Ravenous Bugblatter Beast
Deep in thought
- Sep 6, 2005
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I've got such a mental block sometimes. Ugh ugh ugh. Triple that again.
I had 6 GIR's on Saturday. I had two near misses, ball ending up on the fringe, from having 8 GIR's on Saturday. Off the tee, I was pretty consistent, my only bad tee shot was at the par-3 6th where I chewed the turf behind the ball with a 4-iron. From the fairway and rough, my iron shots were pretty solid.
My putting fell completely apart. It started on the 7th hole, I had double bogied hole 6, after hitting a pitch shot onto the fringe, then needing three to get down. On the 7th, I hit a nice solid drive, a good solid shot with my hybird, then flew a gap wedge over top the flagstick towards the mid-back of the green, and getting to the top, finding the flag was in a front sucker position. So not bad, but just when I think I can make up that extra stroke over bogey picked up at the 6th hole, I 3-jack the green at 7, and miss making my first par of the day.
So onto hole 8, drive leaks a bit right, second shot comes up short of the green, pitch on, and 3-putt from 15 feet.
Hole 9, flag is in the back of the green, I don't quite hit my iron solid, but put it on the front area of the green. Now comes something I don't think has ever happened to me. 5 putts to get in the hole. 5! 5!
With decent putting, I could have had a 44 on the front.
Onto the back. Another 3-putt from 20 feet away on hole 10.
Another 3-putt on hole 13 after making pars at holes 11 and 12 with 2-putts. 3-putts at 15, this time starting from 10 feet!
18th hole, another 3 putt starting from around 15 feet.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
Okay, I guess we'll try the claw grip now. If that doesn't work, it'll be laying out the bucks for a long putter and trying that out.
I had 6 GIR's on Saturday. I had two near misses, ball ending up on the fringe, from having 8 GIR's on Saturday. Off the tee, I was pretty consistent, my only bad tee shot was at the par-3 6th where I chewed the turf behind the ball with a 4-iron. From the fairway and rough, my iron shots were pretty solid.
My putting fell completely apart. It started on the 7th hole, I had double bogied hole 6, after hitting a pitch shot onto the fringe, then needing three to get down. On the 7th, I hit a nice solid drive, a good solid shot with my hybird, then flew a gap wedge over top the flagstick towards the mid-back of the green, and getting to the top, finding the flag was in a front sucker position. So not bad, but just when I think I can make up that extra stroke over bogey picked up at the 6th hole, I 3-jack the green at 7, and miss making my first par of the day.
So onto hole 8, drive leaks a bit right, second shot comes up short of the green, pitch on, and 3-putt from 15 feet.
Hole 9, flag is in the back of the green, I don't quite hit my iron solid, but put it on the front area of the green. Now comes something I don't think has ever happened to me. 5 putts to get in the hole. 5! 5!
With decent putting, I could have had a 44 on the front.
Onto the back. Another 3-putt from 20 feet away on hole 10.
Another 3-putt on hole 13 after making pars at holes 11 and 12 with 2-putts. 3-putts at 15, this time starting from 10 feet!
18th hole, another 3 putt starting from around 15 feet.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
Okay, I guess we'll try the claw grip now. If that doesn't work, it'll be laying out the bucks for a long putter and trying that out.