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lost count of beers.

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jfurr wrote:

]Played [[[]]]N[[[]]][[[]]]i[[[]]][[[]]]t[[[]]][[[]]]e[[[]]] [[[]]]G[[[]]][[[]]]o[[[]]][[[]]]l[[[]]][[[]]]f[[[]]] fun tournament tonite. Glow balls and light sticks on the flag/cup. It was great fun. Two man captains choice. We won it! (sank some killer putts... in the dark?!) Also kind of proud of my warm-up nine before the sun went down, shot 5 over with nothing worse than bogey despite some bad bad tee shots early on.[

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Jealous. That sounds neat-o. It sounds like you live in a golf wonderland. I live in a golf wasteland!

I was talked into playing the tips for the first time at one of my local courses today. It ended up going pretty well. In fact, I don't think this particular course is any harder from back there. At least not for me, so there is a good chance I'll be playing back there from now on.

I made great contact all round long. Had a couple of unlucky bounces into the woods on the front nine along with five (yes five) three putts on the round. Add to that a hole on the back nine where I just couldn't catch a break. I ran into a brick wall. The pace of play was sooo slow, and after sitting for 10 minutes on the 15th tee, I just got stiff. Sixteen was the hole I blew up. But I kept my head and executed a couple of good shots that prevented it from being much, much worse.

Highlight of the round was sinking a 30 foot chip shot from underneath a tree by the next hole's tee box. There were two groups waiting there, so I had a nice gallery to cheer for me once it went in the hole.

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Bryan K wrote:

]I was talked into playing the tips for the first time at one of my local courses today. It ended up going pretty well. In fact, I don't think this particular course is any harder from back there. At least not for me, so there is a good chance I'll be playing back there from now on. I made great contact all round long. Had a couple of unlucky bounces into the woods on the front nine along with five (yes five) three putts on the round. Add to that a hole on the back nine where I just couldn't catch a break. I ran into a brick wall. The pace of play was sooo slow, and after sitting for 10 minutes on the 15th tee, I just got stiff. Sixteen was the hole I blew up. But I kept my head and executed a couple of good shots that prevented it from being much, much worse. Highlight of the round was sinking a 30 foot chip shot from underneath a tree by the next hole's tee box. There were two groups waiting there, so I had a nice gallery to cheer for me once it went in the hole.[

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Maybe you need to Tee It Forward on the greens.

My addition and real addition do not add up. No pun intended. I kicked myself off after 7 3/4 holes. Lost all drives, putting, it must have been the smoked salmon I ate.

7 3-putts today. SEVEN! Terrible round. One of my worst this year. Never had SEVEN 3 putts. 2 maybe 3, but 7? Give me a break. Funny thing is, I spent a good 20 minutes on the practice green just working on distance. Had it down pat when I left to tee off. SEVEN freaking 3-putts!

Confidence is all mental. Keep at it Doug.

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legitimatebeef wrote:

]It sounds like you live in a golf wonderland. I live in a golf wasteland![

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I'm very lucky to have the time and such to feed my golf addiction. I'm pretty thrifty about the golf actually, my home course I have been paying $70 a month and walk for free asa member, so I do that a lot, and when I go to other courses usually on a discount of some type.

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Bryan K wrote:

] five (yes five) three putts on the round[

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DougE wrote:

]SEVEN freaking 3-putts![

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DougE and BryanK: speaking of too many three putts, check out []this round[] from last month at the beach: 7 three putts and one four putt!

Doug don't worry it'll come back next time!

Bryan sometimes I'll play from the backs (not at a busy course) for a while and then next time play from the middles but make myself use less club off the tee, to change up the variety. Sometimes it's better to be short and in play than long and wrong.

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srogers13 wrote:

]Maybe you need to Tee It Forward on the greens[

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Now that's funny

I'm out the door, going to try to get 36 in today if not crowded and the afternoon storms hold off...[[/quote]]

116 (59/57).

A round I felt OK with until the last hole. I was just off the green and about 60' from the hole. An intended chip and run went 45 degrees right into a deep bunker with a cliff-face to get out over. I decided to play safe. No heroics for me bearing in mind how poor my bunker play has become, so I aimed to go out parallel to the green and on to grass. Took me three shots as the first two dribbled back in to the sand.

Apart from that, I was pretty happy with many aspects. Particularly my driver shots: Five over 180yds, with a top distance of 200yds, plus another (on the first!) which went about 224 yds but in to the ditch so of course didn't count (I couldn't believe what I was seeing - I never hit the ball that far from that tee, but this was a beaut!)

A 6-iron on the the 6th green was another majestic shot I'll remember for a long time.

I have learnt, properly I think, that a good golf shot for me combines a hip turn to start the downswing, and no tension. Following Rickard Strongert's advice to breath out consistently helps a lot with this.

Still, I've come home feeling really grumpy.

My driver has officially left the building.

I only played nine today. To think that my chipping was my bright spot. Saved me a 52 on what felt like my worst round ever. But I did chip one in from about 35 yards. That's a chip-in on consecutive rounds. And I had two others that were very, very close.

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Bryan K wrote:

]My driver has officially left the building. I only played nine today. To think that my chipping was my bright spot. Saved me a 52 on what felt like my worst round ever. But I did chip one in from about 35 yards. That's a chip-in on consecutive rounds. And I had two others that were very, very close.[

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at least you didn't have a three putt

Another sloppy round for me. Way too many lost balls. I ended up with a birdie and two pars, but the crap surrounding them was so bad that I only managed a 105. The good news is that I think I've diagnosed part of what was going on. I was working on getting my shoulders turned, but I was actually dipping my right shoulder, much like a baseball swing. This led to a lot of duffed shots. If I could have eliminated them, I would have been sub-100.

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jfurr wrote:

][ Bryan K wrote: ]]]]]My driver has officially left the building. I only played nine today. To think that my chipping was my bright spot. Saved me a 52 on what felt like my worst round ever. But I did chip one in from about 35 yards. That's a chip-in on consecutive rounds. And I had two others that were very, very close.[[[ ]]] at least you didn't have a three putt[

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lol...you're right. I didn't even notice. But that was pretty much all chipping.

I was standing on the tenth tee today with things really starting to go well when the airhorn sounded due to lightning.

I spent an hour on the range before my round and straightened out my driver. I was hitting everything well, and if you take out the horrible showing on hole 4 (which really isn't much of a hole anyway), I really had a good nine.

But my chipping is just really oustanding right now. It's saving me a ton of strokes. After hitting a bunker shot on five that got me a tap in double to save disaster, I had three chips that were oh so close. And then I drained one on 9 for my third straight round with a sunk chip. This one was a doozy, though. It was a very long, downhill green from the thick ass rough. It looked like it was going to be way short, but it just kept rolling and rolling and rolling...and then it disappeared into the hole.

72 par is 71, played Lost Creek Golf course and let me tell ya Lost Creek isn't lost any more. It's laying in the fairways, after thunder storms dumped 5 inches of rain in the last 2 days it was a swamp out there. Took a little bit to get used to clubing up one and picking the ball, then things started looking up. 39 front 33 back. By the way we Teed off at 6:55am and were done by 9:45am. I like being the first out there.