GolfHos

Sal and I will be getting our first real round since probably May  ...  and probably the last for the year...

But it's a great day out,  toooo hard to pass it up

$29 a person...  www.birdsfoot.com

We'll try to take some pix.

Nice. I'm playing Bountiful Ridge today: http://www.uga.org/clubs/bountifulridge/index.cfm

Should be a beautiful day. If I think about it, I'll get some pix too.

which tees do you play there,  it looks beautiful, although i don't see any water on the course layout
 ;D

even though i've been playing great @ the par 3/ pitchnputt  i'm not expecting much from this round.   the back 9  is a brutal round killer @  birdsfoot  unless you're putting your driver in play on every swing.

*note to self - play smart, use new 1h*  off tee  if can't hit driver today*

I play the white tees. There isn't a lot of water except a small river guarding the 8th green and a pond guarding the left side of the 18th. Other than that, it's a mountain style layout with lots of OB. Very nice course, probably my favorite in Utah, but I haven't played Valley View, which is up by Uisce. I hear that's very nice too.

well, as i've never been to  utah  , i'll take your word for it

i haven't decided on blue or black tees here.   I've shot in the 80's from black @ the course before, but that was last year and when i was hitting the range routinely.

 :o

well, time to go  clean the clubs, sharpen the grooves, and load up on balls
 8) 8)

I agree with spaceage regarding the quality of Bountiful Ridge.  It's a first class course in excellent condition at all times.  If not for a couple of quirks it would be one of my favorites:

(1)  Starts out reachable par-5 followed by par-3.  Rounds always start slow.  Picks up after that though.

(2)  No practice facility other than a tricked up green that's all slopes and angles.  I like to hit 20 balls to get loose and I have to make a pitstop at another course in order to do so.

The views are great.  You're up on the bench looking down on airliners approaching the SLC airport.  They have decent beer in the clubhouse which is something around here and especially Bountiful (pretty damn boring town).   :o 

All in all, I reckon that most of you would be blown away at the quality of courses we have around here.  I've played resort courses which don't measure up to many of ours and you can play almost anywhere in No. Utah for < $40 with cart.  We're very lucky.

Oh, I'm sure you know this already spaceage but it's worth repeating, EVERYTHING at the Ridge breaks to the lake.   ;)

I hope all three of you have/had fun.  My round starts tomorrow at 8:20. 

Gorgeous day for golf. A little cool, kind of overcast, play was a bit slow (walked 18 in just over 4:30), but overall can't complain.

The greens had been punched recently, but were filling in okay. Tough to read a putt. Nailed a couple of beauties, missed some that should have dropped. Indeed everything breaks toward the lake, even when it doesn't look like it.

I was struggling a bit with my hybrids today (chili dips  >:(), but hitting mid/short irons and wedges solidly (just swapped out my SMT Durometers for Maltby M Series- they don't spin quite like the SMTs but they feel like butter). Driver was so-so- mostly straight but not terribly long. Smuggled my own beer, but they do have good stuff in the clubhouse (they even carry Squatters stuff these days  [sm_thumbsup]).

Shot 43 out 44 back. Not a bad round for this hacker. $22 well spent.  ;D (Forgot to grab the camera on the way out so no pics. :()

Bountiful is indeed a pretty boring place, but I'm a pretty boring guy these days and it's home.  :)

we're heading to a party in a bit,  so getting ALL the pix  up  will have to wait,  but I'm uploading a few right now

shot 42/40-  82  from the whites ... I wussed out.  wouldn't have been such a good score except that on the last 3 holes,  i started hitting great.   until then it was good shot, crap shot... good shot, mediocre shot... etc


anyways,  im gonna post 4-5 pix now...  and the rest later or tomorrow

me teeing off on #3.  set up to draw, needed a draw,  got a mild slice... about 245 onto the cartpath

me teeing off on #5.  got that one about 255 just in the right of the fairway

mainly,  note the little gnome guy carved into the tree behind me

 Here's one of me hitting my 2nd on the par 5 16th. 

2nd shot ever with my new 1h

had about 10 feet for eagle  just off the collar.

ended up with birdie

this was my eagle attempt  as mentioned above for 16.

..and the last one for today...  here's Sal watching over both of our approaches into 18th green

she played into the fairway, missed the green left with her 3wood and we couldnt find it.  so she took a penalty and drop :-[, then pitched on with her 8i,  cleverly using the backboard of the hole to funnel back in close


i missed the fairway (long, ran through the left side), punched out to about 100 yards, and did a 3/4 pw to about 10 feet.  missed the par by about 2 inches.

oh,  and it was between 40-45* , and the sun came out about 1/2 the time

more importantly, there was a constant 1club wind that often gusted to 2-3 clubs,  often right when i was trying to tee off
 >:(   ;D ;D

wow, great pics.  I love the shot of the eagle attempt from ground level.

No rounds for me this weekend >:(, but I just got back from the range.

40-45* brrr, that's a bummer.

thanks.

45 is warm for the last few days
 [sm_rolling]

handicap down to 11.04
 :o

i'll get some more pix up tomorrow.    just don't feel like  it tonight

LOL

82...good deal.  You're better than I thought!  Great round. 

thanks
 ;)


all this time at the par 3 and pitch n putt  has really showed me,  golf IS a game that's (at least at the average 'hacker' level  all about the 7 or 8 iron down to the putter.

sure, if you slice every driver off the tee, etc... you are gonna shoot 100+.

but if you put a driver or hybrid or whatever somewhere in play,  and consistently hit your approach shots  somewhere*  close to the green... you can score ok.

hitting it 300 yards doesnt mean anything if you then fat your iron, then skull it over the green, then fluff it on and 3 putt
 ;D

Who told you I did that??

i have ensured my spies  confidentiality

If my putting didn't suck donkey *8==>*, I'd have broken 100. Instead, I scored the number itself. Rawr.

LOL   [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock]

lucky bastages.  i had to cram for midterms

45-44 at Wingpointe.  Played well tee to green.  Couldn't buy a putt.


Index calculated to hundredths???  ;)


Man, I hate school.  Seems like you've been there forever MP.  Hopefully you're nearing the end.  Good luck on the midterm results.  :)

Wingpointe is a fun course. I think I shot high 90s last time I played there ( [sm_disgust]), that track always eats my lunch. For some reason on that short Par 3 #8 I always end up wet (either short or long). I carded a 7 on it last time. I think the water gets in my head.

#8 is Baaab's nemesis hole too.  I think he moved to AZ just to avoid playing it.  ;)

#3 is mine.  The water gets in my subconscious and I push the shot huge.  I'm usually over on #9 fairway and sometimes completely across it, LOL.  Yesterday, I conquered my fear only to thin the ball slightly.  Great line but it caught the 12" bank on the pond.  No splash but stayed in the hazard.  One foot high or right and it would have found land and rolled forever.  Dropped and played third from maybe 75 yards in front of the tee.  Double bogey as usual.   [sm_disgust]

LOL, I've sacrificed more than a couple of balls to the hazard on #3. It got especially bad a while back when I was suffering from hooks off the tee. Not so much a problem anymore, but I do very often end up shooting from one of the rolling hills on the right side of the fairway. I struggle more now with the waste bunkers on 15 & 16. Had to hit out of one last time and ended up with a mouthfull of whatever the hell that *feces* is.  [sm_disgust]

My brother holed out for eagle from about 80 yards on #16 a few rounds ago. The funny thing was right before he hit he said something like "I'm not putting very well today, I think I'll just knock this one in for eagle." A guy playing the other way on 15 watched him do it and I think was nearly as excited as my brother.

Eaglewood is starting their fall special today- $25 for 18 w/ cart. We'll end up playing there more than a couple of times before the season is over. It's only about 2 minutes from my house so it's close and it's cheap. Can't really beat that.  [sm_beertoast]

if by nearing the end you mean 1.5 more years of undergrad, 4 years of med school and 3-5 years of residency, then sure.   [sm_busy] ;)

LOL.  Hang in there.  ;)