i had a 63 in a practice round. but we were kind of goofing.
in competition - 65 (par 71).
lowest four round total was 276. in the same place i shot 65 so you can see the other three were less than stellar.
i shot 141 in high school state. previous year the medalist was at 143, next year it was 145. came in third. picked the wrong year to go low.
and you stink. i’ve had more tap in 2’s than i can count. eagles out the rear. even had a double eagle once. but honestly the closest that i have come to an ace is about 4 inches.
totally aside and i think i have told this story before so knock the record player over if you need to.
my dad, who has been playing forever (60+years) goes on a vacation with my sis and bro in law. (total aside he caddied for babe zaharious back in denver a million years ago when the ladies were playing the open there). so they are in hawaii at princeville. they are on 15, 16, 17 or whatever. he’s got about 130 so he hits five wood. the freaking thing sails off and he loses sight. they go searching around the green and look in the cup. yep, that’s where the bad boy was. so not only does he get a dream vacation but also his first hole in one. all the while at princeville with the beaches and stuff.
i sure hope my kids get rich and afford me the same pleasure.
I’ve never played a real round of golf, sadly. I’ve been to the driving range a few times, and I played nine holes once with an ex-brother-in-law. I remember being very excited that I managed a bogey on one of the par-four holes, but the rest of the holes had…well, much higher scores.
I don’t think I’ve ever played a full 18 hole course.
Please don’t tell the Bar Association.
92, and I’ll probably never beat it.
Technically, my 2nd Hole-in-one was a ‘double-eagle’ but I don’t consider it to be one. According to my scorecard, it was on a 300 yard 4, but the hole was under construction. We were playing a temporary green and the hole was playing about 230 yds, uphill. It was hit with a 2-iron, as was my first hole-in-one.
90 even, which I think is pretty decent for a guy whose career golfing experience is maybe 110, 120 rounds in my entire life.
My strength is mid to long range irons. Put me 180 yards from the hole and I’ll put that sumbitch on the green. But put me 20 yards from the green and I’ll screw it up more often than not.
I usually play 9 holes a week in the summer. My lowest on that is 44, so extrapolated would be an 88. However my lowest for 18 is in the high 90s.
I count every stroke and no Mulligans.
I had an 82 once but it was on a course that was cut to par-68 because of construction. So the 85 on my old home course is my lowest for this thread.
Sadly, the last 9 holes I played before I moved to England I shot a 38. I would have played the second nine but I had to go home to pack. I didn’t play again for over six years.
Several eagles but never a hole in one myself. 2 weeks ago in my usual Sat a.m. 9-hole league, a 64-yr-old in our group got his first ace on a 186 yd hole. I was the only one who saw it. Won around $1200, and proved himself a cheapass by not starting a tab in the clubhouse. Said he had to work in the afternoon. I can imagine not dying to buy for a bunch of strangers, but this was in a league he’d played in for over a decade. I had no dog in the hunt as I don’t drink, but it was impressive how bad it looked.
2 years ago I saw one of my buddies ace the same hole in the group ahead of me. He drove his cart straight to the clubhouse, bought 8 beers for his group, and told them to start the tab running! He won around $5-6k for that one.
My last hole-in-one, three years ago yesterday, was on a busy beautiful Sunday afternoon at my club. I had the ace on hole #6 and when I made the turn, I told the bartender to tap a new keg and put it my account ($150). We had hole-in-one insurance, I think I came out about $250 ahead.
There is one individual that drinks nothing but triple Makers Mark and he was upset that I didn’t buy him one of those. If he got a hole-in-one, I would expect one $2.50 beer and only one beer. I wasn’t about to pay for his $20 triple Makers Mark.
I’m a mediocre golfer, typically shooting in the 100-110 range with an occasional score in the upper 90’s. In my best ever round I shot a 91. Nothing particularly special stands out about that round other than I generally kept the ball out of trouble, and when I did find trouble I recovered well.
I think I could be a good golfer if I applied myself. I can putt, 3-putts are pretty rare. I also have a pretty good short game, once I’m within 50-60 yards I’m golden. Where I lose all my strokes is getting to that range. I just don’t play enough to get better.
I once shot about 25 or so because my back went into spasm on about the sixth hole. I did accompany my partners for the rest of the round without swinging a club, so I put myself down for a sub 64. Truth is 37 for nine, a mere 2 over.
My ace was on the 7th hole. The group in front of us saw it go in and gave me a round of applause, and my group (2 friends of mine and a single who joined us) all spent the rest of the round predicting the damage at the 19th hole. I wasn’t exactly rolling in dough at the time, but I tallied up my bank account in my head and figured I could still make rent at the end of the month if it wasn’t too bad. By the time we finished the 18th I was looking forward to it without too much trepidation. We pull up to the clubhouse, walk into the bar AND…
No one. Not a single person was there. Even the single who played the whole round with us just took off after the round. I got a couple pitchers for our table and we hung around for a while, but nobody else came into the bar before we finished drinking so we just left.
I felt a little weird about it, but accepted it as the Golf Gods understanding my financial situation and taking pity on me.
The average golfer shoots about 100. It has been steady for a couple years. I am sure this includes the cheaters and rule breakers.
A pretty course, and one of the toughest municipal courses I’ve played on (at least, it was run by the city when I played it*). I might have broken 90 there a couple of times, but I couldn’t swear to it.
*to give an idea of how long ago that was, I was able to play municipal courses on an under age 18 permit for a grand total of 75 cents for 18 holes on weekdays (it went up to $4 on weekends).
The only time I broke 90 was an 86 on a par 72, course/slope rating of 68.6/128. That was the middle tees for the course.
Would you like to hear my “hole in one” story?
I used to play a bunch of “super twilight” golf at the campus golf course one summer back in college. Basically, my friends and I would go over there at 6 o’clock a couple of nights a week, and play until it got too dark to see; usually about 10 holes worth. Sometimes we’d start on 1, sometimes on 9. I averaged what would be about 110 on a full 18.
However, a rather odious acquaintance who had graduated the spring before showed up that fall to gloat about his hot girlfriend, her sex-fiend ways, and his slick dot-com job, as well as talk about how great a golfer he was now and how much money he’d spent on his clubs.
I stayed with him for 18 holes, and he only beat me by like 4 strokes, with a 92. So a 96 is the best I’ve ever done, and it was entirely out of spite. Shut him the hell up though.
Fuck you guys. I played golf for 40 years and never got a hole in one. I had 10 eagles in one year. I was within inches of a double eagle twice. I bounced off the flag a few times and have had many within inches. But a hole in one …No Not me.
it doesn’t bother me
much
Haven’t gotten a hole in one yet. Made my only eagle by bouncing my very errant approach off a house near the green. Chipped in at 17 at Pebble Beach for birdie, in about the same spot as Watson in 82 (though with considerably smaller rough). Though I’m usually awful (~110), my lowest ever round was 85 (39 on the front) at the local muni near where I grew up. Amazing feeling on that front 9—never wanted it to end.
Need to get back out again, but it’s all I can do to afford the odd session of range balls.
Great stories, everybody.