The first 36 holes were played on a very tough course. Extremely fast, undulating greens, where if you miss a soft putt the ball could end up rolling 30 feet away. The front 9 is links style with fescue so thick, the ball goes no where unless hit just right. Large waste bunkers lining thin, unforgiving fairways and deep sand bunkers, some of which almost completely surround the greens.

The last 18 were played on a "normal", public course. I hadn't played this course since last summer. I cant believe how much my game had improved. The two courses are of similar yardage, yet this course seems so much easier to me now. I knocked a whopping 13 points off my game between yesterday on the hard course and today on the average course. It was such an enjoyable, frustration-free day of golf. It feels good parring a bunch of holes for a change sometimes.

Good stuff Gas. What was your overall score for each course??

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Originally posted by LuckyBreak:
Good stuff Gas. What was your overall score for each course??

day 1 - 111
day 2 - 108
day 3 - 95

We're talking about par 70 courses aren't we??
Well, your scores are a lot like me. I finish the par 70 course here in around 90-105 strokes, depending on my mood. That's a 25-28 handicapper.

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Originally posted by LuckyBreak:
We're talking about par 70 courses aren't we??
Well, your scores are a lot like me. I finish the par 70 course here in around 90-105 strokes, depending on my mood. That's a 25-28 handicapper.

70 yes. But there is more to it than our "mood". In America, each course has a rating and a slope. The rating is what the course plays like to a scratch golfer (not us). If it is a tough 70 course, it may be rated as a 73. If it is easy, it could have a rating in the 60s. Scratch golfers (again, not us) have little variation between tough and easy courses.

Bogie golfers (us...on a good day) have GREAT variation in our play between tough and easy courses. This is why they invented the slope of the course. The Course Slope value is a two- or three-digit integer, always between 55 and 155, with 113 being the average or "standard" value. The slope of the private course I play is around 140. The slope of the public course I played was 110. This is the reason for the variation in my score. Not necessarily my "mood". Although that plays a role too.