First time playing here, over an hour drive east of me on the north fork of Long Island. Very nice course and $50 to walk was reasonable. Driver woes continued for the first 9 but got a bit better on the back. Hit some beautiful recovery shots from adjacent fairways over trees, felt like a tour pro lol. Just couldn’t make any of the putts. Biggest mistake was choosing Driver for a narrow short par4, was too lazy to walk 30yds back to my bag. Launched one OB and almost OB with the second, had to 5i back to safety.
Overall a decent round and look forward to playing it again in the fall, was told the greens are very fast that time of the year, I like that. May play the scramble here in the morning or just play 9 in the afternoon, kinda beat from all the golf. Can always change my mind, vacation is over soon!
Went to the driving range for the 2nd time this morning. I’m hitting it about 225-250. I definitely need to work on my consistency, but I assume that will come with practice. I have a problem slicing it to the right. The biggest improvements seem to come from keeping my front foot glued to the ground and keeping my right hand super loose mid swing.
Awesome! I’ve holed out from like 120 yards for 2 before and have a couple of other eagles on short par 4s but never had or seen an ace. I use to play the same course all the time that had a straight downhill sloping right to left 310 yard hole. So you basically just had to keep it on the right side and it would naturally slope on down to the green.
Shot 40/46 this morning. Had 5 birdie putts from 15-10 feet that I missed by a combined total of like 12 inches. Ugh.
Editing to add- this Harding Park course looks pretty awesome. The back tracking the water with all the trees and exposed roots. If I ever find myself in that part of the country I’ll make an excuse to go and play that muni.
It was a short par 3 probably 120. It was uphill so when he hit it it looked close then disappeared so we weren’t sure if it went in or if it went down a hill. Get up there don’t see it on the green and there it is poking out of the cup with the foam on the bottom.
Yep. Every course has a rating/slope. Higher the numbers, more difficult the course. Like I played a course today that was 70.1/127 compared to Bethpage that I played a few weeks ago was 77.5/155
Well the easy course I played was a 59.9 lol but the “harder” one I play isn’t listed so that sucks.
Actually I found it the other one is 69.0. So how do I compare a 98 on a 59.9 to a 115 on a 69? First one is +38 second is +45 but there’s a 10 stroke difference.
So a couple more details first- Course Rating tells you what the scratch golfer (0 handicapper) should shoot. So today I played a Par 70 with a rating of 70.1 means the scratch player should shoot even par.
The Slope is used for your average bogey golfer to determine how difficult it is. There’s some formula based on a crunching of statistics, so I’m not so sure how it would work (The slope isn’t what your average bogey golfer should shoot FYI). I do know that they have Slope in addition to Rating because the idea is that as the course gets harder, it gets increasingly harder for the bogey player compared to the scratch player.
So I think the question you’re asking is - “what’s better- my 98 on an easier course or my 115 on a harder course”. I’m sure there is some golf calculator out there that can tell you that if you input your score with the rating/slope. Off hand I can’t say for certain. What I can say is that there are a bunch of apps (i use TheGrint) to track your scores. You can get an official handicap for $20 and you can see which scores they use to calculate your handicap, so you can sorta see which scores are “better” though one may be higher than the other cause it was on a harder course. If that makes any sense.
Watch some YouTube videos over slicing. I’ve been hitting nearly every day, and I’ve stopped slicing from using a stronger grip and hitting towards the toe of my driver.
Yeah, for Course Rating the USGA does an evaluation of the course. They play it, measure it, note the different obstacles that make golf hard like bunkers, hazards, forced carries, green speed/undulation- things like that. Then give it a number (the Rating).
For Slope, they do the same thing but in the eyes of a bogey golfer. You then take the difference of the bogey rating and scratch rating. Then you multiple that number by some constant (I don’t remember what the exact number is for the constant or how they calculate the constant, I’m not sure). Then that’s the slope.
I had quite possibly the weirdest round I have ever had yesterday. I showed up really hungover for a 820am tee time with a couple friends and really struggled at the start. I was +11 through 6. Then I got hot with both the putter and irons and birdied 4 of the last 12 and finished with an 83.
I played the par 3s under par for the day which I have probably never done. I also made 7 3s or 2s in one round which again I do not believe I have ever done. It was one of those rounds I never wanted to end once I got it going.
I got hot with my irons and woods yesterday playing 2 man scramble. We shot +4 for a 74 which is really good for us, considering we had the shanks for a few holes. Each of us had clutch shots on pretty much every hole.
On 18, it’s a 175 yard carry par 3 over a river. We had to par to beat our best round. We never par.
My partner shanked his shot into the river, so I immediately got nervous. My hybrid is good for advancing the ball on a fairway but i absolutely suck at hitting targets with it. Aimed at the left side of the green to account for my push slice, and pushed one out to the right fringe, pin high about 10 feet left.
Then my partner fucked up his putt and blew it like 8 feet past. The grass was weird near our lie so I was really not confident at all, managed to putt it to about 3 feet and made that for a solo par and our best round ever.
Felt good man, especially how I’ve been feeling about my game lately. I hit 4 greens total from 150+ which is unbelievably good for me. Usually i only hit 3-4 greens in regulation per round, and thats typically from inside 100 yards on short par 5’s.
Yea this reminds me of my best round ever. I was +13 on the front and -1 on the last 10 holes.
It was just a par 59 so i dont count it really but definitely my best scoring round. Those rounds are fun. I think when you do so horribly early on you kind of put less pressure on yourself and it affects your swing in a positive way.
