Another disappointment, 84 this time. Includes two doubles and triple. Had to work hard and hole a bunch of 4, 5 footers just to cobble together this half-assed score. Shoddy, insipid ballstriking from the last round continued into this one. What the hells my problem. I am working way hard just trying to set up to the ball. Bend at the waist, knees pointed in, back straight, chin up, arms glued to the chest...GAAAAAAH!!!! I guess I know far less about the golf swing than I once thought. Screw it. Screw you stupid golf swing. I have bounced back from far worse.

Played Allentown Muni this weekend. Beautiful day for it. Slower than hell though. 6 and 1/2 hour round. Ughhh. Shot []76[] with a double on the last. Stupid move on my part. It was such a nice day out i didn't even care that the round was so long. My wife did, however.

Great putting, great game all around except for the last full swing. Oh well.

80 on Sunday...

36/44 just sort of fell apart on the back.

though I did birdie 18.

What I'd like to know is...how do you play a course in Allentown without humming the Billy Joel tune all round long....

Well I'm playing here in Allentown
There's a group ahead that's slowing us down
And the slow play makes it hard to score
Except for the birdie
Back on hole four....

oh lookie here, we've got ourselves a tunesmith

shot a 72 friday, and a 73 saturday. things are going fairly well right now. Just wonder what part of the game is going to go south soon. LOL

Shot 83 Friday. Had 2 birdies and either rimmed or left on lip 6 putts that would have allowed me to shoot 79 or better..Stroke was working all day but...Maybe next time. Whats the old story " If a bull frog had wings, his fanny wouldn't bump the ground".

Shot 83 Friday. Had 2 birdies and either rimmed or left on lip 6 putts that would have allowed me to shoot 79 or better..Stroke was working all day but...Maybe next time. Whats the old story " If a bull frog had wings, his fanny wouldn't bump the ground".

Shot 83 Friday. Had 2 birdies and either rimmed or left on lip 6 putts that would have allowed me to shoot 79 or better..Stroke was working all day but...Maybe next time. Whats the old story " If a bull frog had wings, his fanny wouldn't bump the ground".

Well last friday I made the long journey to the Marine Park Golf Course out in far flung Brooklyn. So far out that its practically in Queens. Getting there is a tiresome, which is why I haven't been to this course in over two years. But in that timespan it has received a lot of TLC and is blossoming into a proper golf facility.

Walking up as a single I was put on a waitlist looking at about twenty minutes. The manager says "You wanna go hit a bucket? Here, go hit a bucket" and tosses me a token. Wha?? At a golf course in Brooklyn, I'm being treated like a valued customer? I'm being given free range balls?? There's a range??? I practically had to fight back the tears at this point. It was a small range for hitting irons only but it was a nice little session. Not even halfway into the bucket I got called back to the pro shop and within minutes I was off the first tee.

Eighteen holes later I had finished an 11 over 83. 36 putts including a four-banger but that's okay, the greens were unfamiliar to me and I can do better next time. Beefy course, almost 6900 yards and a respectable 123 slope. I was glad to have come here, it was what my sagging game needed. I had been moaning about my game sucking and what not but in this round I felt comfortable over the ball and left the course feeling actually excited about my swing and the way I struck it. I am also pretty high on this golf course now. It used to be a real shithole and now it's turned into a real golfer's zone, a place where good golf might actually mean something.

Shot a 53 on Sunday. Sadly, it was in nine holes. There was a time when I would have been happy with that score, but not anymore. I just played sloppy golf in general, and I got away with a few really bad shots. Things started out well enough, as I went bogey, bogey, bogey. It's unusual for me to start out with anything less than a double. Unfortunately the wheels came off on the fourth hole and for the next three holes I couldn't seem to do much right. I reattached the wheels on the 9th hole, but too late to salvage a sub-50 score.

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SteveMM wrote:

]Shot a 53 on Sunday. Sadly, it was in nine holes. There was a time when I would have been happy with that score, but not anymore.[

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That right there is what you call progress.

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Bryan K wrote:

]What I'd like to know is...how do you play a course in Allentown without humming the Billy Joel tune all round long.... Well I'm playing here in Allentown There's a group ahead that's slowing us down And the slow play makes it hard to score Except for the birdie Back on hole four....[

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Man that's pretty good. Don't make me break out my "Modern day warrior, mean mean stride, today's Tom Watson, mean mean pride..."

Today's Tom Watson/ he hits it higher than you/ and the putts he makes/ he gets by on you...