Steve B. and I played golf yesterday at Hickory Sticks, one of the usual places we play around here. Besides being a fun and challenging course, it also runs great coupon specials. We played Friday for $25 apiece for “all the golf you can play.” We actually started by playing the back 9 first, but the highlight was the round of 18 after this “warm up” 9. Steve B. had an 89 (only his second or third time under 90, I believe) and I had a 99, the first time I have ever broke 100 for 18 holes. As you can see in this picture, I started the 10th hole with a 9 (yipee for me), but then I rallied with three pars in a row and with no more screw-ups on any other hole. So, 47 for the back 9 plus 52 for the front 9 equals 99.
*Well, okay, a few qualifications of all this. Neither Steve B. nor I were exactly playing by official PGA rules at all times. We follow the “1 mulligan per 9 holes” rule (for non-golfers: this means you can take one “do-over” on a messed-up drive). We also follow the “that’s a gimmie” rule, wherein if the person putting is informed by the other player(s) that said putt is a “gimmie,” it doesn’t really matter if the putter makes the putt or not. On the last hole, I missed my putt after Steve B. called “gimmie,” but because gimmie was called, I stand by my 99. And truth be told, we played about as honest as we ever do. Or let me put it this way: we didn’t follow the sort of “non-rules” Jim K. and I used to observe when we were really bad a few years ago and we’d just keep taking “do-overs” until we were reasonably happy with the results. And we’d still end up with 120s.
Congrats on breaking 100… We still have to go some time.
Absolutely, though time is running short on this season. Really, I didn’t have time to play yesterday, and I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to play again this fall. Though “time” is a relative concept, doncha know.
Ok, now you’ve extended your “rolling mulligan” concept too far. Don’t like your first nine? hell, let’s just play 27!
I say your reall score is the first 18 you played. After that, you shot a 47 – a score you can still be proud of, but alas, only a nine hole score.
Otherwise, I am going to declare that I once shot an 84. Last sunday, you see, I shot a 41 for nine at Indian Hills. And last summer, in Ohio, I once shot a 43 for nine at Locust Hills GC. Yes, my front nine was seperated from my back nine by a year, but if we can put any old nine we have laying around with any other…well…thats an 84.
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Oh, no-no-no….
For starters, my score was based on 18 holes in a row at the same course. I started on the first hole and finished on the 18th. The fact that I played 9 holes before that is irrelevant.
As for your 84: I don’t think so, bucko.