9 and dine

Yes, I know the scorecard says the 25th, just go with me here.  New course back in the rotation, I haven’t put up a review yet, but here’s some highlights of the course:

-Large greens, at least 8 yards longer and/or wider than Ancil’s.  Plus the greens have contours and sidehill putts.

-Course is 300 yards shorter, [...]

What a horribly underwhelming round.  I’m beginning to notice I play a few strokes worse on the Tuesday leg of a Mon/Tue schedule, so I think I’m going to switch to Monday morning and Thursday afternoon.  I got into trouble on No. 6 by pushing my drive into the right side, putting my approach shot [...]

I had four chances at birdie from about 15′ and missed every putt by about two inches on the high side every time.  The ones on No. 2 and No. 7 hurt the most.  On No. 18, I had a 14′ birdie putt going uphill with a left to right break.  The ball [...]

R15 should be more accurately written as R (subscript) 15, but I’m not quite sure how to do that on WordPress, so we’ll leave it at that.  Located conveniently at R & 15th Street in Sacramento, the geonomous bar/grill/lounge has a number of flat screen tvs for sporting events.  I headed over there to watch [...]

Bit of a mediocre round.  I put a ball OB on the 4th and ended up with a triple, but hunkered down and finished the side even by holing out a pitch from 12 yards on the 9th.  My short game has been spot on lately, and I was surprised that I hadn’t made a [...]

Good round, I got up and down a lot to save par, and my lone birdie was on the No. 3 handicap hole.  Had a dumb 3-putt on the 10th, which I attribute to the hole being on the topside of a slope and the greens having finally dried out.  Since I normally tee off [...]

I’m not going to reinvent the wheel, I was turned onto Shaz Indian by the following review from the Sacramento Bee a few months back.  It is located near Haggin Oaks Golf Course, which is the home team for Mira Loma, so it was nearby after a lot of practices.

What little I can add to [...]

Good round today, though I missed two putts within 3-feet.  Both were on slops, and that’s a bit of an excuse, but not much of one.  I teed-0ff at 7:15 or so and ended a little over 3 hours later.  I played about 45 rounds at Ancil last year and didn’t break 80, so this [...]

Lost a ball with the dumb quad and had a few double bogeys that were more because I hadn’t played the course in a while.  Only made one birdie attempt of about six from less than fifteen feet, and did that on the 18th for a bit of redemption.