51-36 (!)-87 at Paiute Wolf course. First time ever par for me for 9 holes (or +1 or +2 for that matter). Scrambled hard last 3 holes. Super happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

36!!! sweet clark, you beat me today

i drained a 30 foot snake on 9 that probably would've rolled off the green if it didn't hit hole to shoot 37, was going to play 18 but it took 2hrs45mins to play 9 so we quit

you've improved a ton. congrats. i'm kind of jealous right now actually.

Thanks guys. I was so nervous I can't even explain it on the last 3 holes. I am really happy with how my game has gotten better. I'm hoping to get my 20-round average below 90 this summer, I think I've got a shot.

congrats mr clark

Clark, a 39 and 36 recently, must feel great.

This is one of the things I think is really great about golf. You don't have to be playing in the Masters to get that feeling. All it takes is challenging a personal best round or a buddy who always beats you.

Just last week I was standing on the 9th tee 1 under actually thinking about playing my drive into the adjacent 8th fairway just to avoid the OOB to the right. However, I manned up, split the correct fairway, and made a 2 putt par to ensure my first ever under par 9 holes.

I'm doing a round recap because I am obsessed with golf. I woke up early at 9 and was going to go jet around in 2 hours, come home and play basketball at around noon. I got done at 2:30... I really underestimated the amount of retired old men that populate municipal golf courses early in the morning on Mondays in 45 degree foggy weather. I walked because there was no point in wasting money to sit in a cart all day not moving. I got paired with 2 college guys who were nice enough and could hit the ball, although they weren't very good overall.

#1, 550 yard Par 5: Awful snap hook left into the trees. I am right up against the tree and hack it about 15 yards away, but I still have tree trouble. I hit an amazing, yet automatic shot for me, the insanely low, far rescue club hook that goes to 122. I hit a perfect pitching wedge that ends up about 20 feet short and 2 putt on slow greens for a bogey.

Blatantly wasted shots: 0

#2, 416 Par 4: Perfect drive right over the corner of a slight dogleg to 132 yards. Into the wind a little bit so I hit a soft nine and pull it just a touch to the fringe, 20 feet away. Leave downhill putt 5 feet short and lipout the par putt. Just awful. Birdie opportunity to bogey in one fell swoop.

Blatantly wasted shots: 1

#3, 137 Par 3: I have 127 to the back hole location. I hit a nice shot, but lose my balance kind of on the follow through. I don't really see it and the guys says "nice shot" and I very quietly say "thanks." They probably thought I was a cocky douche because my ball was a foot from the hole. Birdie.

Blatantly wasted shots: 0

#4, Par 5: 495 yards. Mi**** my driver a bit and it flares to the right, leaving me 260 to the green. I hit a nice 3 wood to 40 yards with a perfect angle to the pin. Chunk pitch short, blade chip over into bunker, blast out to 30 feet from the fringe, putt to 5 feet, lipout 5 footer. Nice 8. Now +4 thru 4.

Blatantly wasted shots: 3. Theoretically I should be able to make some birdies from 40 yards out, but we are just going to assume that chipping it on and two putting is the standard.

#5, 474 Par4: Hardest hole on the course. Hit a really nice drive that draws a little too much and ends up in a fairway bunker. I have 219 left. I hit this shot really nice...a 5 wood out of the bunker...and think that it ran up onto the green. However, I find it in GUR 25 yards short. I drop, and do to my complete lack of ability to chip, putt the ball from 25 yards too hard onto the green and 35 feet away. Putt is center cut, perfect speed. Happy par. +4 through 5.

Blatantly wasted shots: 0


#6, 159 Par 3: Hit a squirrely 9 iron from 140 that was not a very good shot, but lands on the green about 20 feet away. Putt is one turn away from going in, tap in par. _4 through 6.


Blatantly wasted shots: 0

#7: 313, Par 4: Into the wind, creek in the middle of the fairway. I hit a so so 3 wood to the left rough, 135 out. I hold an 8 iron perfectly in the wind and hit it very solid, to 15 feet. 4 feet of break or so on the putt, drained it center cut, +3 through 7.


Blatantly wasted shots: 0

#8: 350, Par 4: Took a risk and hit a driver over a dogleg to the center of the fairway. The green is probably 100 feet above the fairway so being close is a necessity. I am 119 out, and try and crush a 9 iron. I blade it terribly, but it makes it up to the edge of the green, and rolls all the way back down the hill about 50 yards out. Again, tight lie, no confidence, I just take out my putter and blast it up the hill to 45 feet from the fringe. The putt from 45 feet is a beauty but goes 10 feet buy because it is a huge downhiller. make the comebacker for bogey. +4 through 8.


Blatantly wasted shots: 0. I am going with 0 here because sometime you just hit bad shots, but usually, if I am hitting a 9 iron, I need to be hitting it solid.

#9, 341 Par 4: Crush Driver to 85 yards. Lob wedge comes up a bit short, 20 feet or so. Drain putt center cut. +3 thru 9, 39.


Blatantly wasted shots: 0

#10, 370 yard Par 4: Guys behind us tell us that we need to pick it up, that we waited until they were on the green to hit on the last hole (note: I drove it to 85 yards....). I thought he was kidding because there were 2 fivesomes ahead of us so I laughed. So after it was clear he wasn't kidding, I ignored him, teed my ball up, and crushed it down the middle about 280. Second shot 8 iron a bit squirrley, bad contact, goes to the fringe, 45 feet away. Lag it to a foot, tap in par. +3 through 10.


Blatantly wasted shots: 0

#11, 156 Par 3: Hit a great 8 iron that cleared the water by about a foot and gave me a 20 footer for birdie. Almost holed it, tap in par. +3 through 11.

#12, 381, Par 4: Perfect drive. Impossible second shot. Have to hit it over huge trees and still have some distance left. I had 167 into the wind and hit a 6 iron just to clear the trees and came up short. It was an easy pitch, so I stubbed it to the fringe, 30 feet away. I putted that to 4 feet, and missed the 4 footer. Double. +5 thru 12.


Blatantly wasted shots: 1

#13, 475 par 5. Awkward tee shot. I hit a driver, but took a lot off of it because the fairway runs out. I have 240 into the pin. Hit a skanky three wood that clears a creek by about a foot and rolls up to 30 yards short of the hole, easy pitch. I blade pitch over into rough. I putt from the rough too softly, and miss the ensuing 8 footer for par.
+6 through 13.


Blatantly wasted shots: 1

#14, Par 4 324: Crush anger drive to 60 yards. Hit second thin and pull it and end up with about a 50 foot putt. I lipout the 50 footer and the ball trickles 4 feet buy. I lipout the 4 footer and tap in for bogey on the easiest hole of the course.

+7 through 14.

Blatantly wasted shots: 1


#15, 401 yards, Par 4: Crush anger drive right down the middle. Slightly pull 6 iron that I tried to hit softly from 156 into the wind. Ball is in rough about 60 feet away. I putt the ball to 2 feet and tap in for par. +7 through 15.


Blatantly wasted shots: 0

#16: 435, par 4: I hit a nice drive, but it doesn't turn over like it usually does and hits a tree. I have 225 coming in and hit a very low, but solid 5 wood that comes up about 10 yards short. It is an easy pitch so I putt it too hard and have a 25 footer left. I ram it 4 feet buy and make the comebacker for bogey on the 2nd toughest hole on the course. +8 through 16.


Blatantly wasted shots: 0


#17, 182 yards, par 3: Into the wind, first real awful full swing since opening drive. I snap hook this one into a hazard, but it gets an okay break and comes back in. I still have an impossible chip where I have to aim right of the hole and bunker because of an overhanging tree. I blade this way over. I have to pitch over a cartpath, so I stub my club in the ground and my ball travels a foot. I blade my 4th into a greenside bunker. I blast over to 30 feet. I lag the putt up to 3 feet and tap it in for a 7. +12 through 17.


Blatantly wasted shots: 3


#18, 403 yards, Par 4: Hit a beautiful angry drive into the wind. I have a crappy siehill lie and have 157 into the hole. I hit a magnificent shot to 6 feet. I pull the putt and tap in for par.


Blatantly wasted shots: 0

Sigh. +12 83.

sounds like you can flat out putt dude, nice recap.

Say what? I quickly counted OP used his putter 37 times.

Note that technically not all of these strokes are putts, and also that there is nothing at all to be learned about one's putting from one round.

BO

I agree with you usually, especially on the shots to the fringe where you have a 15 footer. But most of my putter off the green shots are really just yipmaster pitches. For example, on #5 in my recap, i was like 40 yards out. 100% of people hit a wedge there and 0% of people (me) putt the ball. On #8 I was like literally 60 yards straight up hill. I just knew it was a disaster waiting to happen though and tried to putt it.

Anyway, not going to do a round recap, but shot 83 today from my home course with 3 doubles, a quad, 9 pars, a birdie, and 4 bogeys. I tried as hard as humanly possible to not try or give a crap about where my chips might go, and I chipped the ball really well. I didn't yip a one of em!!

My undoing today was hitting 2 hooks OB on the same hole, one on the tee shot, and one on the approach, and then tried to go for it in 2 on a par 5 from 219 out and hit what felt like a really solid shot. Obviously I never find the ball and who knows where it went. Oh well.

The good news is I really feel close to being a pretty good player. Cut out the 8s, get the chipping under control, and add about 20 yards on my drives somehow, I am good to go. I was one of the most pathetic bunker players for my entire life and avoided them like the plague, but I randomly "got it" ,despite no practice, about 6 months ago, and my sand game has been top notch, and this is what gives me hope about my pitching. Again, the stupid thing is I have really sick natural chipping talent. I have really good touch and feel when I actually don't yip it all over the place.

Yeah, it's not like you really had 37 putts. Was just funny the comment invoked after reading a recap of one round.

I've seen a few guys get the yips on chips and pitches, can't be funny and it's certainly not pretty. One of those guys I worked with a bit and helped somewhat, funny thing was he was a club pro and taught the short game to the members!

What I had him do was basically machine gun chips. Set balls on the ground and just have him walk up and hit in all in one motion. No aiming, no preshot routine, no thinking. Just walk up to the ball and hit it in well under a second. At least that way you can prove to yourself that you are capable of physically performing the correct move. Whether or not that can be transferred onto the course is another matter.

And believe it or not, I once saw a guy with the yips on the full swing. And this was a former PGA Tour player. Was caddying for a buddy in a Nationwide event who was paired with him. On one hole he literally hit the ball 80 yards right OB with a 3-wood off the tee on a hole where OB didn't come into play. He re-teed with an iron and hit it on the same line but it didn't go far enough to reach OB again. His short game though was out of this world and I believe he made 6 birdies in the first round. Freaky stuff.

BO

sry, wasn't counting putts off the green :|

thanks for the drill. That is the frustrating part of my deal, if I go practice my chipping, I am money. Just like I used to be when I was 15. It is when I get on the course that it is trouble. I am getting better and better though. I played a 3 day city tournament this summer and while I definitely was thinking about it, I didn't just omgblade any chips. I had a few that sucked, but nothing that is just a round killer. And really, only like 1/3 or 1/4 days is really bad. The rest of the time I am kind of okay, and them some other days I actually am fairly close to normal.

As for the full swing yips, I just don't get how that is possible, but I guess other people can't see how chipping yips are possible since it is such an easy move. Is the pro Franklin Langham? I don't mean for you to out anyone by name, but he immediately came to mind with his 2008 adventure. Poor guy, I always felt sorry for him.

Hank Haney had the full swing yips and I think I can kind of see it in his corrected swing...it just looks a little awkward. Another guy that must have the full swing yips is my brother in law. I don't know if it is yips exactly, but he has been as low as a +4, and he goes out and shoots 98 in tournaments. I have seen what he does and his swing just completely implodes on himself. He is on a 295 yard drivable par 4 that I have seen him drive with a 3 wood multiple times, and he takes out a 6 iron and hooks it 75 yards OB, and I am just like UHhh.

Oh a quick other story. I played with a guy my junior year in our little "state" tournament (private schools) and I shot 78 the first day and he shot 77, which he was dissapointed in and I was not. The second day is in about 50 mph wind and 30 degree weather. I think he hit 14 fairways and 18 greens and shot 70. It was an out of your mind good round, like one of the most solid I have ever played with. He moved all the way up to finish second, only losing to a guy who will probably be on the pgatour within a couple of years. Anyway, move forward to the next year, he is paired with me again. He literally shoots a 110 and spends the majority of the time chipping the ball down the fairway because he is snap hooking every single shot. It was one of the most confusing and awful things I have ever seen. He was almost crying the whole round.

It all comes down to caring too much about what is going to happen and having no confidence whatsoever. When I am having a bad day, I am looking at cars like 50 yards past the green and thinking about it when I have a 25 yard pitch shot. It isn't good.

I just shot my worst round in over two years and I'm super sad about it

I went out cold on Sunday morning. No practice. No range. Etc.

Hit five shanks! Hilarious. At least I broke 100.

The sick thing is played great on monday except for 1 hole and then played soooo bad today...ugh, golf-lol

Monday- 71 on a course w/ rating of 74.7 (double 17)

Today- 79 on a course with a rating of 72.4 (was cold/windy but omg...worst rd last year was 77 and that was on a hard course and hard day)

I enjoyed reading POKEROMGLOL's round recap, and since I shot my best score ever today I thought I'd do my own.

#1 - 390 yd par 4, dogleg left.

Drove it straight down the middle to about 120 out. 120 is a full PW for me and for whatever reason I don't like taking a full swing with my PW. I pulled out the 9 iron and choked down a little. Swung smooth but flushed it, I was 6 inches off the back of the green with about 30 ft to the hole. Standard 2 put, par.

Even through 1

#2 150 yd par 3, water left of the green and bunker right.

Tried to hit soft 7 iron, thinned it a little, which for me always results in a low cut. Ball landed short of the bunker on the right about 5 yds off the green. Made a good chip that almost went in, tap in par.

Even through 2

#3 360 yd par 4, hazard all up the right and trees left.

Pulled driver left into the trees, but got a good break and had a shot. Hit PW from about 110 yds to the green about 20 ft from the hole. Pushed the put a little right and made the par.

Even through 3

#4 410 yd par 4

Hit a nice drive right up the middle to about 150. Then pushed an 8 iron a little to the right fringe about 25 ft from the hole. Putted off the fringe to a couple of ft and made par.

Even through 4

#5 115 yd par 3, pin middle left on an undulating green

Hit a good PW to the middle of the green about 20 ft from the hole. Had a big left to right break. I hit it online but a little too hard and left myself about a 4 footer coming back. Made it for par.

Even through 5.

#6 500 yd par 5

Drove it to the left side of the fairway with about 215 to the green. Hit a high cutting 5 wood to about 5 yds short of the green. I left myself a really easy uphill chip, but I hit it way too hard and it rolled through the green to the fringe on the other side. Putted off the fringe to about 5 ft. Pushed the come backer a little right and tapped in for bogey. After my second shot I would have been a little dissappointed to not make birdie, so the bogey was hard to swallow. Oh well, I've got a decent round going, on to 7.

+1 through 6

#7 400 yd par 4

Hit a high cutting driver right down the middle. Then hit a 9 iron a little short and right from about 130. Hit a great chip that came up an inch short of the middle of the hole. Tap in par.

+1 through 7

#8 320 yd par 4 with a tree right in the middle of the fairway about 40 yds from the green.

Hit a good drive just left of the tree and about 60 yds out. Hesitantly pulled out the 60 degree and hit it too high and a little short. In retrospect, I should have hit the little low, spinning 56 degree that has become my bread and butter lately. Anyway, I left myself a 20 footer straight uphill. Pushed it just a tad and burned the edge. Made the 2 ft come backer for par.

+1 through 8

#9 520 yd par 5, dogleg right.

Hit another good drive to the ideal spot on the left side of the fairway. From about 230 out, I pushed a 3 wood right and flirted with the hazard on the right. Got lucky and my ball ended up about 20 yds left of the green behind a bunker. Pitched it to about 6 ft but missed the putt. Par.

+1 though 9

#10 400 yd dogleg left.

Hit a nice drawing drive over a big oak tree to the middle of the fairway. From about 150, I hit a good 8 iron that carried just a little too far and about 25 feet past the hole. Two putted from there for par.

+1 through 10

#11 170 yd par three with water left and a bunker right.

Thinned a 6 iron which again resulted in a low weak cut. Ball landed about 5 ft short of the bunker on the right and left me a difficult chip with little green to work with. One of those sandy lies near the bunker. I hit the chip a little thin and the ball rolled about 10 ft by. Barely missed the put and tapped in for bogey.

+2 though 11

#12 330 yd par 4 with hazard left and trees right

Hit a decent drive to the left side of the fairway, but didn't quite catch it. I was left with about 80 yds. Hit a SW very thin and over the green, leaving me with a tough downhill pitch, which rolled 15 ft by. Hit the first putt too stong and a little right. Made the 4 ft come backer for bogey.

+3 through 12 and I'm thinking here comes the bogey train

#13 530 yd par 5

Hit my drive a little left of the fairway and about 250 yds out. There was a tree about 70 yds in front of me and obstructed my line to the green. So I pulled out the 3 wood anyway and attempted to hit a big slice around it. I made great contact but overcut it. My ball landed about 50 yds short and right of the green, leaving me a difficult pitch over a bunker to a front hole placement. I hit a very good SW to about 10 ft, and sunk a right to lefter for birdie.

+2 through 13

#14 140 yd par 3, water short and right and bunkers left

Hit a decent 9 iron onto the green just a little short and right, leaving myself a 20 foot straight uphill put. I crushed it straight at the hole but obviously too hard. It hit the back of the hole, bounced straight up, hit the left lip and rattled in. Phew, birdie!

+1 through 14

#15 550 yd par 5

Crushed a driver right up the middle to about 270. Took out 3 wood and hit it very fat, but it flew straight and rolled to about 100 yds out in the middle of the fairway. Then I elected to hit a choked down PW instead of trying to crush SW. Made a nice swing and put the ball about 10 ft right of the pin. Missed the put on the pussy side but tapped in for par.

+1 through 15 will this round just hurry up and end before I blow it

#16 410 yd par 4, dogleg right

Pushed driver into the tree on the right. I got a decent break and had a shot, but I would have to draw a 7 iron around a tree. I made a confident swing and hit a beautiful shot, but it just nipped the tree. The ball ended up on the front right of the green anyway about 25 ft from the hole. Standard 2 putt for par.

+1 through 16

#17 380 yd par 4 with water up the right.

The water got in my head and I hook my drive right into a few small trees. Got lucky and had a shot from about 150 into a slight wind. Hit 7 iron a little thin which once more resulted in a weak cut. The ball ended up a few yards off the right side of the green. I hit a really solid chip, but got sort of a bad bounce on the green and my ball rolled about 8 ft left. I had a slight left to right breaker which I lipped out. Bogey.

+2 through 17

#18 420 yd par 4, dogleg right and downwind

Hit driver straight down the middle to almost exactly 150yds, which left me with a perfect 8 iron into a large green. I hit a very high slight push on my second shot, but got a lucky break when my ball hit the downslope of the greenside bunker and rolled onto the green. This left me with a 30 ft uphill put, which I hit to a ft. Tapped in for par and 74, my best round ever!

Round stats:

Fairways - 10/14

GIR - 10/18

Putts - 32

woot under par!!! (-1)

if only i could putt, could have been 4 or 5 under

cool recap and congrats. you make chipping sound so easy.

I was pretty proud of my 78 today. Had a bunch of putts that were like ridiculously close to going in and a few wasted shots on crappy chips. My course's usually amazing greens are still munitastic because of aeration/sand. First time in a while that I have broken 80. Handicap down to a 6.5, which is a far cry from 2.3, but honestly, I blame a lot of that on weather. I played the other day and really struck the ball pretty well and shot 91 due to disasters and BS wind/ob.

I hit the ball exceptionally well for me, which meant I hit SEVEN greens, lol. Of course I guess my course's greens are small because I hit a ridiculous number of fringes. And I hit a bunch of perfect shots with wedges that I am trying to bounce up onto the green that get stuck short. Silly Texas wind/front pin locations.

i had the shanks today :[.... f-word.

Kinda fun

Buddy and I have an ongoing match play thing (each round is a new match), and for the season we have played 5. All 5 have come down to the last hole and the last putt having some types of ramifications:

R1: I miss a 12 footer for birdie on 18 and he makes a 10 footer to win 1up
R2: I get up and down from 15 yards out and he lips out an 8 ft birdie putt for the halve - I win 1up
R3: I get up and down from hazard on 18, making a 20 footer to win the match 1up
R4: He birdies 16-17-18 to win match 1 up.
R5: He makes 8 footer to win the match 1up

Match play rocks.

Scores were all b/w 71-74 in those rounds for both of us.

It sure feels good to golf again :-)

Yay..after yesterdays disaster I had another game today...par 72 course ratings 73.8...I'm promptly +2 after 3 holes and I'm on life tilt...got it on track and played the last 10 in 4 under for 70...golf is fun again, lol

Are there this many good 2p2 players?

i know right! should have a 2+2 tour lol