Rochester: Practice (scorekeeping) at Churchville

Friday August 29, 2014:
Worst day so far this season. I seem to be getting worse +15

Hole
1: Open/Some trees (poor drive, 2x approach, long putt) +1        
2: Open/Some trees (poor drive & approach, long putt) PAR    

3: Open/Some trees (poor drive & approach  long putt)+1   

4: Long Open (drive, poor approach to right, 2x putt) +1           

5: Open (drive, 2 poor approaches, 2x putt) +2                 

6: Open/Some trees (all poor drives, approaches, putts)+3  

7: Open/Some trees (poor drives and approaches) +1  

8: Short Open/Few trees PAR    

9: Mostly Trees (poor drives and approaches) +2      

10: Open/Some trees PAR 

11: Short Trees PAR

12: Trees (poor drives and approaches) +2  

13: from Narrow Woods (short drive, hyzer forehand, putt) PAR

14: Trees (great drive, putt!) (-1)

15: Within woods (branch crash on drive, approach, putt) PAR

16: Long Open/Some trees (nice drive, 2x approach +1

17: Open/Tree Bush Hedge (drive to right, 2x approach, putt) +1

18: Open/Some trees (drive approach 2x putt) +1

 

Horrible drives with forehand, no use of backhand, putting was above average.

 

Nice birdie on basket 14.

 

Rochester: Derby Day (scorekeeping)

Monday August 18
The plan today was to visit three local courses with three friends. we visited two.
We had categories for longest putt, CTP (drive Closest To Pin), Coolest Shot, Nearest Approach 

Ellison: 64 (+8, @ course par 56)
Birdies (2) on hole 2, and hole 18 (finally), sidearm drives within 10-15 ft of basket.
Ben won most of the categories (CTP, Coolest Shot, off tree, almost dropped in )

Parma: 73 (+17, @ course par 56)
Birdies (2). hole 2 +20 ft putt and hole 9, 10 ft putt
Hole 4 was a disaster, plus bad putting and approaches throughout the course.
Creek splash (OB, not counted) on hole 16 (ricochet off tree).
(I am grateful no discs were lost though we were lucky to find errant throws.)
Coolest shot: Ben: sidearm approach hitting a tree, ricochet off to hit me in chest.

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Rochester: Practice (scorekeeping) at Ellison

I decided to tag along with a friends to Ellison:
I mostly scored 4's, 7 pars (3), one 5 (hole 13), (@ par 56, 66, +10)

Drives were strong and long, approaches were mostly short, backhand was week.
Another power drive on hole 8, this past the basket about 20 feet. Missed birdie.

Rochester: Practice (Scorekeeping) at MCC

August 14, 2014 at MCC
After 2 years, I re-visited MCC with a friend. This is a short local course with water hazards (creek and ponds). There are two sets of holes, yellow and black (professional). We played the first 15 yellow holes actively, then the darkness descended so we threw cautiously short throws for 16 & 17, and walked hole 18 from the tee to the pin in the dark.

Most of the holes are 275 feet to 325 ft. I will plus/minus distance where appropriate
Hole1 : Water to Right/ Nice Forearm Drive, Short up (behind rocks), Up and Putt. +1
Hole2: Water to Right/ Nice backhand, to water then fade to left, Up and Putt (par)
Hole3: Short, water to left, Sidearm drive to pin, Short Putt *(-1)*
Hole4: Straight to pin on hill: Tree Crash on Backhand Drive, Approach to right, Approach to left, Long Putt +1
Hole5: Trees to right, Reeds and Creek to left. Forearm to fairway, wind to approach to reeds in water, recovered and long putt. Par
Hole6: Hill over creek and reeds, basket to right: Short Forearm before creek and reeds, tree crash approach, another approach and putt +1
Hole7: Long, basket on hill to left. Long sidearm drive, nice approach and putt (par)
Hole8: Short bending to right: Long slanted forearm drive to right, bad position, tree crash on approach, another approach, medium putt +1
Hole9: Straight over pond, Monster sidearm drive to right (hitting rocks on hole 10!), approach, and putt. (par)
Hole10: Short, Pond to right, Basket tucked behind trees: Low accurate backhand drive, approach and short putt (par)
Hole11: Basket to right in trees behind MCC sign: Drive to sign ! Cement crash. Approach to right, Approach to left, putt.+1
Hole 12: Long hole in right corner, open fairway blocked by tree. Sidearm Drive barely over tree, good approach and good putt (par!)
Hole 13: Narrow lane slants to basket right Nice approach, still in lane, tree crash approach, approach and putt +1
Hole 14: Drive out of trees, Basket slightly to right. Nice drive, approach to right, aprraqoch to left, putt.+1
Hole15: Straight ahead: Sidearm drive to trees, replaced to fairway, near approach (almost basket clank), and putt (par, counted as +1)

Hole16: Narrow lane curving to left, basket on hill to left.
Hole17: Basket to left, pine trees blocking basket and to right, water behind
Hole18: Heavily Wooded

Final (15 holes) , +7

Highlights: Excellent driving and putting.

 

Lowlights: Some approach shots were short and to the right.

This is a nice course. I want to play the black baskets next.

Rochester: Practice (Scorekeeping) at Churchville

August 8, 2014 at Churchville

Final 67, +13 (+3 from first time last week, ugh)

• Highlights: only 5 pars, Holes 3,8,11,13,15, Long putt for bogey on basket 2, Nice forearm drives out of woods for holes 11 & 13  
• Lowlights: no birdies, horrible backhand for distance, many branch slowdowns, actually shot at wrong basket for 14! and Bad FAT ; First Available Tree crash on hole 16) 

 For all of its trees causing frustration, I still enjoy this course.

Rochester: Course at Churchville

Churchville: Deceptively simple, but not.
They are a lot more disc eating trees in the fairway of the holes in the woods.





Hole
1: (342) Open field         10: (234) Open/Some trees

2: (341) Open/Some trees    11: (184) Trees

3: (278) Open/Some trees    12: (290) Trees

4: (398) Open               13: (257) from Narrow Woods

5: (527) Open               14: (256) Trees

6: (336) Open/Some trees    15: (171) Within woods

7: (303) Open/Some trees    16: (381) Open/Some trees

8: (241) Open/Few trees     17: (373) Open/Bush Hedge

9: (280) Mostly Trees       18: (219) Open/Some trees

 



Rochester: Practice (Scorekeeping) at Churchville (1st time)

Tonight I played a new course west of Rochester in Churchville. It is a flat course around a county park with open fields and sometimes a lot of trees. It is like a flat Ellison with some Chili mixed in.
It is considered a beginners course, for its short distances but some holes coming out of a gauntlet of trees or trying to throw in between trees spaced 8 to 10 feet (without an established lane) is very demanding.

I scored +10 (assumed par 54) with a birdie on hole 2.  I also had a beautiful backhand drive on Hole 17, almost made it past the boundary guards of a 20 ft bush. The throw was about 180+ft, maybe more.  I will be back and  I will post a map soon.

I want to break 56 or less here.