I played the other day with my brother/father in law at a really nice/toughish course. Always nerve racking, one b/c they are the inlaws and two because one of them is a +3 or 4 handicap and the other isn't bad at all.

Such a frustrating round, I played really well and just don't understand how these top golfers do it sometimes:

#2: This is a 451 yard par 4 that is very narrow with trees on both sides. I hit a baby draw and it goes into the trees. I hit an excellent rescue club to 40 yards short of the green in the rough. I pitch to 6 feet and lipout the putt. Bogey.

#3: I hit a 4 iron from 195 on a par 3 short on the green about 45 feet away. Tough putt, but did okay got it to 5 feet. Literally a 360 lipout for par, bogey.

#4: Another tough 422 yard par 4 into the wind, and I hit a bad anti water left swing and leave it out to the right. I layup with an 8 iron and have 40 yards from the fairway. I pitch it to 10 feet, miss the putt, tap in bogey.

#5: Another tough 431 yard par 4 into the wind. Driver to 215. Rescue hit perfectly to 20 feet. Rolled it in for birdie. Sup.

#6: 672 yard par 5. Good Drive/3 wood, leaving 225 in. WTF. I hit an awesome 5 wood off a sidehill lie to right in front of the green. Hit a bad putt and leave myself 10 feet, which i burn the edge. Bogey.

#7: Hit a really nice 8 iron from 140 into a strong wind to 8 feet. Burn the edge. Par.

#8: Driver/gap wedge on a short par 4 to 3 feet. Misread put totally and push it, doesn't even touch the hole. Par.

#9: Smashed driver leaving a 9 iron in. Lose it MAYBE 5 yards right and it ends up in the rough. Douche a chip to 15 feet. Didn't really give it a chance bogey.

So I end up with a 39 which is typical for me playing good. It coulda shoulda woulda been a 33-34 for a golfer as good as I should be.

#10: Smash driver/7 iron to 15 feet on a 451 yard par 4. Roll it in for birdie.

#11: Long "3 shot" (for normal people not my bro in law) par 5. I smash a 280 yard drive onto soft fairways. I hook the crap out of a 4 iron, probably my only really bad shot so far. I hit a really tough 3rd shot into a greenside bunker, and hit a really nice bunker shot to 6 feet, burn the edge. Bogey.

#12: Another quick bad swing and put it into a bunker. I blade the bunker shot into the lip, pops straight up with overspin, and goes to 10-15 feet, lawl. 2 putt bogey.


#13: #1 handicap hole, doglegs 90 degrees about 270 out downhill. Last time when I was a shorter player here, I hit driver through the fairway which is bad news. So I hit a three wood perfectly in the fairway. Get to my ball, no shot at the green, have to just chip it forward, where I am still 160 out. I hit a 5 iron out of thick rough up a hill to 30 feet. Insanely hard putt to 6 feet. Lip IN the 6 footer for bogey.

#14: Bad drive that doesn't carry a water hazard. Drop, hit 9 iron to 25 feet, roll it in for par.

#15: 240 yard par 3, hit 5 wood into greenside bunker. Get too much ball and go way over the green, make double.

#16: 310 yard par 4. I hit driver a bit left to 40 yards. Perfect pitch that lands 5 feet in front of the hole, rolls down a hill, burns the edge, and ends up 10 feet past. Leave putt 1/2 inch short in the center of the hole, tap in par.

#17: 540 par 5. Perfect 280 yard drive leaving ~245. Layup to 85 yards. Hit wedge that I thought was going to be stiff, rolls off the false front in front of the green. Chip it to 10 feet, miss the putt bogey.

#18: Driver into left rough, had 125 in. Hit a 9 iron (my 140 club) perfectly right at the pin. It is on the FRONT of the green, leaving a 85 foot putt. Putt it to 8 feet. Burn the edge. Bogey.

+10 81. That is an 81 that should be like a 72, but IT NEVER IS. So frustrating.

My index has ballooned to 14.3 from 11.5 bc of lack of play/inconsistency. Shot an 83 today @ the BlackHorse course(Bayonet/BlackHorse) in Seaside, CA. Great course for $75 imo

Course stats: 6600 yds/ 71.4 rating/136 slope

played a little Par 67 yesterday. The holes themselves fopr the most part wern't that short, just more par3's then par 5's. Shot an 85. I gotta get rid of my normal blowup holes. Was playing retty solid through 15. Then put up 2 triple boggies within the last 3 holes. And missed a 2 foot par putt on the last hole. also gotta get better driving so I don't lookse 5 prov's a round.

West mid
Stableford 21

Felt tired and didn't play well at all but did get to see a very impressive eagle. One of the guys I was playing with drove the ditch on the first in a very strong cross wind. This is a ditch I struggle to reach in warm calm conditions. He then hit an iron 180yards to with in a few feet and sunk the putt.

34 (par 35). Missed a 3 foot birdie putt on 7, missed an 8 foot birdie putt on 8, made a 12 foot birdie putt on 9. No bogeys, no 3 putts, only in trouble at all on one hole, got up and down from 65 yards.

91 two weeks ago, which was my best ever (i'm usually between 94-104). going again today.

i have good distance and hit a lot of very good drives, but my bad ones tend to be very bad. hit all my irons pretty decent. my short game is abysmal, my chipping is abysmal. my putting is worse. i probably average 3 putts. goal is to break 90 before the end of the summer.

38-42-80. Mediocre ball striking day, terrible terrible putting. I did chip one in on #6 and almost repeated the feat on #8. Missed another 3 foot birdie putt, never touching the hole. Time for more adjustments.

99 today. 3 times i hit a GIR and double bogied or worse. lol.

42-40 - +11. Got two day club championship tourney starting tomorrow.....much more difficult course than today's. Hope to strike the ball better and have a shot at a flight.

I SHOT AN 84 TODAY IN A TOURNAMENT BECAUSE I SUCK

I hit a 150 yard drop kick snaphook drive (which I haven't done since I was about 8) that was "in bounds" based on the stakes and "out of bounds" based on the crooked line drawn between the stakes. Then I drove it to 50 yards, hit it to 6 feet, and lipped out the bogey putt. AWESOME.

I missed the green from < 140 yards in the middle of the fairway like 7 times.

I almost double chipped it on two separate occasions. (despite me chipping it perfectly ~400 times in a row in preparation for tournament).

Stupid ass tenative play ******ed bull****.

8 pars
SIX DOUBLE BOGEYS
3 bogeys from the ass middle of the fairway and 135 yards
1 birdie


Oh well I tee off in 7.5 hours. better go to sleep. 2 more rounds to go STOP BEING A DOUCHEBAG ME

played pretty good, just missed on alot of putts in the 8-16 foot range.

38-35

Played a very odd round at Hughes Creek golf course in Elburn, IL. Course had the narrowest fairways I've played all year, and was a little shaggy after last night's rain. It wasn't a bad course, but I didn't really like it all that much.

Front 9 I hit 5/9 GIR's, but had 19 putts, 1 lost ball penalty, hit the cart path twice and hit 3 trees. 44 total.

Back 9 I hit 1 GIR, but had 7 1 putts, all inside 10', 12 total on the side. Hit my 4hybrid on a 180 yd uphill par 3 (#11) to 18" for a nice kick in birdie. I left a couple out there on that side from bad course management and not being able to hit a green on my approach with my wedge. 41 on this side, 85 total.

HI, I'm Pokeromglol, and I have the chipping yips.

I shot 79 in my tournament
9/14 fairways
11/18 greens
33 putts, 2 three puts.

4 yipped chips, 3 ridiculous putts from thick rough.

Make a few more putts, chip the ball onto the green and I'm around par.

Sudbury golf club
par 69 6277 yards

I’m going to make two contradictory statements here and I’m still not sure how they manage to coexist but they do. I hit the ball well, I shot 100.

I had the best ball striking day I have had in a month or so. Neither my chipping nor putting was atrocious and I managed a reasonable 46 for the front nine.
Three holes wrecked my card.

On the par four second I was thirty yards from the hole in two and took another six to get it down, fat stubbed chip, heavy chip, horrible putt from the fringe that caught the slope and raced to the front of the green three more putts from there.

On the seventeenth a long up hill par four I drove well into the left hand semi rough then smothered a three wood into the trees thirty yards farther up, came out side ways then hit a fat pitching wedge to just short, chipped through the green and took two putts from there.

On the eighteenth my drive looked a little left and I thought I might just be in the sparse patch of trees. It was actually in a patch of thick brambles, I hacked it out, it ricochet off a tree trunk and went back in. I took a drop then stubbed a wedge and needed another shot to get back onto the fairway. I missed the green right with a three wood then pitched just over it and took two putts from the fringe for a ten.

30 stableford points

6500 Yard 69.2/121 municipal in Denver

Shot 52-41 for a 93 that is one off my personal best of 92, which was last week. Thank you, Mr. Hogan.

Back 9 was my best 9 ever by 4 strokes: had one double, 5 bogies, and 1 birdie. No blow-ups and no 3-jacks on the greens which especially is rare.

Had a sand save on 15 for par from a greenside bunker when I hit it out to 3 feet. Sand was hard so I just chipped out, it worked perfectly.

My normal playing partner (who shot 106) was incredulous of my claims of par and of my birdie - I just smiled and told him they're easier when you hit fairways and greens. 80's here I come...

my ball striking is terrible i dont know wtf happend.

37-42

I had two of the best iron-ball-striking rounds this weekend that I have ever had, bar none, but I think I hit 3 fairways in those 2 days with my driver. I have recently started snap-hooking drives, and this weekend was no exception.

Shot 95, 92 at Royal Ashburn this weekend. For the 95, I had a 42 front (with like, 5 3-putts) and a 53 back. The greens at this course are some of the fastest and hardest to read greens that I have ever played on. There's nothing like standing on a left-to-right slope while lining up a putt, hitting it on a perceived left-to-right line and watching it go straight right-to-left. Just unreal.

A few shots that got really got the endorphins flowing this weekend:
- 350'ish yard par 4, I pop a drive straight up in the air that goes about 170 yards into the left rough. Hit one of the sweetest 5-irons ever, a perfect high-draw to just left of the pin for a 25 foot putt.

- Second shot to a par 4, 170 yards to the middle of the green, hit a perfect high-drawing 6-iron that hits and checks left towards the pin.

- 50 odd yards to a back to front sloping green, hit a 56 degree sand wedge that comes off the club-face like I skulled it. It lands about 10 feet behind and left of the pin and checks up on a dime.

God I can't wait to play again this weekend.

40-49-89 on Sunday, 38-44-82 yesterday.

My ability to strike the ball has suddenly and inexplicably gone AWOL. I went from having extreme confidence as late as mid-round Saturday to being totally lost from the start on Sunday. I scraped it around a little better yesterday, but it was still an ugly weekend. Putting was OK yesterday, awful on Sunday.

Birded 4 of the first 8 holes today after having not touched a club for 2 weeks.

Ended up with 73, after playing 15-18 in the dark (450 par 4, 460 par 4, 140 par 3, 670 par 5) in +2.

Still pleased

47 (par 37). JFC I suck.

First hole, miss the green by two yards. Chip. 3 putt. Double.
Second hole, miss the green by two yards. Chip. 3 putt. Double.
DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT
Four doubles, two bogeys, three pars. 5/7 fairways, 4/9 greens, 22 putts

Last hole, miss the green by two yards. Awful chip. Nice putt to two feet. Tap it in dead center, it hits the cup liner which is maybe a half inch down instead of the two inches it should be, ball bounces directly out back toward me.

Standard.

Another damned 3 putt.

I hate this ****ing game so much some days.

85...... Bethpage BLACK, back tees.

First time playing it, threw away numerous shots on the front 9 because I was giddy to be playing there and wasn't concentrating/focused.

Played the inward 9 in 40 parring 5 of the last 6 holes (lipped out a par putt on 15 which is a BEAST, hardest hole at this years Open iirc). Dying to play there again, I think I can shoot 80.

wow thats sick. How much harder is it then your avg course, or what do you normally shoot.

Played a dogtrack muni in Joliet, Inwood. Shot 41-38 (par 71). Birdied the last, but was only 4/8 hitting GIR's with my wedges, 8 GIR's in total. Putted better coming in after noticing I was gripping the putter too tight causing a lot of power pulls. But I was pulling everything today.

I'm an 8 handicap now. I only play maybe 15 rounds a year and on a standard ~6200 yrd muni I usually shoot in the low 80's, sometimes I get it into the 70's but I never shoot in the 90's.

BP Black was obviously the longest course I've ever played but overall it was actually pretty fair. I made 1 triple on 5 and I deserved it, everything else was double or better. Before playing it I had visions of it just being this treacherous day where I can't even get a look at par and any slight mis-hit would result in a lost ball or unplayable lie.

That wasn't the case. If I hit good shots I had a good chance to make par, bad shots were punished with penal bunkers and usually took par out of the equation, but I didn't lose a single ball and was able to recover after a bad shot for a bogey on most holes.

The biggest difference between this course and a more typical coures that I would normally play was the bunkering and obviously the length. Basically anytime I hit a bad shot I was in a bunker, most greens had deep bunkers guarding the front and many were entirely surrounded by those nasty fesque lipped bunkers where if you didn't slip a wide open 56 or 60* wedge right under the ball with some speed it wasn't coming out.

Also, if you missed the fairway on any of the several 470+ yard par 4's (most with uphill approaches) you had no chance of hitting the green in 2. As a fairly long hitter I'm not used to laying up on par 4's, even from the rough, after a solid drive but today it was the norm. The rough was obv not as long as it was for the open but it was just as "juicy" and it was wet out today. Super lush and the ball would settle down so you couldn't get the club on the back of the ball, basically hitting anything over a 9-iron and getting any height was impossible. I tried to hit some long irons and even a rescue club out of the rough but it was always just a gouge that resulted in a low running shot, even when I hit it flush. You don't see rough like that around here on any public course that I'm familiar with.

Anyway, it was honestly not as hard I thought it would be, its still golf, if you hit good shots you should score reasonably well. Bad shots are punished pretty harshly but there's nothing wrong with that imo and if you take your medicine and play prudent recoveries you should keep the real big numbers off your card. The greens were faster than I'm used to but I liked that much better than slower greens and putted well all day. My goals were to break 90 and not lose any balls, much to my surprise I managed to accomplish both.

Usually when I play a really tough course like that, I end up playing extra smart and my score ends up ok.

You aren't going to be hitting those 470 par 4s in regulation from the rough, so you layup, wedge it on, and give yourself a ton of looks at par with bogey at worst. When, at an easier course you might try and lace a 4 iron in there and hook it into some impossible spot where you are lucky to escape with a bogey.