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A good fall round
Another fall round today. Actually, it’s my first time on the course since last week. Anyway I posted a 79. I hit 6 GIR, 9/14 Fairways and had 32 putts. Not a bad score considering only 6 GIR. I shot par for my course handicap so I’m pretty happy with the score. I didn’t make any birdies though which was disappointing.
Overall I was pretty happy with my ball striking today. I had a couple of bad chips and a few bad putts, but as I said I felt I scored well, all things considered. I had a few errant drives, and although I hit some fades I didn’t have any big slices. I basically kept the ball in play and recovered from a couple of miscues. I know that I need to hit more greens. That will definitely lower my scores. I crushed a few drives but I’m still not sure the driver fits me totally, but it’s kind of too late in the season to change it up.
On the 9th hole, a very short par 3, I hit sand wedge from 109 yards. I landed the ball pin high (then pin was about 10 feet from the front of the green), then spun it back to about 10 feet off the green (for a total spin back of about 20 ft). That’s what happens when you’ve been playing a low spin ball and decide to switch to a tour ball. Way too much spin. I only needed some controlled spin and it just over spun on me. Oh well, at least I got up and down for par.
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October 20, 2009 - 3:17 pm
Forget ball striking and work on putting and short game. 6 greens and 32 putts = need to improve short game. You are always going to miss greens and hit errant shots. It’s how you recover that will start lowering your scores.
Good luck!
October 20, 2009 - 3:35 pm
@Joe: Thanks Joe. I think you’re right. Short game is the key to getting me down to scratch from where I am. Still it’s not a bad score for hitting as few greens as I did. I think that’s where the distance ball I was playing hurt me a bit today. I don’t usually play that kind of ball, but with the weather as it was (temps in the 50s through the front 9), I tried to get a little more out of it. Some of the chips and pitches I hit would have been a lot closer to the hole with the ball I’m used to playing but you live and learn. Temperatures tomorrow should be a lot nicer and I think it’ll be back to my usual ball (TP Red LDP). I had a lot of ups and downs today to save par but on a couple of holes it got away from me. 32 is also a lot of putts for me, I’m usually in the 30 or less area.
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