numerically challenged scoring......

[paul cowley]

...i would be interested in hearing from others about unusual scoring feats ...

  personal examples ;

   scored 444444444 for 9 holes[i've only done it once].........
   made birdie on a par 5 using driver,putter,driver,putter......
   in competition,scored 48 on the front ,34 on the back ,a 14
     stroke differential between nines.[i onced asked davis love
     III if he had achieved greater ,and well,turns out thats
     one golf stat i can beat him at]...................................
     
...i'm sure there are alot more interesting ones out there......

[Chris Perry]

Fairly dubious, but I went 666666 and figured I'd just go and six out but went 5 4.

hehe

Back nine the other day I went 563 645 433

Interesting thing with that is the last 2 are par 5's, now I can't ever go back there again because how do you top that?  

[paul cowley]

...eagled the last two ...awesome!!!

[Jeff Fortson]

I've shot 30 twice for 9.  Both rounds were 67's.

I recently played 36 straight holes making no worse than a 4 on each hole.  Par 71 golf course with 3 par 5's.  Birdied all the par 5's both times.

I once made three straight 2's (2-2-2).  Drove a short par four and made the putt, birdied a par 3, and then holed a 135 yard shot on another par four for 2.  

I once went 9-2-9.  Doesn't that sound like an area code?

I'll think of more.

Jeff F.

[Andrew_Roberts]

Numerically challenged scoring....

Awe this is easy a 23!  Now that is numerically challenged scoring.

Unfortunately I have never accomplished the prestigious feat.

I believe that numerically challenged scoring is when it takes you 2 minutes on a tee box to figure out what you made on the last hole, or when you give up because you forgot what number comes after 14.

[Chris Perry]

Thanks Paul.

If you want to go by "pro" standards 17 is a long par 4 from the blue tees (457), but it's still a 5 on the card. I absolutely KILLED my drive and only had a wedge in from 115 yards.

Then on 18 I had a 3 wood from 225 uphill about 80 feet or so and saw it disappear and figured at worst I went over the green a bit, drove up and saw it inside the leather. It seems my best shots are always the ones I never see come down and stop, if only I could stiff shots going DOWNHILL as well.  

[A_Clay_Man]

One of my favorites only happened once but I liken it everytime I start strong.

One over thru seven, seven over thru one.

At Pg, I once started with four 3's.

A very nice gentleman, Gary Adams, once was 7 under on the ninth tee. In the middle of his backswing, one of his playing partners starts talking to a women walking her dog. Stating "what a wonderful looking dog!" The shot sailed out of bounds. On re-teeing the exact same thing happened, in his backswing, W.W. asked the same lady,"what kind of dog is that?" as the second shot also found the street. poor gary just picked up his bag and walked in. So much for the course and frontside record.

[Phil_the_Author]

Back in 1971, my oldest brother shot one of the truly strange nine holes of golf ever.

During a local tournament at Meadow Hills Country Club in Denver, he shot a 27 on the front nine. At the time, it was the lowest nine hole score shot on a par 36 nine in the U.S. (Mike Souchak had shot a 27 on a par 35).

As incredible as this score is, it is HOW he shot it that is most amazing. Meadow Hills has 3 par threes, 3 par fours, and 3 par fives on that nine (at the time, I don't know how it is now).

He made a double-eagle and 2 eagles on the three par fives, two birides on the three par fours, and on the 3 par threes, he not only just made par, he didn't hit one of the greens, having to get up-and-down on all of them! He used a total of nine putts.

Imagine, nine-under in nine holes, with four pars and missing four greens (he made an up-and-down par on the other par four). On top of this, he only hit two fairways with his drives.

He was so nervous on the tenth tee, that he "whiffed" with his swing and ended up with a double-bogey! two birdies on the following eight holes gave him a round of 63.

He also has the honor of having shot a 62 on Bethpage Black in 1961. He birdied every par four other than #2 & 18 to do it.

[paul cowley]

....an 18 stroke differential ,thats strong .[thought my 14 stroke would hold up a little while]...a few years back at the masters ,tiger even gave it a crack with his 40 front ,30 back.

.....good story though shivas............

[A_Clay_Man]

Hardest thing in golf is to "not think". Especially about the results.

[Martin Del Vecchio]

This happened at a recent qualifying round for the Massachusetts State Amateur.

The round was held at Essex County Club.  A member of the club, apparently a teenager, was 1-under for 17 of the 18 holes, which would easily have qualified.  Unfortunately, he took a hexabogey 10 on #8, ended up in a playoff, and got an alternate spot.

A friend of mine played with him; his ordeal involved an OB shot and at least one unplayable lie.

A check of the first-round tee times (today at TCC in Brookline) shows that he didn't make it in.

[John Foley]

Shot a wonderfull 79 a few years back. 32-47=79. Chocking so hard on the back I could barley get the ball airborne.

The only other good one is I played 16 holes in -1 and finished +9. Took an 8 on a par 4 and par 3 w/ no meltdowns on any shot.

I choke like no other!

[Joe Hancock]

I was reading this thread aloud last night, with much laughter at Shivas' shinannigans!

My son, playing behind me today, came up and said he had "a numbers thing" going on....even par after 9 holes, without any pars yet! I 'll find out later how he finished.....

Joe

[Mike Benham]

One time at band camp ... just kidding although it may take one of those stories to top old Shiv ...

At least once a summer, I would play 36-holes at Poppy Hills (prior to that it was at Spyglass until the NCGA left ...).  One glorious summer day, I shot nines of 43 - 36 = 79 and 36 - 43 = 79.  Two book-end 79's but the middle 18-holes were even par ...

[Dennis_Harwood]

Which, of course, calls to mind the oft told story--

At one of those multi-Am, pro-Ams(probably the Hope) one celeb, whose fame far exceeded his golfing abliity, insisted on finishing every hole on the front side--

For the first 8 holes he had scored 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9.  At the 9th hole however, he missed a short putt and scored a 10--The pros caddie, frustrated with watching the insistent player finish every hole, stated:

"Aw, that's a real shame.  Had you made that putt that would have been a remarkable 9 straight 9s".

The retort was: "Hey, what do you think I am, A F***ing machine?"

[paul cowley]

..mike.....so you know you can shoot even par for 18 holes ,its just when it starts and stops.......thats why i love this game [and the numbers analysis that gives us something to drink over ]..................

[Jim_Bick]

I saw a friend today who told me his foursome scored 1-2-3-4 on a 226-yard par 3 on sunday.

[Steve Wilson]

 Several years ago, I played with a fellow who made 13 straight 4s.  

And while I have no personal knowledge of the feat, there is a category for the greatest differential of scoring on consectutive nines and staying under 100 for 18.  The record was a 33 + 65 for 98.  Previous to that performance, two players held the record with 36 + 63 for 99.  The original record was 36 followed by 63.  Remarkably, the second player turned in a 36 after shooting 63 on the front nine. As I once played 36 (on a par 33 9 holer) and went  36, 36, 52, 36, I have some appreciation for the shell shock that would affect anyone as they saw their score balloon and equal appreciation of how difficult it is to get your head back together and bring the score back down.  My 52 was punctuated with several "laterals" in what was my worst and last attack of that affliction.

[Dennis_Harwood]

Steve--were those records the actual number of strokes played? or the score turned in?

I know of a few occasions on the PGA Tour where a player has returned a card 35- 64 = 99.(or similar numbers)

The player did not make 99 strokes, but inadvertantly signed and returned a card in which he inserted his back-nine total score in the box for score on the 18th hole--  Since the sum total written down in those 18 boxes stands, even though the error is obvious, the player must record a 99(or whatever the total is)

[Steve Wilson]

To the best of my knowledge, they were real scores, but I can't for life of me recall where I read it.  A Peter Dobereiner column might have been the source.  He was always a good one for turning up oddities in his writing.

[Evan Fleisher]

After men's league last night I ran into a golfing friend who told me he had shot a 97 a few days ago, then shot a 79 the day after.  Talk about a major turn-around!

[Martin Del Vecchio]

Mark Roe (?) just started his second round at The Open Championship (TM) with 6 3s, and just missed his 7th 3 by a couple of inches.

Here is his scorecard:

http://majors.golfweb.com/tournaments/britishopen/scorecards/149765

[David Wigler]

Last weekends member-member:

I shoot 36 - 46
My Partner 32 - 40

Our combined gross score 68 - 86

We had the tournament won on nine and gave it away (As well as a lot of side bets)!

[Brock Peyer]

My Uncle David tells of a time that he three putted for birdie on a par 6 in CA somewhere.  The story has gotten better with time but I think that he had a 12 footer for double eagle and then 10 footer for eagle. Don't know of the course.

I once started a high school match 3-2-3 (eagle, birdie, eagle) and then vommitted on myself coming in and struggled to shoot 1 under that day on 9 holes.

My favorite and most frustrating personal story is making back to back eagles (one putt on a par five and then holing a wedge on a par four) and getting halved by someone on each that I was giving too many pops to.

Those stories aren't entirely related to the thread but are close enough.

[Jonathan Cummings]

I've long belonged to a little course in north Idaho but have never lived closer than 2500 miles from the place (lived in DC and Hawaii).  There have been years I have only played the place once or twice.  

Anyway in the 1980s one of my best friends, also a member, needed a guest for the member/guest tournament.  We petitioned the board and pro to convert my membership to a non-member status for the three day tournament.  They agreed and I became the "guest" of my good friend.  I went into the tournament as a 14 handicap.

The opening round I shot a 40-year low round of 1-over 73.  Needless to say, with these unusual circumstances I was loudly roasted at the Calcutta that night as being a world-class manipulating sandbagger.  Our team was bid off the charts.

I went out and shot a 98 the next day.  We finished well back in the pack.

JC