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

41 (par 36). 1 birdie, no double bogeys. 70.3/133/6131.

Only time for nine holes today. Driver wasn't quite as sharp as yesterday. Hyrbids and irons were solid, short game mostly good. I've been doing a good job of avoiding bunkers but I found two today.

Going to Myrtle Beach in two weeks. Not that long ago I was kind of dreading it, but the better ball striking this weekend (and putting lately) has turned that around.

2 man scramble champs this weekend.

I partnered with a mid handicap who hits it a mile but doesn't have a short game which in theory should of been a good match with me.

After a poor front 9 only getting to -1. Missed a few easy birdie holes when we were in great positions. My short game wasn't firing as it had been leading up to the week couldn't get anything super close. Started to get better on the back 9 we ended up getting to -5 in the end. Still left a lot out there on the back 9 though. We ended up winning it on countback. Other team that tied with us shot a -7 and by the looks of their card they also left a lot of there as well.

Sidenote, We were playing with a 1 man team (we let him play 2 shots everytime) His partner became ill, He is a mid-high handicap and he got it round in level par which was really good. He was even -2 after 12 holes.

Home course 36/36/72

92(46/46)
6/14 fairways, 7/18 greens.
5 pars, 6 bogeys, 7 doubles.
2 1-putts, 5 3-putts. 39 putts.

Short game stinks.

71.4/140 from 6550 yards

47/49 = 96. Differential 19.9

7 fairways, 35 putts

First time playing this course, which was very challenging. 6 pars, 4 bogies, and the rest doubles and triples. The course has water in play on over half of the holes, and there's significant elevation changes and sidehill lies everywhere on the course pretty much.

Course is very target golf-y, and being out of position pretty much anywhere makes second (and third) shots extremely difficult. Most of the big numbers were related to poor strikes, rather than strategy decisions.

Had three good looks at birdie from 3 GIR but nothing dropped.

So, I took a lesson yesterday and was feeling really good about what I worked on. Of course it all fell apart today.

My home course was closed today so I played a nearby club course.

The course I played was 5982 yards. It was lined with houses (eek!). Only hit one house but lost two balls in people's yards. Course was in fantastic shape and it took a while for me to get used to the greens. Much faster than my home course. 3 putted many times.

Played horribly. Couldn't hit much of anything right. Strangely my bunker shots were my best shots today. Sort of figured things out around the turn but a nasty thunderstorm popped up and I only finished 13 holes.

Shot 60 on the front nine and 28 on the last 4 holes. I did finish on a high note with a par on a par 5, but that was right after losing 2 balls the previous hole.

Whenever I start hitting it pretty well (during my lesson the day before) it seems I have a tendency just to let loose without thinking about what was making me swing better.

Plenty of work to do.

Oh yeah. Played with a scratch golfer today. He teed off on a par 4 and his club exploded. Never seen that.

Front 9 after work.

38
5/7 fairways, 4/9 greens.
1 birdie, 5 pars, 3 bogeys
3 1-putts. 15 putts.

Had it going.

put up a sweet 45-57 yesterday. Four rounds prior were 91-89-88-90. The 57 is even worse because it was on a par 35 nine and I had a birdie plus two other holes with a 30 foot birdie putt! The other six were all triple+. I had 5 total triple+ in those last four rounds, and then made 5 consecutive triple+ on holes 10-14.

Just so frustrating to feel like you're making big progress on improvement and then discovering how low the floor actually still is.

122 (64/58)

Man oh man, this game. I've been hitting pretty well on the range but I can't seem to translate it to the course. I simply couldn't hit a decent shot until I got to 16. I kept tinkering with every component of my swing, then I was able to fix something. Then, I fixed the second thing and VOILA! Hit a great drive on 17 followed up with two perfect 4 irons, then one of the best drives I've ever hit followed up by an absolutely perfect 5 iron. What the literal ****!?

Other than getting my swing to be consistent, I'll be working on my long pitching. Anything between 20 and 60 yds. from the green is challenging for me.

A couple anecdotes. I got placed with three high school kids. They could really smash the ball but pretty erratic. Anyways, the kept hitting 2 or 3 balls off the tee and the group behind us got pretty pissed about it. Not sure how to handle that situation. I said something to the kids but they didn't care. Fortunately they left after nine and I joined the guys behind that were pissed and all was well.

Got to witness a guy in our group have a 6' putt on 18 to go even par for the first time in his life. He drained it. Pretty exciting.

Yep, tell me about it.

Bit of drama at the golf club tonight.

I'll give a little context about this club. It's a 9 hole course that is run by a hand full of people and the owner is somewhat of the greenkeeper.

A group of us extended our Friday night 9 hole roll up whilst the good weather is about it finished about 2 weeks ago and now we get like 12 people so 3 tee times.

We booked our tee times starting at 5:30pm.

I'm in the 1st group and notice the owner spraying the greens behind our last group. I get to the 5th. The 4th runs along side it. 5th is a small par 3. I see the owner get out of his tractor or w/e it is and starts running up the 4th hole and coming across to the 5th hole. He's about 80 yards away from me now and blocking part of the right handside of the green. He starts shouting at me "Can you hurry up" with some other stuff. I'm like well get out the way and I'll hit. He moves I hit. Finish the hole and get to the 6th tee.

2 of the others hit. I hit and as my ball is landing. He's coming over and I know he is fuming so I try and calm him down and say will be faster now the kids are not in front of us, (Found out later he kicked the off the course, gave them a free round). Guy called Mark tee's his ball up and the owner is egging him on saying hurry up even said "****ing hurry up". Mark is a very polite guy, I've never seen him flip like this and quite rightly too. He said to him well if you **** off then I'll hit. Mark takes a practice swing and the owner mutters "oh for **** sake". Mark then replied **** off you ****. You're a ****ing prick. (Sorry this is probably very British 😃 ).

I was literally stood in shock about what was being said. I'm the vice captain at this club and this was crazy to listen to from the owner. The best thing was Mark asked "How were we meant to know you were doing this tonight?" He replied "You don't know". Like what the actual ****.

We all played like **** after that and probably made us way slower. We get to the club house and the other groups come in. 1 younger walked off the course and said I'm not being spoken to like that and the others which included the captain had a similar experience to us.

Everyone agreed if he wanted to work on the course whilst it was still light then he needed to block those tee times off. It's not our fault and why can't he spray the greens when the light is getting low? He has lights on the tractor.

He did say sorry to Mark in the car park but apparently Mark refused which I probably would of as well.

58(29/29)
1 eagle, 12 birdies, 5 pars.

Wait .... Context? am I missing something 😃

either from bad swings or poor pant choices
eliminating those big mistakes from your repertoire and wardrobe room sure seems to be an instant poultice for curing scared scorecard wounds caused by lead poisoning of the prehensile lead achilles

wondering have you had a no three putt round this season? unable to immediately remember your chequered past

dude i just saw back to back triples from a korn ferry pro on live tv - the floor can be mighty low for all of us at different times
also looks like your birdie and bomb putts happened after the initial turn carnage,
meaning you displayed ability to course correct after disabling play for four holes

all the typo positive signs your next round will be so much better

44-43-87 (par 35-36-71). No birdies, 1 double bogey. 5657 yards, not sure on rating or slope.

Never got anything going at all. Opened with 11 straight bogeys, pretty much all of the same variety, hit decent shots to be around or on the green in regulation but not close, then fail to get down in two. Ball striking was average or maybe a bit better, putting felt good and the ball went where I wanted it go, but I don't think I made a putt longer than 18 inches. Greens were slow, a little bumpy and I could not get anything to drop.

perhaps complacency with carding a bogey should be your first enemy to defend against
heard word recently tiger used to hate them

80th 18 holes of the season. 100th since I started up again 13 months ago.
Shot 85 at this 35/36/71, 6100 69.1/130 10 days ago. Season best here is 83 after 8 rounds.

88 (42/46)
7/14 fairways, 8/18 greens.
1 birdie, 8 pars, 2 bogeys, 5 doubles and 2 triples.
3 1-putts, 1 3-whack. 34 putts.

Some dumb facts:
-shot +7 on the front with a double and 2 triples
-played 9 holes -1, the other 9 +18; feast or famine.

Too many penalties (3) and too many trips to the sand trap (3), but also hit some great shots.
Still can't wait to play again.
Back to the home course tomorrow.

still living vicariously through and jealous of thebigeasy round reports
keep swinging it pure my friend

Appreciate the kind sentiment but unfortunately it's often far from pure, although that don't mean it still ain't sometimes awfully sweet. Dumb hole of the day.

By about the 9th hole it had gotten to the point of absurdity. Was about 0 for 6 on putts between 3 and 7 feet at that point, I had hit all but one exactly as I wanted on the line I wanted. Grinding produced no results.

Back to the home course for the 33rd round of the year here. 36/36 6200 yards 70.1/122

80(42/38)
4/14 fairways, 7/18 greens.
2 birdies, 9 pars, 5 bogeys, a double and a triple.
4 1-putts, 1 3-putt. 31 putts.

Knocked it in from the fringe on 18 for a 0-putt birdie to the delight of the gallery.

Double was after a perfect drive on 15. Hit a terrible approach into the front right sand. Over the green. Couldn't get it up and down.
Triple was on 9 where I simply forgot how to hit the ball for three swings. And then 3-putt. Stupid.

Hit it good for the most part.

38-44-82. No birdies, 3 double bogeys. 67.8/126/5573

Hit many putts too hard after yesterday's slow greens, had at least 3 three putts where I just hit the first one well beyond the hole. Ball striking good, had a few scruffy shots but nothing too horrible.

First double was on #11, hit an okay drive in the middle of the fairway on a short par 4. Had 160 in, hit, looked up and was blinded by the sun. From feel and divot it looked like a pull, should have been in a bunker left of the green, couldn't find it anywhere.

Thanks RED! Yeah I got a horrific break on my 9th hole to make a double, then 10-14 were a cavalcade of mediocre swings missing in exactly the wrong place and or bad breaks (plus one inexplicable half-shanked pitch). Played 15-17 great, then another mediocre tee shot on 18 that also took a horrific bounce put me in an impossible spot on a difficult hole to wrap up with a quad.

I do think I need to evaluate if I hit driver on most of the holes on the back 9 on that course though. Driver is usually above average for me for my skill level, so I prefer to use it, but I swung it 7 times on the back, 4 times were OB, 2 were punching out, only one fairway, so that's not helpful.

9/21/25
Cimarron Golf Club
Par 72 - 69.9/124 - 6368 yards
38/36 - 74

No birdies(ugh!), no doubles, 2 bogeys, 16 pars including 11 straight to end the round. I was never in trouble off the tee and rarely was walking up to the green with anything other than my putter. A mudball from the middle of the fairway led to the first bogey on 5, and the other came after I missed the green about 10 yards left on the 181 yd par 3 7th and ended up sitting down in some pretty deep rough. Hit a really nice shot to a pin all the way on the other side of a very wide green but missed the 10' par putt. Made a 12' par putt on 8, then had a 15' birdie putt on 9 hit the flag dead center but popped out even though the putt wasn't rolling fast at all. Super unlucky break there. The rest of the round was stress free but I don't think I had a birdie putt from within 10' all day.

The crazy part of the day is one of my buddies beat me by 7!!! After a bogey on 1 and a birdie on 3 he ran off 8 straight pars before going birdie, eagle, birdie, birdie on the next 4 holes then closing with 3 more pars. It was by far the lowest round I've ever seen anyone shoot in person and was a lot of fun to watch. Him and I usually score around the same but he's sometimes 50+ yards longer off the tee and when he's dialed in, that's hard to compete with.

The third guy in our group had a ho-hum 75 with two birdies so we ended up with a pretty nice looking scorecard.

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