Played yesterday at a course I’ve been to only a few times. There are two courses here. The carts are arranged to point to the course for which they have a scoring card. I accidentally took the wrong cart. Traditions (the one I wasn’t playing) has black, blue and then green tees. Cypress (the one I was playing) has blue and then green.
So, I always play one forward from the tips, the length was my range and the scorecard I had (traditions) said play the blues. I’m partnered up with three British airline pilots (a great story in itself) and we all tee off from blue. Well, on hole three, I realize 1) why is my scorecard saying I’m on a par three and 2) why am I walking back to the blue tee box. Eff, realized I’m playing the tips.
Ended up tying my PB and even parred three consecutive holes and only lost two balls.
@Wyatt
Love this attitude. This year was my best ever after not playing in four years. While trying to improve my overall score, I’ve focused more on making each shot the best I can. A long iron uphill into the wind right of the green… BUT pin high! That’s a win.
One-putt bogey… I one-putted!
Triple after a perfect out of the bunker… PERFECT OUT OF THE BUNKER! Hell yeah!
@Marley
Gotta celebrate the good ones, we all know we’re too hard on the bad ones.
I’ve had a lot of success in tournaments the past two years and I think I attribute a lot of it to completely letting go of any expectations of pace of play and just focusing exclusively on giving my best effort to the current shot every time.
@Wyatt
For real. I just shot my “lowest score ever” but it didn’t even lower my index because the rating of the course was so low. 80 on a C.R. of 66. Not sure how to even process this.
@Nico
I was just thinking about this. I played yesterday and was matched with 3 people, 2 of whom wanted to play from the blues and one who was playing from the whites. I decided to play from the whites because it was kind of a practice round for me.
As I’m watching the guys tee off from the blues, I’m wondering, what is the difference really? I have no problem with length off the tee but my accuracy isn’t always great. But is another 15 yards really going to hurt my accuracy? I mean it could but seems unlikely. Meanwhile, the guy I’m playing with on the whites was hitting about 120-150 with his driver and really should have been playing even shorter tees.
The biggest difference is a longish par 3 where I find a big difference between say 165 and 185. But then I just tell myself I’ll probably be 10-20 yards short and can chip on.
On hole 9, I was feeling bold and switched to the blue tees and promptly hit through the fairway into the rough.
@Nico
This happened with my son. Less than full shots are still a work in progress for him. So moving back to join me in the 6300-6700 yard range has helped him since he has more full iron shots into the greens.
Greetings fellow Houstonian! Congrats on the PB. Cypresswood is a great course and I do think the tee matters there as a few holes get trickier off the tee.
I don’t know why you are downvoted. I was talking gross, which likely resulted in a PB because I, in theory, played a higher slope/index.
But, I don’t have a GHIN, so we’ll never know.
My two main KPIs are lost balls/OB/hazards and putting for par; those are going in the right direction. My summer range is currently 97 to 106. I live in there, getting to the lower side. That’s why I didn’t brag on the actual score, but have gone from never breaking 100 to 4 or 5 times in the last 6 weeks.
I tend to play the same from the three middle tees haha. White is my normal, I try to hero shoot everything when I play reds, and I play smarter from the blues. But regardless of what tee I play, 90% of the time I’ll be between 83-87 lol.
And considering the distance between the tees you played and the ones you would have played is 700 yds, a PB is quite nice.
Nope, still just dirt, but they are moving the dirt into different piles. I had to (got to) warm up at Traditions which I hadn’t been to before.
Played 10 to 1 and number one tee is part of the construction and since I reached in two, went and updated my scorecard to a par 4. The first of my three consecutive pars.
One tee difference isn’t going to make that much of a difference unless there are a lot of forced carries off the tee. Congrats on the PB though, that’s gotta feel good.
Rayne said:
One tee difference isn’t going to make that much of a difference unless there are a lot of forced carries off the tee. Congrats on the PB though, that’s gotta feel good.
700 yards difference. Actually helped me a bit as I was able to use driver on a few holes I usually need to shorten up on.
