Official Golf Thread - Page 104

Played a round last weekend. Felt fantastic, since I now don't have time to play and the last time I played was 2 months ago. Shot +3...  I was -1, played pretty solid, considering the time in which I haven't played, all pars and one birdie. Then at the 17 hole, par 3, 160 yards, I hit my 8 iron, I pulled it a it, pin was in the right corner of the green, ball started straight, hooked and ended in the left side of the green. We went to find the ball, we never found it, lost ball and finished that hole with a double bogey. Then to 18th hit it to the right rough, bad lie, 130 yards to the pin, I grabbed my PW to try to play a lower shot. Caught that a bit thin and went OB...  that's why I don't like to play low shot with ball back in my stance. Ended with a double bogey there and a +3. 

But aside from that round felt pretty solid. If only I could play as much as when I was in college, it would be a different story. 

How much was the club rental? 

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Originally Posted by xpress 

Officially going through golf withdraws.
I'm considering taking some lessons during the off-season.
After setting this goal, I've realized there are 100+ "golf pro's" in my city of 100k people.
How the hell do these guys make a living??

Consider the possibility that they are not all full time golf instructors.  I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they have "day jobs" and schedule golf lessons on the side.

Ah, thank you.  Seems like out of towners get pinched on green fees.  I guess that's the way it goes, but 25 for a club rental doesn't seem so bad.  Depending on how many rounds you're playing its cheaper than paying the checked bag fee for a set of clubs.

Thanks to the Holidays I had the chance to play some golf. 3 days in a row, fuck yeah! On saturday I played decent, front nine +2 and a back nine -1. Considering I'm not playing in a regular basis, that was pretty good. On sunday I played the front nine in +3... I was +5 teeing at the 6th hole, then went birdie-birdie to finish the front nine. Back nine enden again at +3... On monday I was +2 at the 5th hole, then I went birdie and 6 and then bogey-bogey to finish at +2, on the back nine I was -2... then a really bad course management left me with a 7 at the par 4 18th... 

Golf is ridiculous... but I love this game. 

Glad to hear it.  I also used the holiday as an opportunity to get back in touch with golf.  Unfortunately, I played my worst round ever.  But I still had a great time.  That's why I like the game.

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Originally Posted by PhiPsi32 

Glad to hear it.  I also used the holiday as an opportunity to get back in touch with golf.  Unfortunately, I played my worst round ever.  But I still had a great time.  That's why I like the game.

Yeap, I think this game tests you in every single aspect. I have played some other sports, football, basketball, swimming, tennis and the least that I liked soccer. I played football the most, for 13 years to be exact. I played as a center. College football in here is nothing compared to the NCAA, but we get some nice crowds, around 2,000 people per game. When I started playing golf I remember that when I was teeing off on the first tee with no more than 15 people watching, I felt nervous as hell! Some people used to tell me that how it was possible if in some football games I was being cheered at least from the 50% of the people and the other half want me to loose my concentration and made a mistake. 

I still feel this nerves when I tee off, it's amazing this game.