Please excuse my newb question, but if this happened to you, does that mean that you should've either hit a 3-iron or a 5-wood (depending on how well you hit a 5-wood, I suppose)?

18 stableford.

At the 10th the three players I was playing with all hit their teeshots into the trees on the right. I try to avoid that, first I snaphook my drive OB to the left and then I hit my third into the tress on the right.

Had 2 GIRs, 3 putted one and made par on the other. 3 putted from less than 2 yards for a double where I had played a perfect chip and run from about 50 yards to set up a very good par chance.

Had my best round ever today! Shot a 78 (I'm a 15 handicap) at Hansen Dam in Pacoima(near LA).

The key for me was making like 10 out of 11 putts from inside 5 feet. Plus, my approaches were very good today, even though my driver was fading and slicing.

I love golf!

I do carry a 3-iron which might have been good here, though I hardly ever hit it. In retrospect the better play may have been to take the wood and try to fade it in high, but I was feeling pretty pumped up and hit about as good a shot as I am capable. Ah well.

Bleh just finished a terrible 91 on a par 63 exec club. 40 on the front, and 51 on the back.


I completly cant figure out how to hit my woods now. I've been taking lessons and my 6i-PW has improved a ton. But my 5 wood + is just awful. I use to be able to hit my 5 wood great, and I don't know what's happened. Now I have nothing off the tee's and would probably fair better lpaying with no woods at all.

Played a quick 9 at dawn today. Par 34, ~2950 yards. Didn't warm up or tested the greens, and started triple-double-double. Felt like the first triple in at least two weeks. After that start, played relatively well, three pars and three doubles. Missed some 6-8 footers, that sucked. Four mis-hits that i can think of. Overall 47, with 19 putts, which is only 1 over my supposed handicap, and starting out cold left me feeling pretty confident.

oh yes, also happened to miss a turtle by a few feet.

Did you get to play through, or were you held up behind it for 18 holes? Talk about slow play.

Oh and in case anybody wondered, if it is alive it is an outside agency, if it is dead it is a loose empediment.

lol. good one. i'll have to remember it for next time.

Went back to Angel's Crossing in Vicksburg, MI today since I got a late start and its not too far away. When I played in in April, it was in great shape after the harsh winter... now though, it's been abused by too many rounds and it shows, especially on the greens and where carts are forced to go (There's very little actual paved path).

Nevertheless, I had my best ball striking round of the year by far. Shot 39 - 38 = 77. Doubled #1, then played even par the next 11 holes, with a near ace thrown in there on the 192 yard 12th. I hit a great cut 5w into a slight breeze, and the ball landed where I wanted it to just over a trap on the front of the green where it runs away from the tee. I didn't know it was about 18" to the left of the pin until i walked on the putting surface. Birdie there felt good... then I bogied 13 and 14, haha.

Overall, I hit 11/18 greens, 9/14 fairways. But to be fair, these greens are arguably the largest I've ever played on, and I had a lot of 30-40' birdie efforts. Add that to some of the crazy swails in them and some odd pin placements right on the side boards, I had 33 putts. So the round could've been even better. But I'd like to carry the ball striking over to the future, particularly with my mid irons.

At a course I never had played before today I shot 35 stableford points. As I holed out on all holes I made 49(37) + 49(35) 3 over my handicap if playing strokeplay. And I had quite a few putts that just shaved the edge of the hole.

Far the best round I've played since 2005.

Biggest let down of the round was a par five where I had a 6i to the green, hit it to the right pin high after three. Tried to lobwedge it over the bunker but hit it too far. Chipped it back too hard into the bunker. Had a good bunker shot, but still took 2 putts for a snowman. Had 3 snowmen in all otherwise I would have gone down in handicap.

My team still won a prize for being one of the best teams. We where one point off first place, two points from winning outright. At each hole you count the best 3 stableford scores out of 4. At one hole we had 4-3-3-3, so that we had to discard a 3. Darn.

Played 9 today at Braemar in Edina, MN.

Played my first round with a new set of irons (Bridgestone J33's). ****ing LOVE these irons.

Round started off par, par, then I took a 9 on the third hole (Par 4) then went bogey, bogey, double bogey, par, and then my buddy lost the score card.

Faced with a 485 yard par 5 on the last hole of 9, I had to carry a hazard 290 out w/15 mph winds coming in, my round was already in the ****ter, and I said **** it and ripped a driver that fell a yard short from clearing the pond...oh well. Made double on that hole, and from memory I think I shot a 48...

lol golf.

Played 15 holes yesterday evening at Chase Oaks. Was a few over par but played great. My swing hadn't felt that good in a long time. Hit numerous long, straight drives, and 4 iron shots inside 10 feet.

oh cmon 3 holes to go you can finish it.

say baby im brinigng home extra special dinner and come home late!

Played today for the first time in a loong time. Played ~22 holes from the tips. After about the first three (no driving range) I started hitting the ball really well, parred probably 2/3 from then on out, but my putting was soooo rusty. I could not grasp the speeds of the greens at all.

Didn't keep track of the score, but I did hit a drive 350 (lol dry fairways) and then hit my SW from 120 over the green of a long par 4. All of my clubs distances seem to have changed quite a bit since I started lifting because I cleared a 165 yard with my PW.

Trap the ball much?

3 over with only 3 GIR and I 3-putted one of the GIR because the greens on the back were aerated and my ball popped up like 18" off one of the aeration holes on a 100'+ putt leaving me well short

44 for nine holes ... Started off double-double. Greens were way faster than what I'm used to and I didn't have time to practice before. This was a twilight round. I still took 5 of 9 skins. My friend brought his 13yo out for his first "big boy course" experience. He shot a 55 with a few duffs. He drove one about 250, according to skycaddie, despite the driver being too stiff-shafted and underlofted for him. He's hitting my old 9* T-Zoid w/ a stiff proforce 65 because the price was right . I toed that one and he almost outdrove me, lol. Overall, not bad at all. On the last hole we got blasted by the sprinkler system as we were putting out. Good times.

oh it wasn't that, we were behind a bunch of slow people and 6 finishes by #1 so we just skipped over and played the front nine again

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

For the first time in over a month I enjoyed my self. I hit some good shoots and felt like I had some idea of what I was trying to do and what had gone wrong after I hit a bad shots.
No lost balls, no Blobs, no trips into the bushes to look for balls, no air-shots, no topping the ball off the tee, no feeling like there exists no possible way to address a golf ball that isn’t contrived and uncomfortable.

In contrast to my last six or so rounds it started badly with my pushing a drive out right over the trees that bound the fairway but two good shots and one straight top allowed me to get away with a double.
I got a rare par on the third and had I holed a three foot put on a flat green Id have followed it up with a par on the fourth.
The tenth is a long par three that played into the wind and despite coming up fifteen yards shot I contrived to take four more shots.
On the twelfth I hit my only abomination of the day trying to hit a fairway wood out of deep rough on a uphill lie I never felt comfortable and toped it ten yards.
The next hole I took my only triple I got lucky and unlucky I blocked the fairway-wood id taken for safety into the rough bordering a fence that marks a piece of OB and had to go out sideways but I also lipped out on a put.
On the sixteenth id hit the par four green in regulation then took four puts and on the next hole a fifteen yard chip left me a three foot put for par that I missed.
94, 33 stablford points
2 pars, 8 bogies, 7 doubles, 1 triple
32 puts, 3 GIR, 4/12 fairways

UofI course?

"The weekend of 50 three putts"

Friday: 86 at Hemlock Golf Club in Ludington, MI. First time I'd played there. Nice course - very generous landing areas, especially on the front nine, GREAT greens. I couldn't believe how fast they were and rolled several putts way past on the front. A nice warmup for the main event:

85 at Arcadia Bluffs in Arcadia, MI. Wow. First time I've played it and it instantly goes to the top of the list of the most visually arresting courses I've ever seen - ahead of Augusta (granted that I haven't played or seen Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, Old Head or a lot of others, but still ...)



Just incredible, and yet fair - you could generally see where you were going and good shots were rewarded, not punished. There was a steady 25-30 mph wind when we played, plus a hole or so of rain, so conditions were not exactly easy.

I'd like to go back sometime and just take pictures. I took a few but not nearly enough.

Saturday: 89 at Tullymore, Stanwood, MI. Second time I've played Tullymore and honestly, I don't get it. It's ranked in the top 100 courses in the U.S. by Golf Digest (#90) and I don't know why. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice course. They have nice facilities. The course was in very good shape. It just doesn't feel *great*.

85 at St. Ives, Stanwood, MI. Another nice course with lots of elevation changes. Played behind a group of drunken yahoos who wouldn't let anyone through - five and a half hours when you're on your fourth 18 of the weekend isn't as much fun.

Sunday: 86 at my home course. Tired.

Playing on the road is tough. I had incredible ball striking days on both Friday and Saturday, especially so on Friday. I hardly can recall missing a fairway. Hit a ton of greens. I lost one ball - where I hit one flush at the flag and we never found it.

I had a raft of birdie putts inside ten feet all weekend and I made exactly ZERO before today. I did three putt several times from inside ten. Aargh. After 87 holes and what seemed like 50 three putts, I did make a birdie - a super difficult downhill slider at my home course.

Arcadia at the twilight rate of $110 was clearly the winner. Hemlock was a bit overpriced at $79 - which is probably why we basically had the course to ourselves on a Friday morning. None of us felt that Tullymore ($140) or St. Ives ($110) was worth the premium price.

Nice! Thanks for the trip report!

Edgewood Tahoe

74

10/14 fair
16/18 green
35 putt

very frustrating round, hit it very well

Bonds,

I agree with your comments on both Arcadia Bluffs and Tullymore.

We once played 36 in one day at Arcadia Bluffs and it was great fun, ending with dinner on the patio. Also the site of the death of one of my putters. I fired it off the green at 16 as far out into the lake as I could get it. Thankfully there was noone down below or I might be posting from prison.

Tullymore is owned and operated by some great guys. The clubhouse is fabulous, but that 18th hole is just an awful finishing hole. Puts a damper on the entire round every time.

I joined a golf club for the remainder of 2009 and 2010. A 5 day membership that entitles me to all the golf I can play Monday through Friday. Cost? $198. I know it doesn't seem real because this is a pretty nice public course in Adrian, Michigan. Anybody wants to meet up for a round send me a message.

I played it this morning in the rain. The fourth hole is a 271 yard par 4. There is a lot of trouble around the slightly elevated, bunkered green. I hit driver with a little fade and we saw it bounce so it missed the bunker. It was 15 feet! Missed the eagle putt. We quite after nine. I shot 39.

A man after my own heart. That sounds like a great day. If I'd brought a backup with me my putter may well have met the same end. So frustrating. After hearing talk about how fast the greens were, I was surprised that they were slower than Hemlock and I didn't feel they rolled true. Still loved it and hope to make that an annual trip.

A shot of the super-ghey 18th:



478 yard par 5 from the Blues. That's my drive in the middle, 215 out. Notice the ******ed way left pin. Needless to say, I didn't think for a minute about going for it - hit a slinging hook around the tree to the right, a nice chip n run allllll the way across the green, 3 putts from eight feet. FML.

We finished just about the time a par 3 contest was starting. Your brother (IIRC) was one of the celebrity participants. I didn't run into him, but I did chat briefly on the range in the AM with Frank Beckman the voice of Michigan football. Nice guy and the staff seemed to know him pretty well.