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

Played Juliette Falls. They advertise 3rd rated course in Florida. Dunno how that works. But it was really nice.

I didn't play very well. Driver ok but not much else. The greens were REALLY difficult. Very Very fast and hilly. I three putted ir worse most of them.

111(52/59)

This is my ball on a par 3. That rock is about 3 feet tall. It really landed there. No clue how.

awesome to see people of all sorts out in weather such as and also like those and um others playing this redicuosuly stupid game we all are or somesort of otherwise will be willing addicted to

cheers to you all while trodding the sod

Oh, yeah. One more thing about Juliette Falls. They had these fancy golf carts that were hooked up to gps. They would just stop if you went somewhere they deemed not travel worthy. Then you had to back up until it unlocked. Most of the places you weren't supposed to go were marked, but sometimes it would just stop for no reason and you would just have to drive backwards until it just decided you could go again. Extremely irritating.

Anyways, yesterday I played another nice course with houses all around. I did not hit a single one.

There were 8 of us so we played a scramble with two teams. I got in a group with two of the better golfers. I figured going in i would be dead weight but I ended up contributing quite a bit. Even driver a couple times. Several other shots as well. But my putter was on fire and the majority of putts were mine. Feeling really good about that. Plus I've never played a scramble and I really enjoyed it. Our team was -3 and won against +3. Woot!

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i've played in many a scramble and the most fun to be had is when the 'dead weight' player catches fire with some part of their game.

makes me happy you had fun

Chilly day. Very few on the course when I got there. I ended up playing by myself.

99(50/49) Another inconsistent round. Great shot followed by mishit. I found a lot of fairway bunkers. 3 putted way too many times. Good news is I seem to have straightened out my driver. Turns out my setup was bad. 5 wood and 3 wood great, irons not so much.

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Another chilly morning. I simply can't swing well with 7 layers on. Shot 50 on the front nine. Got down to a long-sleeved shirt by hole 10 and played much better. Shot a respectable (for me) 42 on the back for a 92.

perhaps if you are cold with seven layers on you might consider adjusting your saucing decisions more toward fire

Sometimes being just a little off can really bugger your score. I lost one drive but had 4 unplayable lies. Like less than 3 feet from being playable. Also got directly behind a tree twice. Other than that it wasn't a horrible round. 4 putted one hole and 3 putted one hole but putted decently on the others. 1 birdie, 2 pars. 98(46/52).

48/52 par 70 6500 yards. One birdie, blustery day. Not bad for the first time swinging a club in 90 days!

bout time i started doing the same thing

97 (49/48) Ugh. I felt like I scored better than this. Maybe I didn't. My father-in-law keeps score and I've seen him miscount before. Dunno, too cold to care.

I play with him once or twice a week and about half way through the round he looks at me and says, "you really like playing in the trees, don't you?"

Played 3 straight days on a work trip, always fun. Got a pretty excellent streak for me going, had parred 8 straight par 5s over 3 rounds, but ended that with a big fat 8.

Also had cart path only on the second round and on two holes the path was totally iced over so that was fun. Cart path only again today, so I just walked.

Managed an extended straight on the front today, had a birdie, par, bogey, double, triple, and quad. Ended up +20, +10 on three holes, and +10 on the other 15.

I am a broken man right now. Or at least a man with a broken swing. Played Sunday and shot somewhere in the 90s. 44 on the front with 1 birdie and not a single par. I'm not sure what I shot on the back because someone else ended up with the scorecard but I know I had 2 pars and many doubles. It was ugly. On hole #1 I made a one handed 25' putt for double after finding water off the tee. For the next 10-12 holes I was mostly in play and had a par putt on every hole, though none went in. Lots of 3 putt bogeys, not a single up and down to save par. During the last 6ish holes I was topping drives, had 2 hosel rockets, duffed a couple chips, and couldn't do anything right.

I'm usually not much of a thinker when I'm over the ball, meaning I don't have a million swing thoughts going through my head. Now, I'm a basket case. Physically, I'm just not getting through the ball and it's leading to all kinds of misses. Lots of blocks and pushes out to the right, or overcompensating and shutting the face leading to bad pulls or snap hooks. Mentally, I'm trying to tell myself to make sure to do this, or not do that, or that, or that, etc. And I can't play with that circus going on in my head.

I went to the range for a bit yesterday evening(hooray for days getting longer again!) mainly to find a swing that could keep me in play this weekend. I had to really shorten my backswing to accomplish that. Think Jon Rahm but obviously a lot less power coming through. Any full backswings were a disaster, but when I shortened up I could keep it pretty straight and actually felt like I had just as much club speed. Will it translate to the course? I'll find out bright and early Sunday morning.

What a dumb game this is.

Keep us posted ec. I'm very interested in hearing how golfers get their games back on track. I'm sure you will, but make sure you post progress.

46/45= 91 on a par 71, 69.7/133 6400 yard layout. 2 birdies! Full swing feels good right now. Short game could use some practice.

Do you film yourself? For me filming is the best way to get the swing back on track as I can see which bad mechanics have crept in.

Mental game got a workout in my first tourney of the year last Saturday. Paired with a guy who is in his mid to late 80s and only has one eye. He moves incredibly slowly in multiple aspects. Obviously, he can't help how quickly he walks, etc., but also he is very slow to launch the sequence when it's his turn. He shot 66 on the front with 9-stroke limit, and improved to 51 on the back. The round took 5:20.

I started with an easy par, hit a good bunker shot (a huge weakness for me) on 2 and saved a bogey, then drained a 33 foot birdie putt on 3, which is a difficult par 3 (I was the only birdie of 48 players, and also there is a "deuces" trash pot, so paid $$ also). Go double-double on 4 and 5, but regroup with a really good pitch on 6 (just missed a 5 footer for par) and elite drive and approach on tough 7th for another easy par).

We are out of position and I get over my tee shot on par 3 8th and I realize I'm standing too far from the ball (a common error) but I rush and swing anyway and toe it into the greenside bunker and make triple. Fuming, snaphook drive into penalty on 9.

One of our group is a friend of the older gent, and is helping him the best he can. As I am putting for bogey on 9 he yells to him "give it a ride" (older guy is leaving every putt miles short) in my literal backswing.

On 10 tee, older guy's wife is on the phone as I tee off but luckily I nuke it. But as I hit my approach there is an urgent FORE in my literal backswing again and I totally chunk it for another double, so a +12 stretch over 7 holes.

The buddy yelps out in my swing on 11 and I hosel into a penalty area, but then hit my next shot from 90 yards to 5 feet and make the slider to save bogey. I play pretty well in from there despite it being a real grind. I nuke my drive on 18 and as I'm standing over it a ball whistles right past me and lands a couple feet in front of me, no FORE. I'm adrenalinized and hook my approach way left, but hit the 45 yard pitch onto the green and make the 30 foot par for a 90, net 68.

I end up tying for the lead in my flight, and win the playoff which is best net score for the last 6 holes, so rewarded for grinding it into the house. But holy god was that exhausting.

I don't think I've ever filmed myself golfing except for maybe getting a buddy to record a shot with a cool background or something. Never to check swing mechanics. Typically I can feel what I'm doing wrong and have a pretty good idea why I'm doing it. Stopping is the hard part. Usually I can work myself out of it once I put a few good swings together and kind of remember what it's supposed to feel like. And I think I'm starting to come out of my recent rut.

2/8/26
Granite Falls South
Par 72 - 71.6/122 - 6839 yards
41/40 - 81

The score and the stats - no birdies, 2 doubles - don't tell the whole story. After the round I told my buddy I was starting to wonder if I'm actually struggling right now or if I was just running well before and I've regressed back to "normal". Then we talked about the round and he pointed out just how close I was to posting a great number. Like he said, I'm close.

-Drove the ball much much better and was usually in the fairway off the tee, or very close to it.
-Five times I left a putt less than 18" short and in the dead center. The greens were as slow at this course as I ever remember them being and I simply didn't adjust well enough. No excuse for that.
-Four times I was just off the green with really straightforward chip shots and failed to get up and down where that's always been one of the strongest parts of my game. Some of that was again the green speed but one was chunked so bad I left myself about 50' for par after only having about 75' for birdie. Yikes. Though I did have a few up and downs so it's not like I was at 0%.
-I had a pitch shot from about 40 yards hit a sprinkler head and bounce off the back of the green when the pin was down front. Would've been a good look at birdie and a par at worst. Bogey.
-A drive that didn't miss the fairway by much left me about 2 feet behind a small tree and all I could do was punch out sideways. That led to a double
-A wayward 5 iron late in the round(just an awful shot) left me behind a tree and punching out again, leading to the other double.
-On 18, a par 5, I was about 50 yards out after 2 and bogeyed. Front pin with the green slightly elevated above the fairway leading up to it. I hit a low spinner that I picked perfectly. I needed to land it on the green but I carried it about 3 yards too short, it hit the up slope and stopped right there. That was followed by one of the bad chips I mentioned earlier.

A lot of those things overlapped with each other so I'm no way claiming I should've been a dozen strokes lower, but I could've been 6-7 lower pretty easily. Again, not saying I SHOULD'VE been and got unlucky, but I COULD'VE been. If nothing else, this round gave me some confidence back and has me looking forward to getting out again. I'll be in Vegas this weekend and I'm not currently planning to play, but plans change. I may throw my clubs in the trunk just in case.

No real comments on your grind right now, ec, you're a better player than I. But if I've learned anything in the last 4+ years of getting professional golf instruction, it's that seeing what you're doing wrong on film and feeling or thinking what you're feeling are so very different.

You're just in a rut though. Couple weeks, scores will be back to normal.

I agree with you completely that getting professional help would be a huge benefit to me, both with my swing and my mental struggles(but that's a different discussion). As silly as it sounds I'm scared to death to get a lesson. Other than a little junior clinic at my local course when I was like 15, I've never had a lesson or worked with an instructor.

A buddy of mine(good golfer - single digit) took a couple lessons once. The next time we played together he stood over his first tee shot, took his backswing, paused at the top, basically regripped the club(at this point I thought he was still doing some kind of preshot routine), then started down at it. He had so many things running through his head that he couldn't just swing the club. That one lesson he took completely wrecked him and he never recovered. It got so bad he damn near quit the game. He's back to playing again but I don't think he ever got below an 18-20 handicap. Of course I realize that was an unusual situation and an extreme outlier.

I always had the mindset that I wasn't going to even think about getting lessons unless I was playing more often and practicing on my own. For a lot of my life I was only playing once every few months. When I was 20ish the pro at my local course wouldn't even give me a lesson until I was ready to play more often. That wasn't him being dick, but trying to get me to play more. He would've been happy to work with me if I was willing to do that. I wasn't. Now that I'm playing much more often, though once a week still isn't a ton, maybe it's time to rethink it and find someone to work with.

Sorry to hijack the thread. Maybe it's time to start a blog.

Yeah. I'm not completely sure what I think about lessons. I think they've helped me, as well as Facebook videos. But nobody has given me the secret sauce. Or maybe they have and I just haven't implemented it yet.

I'm really in a weird swing place. I'm trying to get more distance but I keep finding myself guiding the club instead of swinging because my accuracy is off. I played today with a very good golfer and he commented, "you have a very armsy swing " Ugh. I'm trying so hard not to.

Anyway, on to today's schizophrenic round. 4 pars mixed in with some disasters. 99(52/47).

And this unplayable lie. You can't tell but it's about 15' up. I wouldn't have found it but one of the guys I was playing with was standing right there when I hit it.

Incredibly obvious comment BUT, the thing about lessons is that you need the right coach for your goal.

Golf instructors are like NFL coaches in my mind. Some have a "system" that they try to fit everyone into. Some are failed pros sharing various tips as they watch your swing. Some are into technology and biomechanics and focus on making the most of your physical capabilities. Some are hucksters who make a mediocre living teaching beginners the grip.

I think there's a lot of value to having someone you trust take a look at your swing. The challenge is finding someone you trust.

Personally, I bought two high framerate cameras for $90 each, and a launch monitor - so I can have someone I trust (me) look at my swing whenever I like.

Fair analysis of instructors I think. I've done GolfTec for four years now and they are definitely a "system" type of instruction. Proponents of the push draw, closed club face. I don't know golf swing evolution very well but I think what they teach is very much considered "the modern golf swing."

It has certainly helped my ball striking particularly with irons, I've never hit irons for 15 years the way I do now. Obviously there's nuances to each swing and each person's biomechanics, I prefer a pretty strong grip and coach has backed off trying to get me to weaken it any drastic amount as it causes a lot of things to go wrong.