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5 of them were 1 putts, 1 was a chip-in, and 3 were from reaching par 5s in 2 and 2 putting.

I played in a men's association 18 hole tournament Saturday at Valley View. It was a Stableford tournament (first one for me). I shot +3 (40) on the front and +2 (40) on the back. I had 3 birdies on the front, but also didn't two putt from short distances on two earlier holes on the front (missed back-hand putts without trying much hehe).

I tied for 5th and won a skin on #6. I won $68 in pro shop credit with a $25 entry fee.

The weather was very different than it had been recently...it was foggy when I left and cool all day. Football weather!

Here is the round

Saturday we had the monthly club tournament and posted a 1 over 71 to win low gross. Next week begins team play format and can't wait.-Adam

Very cool. I wish my club would have tournaments like that.

Shot an 84 yesterday. The course has a 70.8 rating and 122 slope. This round lowered my handicap to 13. :)

I started out pretty bad - had double bogeys on the first two holes. I finished up with 4 double bogeys, 5 bogeys, 8 pars and one birdie, and went 43 on the front and 41 on the back. A pretty good round overall, except for the first two holes.

Well, after shooting back to back rounds in the 70's, I "backed" into a whopping 93.
Three new sleeves of balls donated to neighboring communities helped my score, (oh, and one in the back of a truck that probably is no longer in the same zipcode).
But I was "recovering" well. So I'm looking forward to Wednesday's round on a hard course.

I had an 80 today on the longer of the two local courses. I decided to play the back tees for a challenge, and I should have known to move up immediately...on the first hole, I hit a pretty solid tee shot and still had a 5 wood second shot (par 4, 443)! I hit the ball ok and struck my irons decently, but I could NOT for the life of me hit a club anywhere near as far as I should have...the worst example was coming up 20 yards short on a well hit 4 iron from 170 (purposely chosen so I KNEW I could get the ball on the green, needing a birdie for 79) on the 18th hole that was tracking right for it. I'm certain an overly weak grip is the cause, but when I tried strengthening it, I hit some utterly horrible shots. I hit 8 fairways, but converted that into only 3 GIR...thankfully my short game was good (27 putts ) and that saved me.

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You guys are making me jealous with your under 30 putts regardless of how many GIR you get hehe. My putting seems to be getting worse. I had 36 putts last round and 11 GIR. I would be glad to take the difference of 36 and 27 for a mid 70's round and tournament! Sounds a lot better than an 80 and would have been worth $100 or so more in pro shop credit.

Most of the public courses here have a league and play weekly plus once a month or so on a Saturday. I finally got my friends to start playing in one and they certainly enjoyed it.

Oh my god..!!!

Went & played Breedon Priory yesterday

What a state my game was in, all those wayward shots off the tee & on the & off the fairway, was horrendous. Its the first time I've played there, nice course. Loosing 3 balls straight into the water in front of the tee box was not a good start to the day.

shot 123, And its months since I shot over a hundred (not counting on the Welsh course I played last week.

I finished the last hole with 3 bad shots off the tee, toeing, sculling & worse, then 2 lovely shots down the fairway onto the green, at which point, one of the members I was playing with there, exclaimed to me...

"Those were two lovely golf shots, now what were you playing at the start of the hole"

He went on to say a few other things, but it was all constructive. I'd have loved to have stayed there for a coffee but couldn't, as I had a lesson to attend.

The lesson as I've said elsewhere went on to explain why my yardages & accuracy has been falling, its apparently my stance is aiming well to the right of target & my ball has started going left once more, regardless of the adjustments in my grip & other things.

Think its time to go play my local 9 hole course a lot more & get back down that range to see what I can do between now & the next lesson, which I think I'd rather be having right now, rather than in 3 weeks time. But I think my pro is hoping the thing my coach has given me to think about & be aware of will correct some of the bad things in my swing before the next lesson, leaving him less to correct...lol

Shot an ugly 84 (43-41) in the weekly twilight (front and back) at Valley View today...pretty bad golf.

Here is the round

With my $16 entry fee I won back a whopping $1.67 with my birdie on #12 hehehe. Oh well, this was a lucky birdie anyway...very thin 6 iron that got a lucky roll and ended up next to the hole.

Now is the time of year here when the tournaments go back to easy formats such as scrambles. The next and probably last men's association tournament I will play in this season at Valley View is a two man scramble. This is a "turkey shoot" and everybody actually gets a frozen turkey hehe. It's in early October.

The season starts out with scrambles and Chicago formats to make it easier then switches to individual stroke play, then everybody is happy to play in a scramble or something easy again because they pretty much gave up on their golf game already.

It's a funny game. The answer by the way is 42.

Shot an 81 today. Still can't seem to get around at least one or two bad holes. I hope for better but until I start to really focus on the short game without detracting from the rest of it then bad holes will continue to plague me. I believe all of us could be so much better if we just laid out a simple plan before our round, especially how we are going to play the holes that like to rip us a new one. Take the holes that usually eat our lunch and decide that for awhile we're just going to lay up or whatever and play it safe with a chance to get up and down for par and take no worse than bogey instead of the blow ups that we usually see. Seems for me these usually come on par 3's. These will make you look great or kill you. Have a good everybody.
Jerry

Shot an 86 today. First round with my new putter (Odyssey 2-ball White Hot). I only had 33 putts, but I missed a lot of par opportunities.

75 today. 2 birdies, 11 pars, and 5 bogeys. Overall great round. I'm HAPPY!

Shot an 86 yesterday. One of my best rounds ever. Right at 30 putts total.