Your best 18 hole score

76 at Buffalo Dunes in Garden City, Kansas. It was 102 degrees when we teed off and the wind was a typical Western Kansas bluster.

That's why we quit after six holes.

 

Yes.

 

So you said hell with it, went up the side of the driving range and called it a day?

 

I’ve shot 82 a handful of times. First about 20 years ago. Most recent 5-6 years ago. None of them did I have a “real” chance to break 80 without a late miracle. Best this year is 84, but I’m not playing a lot.

Probably the best two rounds I’ve ever played, I had a legit chance to break 90 standing on the 17th tee at Bethpage Black.

It did not happen either time. The 17th hole is a bear. But I often mess up 18, which isn’t.

 

Yup.

Probably didn't help that we were a bunch of 18- and 19-year-olds who felt like we had better things to do than card double-digits on every hole on a tough course in the middle of of a heat wave.

I don't remember how many balls I lost in that rough.

 

I consider myself fortunate to break 100, but for a brief time between college and marriage I got down to a consistent 85. For the life of me, I couldn’t break that number. My only round below 85 round is an 82 some 25 years ago when I was a year out of college and living at home. My Dad and I would get off from our respective workplaces at 5 p.m. and race to the course at least three days a week. Our triangulation from where we worked to the course was pretty even, so the loser had to buy the first round. I usually won the race, but lost the match. On that day, I earned the sweep. I still have that card.

Thanks for jogging my memory.

 

Just got done playing our Sunday game....shot 78 and won 7 dollars......one of my best friends (the one that shot 58).....was 29 on the front (-6) and had a eagle putt on 10 lip out to put him -8 through 10.......then the wheels fell off....missed 3 or 4 makable birdie putts.....bogeyed 15 and hit one OB on 17 and made double.....still shot 65.
One of the games we play is dots.....you put a dollar in the pot.....closest to the hole on each par 3 wins the pot.
One of the guys won 2 dots today and won $22.