FATC1TY
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Went out alone this morning on a whim. Slow day at the course, went out before my time, and decided to play alone, and just record everything about the round.
Got 8 holes in before another monsoon rain completely washed everything out. I sat under a tree for about 35 minutes and chilled out until it died down a bit. Had trouble on the back nine due to NOTHING rolling out, and completely messing with the speed on some of the greens due to the rain. Some bunkers had water standing in them, and unknowing of what to do, I hit out of the sand, AND the water. It was messy, but fun.
Anyways, I guess I know where I need to work on things now. I've been reading Dave Peltz short game stuff, and that guy seriously has a method that works for me. On some holes I flubbed it, but I can't remember that last time I was knocking them so close from the short pitches and chips. From any lie, I was just flying out of them and landing them soft. Hit 2 flag sticks from 30 and 15 yards, and lipped out one from almost 50 yards.. Excited to keep working on it.
Anyways; I limped out with an 88.. While I was satisfied with that score, considering everything, I felt that I wasted TONS of strokes on silly stuff.
72.4/135 course rating, 6620 yards long
I hit 12 of 14 fairways.
Unsure how they keep the stat for par 5's but I made sure that even my second shot was still fairway before I included it.
5 GIR, and 2 on the fringe that would have had me at 7 GIR.
Here is the crappy part, and I never realized it had gotten this bad.
36 total Putts for the round. 17 on the front, 19 on the back.
I had 3, 3-putt holes, and only 3, 1-putt holes, the rest 2. I just couldn't get the speed, and only until the rain came, did I realize that even soaken wet, I still blew them by and burned the edges. It's like I have no distance or feel when I putt. I was stabbing some of them in so hard, I had one hit the back of the cup and pop straight back!!
I got into sand only 3 times, hit the green in all but one.
My ball striking was excellent, although I did notice once the fairways were fully drenched, and squishy and soggy, that for some un-known reason, my shots were around 5 yards or so shorter, on everything. It was odd.
My driving was EXCELLENT. Some were mis-hit and short, but my approach bailed me out.. I play a natural fade, and generally try and keep a square to slightly open face, but something clicked and I was drawing and pulling everything from time to time. I think I might try opening the face of the R9 all the way, and see if I keeps me free enough to turn it over hard. Longest drive of the day was 278, and not much roll due to the soggy fairways. I was very, very happy with the big stick today.
Overall, I'm okay with the round, I just hate the face that if I could have putted better, I could have been low 80's, high 70's EASY today. I also know that if I put the ball much closer than I have with my approaches, I'd score better.
Ironically, I found that on some holes I was better to lay up and bail out, chip it close and 1 putt for par or bogey, was better than going for it and taking my medicine.
I just have to get this putting sorted out.. It's really started to make me hate this game!!
Got 8 holes in before another monsoon rain completely washed everything out. I sat under a tree for about 35 minutes and chilled out until it died down a bit. Had trouble on the back nine due to NOTHING rolling out, and completely messing with the speed on some of the greens due to the rain. Some bunkers had water standing in them, and unknowing of what to do, I hit out of the sand, AND the water. It was messy, but fun.
Anyways, I guess I know where I need to work on things now. I've been reading Dave Peltz short game stuff, and that guy seriously has a method that works for me. On some holes I flubbed it, but I can't remember that last time I was knocking them so close from the short pitches and chips. From any lie, I was just flying out of them and landing them soft. Hit 2 flag sticks from 30 and 15 yards, and lipped out one from almost 50 yards.. Excited to keep working on it.
Anyways; I limped out with an 88.. While I was satisfied with that score, considering everything, I felt that I wasted TONS of strokes on silly stuff.
72.4/135 course rating, 6620 yards long
I hit 12 of 14 fairways.
Unsure how they keep the stat for par 5's but I made sure that even my second shot was still fairway before I included it.
5 GIR, and 2 on the fringe that would have had me at 7 GIR.
Here is the crappy part, and I never realized it had gotten this bad.
36 total Putts for the round. 17 on the front, 19 on the back.
I had 3, 3-putt holes, and only 3, 1-putt holes, the rest 2. I just couldn't get the speed, and only until the rain came, did I realize that even soaken wet, I still blew them by and burned the edges. It's like I have no distance or feel when I putt. I was stabbing some of them in so hard, I had one hit the back of the cup and pop straight back!!
I got into sand only 3 times, hit the green in all but one.
My ball striking was excellent, although I did notice once the fairways were fully drenched, and squishy and soggy, that for some un-known reason, my shots were around 5 yards or so shorter, on everything. It was odd.
My driving was EXCELLENT. Some were mis-hit and short, but my approach bailed me out.. I play a natural fade, and generally try and keep a square to slightly open face, but something clicked and I was drawing and pulling everything from time to time. I think I might try opening the face of the R9 all the way, and see if I keeps me free enough to turn it over hard. Longest drive of the day was 278, and not much roll due to the soggy fairways. I was very, very happy with the big stick today.
Overall, I'm okay with the round, I just hate the face that if I could have putted better, I could have been low 80's, high 70's EASY today. I also know that if I put the ball much closer than I have with my approaches, I'd score better.
Ironically, I found that on some holes I was better to lay up and bail out, chip it close and 1 putt for par or bogey, was better than going for it and taking my medicine.
I just have to get this putting sorted out.. It's really started to make me hate this game!!