How did you score in your last round... 2017 ?

Played Saturday in a scotch foresomes. Horrendous windy cold day. Played pretty well alongside a 7 handicapper who was on an off day. It's hard to tell much about your game when you are not playing your own ball, but my striking was pretty OK and I was happy but there were a few typical 14 handicapper shots in there that left my guy in trouble. Highlight was doubled, a tasty 7 iron on the 11th 170 yard par 3 to about 3 foot to get us a 2 and our money back and a monster 3 wood (wind assisted) 360 yrds on the second hole. I missed a couple of putts about 4 ft or so & he had some shocking lag efforts. We were 2 over on back 9 till a 4 putt on 17 and a 3 putt on 18 ruined us, but we still took the money from our opposition.

Roll forward to Sunday, Presidents Prize, club matchplay 3rd round in the pissing rain. Up against a new member who was already creating a buzz with his conquests and scores and apparently I was up against it big time. Started poorly, loosing the first hole after a 3 putt double. He was short with a garryowen drive on the second but from a long way out he found the greenside bunker with a super 3 wood. I was under trees and had to come out backwards. I recovered well and had a 3 footer given for 5 after he just made a mess of things. Well from there I played like a 14 handicapper and with some gimmes etc I was maybe a shot or 2 off my handicap, so a solid performance with just only one special moment on the index 1 3rd where I hit a very short weak drive into the left rough, still best part of 230 yards to the green and ball sitting down, I nailed a 5 wood to get me to the edge of bunker short of green, a decent pitch ran to far to leave me with a stinking downhill breaker of about 15 foot. A tap to send the ball about 12 inches saw it roll and pick up speed till it broke nicely and dropped dead centre for my par and win to go 1 up.

Ultimately a really strong win of 7&6 felt great, but can't get complacent as I was only OK and he just didn't bring his game. Still feels good though More Pierce Purcell practice tonight, we won the money in that last week

Flushing it. Winners again, one shot better than last week in PP practice.
Jeysus I'm dying to play a singles.....

31 Points in St Margarets today. 19F/12B 2 scratches

Wind was strong all day but on a couple of holes on the back nine it played havoc with my game. Shots going long into wind and coming up short with the wind, couldn't get my head around it.

Greens were OK if a little slow and had 5-6 on the back 9 that were a good bit slower than the rest which was frustrating.

Still, I think I just scraped the buffer (par 73) but I can't find any results with the CSS for recents days.

And 36 in Seapoint yesterday was enough to get me 2nd place, 1 point off an outright win.

* Hit Did not the buffer in Margarets, Par73

Well, after a terrible run of rounds since qualifying began & the handicap drifting from 11.5 to 11.9, finally things turned around & clicked.

Conditions were pretty tough, a cold strong breeze blowing, but for some reason things came good for me.

Shot 77 gross, my best ever gross score, for 43 points. Only real low was to finish with a Double Bogey on the 18th. Its a par 5 & I was in the green side bunker in 3. Took me 2 to get out, so in the end a 7 for a point was a result.

Depending on the CSS, hopefully will be at least 1.4 cut, and down to 10.5. A good step towards me target for the year.

Had a first ever as well, 2 eagles in one round.

2 Eagles
8 Pars
7 Bogeys
1 Double

Could have been a bit better too (aside from the 2 out of the bunker on 18 ) Lipped out on a couple of birdie putts & a left a couple of par putts hanging on the lip too.

Was a great day out. I by no means played perfect golf. Had to knock the ball out from under trees a number of times, but my short game & putting was working well which let me recover when I needed to.

Its amazing the difference a week can make to your frame of mind. Hopefully can push on from here & hit my goal for the year.

spacecoyote wrote: »

Well, after a terrible run of rounds since qualifying began & the handicap drifting from 11.5 to 11.9, finally things turned around & clicked.

Conditions were pretty tough, a cold strong breeze blowing, but for some reason things came good for me.

Shot 77 gross, my best ever gross score, for 43 points. Only real low was to finish with a Double Bogey on the 18th. Its a par 5 & I was in the green side bunker in 3. Took me 2 to get out, so in the end a 7 for a point was a result.

Depending on the CSS, hopefully will be at least 1.4 cut, and down to 10.5. A good step towards me target for the year.

Had a first ever as well, 2 eagles in one round.

2 Eagles
8 Pars
7 Bogeys
1 Double

Could have been a bit better too (aside from the 2 out of the bunker on 18 ) Lipped out on a couple of birdie putts & a left a couple of par putts hanging on the lip too.

Was a great day out. I by no means played perfect golf. Had to knock the ball out from under trees a number of times, but my short game & putting was working well which let me recover when I needed to.

Its amazing the difference a week can make to your frame of mind. Hopefully can push on from here & hit my goal for the year.

Well done, super round. I feel like I'm in a similar place. Rebuilt my swing over the winter using Hogan's 5 fundamentals, game really feeling good but nothing but 0.1s so far. Hole in one last weekend giving me a bit more belief. Playing tomorrow and hopefully will be posting something similar.....

callaway92 wrote: »

What scores would you consider good/very good for 4 man scrambles? 2 scores count on every hole. Everyone tees off and you play your own ball from the best tee. Everyone plays their own ball from the start on par 3s.

I'm thinking anything above 90 is good, above 95 is very good and above 98 is excellent.

Bare in mind there'd prob be a lot of high handicappers as it was a classic

That's not a straight scramble, I think it is called a Champaign scramble. So for a normal team event with 2 scores on every hole the target for a solid round is always 5 points a hole and to be in the hunt for the win you would be expecting to sneak in a few 6's or 7's on top of that. So for a Champaign scramble I would imagine with high handicappers getting the benefit of playing a good drive you would nearly be expecting level 6's to win.

Haven't played in two weeks and had the pleasure of strokes off the back tees today.

90 gross for 77 net was enough to hit the buffer zone (CSS 75)

48 out and and much improved 42 in.

Had 1 birdie, 7 pars, 6 bogies and 4 nightmares.

Delighted with the back 9 to avoid the 0.1 back.

Putted a lot better today but still left a few out there but happy enough overall

Medal at the weekend, one of my worst rounds in the past year.

Out in 48 which included 6 x 3 putts and 3 x 1 putts. Played a wrong ball so add in a two shot penalty! Had a slightly better back 9 to finish 90 gross, 83 Nett so incurred a 0.1.

Having putted well over the past year, I'm hoping that this is just a blip

rubbadubdub wrote: »

Played my 2nd card for handicap yesterday and shot 99. Suppose it’s just the nature of the game but I had a weird round. 2 x 4 putts didn’t help the confidence especially as the first came on the 2nd par 3 where I shot a bizarre 9. I also gave myself 6 good chances of birdies but only came away with 2 but was still happy with that. If all are marked down to double bogeys then I would have shot 87 if that’s how it works? First round was 91 so hoping to get in around the 18-20 Handicap mark.

2 x birdies
6 x Pars
4 x Bogeys
2 x Double Bogeys
1 x 7
2 x 8
1 x 9

Id say you'll get a handicap of about 12-14

rubbadubdub wrote: »

Jaysus- is no way could play to that now!! :eek::eek:

You would have had 35 points off 14 in your last round. You're closer than you think.

PARlance wrote: »

You would have had 35 points off 14 in your last round. You're closer than you think.

think just cause getting back into the game, not in anyway consistent wouldn't have assumed would go so low. But when you put as above then maybe. Happy once Handicap is something I can nearly play to so I can have something to aim for and not adding on 0.1 week in week out.

I'd say you'll get around 16 - 17 i had 3 rounds of 83 85 and 87 and landed with 13.5