What'd You Shoot Today? (Golf BBV Thread)

I walk on, so it's a mix. Most I would say shoot in the mid to high 80s. Occasionally I've played with guys that smoke it from the black tees and shoot in the 70s. Today I played with some older ladies that couldn't hit much farther than 50 yards. They were a hoot, though. Enjoyed playing with them.

Anyways, today wasn't horrible and ever hopeful for improving.

108 (51/57). No hole over 8 (first time). Lost 2 balls. Chipping and putting ok but not great. The highlight of the day was getting over that stupid creek in 2 for the FIRST TIME EVER!

focusing on what to avoid does the opposite
congrats on slaying your creek dragon

looks like you figured out this part as well, how fun that must have been

37 points in the club comp today Winner!

+2 71

Very windy as we are in the middle of storm Amy. Did well knocking down my shots. Started off with a bad bogey. The proceeded to skank a 4 iron off the 2nd tee on a short Par 4 had like 220 into the green and hit a great shot to get green side and get up and down. Settled down after that. Got a bogey on the 4th which is a 200 yard par3 smack back into wind. 9th was a bad bogey as well.

11th nearly holed out for eagled had a tap in birdie. Mad a bad bogey on the 15th. 16th got a birdie 17th nailed a driver and nailed my wedge shot to about 2 feet for another birdie. +2 front -1 back.

76, six bogeys and two birdies. Three of the bogeys were gross three putts, two of those missed short putts. Best overall round of the year with 13 GIR, few more just off.

Handicap is down to 6.6. Not great when I have at least two more tournaments this year.

50 at the state park 9. Practically had the course to myself. Major harvest opportunity.
5 Pro V1's, 2 other Titleists, 3 Taylor Mades, 3 Top Flites, 2 Nitros, 1 Precept, Nike, Maxfli, Ultra.

Fall trip to Myrtle Beach.

Saturday - Asheboro Municipal. 42-37-79 (par 70). Played it at about 5,000 yards.

Sunday - Sea Trails (Maples). 43-43-86. Pretty standard, lots of bogeys as I couldn't buy a short putt.

Monday - Rained out due to Imelda. Got super lucky that Humberto dragged it away, forecast as of Saturday was for 10-20 inches of rain, got 1-2.

Tuesday - Long Bay Club. 47-50-97 (#10 start). 1 birdie on the last hole. Could not do anything with any part of the game for 16 holes. At least it was fast, played in 3 hours even with cart path only on an empty course. Match play event, I lost 4&3.

Wednesday - Grande Dunes. 46-46-92. No birdies. Lots of knee and leg pain, could barely swing a club for a while. Odd, because I felt great on Tuesday. Day 2 of match play, was actually 1 up at the turn but couldn't hold, lost 3&2.

Thursday - Heritage. 46-41-87. 1 birdie. Moved up a set of tees for Thursday and Friday. Which eased the tee to green suffering a bit. Putting was even better, though I still missed many short ones.

Friday - Blackmoor. 45-42-87. 1 birdie. More of same.

Saturday - Grandover Resort (East), Greensboro. Don't know the nines but the total was 80, played the 5500 yard tees. Finally had a reasonable ball striking day and chipped and putted acceptably. Not great, but a better way to close out the trip.

In general played horribly, finished tied for the bottom of the table, won no skins, and still had a great time.

Wild one today and it wasn't just my golf.

Played a little 9 hole course today.

Turned up and see my playing partners are on the practice area which is about 100 yards away from the club house. I walk in and pay as I've walked in I notice about 8 - 15/16 year olds boys we later learned they were from a local school for behavioural issues and 2 people in charge were 2 very young and small women.

Anyhow, I've gone in and they were trying to steal golf balls/Ice creams anything they could get there hands on really but half heartedly doing I think it was more to wind the women up behind the counter. They made a vile joke and I told them to pipe down. All was fine and the women behind the counter had it handled. I paid and walk out to the practice area to get a bit of a warm up. I pass my playing partner on the way and I mention a few kids in there. I carry on meet my other guy on the practice area have a little chat and put my coffee down. I look back over at the club house and see my playing partner swinging at these kids that were all trying to hit him. I found out after they were either trying to steal his golf clubs or just fiddle with them and they had words and you know what kids who think they are untouchable are like.

Me and my friend run over and do a good job of breaking it up. Things calmed down a bit my friend was stood inside and me and a couple of others were just pushing the youngsters back telling them to calm down (At no point were the people in charge of them doing anything). They later realised they could run onto the driving range and run in the back way to try and get to my friend. We quickly noticed and got them all back out the front.

They started picking up things like the shoe scrubber a couple of them started to get golf clubs out, I'm not sure even where they got them from.

Police turned up didn't really do much. I think they might contact the school and go from there if I'm honest, I think they just wanted to defuse the situation and get them gone. The Police were cool about it though. I'm really surprised they didn't really talk to the person one to one who was involved in it though.

The people at the golf course were great they gave us a free round for the future and even gave us a round of drinks for after our round on the house.

The round was ok first 3 holes were terrible though, Probably because of no warm up. The rest of the 15 holes I shot my handicap around there.

Golf! UGH! what is it good for?

114(52/62)

They started us on 10 so the usual back nine was the front nine today.

Was hitting it pretty well on the front nine. 2 pars and I felt good until I got to the dreaded creek hole. Lost 2 balls in the damn creek.

First two holes on the back nine were fine, then my swing completely fell apart. No clue why. Very frustrating.

Lost 6 balls total, 4 on the back 9.

Today was a day where I thought for a second I was actually improving until reality hit me in the face.

This maybe just me but whenever I feel like my swing is getting out of whack mid round I tend club up and grip down on the club and smaller swings just to get a little bit of strike back into it and feel like I have some kind of control over my golf ball.

What a day.

As usual, some good and some bad.

I played with my father-in-law and his buds so we hit from the yellow tees.

My swing felt pretty good. In fact, I didn't miss hit a single iron shot all day. When I mean mis-hit I mean like shank or top it. I don't think I've ever gotten through a round without topping the ball. And, I didn't push a single drive right, which is another first. And, I'm pretty fearful of my 5-wood but I hit it three times, all nice and straight.

My father-in-law commented he's seen a huge improvement on my swing. This is mostly because I've been practicing swinging through, and not hitting the ball. Not as much "arm". My distance continues to improve but I still haven't really concentrated on that yet.

Now the bad. My bunker play was horrendous today. It's the one phase of my game that I have devoted zero time to, and it showed today. I don't even own a sand wedge. I just try my best to get the ball out with a pitching wedge. It killed me today.

So, back to the round. Shot a 51 on the front nine with one lost ball. Started out the back nine with bogey,par, then lost my drive left on the next hole. Lost another ball on the creek hole. Even then I was playing pretty decently.

We got to 18 and I wasn't paying attention to the score at all, but it turned out I needed a double to shoot 99. Perfect tee shot, but pulled my next shot left. I stood over the ball for a while trying to make a decision. I could chip at the hole, which meant going over the cart path, a large bunker and hitting about 30' of green before another nasty bunker. Or, I could make an easy chip shot back into the fairway and go from there. Had I known what I needed I would have gone for option 2, but I said "f it" and bladed it into the back bunker. Took me three shots to get out of it. Arrgghh.....

Anyways, still shot a personal best 101 (51/50) so I can't be too mad. I'm making really solid shots more consistently but not always straight.

After the round (and a couple times during the round) my father-in-law told me I simply wasn't lining up properly. It's a phase of my game I have not paid any attention to. But I will now.

awesome you sharing that with us bb
every aspect of what you described has been experienced before, and will be yet again

Love this, ha

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United, wtf? What were they doing there?!

44-38. Whoops. I went in with a lot confidence after three straight rounds in the mid 70s. Started bad with a double trying to be too aggressive with downhill birdie putt towards a pin on the edge, and ended up off the green in a bunker. I was striking the ball well but got in some bad spots and made stupid decisions, and didn’t have a par until the 6th hole. Got back on track with two pars, but ended the front with a double when I pulled what would have been a great drive on any other hole into the water.

Not bothered. Hit the ball well and wedges were ****ing dialed.

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will not be able to meet up next week like i hoped porter
still am willing to make the four hour round trip to play a round with you at your home course

Was basically a school outing/trip for them, Talking to the people who run the course they said they've had a good relationship with school for the most part, However they said all ties were cut with them after this.

35-36-71.

love the spoil, thanks book

Another close one. 101 (51/50)

One disaster hole (10) torpedoed me. Pushed my drive left into the woods. Completely mis hit second shot into a bunker. Bladed the bunker shot into the woods again. Ugh.

However, par on the dreaded creek hole. First time better than double on that one.

Sooooo close to an ace on this par 3.

Overall my game continues to improve. My father-in-law gave me a sand wedge and a 50 degree wedge that has really helped.

Pretty sure the elusive 99 is in my sights.

After my round Sunday I was hitting some on the indoor trackman trying to figure out this pull I developed. One of the pros walked in and watched a few things, then talked about working on hitting up on the ball, giving me a little drill. He was there for maybe five minutes. Hit some and numbers were good.

Wow. This isn't an exageration: I hit at least six drives today further than I've hit any other drive this year. It was insane. There's a LONG par 4 that I've been on in regulation probably less than 20 times (it's not just the length...it's protected by two bunkers that run along the side; been in those plenty). At my home course. Where I've been a member since 2018. Hit it in two, no problem. If I can keep it up, it could totally change my game......

.....but not today. Alas, "drive for show, putt for dough" reared it's head:
42-41 = 83

Had some bad luck (a slightly off-line shot hit a cart path and took a huge bounce out of bounds, for example), but putting was tough with very fast greens I wasn't expecting and didn't believe, and my misses were bad misses.

122 (61/61)

Absolute disaster. Played a different course lined with houses. I've been really hitting well lately so I figured I would be ok. Figured wrong. Hit four.

Lost 10 balls.

Just couldn't hit anything. Completely fell apart. Well, my wedges were a thing of beauty but that was it. Greens were more difficult than I'm used to and waaay faster. Took me a while to get my putter dialed in.

I went to the driving range after the round to try to figure something, anything, out. I'm finding there is a big difference between my practice swings and when there is an actual ball there. I've had this issue from day one but it was really bad today.

This game.......

We played a fun little comp today.

So it was a stableford format with moving tee's depending on how you scored on the previous hole. Scoring worked as follows

0 Points (Net Double) = Move back to the tips
1 Point (Net Bogey) = Move back one tee
2 Points (Net Par) = Stay where you are
3 Points (Net Birdie) = Move up a tee
4 Points (Net Eagle) = Move up to the ladies

Was pretty fun. Started on the yellows (Mid tee's) I was on the Yellows for about 3 holes then I was off the tips for the rest of the round 😃 ... Guy who I was playing with played 16 holes off the reds which are the ladies tees and 2 holes of the yellows. As to no surprise he won.

Around my track there isn't really much to gain from each tee other than a few holes but when you do gain you gain quite a lot.

51-50-101 @Tioga Country Club. 1 par, 8 bogies, 2 snowmen. Season's winding down here.

Season is over for me, so I'll x-post from handicap thread and do a similar stat recap on my year.

[QUOTE=2024 Statistics]HCP: 7.7 (got down to 7.1 this year which is my all-time low)

59 counted rounds, though probably played 65-70 factoring in events/scrambles

2 eagles (none last year, sad)
74 birdies (7.2%, up from 5.9%)
408 pars (39.8%, up from 37.9%)

31.8 putts/round (down from 32.2)
39.7% GIR (up from 35.9%)
36.3% FIR (up from 32.4%)
23.8% Scrambling (up from 22%)

Makes sense overall, marginally lowered my handicap and most of my stats marginally improved. It's a grind but been moving in the right direction for 3-4 years now. >1 birdie per round makes me quite happy, and my bogey+ avoidance has improved too.[/QUOTE]

HCP: 8.0 (got down to a 6.1 this year which is my new all-time low)

52 counted rounds, probably an additional 5 or so events/scrambles

Best round: 73 (5,934 yards, 68.1/125), five birdies, 4.4 differential (tied with a 75 at slightly harder ratings)

0 eagles (down from 2 last year)
50 birdies (5.3%, down from 7.2%)
397 pars (42.4%, up from 39.8%)
353 bogeys (37.7%, up from 37.5%)
136 doubles or worse (14.7%, down from 15.3%)

32.5 putts/round (up from 31.8)
38.9% GIR (down from 39.7%)
38.5% FIR (up from 36.3%)
23.8% Scrambling (dead flat, amazing)

Ended the year with a slightly higher handicap. My best stretch of golf was late June/early July. Played pretty consistently meh in the last 60 days of the year, shot twelve rounds of 80-87 to finish the year which just slowly bled away the index improvement I made.

I hit the ball better than I ever have this year. Continuous winter lessons for the last three years have made a huge difference. Won't stop with that, but I think a lot of pretty stagnant numbers tell me my course management, decision making and mental side of things need to be areas of attention.

86 18 hole rounds on the year by total holes played. Probably 82 complete 18 hole rounds. May play this weekend, but I ain't keeping score. I'm basically done for the year.

2 eagles
57 birdies
510 pars
595 bogeys
275 doubles
107 others

Handicap: 11.3

Preseason goals were to break 40 3 times, 80 once and get the handicap under 10. All were met. Broke 80 at last 3 times, 40 at least 5 times and got down to 9.5 in late July.

Goals for next year:
-Have more birdies than others
-Have more pars than bogeys
-Get handicap under 8.0.
-Break 75.
-Shoot under par on a side.

Where do you guys live that you can't play year around?

Last Friday was such a disaster that I hit the range right after the round and couldn't hit a damn thing. Then I hit the range Saturday and couldn't hit a damn thing. I came home and watched some videos and went and hit a second bucket and couldn't hit a damn thing.

So, I scheduled a lesson (yesterday) and couldn't mis-hit if I tried. WTF? I don't get it. Anyway, he did give me some good advice. I'm getting better at not being so "arm-y" but he had me work on my hands. He's telling me I'm trying to guide the club right before impact with my hands. He had me work on this and I was hitting pretty well.

Fast forward to the course today. I spent the first 9 or so holes trying to figure out why I couldn't hit the damn ball again. Finally figured out that I was swaying backwards instead of turning my hips. That fixed a lot. But, in general, every aspect of my game was off a bit. Shot a 115 (59/56). Lost 3 balls but only one with my driver. I just didn't play great all around. Chipping not great, 3 putted quite a few times. Just sort of meh. But it was certainly an improvement from my last outing.

I will say I hit my 5 wood really really well. It's been a club I've been scared to pick up, and even when I do I just don't hit it well. Today I smashed it, and straight, so hopefully it gives me some confidence with it, and I might even put my 3-wood back in my bag.