Saturday, March 03, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Mid-week Driving Range
Met Wai at Golfer's Paradise on Wednesday (Feb 21st) after work. We hit from the upper range closest to the Pro Shop. Looks like GP had invested somemore money into the facilities and gotten nicer tee mats.
-DB-
Sunday, February 18, 2007
9 holes at Brea on Chinese New Year
Played 9 holes at Brea GC after church today.
I got paired up with an older gentlemen and his two sons, they were really nice.
It was nice and breezy today.
It was kinda of busy and took about 2 and 1/2 hours to finish.
I had fun eventhough I shot a terrible 53 with 22 plus putting (couple times I had to just pick up my ball in disgust!).
Not too bad considering this was my 36th round of golf within one year (I started playing in early March after my first lessons ended).
-DB-
Saturday, February 17, 2007
9 holes at Cerritos Ironwood
We started at 12:25pm, I'm wearing my new SC Trojan Nike Dry-Fit birthday gift shirt (thank you, Miss Samurai Princess!).
This is Chang, my walk on partner of the day
Here I am on the 7th
Finally made it to the 9th hole
After losing 3 balls in a row into the water hazard, I took a drop and almost got on the green but really close to the edge of the water hazard. I lost 9 balls total and shot a 57 / 20 for the day.
Pretty sucky but I still had fun!
-DB-
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Back in training
DB back at Golfer's Paradise
Wai and I came out to practice at GP tonight.
We practiced putting and ...
hitting a medium bucket (105) of balls tonight.
We went next door's to Farmer Boys for a later dinner.
it was good, now I'm sore from all that golfing!
-DB-
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Solo golfing at Birch Hills
DB's first tee shot lands on the fringe of the #1 green!
I was actually going to just practiced on the driving range at Birch Hills but the course was pretty empty so I got the guy at the club house to let me play on the "Sundowner" twilight rate ($10).
Sun Setting over Birch Hills Golf Course
It was pretty fun, I had almost the entire front 9 holes to myself. I started at 4:33 and ended exactly an hour later and best of all, I finished and shot one of my better rounds ever (although, I failed to par any holes but had a heck of a drive on #4 and lots of single boogies)!
DB finishing up 9 holes and broke in his new Nike golf shoes!
It was pretty fun! I love playing golf! Maybe I'll go hit some more after church tomorrow!?
-DB-
Monday, February 05, 2007
Night Golfing at Heartwell GC
Back to Heartwell GC in Long Beach
DB looking forward to some fun times!
DB & Travis enjoy some pregame brewski
Mike putts as Rodney watches on
Travis' putt sticks in between the pin and the hole lip.
It was a fun time (still pre-season, huh?!).
-DB-
Monday, January 29, 2007
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Visit to Golfsmiths in Santa Ana
Finally visited the GS in Santa Ana (down the street from South Coast Plaza).
Got a new pair of Nike Saddle style golf shoes.
Picked a nice Ping fleece pullover, thank to my generous friends!
-DB-
Saturday, January 20, 2007
18 Holes at Birch Hills GC
I started off pretty good with a par on the first hole!
It was kinda of overcast and chilly today!
Saw some Canadian Geese on the course.
Actually I did better than I expected.
I shot a 100/38 today!
-DB-
Saturday, January 13, 2007
La Mirada GC driving range
good time to burn off my driving range cards (only had 54 balls left) ... hit mostly with my 7 iron for 1/2 hours ... brrrrr it was cold today!
-DB-
-DB-
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Dad Millers Twilight golfing
My ol' golfing buddy, Rodney and I played 14 holes of golf today at Dad Miller's.
Fast food lunch after church and before golfing (ugh!).
Dad Miller's Driving range
DB at the start (1pm)
#3 fairway, long wait under the shades!
Our third was "Hank"
DB after 9 holes ... still got energy to play another 9 holes!
Dang, we only finished 14 holes today!
bathroom signage on the 15th hole.
It was fun getting back on the golf course after a three week holiday break. I had a lot good tee shots but awful mid-range iron and chip shots. I even bought a new John Daly 60 degree Wedge (don't really know how to use it yet) yesterday. Well, that's golf for the start of January 2007. A whole new year to look forward to!
The only really negative thing that happened early on the course was the group in front of us had got mad at each other and started to verbally abuse each other. It was kinda of bad scene and one of the non-Asian guy told the Asian guys that he was playing with to F* off and go back to Taiwan, etc ... then he looks my group and made a comment that he'll take on all four of us (like, huh? ... take your racism off the golf course). I guess it's true when people get upset they just start grouping all the "similar" races together and decide that we're all foreigners. It was funny, a four-some of mostly Indians came by afterwards asked who was making all the "get out of America ... you d*mn foreigner" ranting and THEY wanted to kick the NON-Asian guys' asses too! I guess that's how wars erupts. It's Human Nature ....
-DB-
#1
Good Tee shot, sliced into 9th fairway just left of tree line, used 3 wood to punch out, good chip shot, 1 putt (5/1).
#2
Long wait, group ahead of us got into a “fight” and broke up …
Whiffed first shot. Long Tee shot with TM driver, hook into tree line on the left, used 3 wood to punch out (6/2).
#3
Long wait under the tree shade, two groups ahead .. slow play.
Long Tee shot w/ TM driver, sliced next to tree line on left, terrible mid-range irons (8/1).
#4
Long Tee shot on right side of fairway next to trees, terrible mid-range irons and chipping, 2 putt (9/2).
#5
Tee box moved away from parking lot and tree line to the middle alignment of fairway. Good Tee shot with slight slice to top of hill. Good PW shot, 2 putt (5/2).
#6
Dog-leg right, good tee shot straight over left side of fairway with ball landing just left of the left tree line. Terrible mid-range shots into the 7th hole fairway, 2 putt (9/2),
#7
Long wait, backed up on tee box. Terrible 7 iron tee shot hooked into the tree line left. Bad middle range irons, 4 putted (8/4).
#8
Bad 1st hit (high lob shank shot), 2nd tee shot with Driver, short but straight. Good 4 hybrid shot down the middle followed by two short terrible mid-range iron shots, 3 putted (9/3).
#9
3W tee shot just short and to left of the green, chipped on, 2 putt (4/2).
#10
Bad driver tee shot (alignment after Rodney’s suggestion) into the left tree line (ball bounced back into the mid fairway); 2nd Tee shot, hooked into the left tree line. Good 3W shot just short and right of the green. TERRIBLE Chip shots … (10/2).
#11
PW tee shot short (by 1/2 distance), 2nd and 3rd wedge shots (5/2).
#12
Long 3W tee shot went into ditch and was lost. Take a drop in the ditch and SW shot out on to fairway. (7/1).
#13
7 iron tee shot short, two terrible chip shots with Lob wedge and 4putted (8/4).
#14
Great driver tee shot (approx 240 yards), smacked a tree on follow up shot with 9 iron with ball moving laterally to middle of fairway, long iron shot to left of green next to bunker, SW chip INTO bunker, SW out of bunker, 2 putted (8/2).
#15
Low visibility, take a long tee shot with driver, found ball to right side of fairway past bridge under a tree.
Total strokes 101 /30 for 14 holes.
Fast food lunch after church and before golfing (ugh!).
Dad Miller's Driving range
DB at the start (1pm)
#3 fairway, long wait under the shades!
Our third was "Hank"
DB after 9 holes ... still got energy to play another 9 holes!
Dang, we only finished 14 holes today!
bathroom signage on the 15th hole.
It was fun getting back on the golf course after a three week holiday break. I had a lot good tee shots but awful mid-range iron and chip shots. I even bought a new John Daly 60 degree Wedge (don't really know how to use it yet) yesterday. Well, that's golf for the start of January 2007. A whole new year to look forward to!
The only really negative thing that happened early on the course was the group in front of us had got mad at each other and started to verbally abuse each other. It was kinda of bad scene and one of the non-Asian guy told the Asian guys that he was playing with to F* off and go back to Taiwan, etc ... then he looks my group and made a comment that he'll take on all four of us (like, huh? ... take your racism off the golf course). I guess it's true when people get upset they just start grouping all the "similar" races together and decide that we're all foreigners. It was funny, a four-some of mostly Indians came by afterwards asked who was making all the "get out of America ... you d*mn foreigner" ranting and THEY wanted to kick the NON-Asian guys' asses too! I guess that's how wars erupts. It's Human Nature ....
-DB-
#1
Good Tee shot, sliced into 9th fairway just left of tree line, used 3 wood to punch out, good chip shot, 1 putt (5/1).
#2
Long wait, group ahead of us got into a “fight” and broke up …
Whiffed first shot. Long Tee shot with TM driver, hook into tree line on the left, used 3 wood to punch out (6/2).
#3
Long wait under the tree shade, two groups ahead .. slow play.
Long Tee shot w/ TM driver, sliced next to tree line on left, terrible mid-range irons (8/1).
#4
Long Tee shot on right side of fairway next to trees, terrible mid-range irons and chipping, 2 putt (9/2).
#5
Tee box moved away from parking lot and tree line to the middle alignment of fairway. Good Tee shot with slight slice to top of hill. Good PW shot, 2 putt (5/2).
#6
Dog-leg right, good tee shot straight over left side of fairway with ball landing just left of the left tree line. Terrible mid-range shots into the 7th hole fairway, 2 putt (9/2),
#7
Long wait, backed up on tee box. Terrible 7 iron tee shot hooked into the tree line left. Bad middle range irons, 4 putted (8/4).
#8
Bad 1st hit (high lob shank shot), 2nd tee shot with Driver, short but straight. Good 4 hybrid shot down the middle followed by two short terrible mid-range iron shots, 3 putted (9/3).
#9
3W tee shot just short and to left of the green, chipped on, 2 putt (4/2).
#10
Bad driver tee shot (alignment after Rodney’s suggestion) into the left tree line (ball bounced back into the mid fairway); 2nd Tee shot, hooked into the left tree line. Good 3W shot just short and right of the green. TERRIBLE Chip shots … (10/2).
#11
PW tee shot short (by 1/2 distance), 2nd and 3rd wedge shots (5/2).
#12
Long 3W tee shot went into ditch and was lost. Take a drop in the ditch and SW shot out on to fairway. (7/1).
#13
7 iron tee shot short, two terrible chip shots with Lob wedge and 4putted (8/4).
#14
Great driver tee shot (approx 240 yards), smacked a tree on follow up shot with 9 iron with ball moving laterally to middle of fairway, long iron shot to left of green next to bunker, SW chip INTO bunker, SW out of bunker, 2 putted (8/2).
#15
Low visibility, take a long tee shot with driver, found ball to right side of fairway past bridge under a tree.
Total strokes 101 /30 for 14 holes.
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