HoppyDaze
Well-Known Member
I’m heading down there this fall
We have a local par 70 course that runs through a neighborhood. Most fairways are a little tight but most holes are short enough to allow irons off the tee. I don't even think about driver until #5. It's great practice and fun to target shoot. In all I'll use driver 3 times on the front and 4 on the back.
It also reminds me that for my game short par 4's are better played with an iron or hybrid tee shot. Just get to 100 to 140 from center of the green and I have a reliable shot to get me in. In fact my 100 yard shot is better than my 50 yard shot.
Yep. I find it much easier to be playing a slightly longer approach shot, from the fairway, than spending 10 minutes trying to locate my ball in the trees because I tried to rip a driver shot.
Got a tee time at the little 9 hole part 29 course Saturday morning. And got my regripped putter and new lob wedge today.
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I desperately need a new putter
I've been playing well enough lately to feel ok barging in on a group of strangers as a single.
The little par 29 course I'm going to caters to the worst of all duffers, so even though I'm playing only my second round in 5 years, I'm not worried about that lol...
My experience playing as a single is that as long as I don't dilly dally and mind my manners I'm fine no matter how bad the round is. Good golf etiquett goes a long ways.
Played and shot 34 on par 29 today. Guy I was playing with I finished with a 30. I should have done a lot better, too. Made par on 5 holes. Only really hit 2 bad shots, but lost a stroke to penalty for each. Hit 6 of 9 greens in regulation, and they were small greens, so if I could clean up the three-putts, I could have picked up two more pars.
Speaking of golf etiquette, how is this one? This is a duffers' course, with 8 of 9 holes reachable from the tee (one par 4 is only 210). So pace of play could be an issue at a course like this (oddly we made it around in about 90 minutes today though).
So coming up to the first tee, the 8:30 time was two middle-aged ladies, myself [single] and the other guy [also a single]. The ladies told us to just go ahead and play and they'd wait because they wanted to play as a twosome. There was no starter to enforce a foursome, so he and I teed off and they followed behind by themselves.
How bad was their etiquette?
when did they start rating clubs in degrees? i have my dad's old bag of clubs, and they just go from 1-9, and three woods.......
yes they are! i feel like happy gilmore now, because i keep the bag in the trunk of my car....back from when i used them....Are your woods made of wood?
Played 18 yesterday at Newport Beach Golf Course... Which is a lot less fancy than you'd expect for being in Newport Beach lol. It's a par 59 executive course, with most tees hitting off range mats and generally in mediocre shape.
Man, what a slog.
When I played two weeks ago, my warm-up on the range was perfect. Everything was hitting pure and straight. That carried over onto the course where [9 holes] I hit 6 GIR and finished only 5 over. Only one double bogey on the day. I walked off the course thinking "this golf thing isn't that hard, just aim for the green and hit it" lol.
Nope. I warmed up on the range yesterday it it just wasn't working. None of it. And that carried over to the course. I had some very good shots [even set myself up for a nice birdie], but my game was completely inconsistent. Had the birdie and three pars on the front, but also three double bogeys. And then it just got worse on the back. Par on 10, and every other hole was a bogey or worse. Even a triple-bogey on a 125 yard par 3 where there weren't even any hazards. Finished with a 77 on the round.
I guess there's a lot more work to do.
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