Took a drive out to Byron to play PrairieView, great course cant beat $38 for 18 with a cart. Love fall rate golf !!

We lose a lot of rights when we look the other way when it doesn't affect our lives or it isn't a cause we agree with.

Took a drive out to Byron to play PrairieView, great course cant beat $38 for 18 with a cart. Love fall rate golf !!

That's one of my favorite courses. How did you like it?

Sort of a Penske file day here so I added up a few stats from this year. 25 eighteen hole rounds and 3 nine holers thus far. I just track stats on the 18's. Finished the season with 69 rounds of eighteen holes, 5 rounds of nine holes and played in two scramble events for work

Stroke average is exactly 78. I suspect that will trend downwards now that the weather is a bit better, and the swing is getting grooved a bit Stroke average ended up at 77.31

42.2% of fairways. Would really like to see this get up to 50%. I've been switching between two drivers all season and one doesn't go particularly straighter than the other but one goes further and also allows me to work the ball left to right when I need to, so I have been favoring that one. 43 percent of fairways a round which is about 6 out of 14. Definitely think I can hit 50% next year

44% of greens. Again, I would really like to see this number closer to 55% but easier said than done
8.75 a round which comes out to 49% One more green a round would probably get me very close to my number

30.48 putts a round and averaging 1 three putt per. Sort of a misleading stat as it's very dependent on how many greens one hits
Ended up with 30.66 putts a round and .82 three putts a round.

56% scramble percentage around the greens. Would like to get up and down more than 60% of the time
Ended up with 55% here

24% sand saves. Last year I was above 50% which was the best I'd ever done. Certainly feel like 33% or higher would be ok.
Ended the season with 22% which was pretty awful. Again should be getting at least one out of three here.

1.64 birdies per round. Would love to get over 2 per round but that is going to take some better all-around play. Broken par on 4 nines this year but 73 has been my best round 3x 1.6 birdies per round stayed consistent. I hope to improve my putting inside 8 feet with the new putting green I got earlier this year and improve this number. Best round this year was a 69 but that is the only time I broke par for 18. I did break par 9x on nine holes but could only string it together once this season.

I'm about 5 rounds ahead of last year's pace as the weather has been good this year, and really no rainouts on the weekends. About 4 rounds behind my all time pace but I still have quite a bit of vacation to burn up so I should be able to start playing once during the week before work a bit more often.

Interesting with the stats. The app I use calculates all kinds of things, but I'm not sure if there is a way to export them to save as a "snapshot" of where I was on 'X' date. I might have to create my own file as an "end of 2024 season" review.

I'm playing Saturday, and depending on forecast, will play once next weekend. Florida "work" trip the following weekend, and a few of us are hoping to get a round or 2 in there. After that, likely done. Of course, that's not a hard 'done'. Never know what the November temps could be.

We lose a lot of rights when we look the other way when it doesn't affect our lives or it isn't a cause we agree with.

9:15 tomorrow for me. If the sun is out and low winds it shouldn't be too bad. I'm patient for the good weather in the spring, but I play until the bitter end in the fall.

Today was the perfect example of my putting woes with my golf comeback this season. Hitting it great, and putting like i have a hockey stick.

15 GIR, made the up and down for par on the 3 greens i missed. That should be an under par round.

Four 3 putts for a 73 (+3).

A putting mat will be my christmas gift

Golfing Ravisloe in Homewood for the first time tomorrow. Anyone have thoughts on that place?

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Taking a day off to celebrate?

Nice deal on golf gloves. I have been buying these for the last few years and they always sell them end of season. Two gloves for $25 isn't too bad.

https://www.golflocker.com/golf-gloves/ ... n=11-07-24

We lose a lot of rights when we look the other way when it doesn't affect our lives or it isn't a cause we agree with.

Just ordered a couple - thanks for the tip.

I remember reading one of those "undercover pros" in Golf Digest and his article was about the free swag he gets. He said he gives a lot of it away to friends, but the one perk he loves about being a pro is wearing a new golf glove every round.

Weather staying just nice enough...

Thought my round in Florida on Saturday would end the season, but made a teetime for Saturday morning. This looks like it though. High of 40 next weekend.

We lose a lot of rights when we look the other way when it doesn't affect our lives or it isn't a cause we agree with.

Been looking for a few weeks and finally found what appears to be a nice Titleist TSR3 driver for $300 so I pulled the trigger. $650 for a new GT driver, ummm no thanks.

Also just picked up a TSR2+ three wood. I’m locked and loaded for the next few seasons off the tee. Likely going to dump the three hybrid and add a wedge to the bag. Change from 52 and 58 to a three wedge arsenal of 52,56,60.

We lose a lot of rights when we look the other way when it doesn't affect our lives or it isn't a cause we agree with.

On which website did you find the driver and 3-wood?

My goal for this winter is to buy some sort of putting mat/system, but trying to research it get overwhelming without being able to try them out.

If I decide to splurge a little, here's my list. Would welcome feedback on these or any others.

PrimePutt seems to have all great reviews, but is also expensive.
BirdieBall reviews all say it rolls great. Downside is it is a foam surface, that reviewers wonder about durability. Also available in larger sizes.
Puttr is a kind of a combo putting mat/video game/stat tracker. Might make practice more fun than just hitting 10 foot putts on a regular mat.

We lose a lot of rights when we look the other way when it doesn't affect our lives or it isn't a cause we agree with.

My goal for this winter is to buy some sort of putting mat/system, but trying to research it get overwhelming without being able to try them out.

If I decide to splurge a little, here's my list. Would welcome feedback on these or any others.

PrimePutt seems to have all great reviews, but is also expensive.
BirdieBall reviews all say it rolls great. Downside is it is a foam surface, that reviewers wonder about durability. Also available in larger sizes.
Puttr is a kind of a combo putting mat/video game/stat tracker. Might make practice more fun than just hitting 10 foot putts on a regular mat.