What'd You Shoot Today? (Golf BBV Thread)
08-16-2008
, 12:57 AM
08-19-2008
, 10:36 AM
went for a range session with coworkers yesterday but range was closed, so jumped on the course for 4 holes. no warmup or anything.
first hole par 4, nice drive that ended on a sideways awkward lie. hooked the approach into the woods, made 7.
next hole, par 4. sliced my drive in play, sliced approach oob. made 7.
next hole par 5. good drive. fated a couple of shots for 50 yards each. hit a nice 9iron just off the fringe, good little chip that the slope kept rolling, 2-putt for another 7.
last hole, par 3 with a tight green and pin. hit the best shot of the day with my 7i, drain a 12 footer for birdie and called it quits.
only my 3rd birddie ever, too bad it won't factor into my handicap, since it was not a full round.
all my mis-hits were with the 5h. go figure. I am usually very confident with it. but I am putting A LOT better!!!
first hole par 4, nice drive that ended on a sideways awkward lie. hooked the approach into the woods, made 7.
next hole, par 4. sliced my drive in play, sliced approach oob. made 7.
next hole par 5. good drive. fated a couple of shots for 50 yards each. hit a nice 9iron just off the fringe, good little chip that the slope kept rolling, 2-putt for another 7.
last hole, par 3 with a tight green and pin. hit the best shot of the day with my 7i, drain a 12 footer for birdie and called it quits.
only my 3rd birddie ever, too bad it won't factor into my handicap, since it was not a full round.
all my mis-hits were with the 5h. go figure. I am usually very confident with it. but I am putting A LOT better!!!
08-20-2008
, 11:45 AM
08-21-2008
, 08:46 AM
I play in a mixed golf league with my wife at a real cow pasture call Sultana Golf course. It's basically a pitch-n-putt but has a couple of >175 holes to make it a little interesting. The league is a "fun league", there are no good golfers, but it's a lot of fun and there's lots of cheap beer. Yesterday was the last night of the league, and our 4-some was playing the front 9. We got to the 2nd hole, which is ~150 yards. My wife is on the tee with her driver, which she always pushes right. Another of the leagues 4-some was on the back side, and they were on the 12th tee, a similar length hole. Here's an overhead google map shot:
On the 12th tee, a man we'll call Dennis hits his tee shot within 5 foot of our pin. We of course give him all kinds of grief. My wife proceeds to nail her driver, and the ball goes onto their green and in the hole for a "wrong-hole" hole-in-one.
I refused to buy drinks afterwards, since she ended up with a triple bogie 6 with her hole-in-one.
On the 12th tee, a man we'll call Dennis hits his tee shot within 5 foot of our pin. We of course give him all kinds of grief. My wife proceeds to nail her driver, and the ball goes onto their green and in the hole for a "wrong-hole" hole-in-one.
I refused to buy drinks afterwards, since she ended up with a triple bogie 6 with her hole-in-one.
08-21-2008
, 09:42 AM
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I play in a mixed golf league with my wife at a real cow pasture call Sultana Golf course. It's basically a pitch-n-putt but has a couple of >175 holes to make it a little interesting. The league is a "fun league", there are no good golfers, but it's a lot of fun and there's lots of cheap beer. Yesterday was the last night of the league, and our 4-some was playing the front 9. We got to the 2nd hole, which is ~150 yards. My wife is on the tee with her driver, which she always pushes right. Another of the leagues 4-some was on the back side, and they were on the 12th tee, a similar length hole. Here's an overhead google map shot:
On the 12th tee, a man we'll call Dennis hits his tee shot within 5 foot of our pin. We of course give him all kinds of grief. My wife proceeds to nail her driver, and the ball goes onto their green and in the hole for a "wrong-hole" hole-in-one.
I refused to buy drinks afterwards, since she ended up with a triple bogie 6 with her hole-in-one.
On the 12th tee, a man we'll call Dennis hits his tee shot within 5 foot of our pin. We of course give him all kinds of grief. My wife proceeds to nail her driver, and the ball goes onto their green and in the hole for a "wrong-hole" hole-in-one.
I refused to buy drinks afterwards, since she ended up with a triple bogie 6 with her hole-in-one.
Outstanding!
I would not have bought drinks either.
We had a guy at our club skull one out of a greenside bunker on #14 and it went in the hole on the nearby #4 green.
Crazy game
08-22-2008
, 10:10 PM
08-23-2008
, 05:22 PM
81 (40). Hit a lot of greens (14/18) but wasn't close to the hole on most of them. Your basic keep the ball in play kind of round, only with a couple three and four putts.
Example of putting fail:
On the hardest hole on the course, I'm on in regulation. Unfortunately, I'm on the back of the green after hitting one especially pure. The pin is front right (from my perspective, left). There is a huge swale in the middle of the green. The money putt is hit hard enough to get through the swale (which will push it left) and up the far side, where a gentle downhill slope will also push the ball right. Fail putt number one (red line) isn't hit hard enough - the swale grabs it and throws it left. Fail putt number two (purple line) is too hard, isn't thrown much left and catches a steeper downhill and right slope away from the hole. There is very little margin for error - this is a lousy leave - and almost no way to get it close.
I chose fail putt #1, too weak. The ball went hard left, off the green, through the fringe into some thick rough. Yay golf.
Example of putting fail:
On the hardest hole on the course, I'm on in regulation. Unfortunately, I'm on the back of the green after hitting one especially pure. The pin is front right (from my perspective, left). There is a huge swale in the middle of the green. The money putt is hit hard enough to get through the swale (which will push it left) and up the far side, where a gentle downhill slope will also push the ball right. Fail putt number one (red line) isn't hit hard enough - the swale grabs it and throws it left. Fail putt number two (purple line) is too hard, isn't thrown much left and catches a steeper downhill and right slope away from the hole. There is very little margin for error - this is a lousy leave - and almost no way to get it close.
I chose fail putt #1, too weak. The ball went hard left, off the green, through the fringe into some thick rough. Yay golf.
Last edited by bonds; 08-23-2008 at 05:47 PM.
Reason: visual evidence of double bogeyitis
08-24-2008
, 05:13 AM
08-24-2008
, 11:14 PM
67ish (that's what the card said but I dunno) on a par 60 "executive" course. 12 par 3s, 6 par 4s. I'd never played the course before. Home course was closed for the day.
The par 3s were pretty good, a nice assortment. The par 4s were uniformly of the W T F variety.
Seriously.
Sorry to tard up the thread with more MSPaint, but I couldn't find the course on Google Earth. One of the par 4s on the back nine was just incredible. Basically, I thought I'd found my own personal nirvana - check this hole out:
From the tips, the card said 245 yards. Standing on the tee, you could see a small patch of fairway up ahead some undefined distance. The area between the tee and the fairway at the corner wasn't really maintained. No distances anywhere. You couldn't see the green - had to ride ahead to check it out. Hard dogleg left. A wall of scruffy trees down the left side, so a fader would have zero room. Possible but hard to get a shot over the top, and who knows how far you'd have to hit it - I didn't bring my calculator. The rest of the hole was pretty much lined with weedy crap, like the course was cut out of a swamp.
Whoever designed this hole must have been on acid. Two reasonable options that I could see - hit 8 iron-wedge, or hit the mother of all hooks.
Hook? I got that shot.
Seriously. I wouldn't bet a nickel on myself to hit a slice or fade on demand, but if you ask for an 80 yard hook I'll wager my entire life savings.
This is my kind of hole.
I hit that kind of shot. Started out down the right side, slung left like a perfectly thrown frisbee, hit in what looked like the absolutely ideal spot - as far as we could tell, in the middle of the fairway. Hit the ground and kicked hard left like it was going to run up beautifully toward the green. Lost sight.
Drove up. Couldn't find it.
Fail.
I couldn't be too pissed off, though, since I had just made a birdie with style - 311 yard "par 4". Cold topped my drive about a buck twenty, then flushed a 5 iron to 18 inches. Just the way the pros do it, right?
Fun day. (oh, and thanks Aces)
The par 3s were pretty good, a nice assortment. The par 4s were uniformly of the W T F variety.
Seriously.
Sorry to tard up the thread with more MSPaint, but I couldn't find the course on Google Earth. One of the par 4s on the back nine was just incredible. Basically, I thought I'd found my own personal nirvana - check this hole out:
From the tips, the card said 245 yards. Standing on the tee, you could see a small patch of fairway up ahead some undefined distance. The area between the tee and the fairway at the corner wasn't really maintained. No distances anywhere. You couldn't see the green - had to ride ahead to check it out. Hard dogleg left. A wall of scruffy trees down the left side, so a fader would have zero room. Possible but hard to get a shot over the top, and who knows how far you'd have to hit it - I didn't bring my calculator. The rest of the hole was pretty much lined with weedy crap, like the course was cut out of a swamp.
Whoever designed this hole must have been on acid. Two reasonable options that I could see - hit 8 iron-wedge, or hit the mother of all hooks.
Hook? I got that shot.
Seriously. I wouldn't bet a nickel on myself to hit a slice or fade on demand, but if you ask for an 80 yard hook I'll wager my entire life savings.
This is my kind of hole.
I hit that kind of shot. Started out down the right side, slung left like a perfectly thrown frisbee, hit in what looked like the absolutely ideal spot - as far as we could tell, in the middle of the fairway. Hit the ground and kicked hard left like it was going to run up beautifully toward the green. Lost sight.
Drove up. Couldn't find it.
Fail.
I couldn't be too pissed off, though, since I had just made a birdie with style - 311 yard "par 4". Cold topped my drive about a buck twenty, then flushed a 5 iron to 18 inches. Just the way the pros do it, right?
Fun day. (oh, and thanks Aces)
08-25-2008
, 01:44 AM