Mike: you might want to think of getting a car that's International Orange, one of those colors that show up in the dark. Might help the next idiot to see you better. Glad you're alive and complaining. Better to have to go pick out a new car, than for your family to be picking out a pine box. That sure is a nice looking pile of scrap you have left from what was a car.

Hehe, I figured someone would pick that up...the subtext

Played in a Corporate Outing yesterday. Really nice club, the weather couldn't have been nicer. Hard to tell how I was playing since it was "best ball" but I hit some good ones for the team...
But the headline for today's round:
YAY, I shot 89 again! So I guess I didn't need to be worried that it would take until the end of June to get my better game back (not my "A" game, that hasn't happened yet, let's call it a solid "B+" )
Only 4 GIR's (but a lot were just off the green, on the fringe), 31 putts. 5212 yards from forward tees. Par 72.

Way to go Aimee. It's not even summer yet, and you broke 80 again. Not too bad little girl. Are you sure about that yardage? 5212, doesnt' sound right for some reason. Thanks for checking it. No golf this week, the weather isn't being nice to us. Highs in the low 40's cloudy and a little rain just to make things worse. Later Don.

Hey, Don, thanks for the congrats.
The yardages off the card are:
Black 7182; Blue 6772; White 6326; Gold 5934; Red 5212.
Of the 3 County courses we regulary play, it is the shortest one for me. It is a links style and rewards accurate shots more than distance!

Played this AM.
38 - 37 = 75

Aimee: thanks for the reply. 5200 is fairly short, even for the red tees. The courses my wife and I play, measure from the reds, 5417,5650 and 5919. Sounds like a great place to improve your game. As the shortest course of those you play, you can always play the other courses more later as you break 85 and 80. Or you can move back to the Gold tees when you break 80 next month. Again, good way to go, keep it up.

Bill: Not to bad for one of us old guys. We have a tee time for Wednesday so I'll see if the last two rounds were luck or if I'm starting to get the hand of this fool game finally.

Don, I enjoy playing that course because it does force you to really be accurate. There are many, many fairway bunkers to navigate! Played another of our "usuals" on Sunday, did not fare as well (this one is around 5500 yards for me). Shot 102. Too many putts (had been playing greens for the past 2 weeks which were aerated/top dressed and SLOW, so speed was hard to get used to) and the greens were hard/fast, all the approach shots were rolling off for everyone. We got paired with 2 "singles" - One of the guys we played with was a H.S. teacher and coach for their golf team. The other was a retired guy who had a steady monologue going the whole time, talking out loud to himself.

I know what you mean about the greens. They are aerating all the courses here now too, so we have the same sandy greens with all those little holds half filled with sand. Pain in the neck to try to figure out how the ball is going to roll. With any luck, the grass will fill back in and the greens will be nice for the rest of the season for both of us. This Sunday is Mother's day, and one of the city courses has a Mother's Play Free day. So my wife and I have a tee time as a small Mother's Day present for her. That should be fun. I always enjoy playing with the wife.

Don, it's great that your wife plays golf too! In my case, Melanie's not interested in going out for golf, but she does play some pretty mean Tiger Woods Golf on the Gamecube, so we have fun with that.

Have any of you ever played the Tiger Woods video games? They're pretty awesome, and very realistic. It makes a nice virtual substitute when I'm swamped at the studio. In fact, though I shouldn't report it as a "round," I did play golf in my sleep the other night, and the dream had all the qualities of the video game. It was great, I was bombing drives 400 yards, then I woke up.

I'm really "champing at the bit" to get out for an actual round again, been working like a demon. Though I had 2-3 days off in the last 2 weeks (and did golf) I had, in the remaining 11 days, worked 140 hrs! That's almost a month of 8 hr. days crammed into 11 days. Just yesterday, I had most of the day off, but did have a Big Band recording session in the evening. My plan was to golf before work... but for the first time in a year, I was simply too tired to go out... I had posted in a recent thread the topic of "How Much is Too Much? (Golf, that is.)" Well, I just found out "How Much is Too Much Work!"

Keep posting your rounds, so I can vicariously enjoy some golf!

lol I play for PS2 and well shooting low 50s arent realistic

Wade: I think it's Golfsmith, but I'm not sure, that sells a swing analilizer that you can hook up to one of those Golf games on your computer. With this ball hanging on a stick swing thingy, you can play a round of golf just like the Tiger Woods game, but instead of using a mouse or keypad, you hit a shot with the swing analizer. Don't know how well it works, but it sounds a lot better than using a keypad or mouse. If you have room to swing a club indoors, it could make for some decent practice when you're stuck at work.

Don that little equipment breaks too easily and costs too much.

Yeah Don, that would be too cool. But I actually don't "game" on my computer much (never liked playing off the keypad) so I instead play on a Gamecube system, which is like Playstation or Xbox, with the wireless controllers. I do want to look into such a thing. Imagine bringing it to the studio and projecting up on our movie screen! (We do that sometimes with our games.)

Omar, have you tried one of the simulators? Did you break it? You're not supposed to throw your clubs, OR your computer golf-simulators...

Today I played in our city tournament. I was on pace for mid to high 80's, until my 3rd to last hole. I put three shots in the water and ended with an eleven on a par 4. Next hole i was still frustrated and got a seven on a par 3. If your good at math, that's eleven over on 2 holes. I ended up with a 97. I also had more t han 40 putts for the first time this year.

No more like the ball flys off the stringy thing

had my first 9 hole round, since last august, yesterday with the lTELSO league..not good but some bright spots. Iron shots were much better than last year with good distance with 5 & 7 irons. a couple of great chips from off the green to within inches of the hole. Best shots were noce a straight. Now the others.. drives were terrible and to the left before I realized I was holding the club too tight..after 7 holes. Next two drives were fine, straight but not too long, but in the short grass. Putts were so-so. Landed in one bunker and chipped out onto the green, something I could not do last year. Having trouble with the hybird 3 & 4 clubs, irons worked better but with less distance.. oh well, more things to work on.

I went out and played a quick 9 at my home course last night. I play a relatively tight course with a slope/rating of 72.2/129 from the Blues which i generally play. It's not a long course by any means measuring only about 6000 yards from the blues, and about 6400 from the tips.

I scratched out a 41 playing the front 9 last night. didn't putt particularly well, that is to say i didn't make anything.. Only putt i made that wasn't a tap in was a 4 foot par save after a nice bunker shot on the 4th hole.
I butchered a 200 yard par 3 for my only double, and ended the night w/ back to back bogey's.

Hope everyone else is scoring better than I!!

aargh...shot 105
"stole" a day, weather was great when we were potentially going to have a chance of showers (that's been changed to Sat/Sun). Putting was awful, I couldn't get a feel for the speed of the greens and just poked at the ball tentatively. 41 putts, I'm usually 35. Drove the ball great, had one go 240 with roll (par'd that hole ). Frustrating because I'm playing a course with tiny, fast, sloped greens and I'm feeling THISCLOSE to really scoring well except I keep just missing the greens. I gotta get my lesson in soon...

Happy Mother's Day to all the Ladies out there. Doing to play some golf with the wife today. One of the city courses offers free golf for woman on Mother's Day, and we're taking advantage. Went to a free demo day yesterday, and demoed some clubs. Hit the FT3, Ping G5, TM R7-460, and Nike drivers. Didn't find any thing that was giving me better results than my G2 that I took along to compare against. Of those I hit, I'd say the R7-460 was about the closest to being equal to my G2 in terms of ball flight. Nice driver. Tried some iron, wasn't too impressed with the Nike Pro Combo's, but the Callaway X-Tours were real nice. Supposed to be the most workable and less forgiving of the Callaway line, but I wasn't having any problems with them, so it's an option should I decide to get a new set of irons some day.

It was 56º, light rain, and a 20 MPH wind, but dammit, I was gonna play no matter what today! Played my home course. There were only a few people there, had the place to myself. Shot a 77. Could have been lower, but I'll take it for not having touched my clubs for some time. Got cocky on 16, a par 5 that's reachable. Normally I'll lay up with a rescue club, as there is a creek that bisects the fairway at about 270. Decided to go for it today and pushed it right OB. Scrambled for bogey anyway. Missed a birdie putt on the front side of 4 feet. I could have cried. That was bad. 15th, a par 4, I pt my drive in the fairway bunker. Had 112 to the pin that was front right. Couldn't see the green in the bunker, just the top of the flag. I knew it was good when I hit it, but it ended up spinning back to 6 inches! Finally, makable birdie range for me!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there! Mom just got a new car with a 6 disc changer, so she wanted rock 'n roll for Mother's Day. Now I'll have to show her how to work the 6 disc changer!