36 1 birdie 2 bogeys. Made a 15 footer for bogey after leaving my first bunker shot in the sand to a tight pin. Then sank a 20 footer for birdie on a short par 3. Combined with a couple of handy chips, made it so I only needed 12 putts.

lol my home course has one of those holes. Short of 190 and straight is dead, 195 gets you a big cut shot to the green. 195-210 is perfect 215 gets you a hook shot around trees and 220 is dead. Second shot in to green is anywhere from 155-190 depending on the direction you start it.

Needless to say dumb, and the trees are like 90 feet tall so you don't even have a cut the corner option.

The ones here range from 340-420, so you can do okay taking out a fairway wood or hybrid. Two go left and two go right. On the longest dogleg right one, today I hit a nice high cut driver off the tee. Last time I played there the shot didn't come off and I was pitching back into the fairway.

Played a new course today. I played really conservative off the tee with lots of less than drivers. It is one of those courses where picking the line off the tee is everything so I wasn't really sure on a ton of holes. Need to make a yardage book for the course so I actually know the carry numbers on all the bunkers off the tee. Driving was okay, not the greatest distance today. Ball striking was decent minus a few. Couldn't make a putt to save my life. Started coming apart last few holes, finished 3 over for the last 4 holes.

38 - 39 = 77
33 putts no 3 putts
11/14 FIR

1 birdie, 11 pars, 6 bogeys

http://www.gamegolf.com/player/ntanygd760/round/683044

Went to a new club over the weekend with a buddy and they paired us with a guy and his 12-year old kid. I thought it was going to be a disaster, but the only disaster was that the kid beat us all on the front 9. He maybe missed two putts all day and every drive -- while very short -- was down the middle.

He did not tee forward BTW.

yeah my course has a hole like this. it's absurd, like 130yds off the tee to a sharp dog leg left and the fairway is maybe 75yds wide at any given point. cutting is impossible because the trees are like 100ft tall and naturally the fairway is bordered entirely by straight up swamps. it's ridiculous.

Did he go way low or he just hit a bunch of 1 putt pars?

Insane number of 1-putt pars. He also hit the pin on a par-4 from about 100 out that would have been a birdie. On a par-3 (that he previously aced, according to his father), he got less than two feet of the cup off the tee.

If he wasn't such a nice, polite kid I would have hated him.

Pretty tempted to play 2 balls next time out and just have one of them only using like a 7 iron or shorter. Hard to get in trouble off the tee with only a 7 iron

Sadly, only getting out once this week.

45-41--86

8 pars, 7 bogeys, 2 doubles, 1 triple
4/14 fairways, 7/18 greens

I had a green in regulation today, 2-putted, but didn't make par. Birdie putt was from about 30 feet and after the hole it trickled right off the green. Tough pin position.

Between Christmas and grocery shopping I was able to fit 18 in today. Played a sister course to mine that I can get on for the same cart fees as my course. Infinitely easier.

I had the pulls off the tee and I was so far right that I was in other fairways with clean looks to the green.

41-43--84 - 1 birdie, 7 pars, 8 bogeys, 1 double 1 triple
2/14 fairways, 4/18 greens

I had some serious swing issues going on. After the round I went to the range to figure some stuff out, which I think I did. If I was playing my home course I seriously doubt that I would have broke 100.

Also one thing I never thought of before after playing this course is that both courses at my home club you never have parallel fairways. When you are done with a hole you never see it again.

yeah i wind up on the opposite fairway a lot. the other day when that happened some dude driving by (the opposite fairway is next to a road) honked and leaned out his window and said THE HOLE IS THE OTHER WAY! which i thought was pretty funny

lol 38 putts today at Sleepy Hollow, played shamble with a partner we shot 78 I think, killed the driver had like 4 or 5 three putts

38-40-78. 1 birdie, 1 double bogey.

Frustrating day with the putter, tempered by the fact that it's mid-December and the greens haven't been mowed in 2 months. To be expected that they are slow and bumpy. With a couple minor exceptions, a very solid ball striking day. Probably had 10 birdie putts inside 20 feet and at least 5 inside 8 feet. I bounced a 3 iron off the pin on the last par 3 which led to the only putt I made all day, a 4 footer.

Likely the last round of the season, rain moving in followed by colder weather. I can hope for a chance to walk nine or something but things should be officially closed for the winter any day now.

Tuesday and Wednesday look pretty good up here in Cleveland. Honestly I am amazed how nice today was. Felt like I have stolen like 6 rounds last few weeks, never thought we would be playing this late into the season.

Big Met today

37 - 35 = 72
28 putts with no 3 putts
7/14 FIR
9/18 GIR
4 birdies 4 bogeys

http://www.gamegolf.com/player/ntany...le_id=21279339

so so so so bad, like an 84 with 34 putts or something terrible around that. About as bad as I could possibly hit it off the tee. Decent iron play but it was pretty much trying to swim upstream kind of day

38-38-76, 3 birdies, 7 bogeys.

Birdies were 2 chip-ins and a bunker up and down on short par 5. Irons were pretty rotten, alternating between chunks and pulls. 9/14 fairways though, which is above average for me.

43-40--83
2 birdies, 6 bogeys, 2 doubles, 1 triple

Played the par 5's +6 today

Also played the tips at my course for the first time. I'm actually more comfortable getting the extra 10-15 so I don't go through fairways. Granted the tips are still only 6550 yards.

6 over on the 5's is pretty brutal. Are they normally hard like that or just an off day.

Off day.

1st - 520y - Par

9th 510y - 1 in lateral hazard, drop 2, 3 play out lateral which I blade and hit a tree on other side, 4 130y over a tree to a few feet off the green, 5 skull over green, 6 chip on, 2-putt (triple)

13th 520y - 1 pull drive in hazard, 2 It's dry and playable and hit out lateral to fairway, 3 6I to 80y out, 4 fly the green, 5 pitch on, 6 miss 15 footer horribly, 7 tap-in double

18th 500y - 1 over-cut the drive but safe, 2 hit gap wedge thin which catches a tree but drops in rough, 3 187y out into the trap left of green, 4 good hit to 12 feet, 5 miss, tap-in bogey