hey suess Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 The best two balls I ever hit, was when I stepped on the sand rake....HEEY YOOI! anybody play? How’s it been lately with the Corona Rules? Anyone watch? Want to brag about your equipment? Tee it up here! FORE!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent23 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 The Match has been fun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBorBust Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 50 minutes ago, Agent23 said: The Match has been fun It was surprisingly entertaining. It was great to watch Brady look like us, then (obviously) hole in an iron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent23 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 I want all the mic’d up events! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhilly Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Love it. Played for 30 years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 league starts up next thursday finally - gotta defend my title from last year. two day ringer tourney coming up the 13th/14th 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 77 today. Started slow but for 8 through 17i was one under who in their Right mind put their daughter on the bev cart for all the old pervs??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Love golf, would love to be better at it. Wish I could hit all my shots like I hit some of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 1 hour ago, 4for4EaglesNest said: Trust me. If you knew me and you knew her. LOL. Not a problem. And I’ve never broken 80. So FML the key to getting under 80 is keeping doubles off the card and one putts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 10 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said: the key to getting under 80 is keeping doubles off the card and one putts Well crap. If I knew that I wouldn't two putt all the time. Good tip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 what it means is practice your putting. even get a putting lesson. the rest comes down to course management Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 2 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said: what it means is practice your putting. even get a putting lesson. the rest comes down to course management I know, I was being a smart a**. I have had days that I could have shot low 80's if I could have 1 putted 8 or 9 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 8 or 9 times isnt realistic, but make 3 of those and you are in business the best putters in the world only make about 50% from ten feet 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR-CYN Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 I haven't played as much as I'd like since moving to the North East. The season is so short. I used to play 4-5 times a week in California. That's when I was at my best. Guys trying to break 90, half your strokes on the course are putts so if you want to go low you focus on the putter. Going to the range and hitting 100 drivers isn't going to help your score much. I was low to mid 80s handicap, when I used to have one anyway. I've been meaning to get my clubs out of the garage and into my truck. At least that way I don't have an excuse to say no when I'm invited. 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent23 Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 two putting is normal for making par. I would gladly two put every hole. It's all the other stuff that breaks my rounds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhilly Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 On 6/4/2020 at 6:16 PM, 4for4EaglesNest said: And I’ve never broken 80. Hope you get there dude. Took me 20 years of playing. Finally took my 1st lesson at that point and made a couple small but important tweaks and voila. Moved by normal high 80s down to the low to mid 80s and suddenly getting under 80 was often a threat and ever since I've gone under here and there every year. edit: So for me it wasn't the putting. I just wasn't a consistent enough ball striker. Too much of a baseball type swing and chicken leg style breakdown of my left arm in the back swing. Anyway, strengthened my grip a bit and really focused on the turtle follow thru. That full follow thru to the pose position really cures a ton of other problems. It forces you to get back and balanced and over on your left foot. That little tip took a couple wild shots into the woods per round out of my game and meant 3-4 strokes better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 78 today but was even on the front. Heat kinda wilted me after 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhilly Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 85, bout where I expect to be. I’ll be happy with mid 80s and going up into the 90s just a few times. Maybe a couple runs at 80 though those are less frequent now. Still playing the back tees but that is slowly changing as my group can’t cut one of risk reward shots over water anymore unless we get a rare wind direction and it is the most fun tee shot on our main course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 76 over the weekend, one under on the front so should have been even better 4-man best ball tourney saturday 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 wedges and putter are where its at Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToastJenkins Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 if you are in NC there must be 1-day Dave Pelz clinics around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hputenis Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 When I lived in Raleigh I was referred to Tom Ream at Prestonwood Country Club for lessons. He is apparently the best of the best in NC. Unfortunately, I bought a 6-pack of 30 minute private lessons, and after 1, my job took me to Charlotte. He has all this crazy video technology and a giant studio where he breaks down your swing. I was spraying everything right, and he immediately had me strengthen my grip in both hands, and move a little further from the ball. It's the only lesson I've ever taken, but it was so worth it. It took me years to break 90, and the last 2 summers, I was consistently doing it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhilly Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 I've got a 36 hole tourney tomorrow in blazing sun and about 87 or 88 degrees. A sort of Ryder cup thingy with four Danes against fours Swedes (me counting as a Swede ; I'll have to use my USA flag ball marker all day just to make sure no one gets confused). I bought a dozen Srixon pink lady balls and will present a 3-pack to each of the Danes on the opening hole tomorrow morning. Below is the par 3 11th on one of the courses. No place to bail out on this one. It is about 145 yards or so from the middle tees. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhilly Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 #4 on the 2nd course. You can't tell from this picture but the tee is about 60ft elevated above the hole. Carry over the water from #3 tees is about 210 and from #4 about 235 so totally doable even for moderate length old guys from #3 but a bit tougher from #4. Push it off to the right and the trees further up block the view of the right side of the tree. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hputenis Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 2 hours ago, DrPhilly said: I've got a 36 hole tourney tomorrow in blazing sun and about 87 or 88 degrees. A sort of Ryder cup thingy with four Danes against fours Swedes (me counting as a Swede ; I'll have to use my USA flag ball marker all day just to make sure know one gets confused). I bought a dozen Srixon pink lady balls and will present a 3-pack to each of the Danes on the opening hole tomorrow morning. Below is the par 3 11th on one of the courses. No place to bail out on this one. It is about 145 yards or so from the middle tees. I'd club up and aim slightly to the left on this hole all day....every day. That has backstop written all over it. And I'd still probably end up in the water. 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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