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just got back, not bad at all for $15. course was in good shape, water was cold. lots of blind shots, not much room to work with on some holes with narrow fairways. really laid back golf course. no starter, no snack cart, etc.

not too far away is the westwinds golf course which i played a couple days ago. much more longer, $30 which wasn't bad either. a lot of the fairways are lined with houses, and the guys we got paired with nailed a couple houses dead on. it was hysterical because these were mammoth drives and then you would hear a boom. even the mowers were laughing. some of those houses are really really close, we were pretty much driving our carts in their backyards.

Missed a putt for 10?

i don't know if you are joking or if the link isn't working correctly, but with shottracker they describe every shot he hit on the hole. i thought i was linking to that hole not a shot

shot a 12 over 82 at cross creek this morning. hit two amazingly bad hooks that led to lost balls and double bogey. three putted 3 greens on the front on my way to 36 total putts. i was really uncomfortable over a lot of shots. just a bad round. that place is tough though. even in a good round, it's so hard to avoid a couple bad holes.

i did have one of those "really bad shots that becomes a birdie" though. i hit a good drive on #11, a tough par four, and was in between 6 and 7. i hit 6 and hit it ultra thin. like didn't get above 10 feet thin. however, it was perfectly in line with the pin, landed probably 20 yards short of the green, and ran all the way to the back about 2 feet away from the pin.

Deal. Hell I'll help you cheat to get there.

Yeah I'm kind of wondering that too. This sounds like we'll have the largest outing yet.

Had a crazy round today, 50/36 - 86 with 2 birdies, a triple and two quads. One of the quads I fluffed one out of a fairway bunker, then fluffed a chip so bad I double-hit it and had to call a penalty on myself. The other quad I got in another fairway bunker, a very tough one, very high to clear it but a long par-5 so I didn't want to just PW it out of there. On my first attempt I hit a good shot that just caught the high mound in front and bounced back behind me in the bunker. Having a bit more room this time, idiot that I am I tried it again (I was hitting a 22 degree hybrid, just a stupid club selection but I had 180 or so uphill to the green and wanted to get it there) and this time hit a low screamer that buried itself in the lip of the bunker itself. I mean buried, as in started to tunnel under the earth. Not only could I not get a club on it, I had a hard time digging it out with my fingers. Had to take an unplayable, wound up with a 9 on the hole. Sergio would have been proud.

But I got it going on the back 9 so who knows what kind of game I'll bring to the outing on Friday. Good or bad I'll be there. The UM course gave me fits last time with all the uphill approaches to front pins on hard greens. Most of the holes are long enough that I can't get closer than 7-iron or so, and I just don't have the swing speed to spin a 7-iron enough to stop it on a hard green. So it's either hit to the middle of the green and wind up on the back, or hit to the front of the green, catch it a little thin and come up short or even roll back down the slope. I just hope they don't have Melwood Open style rough.

Anyway, I'm in, let's do this.

Just had my career best 84 this weekend at Oglebay. Weeee.

And now that I actually have a job, I can get new irons/woods. However, I don't think I am ever going to hit a driver again.

university of md course. our three tee times start at 1. let me know if you are going to play.

This fri at 1? I'm in, not very good though. What are the greens fees?

so far the people who have signed up are:

1 - 2moreTerps
2 - Vaterpfan
3 - GunnerOne84
4 - Mdterps99
5 - Thesloth
6 - BethesdaTerp
7 - DarrellGreenFan
8 - Ledterrapin

CongoTerps, Testudo02, and peqturtle have said they are maybes.

I'm not great either. Should be a good time though.

I'm in.....still haven't touched a club this year.