[Tim Martin]

I don’t remember a Summer/Fall that was hotter and wetter in New England. With the onslaught of rain the water table remained unusually high with almost no defense against wet green surrounds. The option to get in on the ground was virtually eliminated other than carrying the shot into the green when you got a back pin because even from shorter distances the ball was not getting the intended bounce. Finally if you are used to hitting the lower shot then the aerial option is that much harder. Golf is hard.

[Peter Pallotta]

Thanks, I thought it was just me -- spent 2 months hitting crappy 8 iron bump & runs and awkward low-flying PWs with the ball back in my stance and hardly ever getting to the putting surface, until I finally gave up and put a 60 degree in the bag and starting hitting everything as hard and high as I could. Better results -- but at the price of openly embracing the aerial game! What's next - a 47 inch driver, a personalized golf cart, and agreeing with Erik that technology *isn't* ruining the game?? 

[Tim Martin]

Thanks, I thought it was just me -- spent 2 months hitting crappy 8 iron bump & runs and awkward low-flying PWs with the ball back in my stance and hardly ever getting to the putting surface, until I finally gave up and put a 60 degree in the bag and starting hitting everything as hard and high as I could. Better results -- but at the price of openly embracing the aerial game! What's next - a 47 inch driver, a personalized golf cart, and agreeing with Erik that technology *isn't* ruining the game??

Peter-That’s exactly what I’m talking about. It was equally difficult to whack a putter from off the green as I was at least 10 feet short on every try.

[Brad Tufts]

I can't think of a year where I had so much trouble getting the ball to the hole, with any club.


Usually we have at least a few months mid-summer where the ball flies how far "it's supposed to go," with some firmness to help you out if you are a touch short.  Not this year.  Now it's 45-55 degrees and it goes even shorter...


Maybe I stink, that's also possible!

[David Davis]

Amazing, we had exactly the opposite over in Europe. The best summer for ground game I've ever experienced. Same in the UK. So many amazingly brown and firm courses. In this case I'm not envying you guys at all.

[Peter Pallotta]

Brad - yes, the thought that it was just because I stink occurred to me often. Unfortunately, that thought was sometimes so hard to bear that I started blaming the superintendents instead! Not to their faces, mind you, but inwardly I convinced myself that it was all their fault. Every single one them!
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[James Brown]

Came back from Scotland in early August to Mid-Atlantic Washington where it was hit and stick with everything.  Amazing how much easier it is whenever you go from landing it 20 yards short to sticking it with every club. 

[V. Kmetz]

I have spent 38 straight summers outdoors on a Westchester-Fairfield golf course in most every capacity you would recognize, and without cliche or hyperbole I can say it was the worst, most unfavorable season of weather for golf and golf courses I can ever remember...there have been stretches of weeks and days that have been worse, but never a sustained 75 day period, where the weather was more ill...too wet to play, too hot and humid to play, delays, cancellations, condensed events...black algae, washout, fairways pocked with scrapes and the kinds of divots that are never perfectly replaced...necessarily slow, unrolled greens already revealing footprints by 9:00am...weeks of incapacity to mow rough that swallowed balls to their maker within 30 yards of you... it was an entire summer of lift clean and place.


So indeed yes, it was an aerial game.

[Anthony_Nysse]

Watching some of my peers' tweets & comments over the summer, seemed like it rained which was followed by warmer than normal temps and that program was put on repeat most of the summer. I saw a lot of the photos of local flooding, lots of turf sprayers and pushing up sand in bunkers.

[Steve Lang]

   Seems perfect to calibrate how well and far one really hits the ball... or to just go over to Top Golf and have some fun!

[Tim Martin]

  Seems perfect to calibrate how well and far one really hits the ball... or to just go over to Top Golf and have some fun!

Steve- To have such a body of empirical evidence relating to how far my driver actually carries is painful. I might even call it spiteful and vindictive on the part of the Golf Gods.

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