Trust me, 15 years ago it would've been a guarantee!
Seems like everytime I have a round like this where I start the whole "coulda, woulda" stuff at the end of the round...I think about it, and it seems like yes, my round could have been much much better, but it also could have been much much worse. I think about maybe some long putts I rolled in for par that maybe I wouldn't make on a consistant basis or a 215 yard 4 iron that I put a foot from that flag that isn't a some I can expect regularly. So in reality it seems like most of my rounds equal themselves out. True, I wish I could put a couple really goods ones together here sometime in the next century, but I can't really complain either I guess.
I have to amend my post after today...
Shot a +1 on the front while playing alone, the lowest I have gone for nine all year. My regular playing partner joined me on the 9th (he was running late and since we play before work I went on ahead)...birdie for me to close out the side. My buddy starts in on the intracacies and nuances of the Indonesian language as well as details about his latest project, on top of that he gives me a quick blow by blow of the previous days round which he carded a 72, the lowest he's played to in months...
It was a good walk and great conversation, +10 on the back over the easier holes which I have been lately playing +2-4...
I guess that's why they call it a handicap...
BTW...he posted a 74...no problem talking and playing for him...
Heres why golf is great -My 'couldashouldawoulda' round was my best round since taking the game up again lol.Previous best was a 7over,75.
I went out & shot 4over,72.Doubled the 1st (short par5) & bogey'd the 6th & 15th (stroke holes 18,17).The big dawg should have stayed in the bag @ 15 live n learn i guess.
On a brighter note,i birdied 4 (stroke hole 1),had a 2 @ 5 and a 2 @ 9.Eagled 10 & got robbed of another 2 @ 18.
With par at worse on #1 & #6,And minus the heroics on the 15th - thats an even par round.Well..coulda been...
Two under at the turn in a handicap competition (playing off 9), thought to myself "even if I bogey everything on the back nine, I'll beat my handicap and still stand a chance of getting in the prizes"........... didn't manage the bogey on every hole, had a couple of doubles to come in with a level net par!!
my golf tryout this year. first round was a 92 with a 42 or 43 on teh front... the back 9 was horrible and littered with snowmans accept pars on both par 3s and a chip in par on 12. On 15 i made a 4 over 9 because i hit it OB twice...
Second round i got to pick my playing partner and he ended up calming me down a lot so that was good (led me to an 86) but i couldve shot lower in that round too because after scoring a 41 on the front, he tells me, "just double that and youll make it" which i then tried WAY too hard to do... Still made 2 or 3 pars and 18 was a spectacular save for me... 4 bad shots onto the green and one great put it. Drive went onto another hole into a "pot" style bunker, hit a hybrid out to about 40 behind some trees and chipped below the trees from the next hole after the one i hit into's teebox and left it short then chipped to about 10 feet and sunk the put in front of everyone else who had already finished up in front of us (only one other group was behind us). Cant wait till next year.
EDIT: shouldve practiced my short game a lil more over the summer and shouldve kept cooler...
Not much other than my year's best round of shooting par at my "home course". I set my personal best there with that round. #18 is a long par 4. I hit a nice drive, but came up way short on the approach. I hit a beautiful chip out of the rough over a bunker and about 10 feet past the hole. It was a good shot because there was no green to work with. I only regret not making the par saving putt to shoot under par. It wouldn't have mattered in the tournament, but a 1 under at that course would have been sweet.
Last edited by ForeOnRoad : November 16th, 2006 at 09:49 PM.
About a month ago I shot a 79, which is a very good round for me, but I started off the back nine with two double bogeys, so coulda woulda choulda shot around a 75-77.
This past June I played a course that had aerated and sanded their greens the week before, and had a special going on. Never played there before, but for $17 decided it was worth trying on the last day of the special.
Teed off around 3:30, all alone, not another soul in sight! Hit a long, straight drive on an opening par 5, and knew something good was about to happen. 3 wood to the fringe, 2 putt for birdie -OMG!
Second hole, short par 4, parred it. Third hole, 180+ yard par 3, made par. At the turn I was in disbelief as I added my score to see I had a 39! Had the greens been in better shape, I would have had par! Had hit every fairway, and 7/9 GIR, and all in an hour and 15 minutes. Go to back nine with high hopes.
Through 13 I was still only 3 over! Then the clouds started coming in, and I heard thunder. As I was hitting my approach on 14 they blew the horn and the GPS flashed a "Return to clubhouse" message. I finished 14 with a bogey and headed in at 4 over. That hole is about as far away from the clubhouse as you can get. Took nearly 15 minutes to get back. After about an hour, weather clerared and I talked them into letting me go back out. On 15 I put my first drive way right into the cow pasture bordering the course. Second drive over-adjusted left into the deep overgrowth surrounding a swampy area (hazard). Dropped where it entered hazard, hit a poor shot again, finished hole with 9 (quadruple bogey). Now I'm 8 over. Finished last three holes double bogey, triple bogey, triple bogey, lost 4 balls and found every bunker on that part of the course. Ended up with an 88, which is usually a great score for me, but this time it felt AWFUL! I've shot rounds in the 100s that felt better than those last 4 holes left me feeling.
Had another coulda, shoulda round today. 55 degrees and I've not touched a club for nearly two months as I've been having some back problems. I was two under par going into hole number 17. Doubled hole 17 and bogied hold 18 to shoot 1 over. "Coulda", been a 69 or better (missed about 5 other birdie putts during the round).
I had a buddy that said, "You can shoot way under your handicap, parring and birdieing a bunch of holes, but the course is gonna get you somewhere. You have a handicap for a reason and the course is gonna get you back to it."
November 15th, 2006, 05:10 PM
live n learn i guess.
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