Bear creek west course was in v nice shape yesterday.

About how much would you have to pay for a weekend round at winstar?

Played Thornapple Creek Golf Club just outside Kalamazoo today. Nice layout rolling through the hills, some water in play. Surprised to ride 18 in 2:20, playing alone and only through 1 group. Shot 42-43=85. 3 doubles (lost ball, fried egg, lost ball). 31 putts, longest made was about 8 feet for par.

Did something today I've never done before. My natural shot is a high, soft fade, and I pulled a tee shot so far left that I was across the adjoining fairway. I've done that to the right plenty of times, never left. It was a par 5 though, and I still parred the hole, and had a GIR from it. Fought the pulls off the tee most of the back 9.

Big problem I'm having though is my normal problem - leaving too many shots on the course by not hitting enough GIR's. You can only scramble so much with 4/18 GIR's, and I'm missing way too many from 160-120 in. I have no consistency with my new irons, and I think it's because I got so used to cutting shots with my old ones, and with these I just can't pull it off. I need to take some range time, and perhaps some lessons to work on adding distance (which is another problem of mine, but is something that will happen when you try to cut everything off) and hitting purer iron shots. It's not that I'm missing a lot of greens by a mile, but enough to put a lot of pressure on my chipping/putting game.

I'm not completely sure about the weekend, you'll have to call em. I think twilight is after 3pm and its $35, and that's 7 days a week.

Winstar used to be on golfnow.com a lot, not so much anymore. Sometimes they'll post some last minute times on there, but I haven't seen any tee times on there recently.

49+47=96 at Schaumburg Golf Club outside Chicago (par 71). 8/14 FIR. 7/18 GIR. 42 putts. <<<< Wowowowow their greens are fast

38, 41, 35 at local 9 hole course today. then played a quick 2-on-2 scramble where we fell behind by 3 in the first 5 holes. won #6 with a par, then played double or nothing on the last hole. i hit a 20 footer for birdie to break even with them. golf is fun. tomorrow im going to try to have a "tiger day" and grind hard on the range.

snow mountain @ paiute in las vegas, nv

41-39 (80)

started off 2 under through 3, then double, then bogied out. played the back with a mix of bogey and pars, and eagled a wedge from 123 out into a slight head wind on par5 #17.

my group usually only has 1 game going on (cart game, nassau something like that) but today we had two and i won them both!

fun day for me.

80 yesterday on a par 72 81 today on the same course.

Lloydminster G & CC.

90 (42, 48) yesterday at Pheasant Acres in Corcoran, MN. 30 MPH winds, a lot of holes facing the wind, makes it tough.

Very bad start on the back 9, found a 20'x10' water hazard on 10 (like the smallest ****ing water hazard in existence) and ended up duffing two chips, and took a quad to start off. The round was over then. Took a triple on a 200 yard par 3 that was playing like 250 with the sick wind. Then, I hit a straight drive (aimed bad) OB on the next hole, and made quad there, as I hit a provisional OB, and was hitting my 6th. Two holes later I went in the water twice on the par 5 15th, and actually made double.

Coming into 18 (365 yard par 4) we decided to do a longest drive. I hit an awesome tee shot w/ a slight draw about 315-320, and ended up in the 8" into second cut, didn't count, missed fairway. (seriously!?!?) That was my best hole on the back 9.

The back nine just murdered my round. I got very unlucky on three or four holes, and took two quads, a triple, and a double, and just killed my score.

I easily could have shot an 85. Oh well, my ball striking was on, the wind was brutal, and I found a few key placed hazards.

42. Considering that I had two 8s, it could have been a lot worse.

Hopefully I gained a little insight as to why my putting has gone to hell lately.

97 at Perth Golf Club (par 70). The front nine was pretty good, after a couple of double bogies, I parred three straight, then took a 9 on the sixth - drove left behind trees, second shot was meant to be a lay-up but went long into water, fourth shot I pulled out my 6 iron instead of my 9 by mistake and hit into the top of a downward sloping bunker behind the green, took 5 more to get down from there. Then went par-bogey-bogey for 46.

Back 9 wasn't great, except for 14, where I had a super drive, then nearly holed out from the fairway and had a 4-inch tap-in for birdie, and 15, a par 3 where I managed to get a sand wedge to within two feet from a severe sidehill lie in thick grass just behind the green. I needed those two holes after 13, where I couldn't seem to make contact with any more than the top third of the ball and bashed it around for a 10.

Putting was good, no 3-putts for the first time in a long time, and made a couple of 10-12 foot par putts. Ball-striking was more consistent. Short game was good with the sand wedge, mediocre to poor otherwise.

94 FML. Missed 6 straight par putts within 10 feet.
I'm a good putter, I just can't make a putt.

god i remember this course slightly. Played there a couple years ago. But I mostly remember playing bedford valley out that way.

What part of mich you from?




The other day I went out and played the tips at a fairly nice course. I usualy like to play about 6500 yds, but tips here were just over 7k, which is pretty tough.

Played like **** to start. shot 42 on front and 38 on back.

I'm living in Portage for another month, before I move to the Chicago 'burbs. I am making the tour around the area trying to play as many courses as I can before I move. Haven't played Bedford Valley or any of the Gull lake courses yet. I'm not from here, just spent a year teaching at WMU.

Shot 86 from the 7100 yard black tees at San Juan Oaks in Hollister, CA. Wind was howling between 20-30 mph making it very difficult. I struggled with a swing change but hit it ok considering. Played with a high school sophomore who hits it a mile and shot 75 without making a putt longer than 5 feet, very impressive.

shot 46 (15 putts) in a morning round of 9 today. this breaks my best score on the front of this track by 2 shots, and i played from the blues, whereas i normally play whites.

3 doubles, 4 bogeys, and only 2 pars. but NO TRIPLES and only 1 three-putt! kept every hole in play. putted way better, although made some dumb mental mistakes while using the putter from the fringe. i normally have 18-20 putts.

edit: oh yes, DID NOT LOSE A BALL! go me.

My 2nd 9 holes of the year, on a mixed league at a dogtrack par3. Hooked everything. I aimed my PW 5 yards right of a green 125 yds away, and watched it hook 10yds. left of the green. My short game is horrendous, especially chipping. Putting was hard to tell since the greens are as soft as a mattress and just as lumpy. Shot a lovely 39, 2nd low in our 4-some to my wife's 36. The other two people were a 75-year old lady who shot 40, and her legally-blind husband. He shot 42. I lined him up on a 110yd hole when I told him to "aim at the porta-crapper", which was bright white and directly behind the green, so he could sort-of see it. He bounced his 5-iron onto the green directly at the pin, it lipped out and spun 18" away. I made him putt it. He missed.

47 Front 9?? Heeeeehaawww
36 (despite losing a ball in a 5' tall pine tree 3 yards off the fairway)
for an 83

followed up my morning round with an even better one at twilight during my stableford league. 5 pars, 2 bogeys, 2 doubles for a 42! 17 putts. together, morning and round basically have me shooting an 88 (i understand it's two different courses and doesn't count like that, but hey BEST EVER!).

again didn't lose a ball. had a bunch of net birdies and a net eagle, good enough for +17 modified stableford points. i do believe we should see some money from it next week.

it appears my score was good enough to win for my team yesterday. i also won two individual categories, Net Low and Most Points. yay!

Nice job sylar. I've fired a few 42's myself in the first couple rounds this season, feels good to shoot sub par golf doesn't it?

I've been working a ton at my game and it's going steadily backwards. Shot 82 yesterday at San Jose Muni from the back tees. I had a terminal case of the snap hooks on a super easy course and hit maybe a half dozen solid shots all day. I've made so many swing changes that I've got nothing to fall back on when things go awry. I have an NCGA qlualifier on Wednesday that I've been looking forward to, but that I'm now dreading. Sigh.

I've found that drastically or routinely changing my swing only has negative affects. For me, I am always able to go back to what is comfortable, and what is consistent.

West Middlesex 6119 yards and S.S.S. 69.

The numbers are bad I had some terrible shots but I feel a little more positive this time. One month ago I was hitting the ball well and getting round with no blobs no lost balls and opponents questioning my handicap.
For the last month my game has been deteriorating round by round but today I felt like I had stopped the rot. Still not taking a proper divot still losing thing right still feeling very awkward, but I hit some good shots along the way and feel a little more optimistic. Also paid for some lesions today and start in a couple of weeks so hopefully I can start making progress again.
2 pars, 7 bogies, 2 doubles, 4 triples, 1 quad, 2 blobs
25 stableford points

Played at Yarrow Golf Course today. It's in the middle of nowhere NE of Kalamazoo, and NW of Battle Creek, MI. Of the courses I've played during my little spring tour of West Michigan golf courses, it's the best one so far. Nice layout, most greens are multi-tiered, fairways are wide and accessible, but do have some traps that come into play. Lots of high rough to punish errant shots. Greens are big, receptive, and roll true. Got on for $34 using golfnow.com, which save a little bit of the afternoon rate.

Shot 42-39=81. Had a birdie on the short par 5 16th, where my eagle pitch popped off the edge of the cup. Only 1 double (#10 - duffed shot into a fairway trap). Otherwise kept it in play pretty well. Course played almost 6700 yards from the 2nd of 5 tee boxes, and was damp after the showers of the few days (and it sprinkled a little during the round) which meant I was hitting a lot of driver - 3/5 wood approach. Still hit only 6/18 greens - of which 2 were the short par 3's, 3 were par 5's, and only 1 of the par 4's. I was never far from the green on my approach (save #10 above), but enough to catch the slopes, or false fronts on greens and roll off. Same old misses = score at handicap.

Meh. It's been thunderstorms all week so I didn't have a chance to practice what I learned at my lesson before a round. Got out today, and had a bad 48 on teh first 9. Then it started thunderstorming around 11.

But I do play for free at that course, and my buddy at the cashier gave me 2 free rainchecks for 18 and a cart too to any city couse. So it was worth it.