What'd You Shoot Today? (Golf BBV Thread) - Page 6

Sunny Mehta · #1 06-10-2007, 07:55 PM

I am new to the game (started playing about 10 months ago) but today I shot my best round to date. 107 at my home course English Turn, Louisiana. 54 on the front, 53 on the back. Only mulligan was on the first tee box. Highlights include making par on three of the four par 3's. I love this freakin' sport!

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Catul · #2 06-11-2007, 01:59 PM

My club has a yearly singles matchplay tournament (low 64 net scores qualify over several weeks then get setup in brackets) - I'd never made it past the first round in four years of playing this thing, finally won my first match this weekend! I'm a 9.2 index, gave 4 strokes to my opponent, and played absolutely lights out; shot 5 over with 2 3-putts, a nice ass-whooping. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Did shoot an 84 the next day, guess that's my game. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

CrazyEyez · #3 06-11-2007, 04:21 PM

Played a course I've never played. Forgot to grab a scorecard - big mistake. Lots of blind shots. Classic case of building houses/course where there's not enough room. Used my driver 5 times (BOO). Teed off with 7 iron on a few par 4s. Retarded.

Sank a 10 footer for my 2nd birdie of the day to get to 13 over through 13 (This is good for me). This is where the wheels fell off. It was 90 and humid. I had run out of water. The water station at 14 tee was bone dry. Over the next 5 holes, I:

- started getting cramps in my calves and fingers, presumably from dehydration
- my heels started bleeding from blisters - 1st time I've worn the uber-short socks
- multiple bees were landing on my head/face during one shot attempt
- I must have been near a bird nest because a bird kept swooping at my head on one fairway
- lost 5 balls
- finished triple-triple-par-quad-triple for a 97
- nearly passed out in my car on the way home

Ship the trophy for most number of excuses in one round.

bonds · #4 06-11-2007, 08:58 PM

85 yesterday. Drove the ball like [censored], just had no idea where it was going. Good thing my putting was better or I would've shot 105.

Hey_Porter · #5 06-19-2007, 11:03 AM

WOO-HOO. Shot even par over nine holes yesterday. Easy course, but it still made me happy. I hit 7/9 GIR, and one of those misses was on the fringe and only 12 feet or so. The other ended up in a bogey from the worst lie possible (on the back edge of a tall island in a sand trap), and a birdie on the last hole. I was also quite pleased because it came after a change in my swing that on the range felt really positive, and was. We'll see if the goodness continues today.

Aces McGee · #6 07-08-2007, 11:16 PM

Wednesday: 88 at Rock Creek, this horrible little par-65 muni in DC that could be half decent if anyone up there cared. The greens are in terrible shape because they messed up the chemical application. There are three temporary greens. I hit the ball okay, but putting was impossible. The only thing good about the round is that because of the greens, greens fees were half price, so we went around for $13.50.

Friday: 92 at Falls Road in Potomac, Maryland, a nice, easyish Par 70 that is fairly wide open and well manicured. I hit the ball extremely well throughout most of the round; I had three birdie putts on the first five holes, which pretty much never happens to me. I only made one of them, though.

My round could have been really great, if not for the three eights I took. Two were course management problems; I hooked my drive into the woods and tried to punch out instead of taking an unplayable on one hole; and on 18 I hit driver (I never hit driver) just because it was 18 and lost my ball left again. The third 8 was frustrating; I hit a good drive but chunked my approach into the rough, which was far thicker than the rough on any other hole on the course.

I also missed like three putts under five feet, including a four-footer for birdie after knocking an eight-iron stiff on a par three.

Saturday: 104 at Virginia Oaks, a P.B. Dye-designed course in Gainesville. We played the gold tees, the second longest on the course at 6,400 yards, which is long for me (like I said, I hit three-metal off the tee and I'm not very long, so even when I am striking the ball well I am never more than about 220 yards off the tee. And I wasn't hitting it well on Saturday). Very tough round all around for me, but I managed to make three putts between 10 and 15 feet (including one for bogey on 18 that won our skins game), and made all my putts from five feet and in. Had a great up and and down from someone's backyard over the 12th green; I am terrible with a sand wedge and I had no green to work with, so I had to land a pitching wedge on top of a mound and let it bounce through the rough and onto the green. It turned out better than I expected; the ball barely made it through the rough and then trickled to about three feet for a kick-in par. Very few highlights, though.

I kind of like blogging about my golf rounds.

-McGee

TruFloridaGator · #7 06-11-2007, 11:00 PM

golf is so rigged, I quit until tomorrow.
I shot a 105 today with 11 of 14 Fairways hit. I only had 1 3 putt, and my short game was solid. How is this possible?
I think I chunked or found water from the fairway on each hole I could. Unbelievable. I don't know what's wrong, I can't hit out of the fairway all of a sudden, thin or fat every time.

cookie · #8 06-12-2007, 05:00 AM

127ish

Couldnt sleep so took a bus at 615am to the closest golf club The driver sliced insanely like always... any tips to not slice? I can hit around 220+ meters with the insane slice so think I could get some very decent driving if I could hit the ball straight.

My putting was very bad do to being tired combined with super fast greens...

phishguy · #9 06-22-2007, 01:03 PM

Have not shot golf in 2 years since I was on the golf team. Spent over $1000 on clubs and just gave it up.
I went wednesday and shot an 82 at one of the hardest courses in the area. I was really happy, I drove the ball decent and putted great. Found the water a couple times though. I guess I gave up golf because it costed $48 for 18 holes. When I played for a team we got it free. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

larrylegend · #10 09-21-2007, 06:00 PM

85 at Rancho Solano in Fairfield, CA

39 on the front then started the back with a triple on 10- Par 5, tried to cut off the distance by going over some trees. Drive was too low and hit a tree dead center, ball ends up about 30 yards behind the tee and now have worse tree trouble. Not good.