Looks like the wind is going to come up tomorrow and make a difficult course even more difficult. BTW Mike wasn't it your mom who ran a foul of the ND trademark police?
Yes she was. Among other things she had a small jewelry company years ago and used a pin of my dad's as a pattern. What a memory you have Terry.
They said the wind wasn't as bad as expected at Bay Hill, Jordan Spieth had a good day, finished in 2nd 2 shots back bogeyed #18 with about as bad a snap hook drive as I've seen in awhile on the tour. JT another one who had a good day but finished bogey bogey and is 3 shots back. Rahm ballooned up today from a 65 to a 76. Don't know what went wrong for him, must have been everything.
Would love to...This last week was a busy hectic golf trip for my annual excursion group. I started going down with them in 1987. Only missed one year when COVID shut down Myrtle Beach. Last year we switched to Orlando. Usually when I'm in Orlando it's to visit the kids and grandkids. I did go Sporting Clays shooting with my son and grandson out near The Villages last January when I was down here watching Purdue get demolished in the Citrus Bowl.
Victor Hovland is in the club house with a 66 for -8 and the lead. There is an Amateur in the top 10 a kid from Sweden who plays college golf at Texas Tech, talk about culture shock!!!
On a serious note looking at the score card for Bay Hill the Red Tee's are 5871yds, which is right in my wheel house. Given the current theory that you should play the tee's that fit your game and not the old ladies play red, and real men play Blue tee's. I haven't played the Blues in 30 years, and haven't played the white tee's since I turned 65. When I play at my usual courses I am playing "senior" tee's which are 5700 yds, the course I play in Austin is 5887 yds. At my sisters club in Vero I play "combo" tee's that are just under 6000yds Anything over 6000yds starts to get into territory that even with a good drive I am hitting long hybrids to the green and the par 3's get more difficult to hit with longer clubs.
I'm still playing the whites at age 69 but as they say, "Pride goeth before the Fall". A degenerative disc and an arthritic left hip have really tapped into whatever power I used to have and yesterday I found myself clubbing up regularly. Time to swallow my pride, I guess.
I just turned 70 and I am struggling with which tees to play from too. I usually play from the whites but I find myself with not even having a chance to reach the green on many par 4's. If I really connect off of the tee my drive goes about 220 (more often 205 or so), so a 420 yd par 4 is really a par 5 for me. Like George said "pride" is killing my scores.
Well Jordan has putted himself out of the tourney on the back 9. He's in at -7, but if he could have made short straight putts he'd probably be at least -10 and in the lead in the clubhouse.
Kitayama gets the win, over comes hitting it OB and getting a triple to go from -11 to -8 and behind Jordan and Rory. But played really well down the stretch, almost made a dramatic 47 ft birdie putt to put an exclamation point on his win. Scottie Scheffler hit a great drive on 18 and had a pitching wedge and a green light to go pin hunting for a birdie doesn't hit the green and is in deep rough and makes bogey instead. I thought for sure we'd have a playoff, Rory also had a chance at birdie on 18 but couldn't convert. They kept saying Bay Hill is the toughest track on the tour outside of the majors. Didn't know that, so I won't be playing Bay Hill!!
There are a lot of variables to golf distance. Altitude, soil composition, grass and moisture are just some. Man could I bust the ball in Scottsdale or in Colorado. Sea level is absolutely no help. Obviously you lose a lot of distance on wet fairways and sandy soil doesn't provide the bounce that other soils do. I found the fairway grass longer in Michigan than here in Fla. so the ball rolled less. My group had been playing from the whites despite my suggestion that the green tees would be more fun. Shortly after I lost my balance, they moved up.