If needed, we’ll start a go-fund-me for tabbaGoat lessons. It’s a new dawn, believe me.
Usually $45 an hour but I buy a bundle and he gives me a discount because I bring him students. $200 for 8 lessons.
I think the best value is group lessons - those you can get as cheap as $20 a session and you should learn a lot of the basics.
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I hit 100mph club speed in the simulator last night!! My typical speed is 80-85. It used to be 70-75. So I gained 30mph in just a few months. Stoked.
At my next place, I want to have a garage so I can get a simulator. The numbers it gives back to you are so useful. I know they have little devices that can track your numbers for you at the range but I wanna go full sim.
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Played today again with my buddy who’s a 6 index. Our match is - one overall/front/back with two presses on each side and one press whenever for the overall.
He came out firing with a 34 on the front while I dropped a 48 with a Kevin Na-esq 11 on the only par five. On the back we played even with both of us shooting a 40. Because I was getting strokes on the back we ended up even for each side and I strategically saved my overall press for the 18th which I was stroking on. We both parred so I won that which leveled us off for the day.
We also play greenie/sandie/chippie/barkies which he got 4 and I had none so I owed him a small pittance compared to what it could have been after the front 9 when he was up 7 holes.
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I just got done playing 9 myself.
total schizo round… carded a 47 lol
4 pars
1 boge
3 doubles
1 quad
was 7 over after 3, so corrected it a bit but jfc
think I figured something out with my irons, though, but in exchange… lost some confidence in my driver
aint that how it goes?
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For me, I only lost confidence in my driver one round this year for reasons unknown. And then I switched to my 19degree hybrid which is pretty much money always. Otherwise it’s just been not having a tight enough short game. Yes of course I’ll have the occasional hook off the tee but that’s been my miss for years. I couldn’t hit a fade-slice on call with 10 trys. But so many lost shots not being able to hit it to kick-in distance around the greens. I attribute that to practicing only once this year when I use to go up to the local muni a handful of times a month.
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yup…I feel the need for practice, but then I consider my ball-striking recently after a 2-year layoff, and in some respects, it was like riding a bike. Fred Couples has said he plays well after a reset/ distance from the game for a spell.
So, that basically summarizes my experience - and the experience of many others - with golf. Torn on approach, inconsistency, schizophrenia lol etc
I did go to the chipping area after my nine, and hit several chips in a manner consistent with my best chipping over the years.
It’s basically a putting motion with a totally-closed-face 9-iron, that has served me well since discovering it shortly after being introduced to the game 34 years ago. It allows you to ‘feel’ the shot as a putt. You want it to land on the green, or just short on some of the harder, shorter-grassed fringes you encounter, though, as anything much longer, and it’s anyone’s guess how it will roll-out.
High 80s and humid today so if course I walked, lol. I was shot by the 13th, good 5min walk between 12th green and the tee box which didn’t help. I’m proud of the result tho. Was a mess off the tee, especially driver but everything else was working. Hit a ton of nice irons and wedges and destroyed a couple of 7w, stuck one to 10ft from 190yds, missed the bird putt. Putting came and went but decent overall. Weather is supposed to be the same tomorrow so if course I’m gonna walk 18 somewhere else. Gl me!!
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Also played the scramble at my place yesterday, had 31 guys, our team shot a (+1) 31. I played ok but the short game was iffy. 2 under and 1 under took the monies. Had a lot of fun. The nickname of one of the other teams captain was ‘muffduster’, which is about the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. I’m still laughing about it a day later.
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I walked today too. About 90 degrees and humid. The no water on the course is killer even though I loaded up with gaterades beforehand. The folks I played with only played 9 so I was alone on the back. Eventually I caught up to the group in front of me by 14. There was no one behind me so I laid down in the shade for a good 20 minutes smiling and feeling like Andy Dufresne just loving life relaxing.
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What possesses you to walk?
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I like the walk up to the next shot, gives me time to think about what I’m gonna do or what I’ve just done. Just slows things down. Feel more in tune with the course. Probably walk 90% of the time. The course I played today was carts only til COVID19, so I decided to hoof it in case they change back. And $30 bucks for a cart is nuts, this is one of the fancier tracks I play.
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Same reasons as above.
Also I sit/stand at a desk for 8+ hours a day so I use it to get some exercise as well.
There’s only one course I play a few times a year that I won’t walk because it’s too tough for me to do. The course is literally built into the side of a mountain. The views are amazing and there are two par 5s that are worth the price of admission alone. They are straight down a ski slope pretty much where a 350 yard drive is not uncommon. I’ve played with people that have walked it and they were all legit players but pass on that for me.
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Walking >>>> riding. I generally only ride if I’m playing with my wife or the course wasn’t designed with walking in mind (long distances between holes). Having a push cart is key though, carrying your bag is pretty annoying
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Shot in the dark…Sugarloaf?
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I carry. I have a pushcart too but love my Callaway Hyperlite. I play a ton, so it’s nice to just grab and go when I get home from work. Bothered my back a bit at first but I pushed through and it’s fine now. Just needed those muscles to get used to it.
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Fuck yeah!! Finally broke 90 at this course, one of the easier tracks in my rotation. Little less humid than yesterday but still a tough walk. Driver was a bit better but had to 5i out of the trees 3 or 4 times. Boinked a tree on another that came back toward me for a sweet 100yd drive, lol. But was in the fairway!!
Irons and wedges were ridiculous, just killed them! Putting on slow greens came and went. Biggest problem is irons off the tee on par 3s. Fatted every one of them, it’s like I have a mental block or something, wedged them all on to the green for bogeys tho, so that’s cool. I’m exhausted, need some rain to give me a break, I’m not capable of stopping on my own, I’m an addict!!!
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Looks to me like the story of your round was your putting - less than 2 putts per hole will save rounds where you’re hitting very few greens. (Aka, every round for me)
Putting has been the one thing i can point to that keeps my rounds around bogey these days.
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The number is not always accurate. I tend to just hit the default ‘2’ on the watch even when I 3putt. I get lazy with it as the round goes on. I’ll only go back and edit if I punch the wrong score in for a hole.
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