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Was going to play today at the Nevele, but the rates are 40% less tomorrow, playing in the AM then bike ride in the aftgernoon.
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Playing Lake of Isles (the PHENOMENAL course at Foxwoods) with my parents tommorrow. With the travel schedule my parents have the between now and Thanksgiving, this is going to be the last round in New England I'll get with my Dad this year, so we figured why not play a real kick a$$ course!
Warp, given my difficulties lately, I think a camera would already do way more harm than good. I am focusing on some major swing issues right now and it is already hard enough dialing learning into just one issue. Last thing I need is a couple dozen things to worry about :roll:
Very mixed bag today on the Par 3 course. Back was still tired from the range on Thursday but I really wanted to play. My focus today was upper body rotation. I had been doing too much full body turning instead of upper body rotation... specifically, rotating around the central vertical body plane instead of rotating the entire body and coming up out of the rotation zone.
Tee'd off with a 3W that dribbled about 20 yards. Then to an 8I to much the same result. At this point, I noticed someone teeing up behind me. Had I drove to the green, I would have taken my time. But I felt rushed having taken three strokes for a distance most people cover in one even on a bad shot. Any ways, 8 strokes later.... I went onto the second hole. By the time I sunk my putt, I decided that I wasn't keeping score for this game :roll: It was just that bad. I tried to stay positive and not keeping score helped. Every hole was hole number 1.
By the fourth, I nailed a beautiful shot past the green off a really great tee shot (some really bad pitching followed that!). I played the fifth better than any previous game and would have made par if not for a two putt. Creamed the ball off the tee on the sixth and put the ball past the tee by twenty yards on my best 8I tee swing ever. More bad pitching followed in addition to a two putt. Hole seven I would rather not discuss. On the eighth, I hit my longest 6I shot ever just a touch over 200 yards which is where I usually put my 3W. That felt great. More bad pitching felt bad. Ninth was horrid as usual with a mulligan off the tee on a lost ball followed by a 20 yard dribbler followed by another 20 yard dribbler followed by a shot into the sand. The sand shot was a really nasty lie as it rolled down a steep 40 degree angle. No problems, my sand game is really good all things considered and I got it within one putt range but only two putted.
So it was a mixed bag. 2/3 iron tee shots were some of my finest hits ever with sensational distance. Accuracy would have been better if they had not flown so far! Pitching was suspect all around. And when I duffed the tee shot my green play that followed was atrocious.
My take away is to keep working on that spine rotation and keep my stance just a tad open to allow my arms to roll over after impact. 3W needs a ton of work. I started off hitting the 3W better than the irons but now I either have a major slice or dribble the ball.
My other take away is to not just buy the cheapest ball I can find. While researching balls for the first time, I noticed that some of the x-out balls I had bought from the local range were in fact tour level balls such as proVs, etc (which, at 50 cents per ball, is a pretty sensational price!!!). It may just have been mental, but I felt I had better shots when I was using my el cheapo balls instead of the tour level top brands.
Steven - you got it bad, bro..........:wink:
Damn that looks good doc -- make sure your "strategy mojo" is working -- looks like some strategic layups may be in order ---------------------- BUT hell then again it's fun to grip and rip --- have a great day with your dad make some memories !!!
Nice game, Chile! Thanks for sharing and congrats on your all time low 9 hole score. 2 birdies on the lip is a lot easier to take when you hit your best score. Gotta leave some room for improvement, right?Shot a nifty little 38 yesterday at my local home course (Juniper Hills in Northboro, MA). 3 bogeys and all the rest pars. That's my all-time-low 9-hole score, so I'm pretty pumped. Had everything going great - drives, approaches, short game, putting. Left 2 birdie putts on the lip, but that's golf. And, had 3 witnesses including my lovely wife, so this has BIG bonus points written all over it. A nice Sunday.......
It was a semi butt kicking of the course on me today But then again at just over 7200 yards, a slope of 146 and a rating of 76.7 well I definately wasn't playing a pitch and putt. I ended up with an 84 after a real lackluster 44 on the front 9 (a double bogey 7 on a par 5 and a triple bogey 7 on a par 4 sure didn't help), had a much more respectable 40 on the back 9. Realistically I should have shot closer to 90, but fortunately for me my irons were ON bigtime (including 2 wedges to less than a foot!).
Just new though that it was going to be an interesting day when as my parents and I were getting the pre round instructions from the starter on the 1st tee, a cart goes by heading to the practice facility (too fancy to call it a driving range ) and in the cart being driven to the range is none other than PGA Touring Pro, Woody Austin(the same guy that fell in the water in last year's president's cup!) and his big staff bag. Turns out that on the "private course" at Lake of Isles today there was a big $$ charity pro am where a few of the PGA Tour pros who just finished the 1st leg of the Fed Ex Cup in NJ yesterday where there picking up some extra $$ on their way to the 2nd leg of the Fed Ex cup this coming weekend outside of Boston.
7200? Damn, thats long. I enjoy playing from 6-6300.
It was a semi butt kicking of the course on me today But then again at just over 7200 yards, a slope of 146 and a rating of 76.7 well I definately wasn't playing a pitch and putt. I ended up with an 84 after a real lackluster 44 on the front 9 (a double bogey 7 on a par 5 and a triple bogey 7 on a par 4 sure didn't help), had a much more respectable 40 on the back 9. Realistically I should have shot closer to 90, but fortunately for me my irons were ON bigtime (including 2 wedges to less than a foot!).
Just new though that it was going to be an interesting day when as my parents and I were getting the pre round instructions from the starter on the 1st tee, a cart goes by heading to the practice facility (too fancy to call it a driving range ) and in the cart being driven to the range is none other than PGA Touring Pro, Woody Austin(the same guy that fell in the water in last year's president's cup!) and his big staff bag. Turns out that on the "private course" at Lake of Isles today there was a big $$ charity pro am where a few of the PGA Tour pros who just finished the 1st leg of the Fed Ex Cup in NJ yesterday where there picking up some extra $$ on their way to the 2nd leg of the Fed Ex cup this coming weekend outside of Boston.
7200? Damn, thats long. I enjoy playing from 6-6300.
Was the 265 carry at least downhill from an elevated tee-box?
Yup, BOTH of them were downhill - maybe 100 feet on the first and 75 on the second, and BOTH of them were into the 10mph or so breeze yesterday Let's just say that I really made sure that I didn't have the ball teed too high on this holes or else I wouldn't have had any chance of clearing the hazard
A quick google image search here
This pic is of the 17th hole, and this tee box is the middle on I was back a good 75 yards behind this!
This one is of the 14th, and the relatively "short" cary of about 185 from the tees I played to reach the short grass
This last one is of the 11th, a par 3 that was playing 195ish from the tees I played from. It's also one of the 4 holes that I'd rather not remember as I found out that a 6 iron and a 10mph tailwind was the perfect club for long and left
The course is almost like playing 18 "signature" holes. Of course when the owners of the course are the owners of the 2nd most successful casino in the world (Foxwoods) and they happen to buy this roughly 600 acre rolling piece of terrain with a few lakes in it right across the street from Foxwoods, and then hire Rees Jones to design 36 holes with basically a blank check, you're more than likely going to get a result like this!