What is your biggest difference in 9 hole score during a 18 hole round? Tale of two nines

[Notreknip]

I've never broken 80. I've scored the odd 81, 82, or 83. I've scored a 40 on 9 holes once.

Today, it was...

Out: 35 (11 putts)

In: 46 (20 putts)

As much as I want to complain about that +10 back nine, I just can't get over how amazing that front nine (actually, through #11) felt.

I felt like a pro. It felt so easy. I couldn't miss. I now know for sure that "it" is in me. I can't wait to get out again.

[trilerian]

Just went 39-50 today in the last round of the city tournament. So frustrating! Ended up 5th in my flight.

[gazav]

Threw up a 43/36 today. Typically shoot high 70's and usually post a 39/40 or something like that. Literally had to sink 3 putts from 6-8 feet to save bogey and questioned what I was doing on the front 9. Couldn't miss on the back. 2 birdies and a double, stood on an 8 iron and 1 hopped from the back of green into the water. Funny thing is that it never left the flag on its way to the water.....

Golf = Crazy

[getitdaily]

Happened this past weekend. 2 day tournament...day 2. Start the day 2 back of the lead. Proceed to go out in 40. Make the turn 5 back. Then turned it on...

Birdie

Par

Eagle

Birdie

To start the back. Bogey on 14, par on 15n birdie on 16, then par in...32 backside.

Won the tournament by a stroke.

[lchang]

Thought I'd share this one.  2-over thru 10 holes.  Then the wind really picked up on the exposed part of the course.  And, uh, my suckiness really picked up, too!  Last 8 holes were triple, double, triple, double, double, double, quadruple, triple.  Several stroke-and-distance-lost-balls in there...  The cherry on top was this round triggered the GHIN Soft Cap.

 

Scorecard:  37 - 58.   (par is 35 - 37)

[dodint]

Golf almost broke me the day I went 43/67. I was still trying to break 100 at the time.

[Jim53]

36/45 today, thought it was going to be the day. 2 birdies on the front then birdied 10 and went to crap and started missing putts and greens and fairways. Stupid game

Edited April 16, 2022 by Jim53

[EaglesGolf99]

On 12/3/2018 at 3:17 PM, EaglesGolf99 said:

August/September 2009 time frame ...

 

Playing at Harbor Town ....

 

Probably playing off a 5 or 6 handicap at the time ....

 

 

50 on the front 9

39 on the back 9

 

89

 

 

I was severely hung over on the front 9. Wedding weekend, I was in bridal party. Back 9 was capped off with a man's par on 18!! A four wood off the tee, from the tips, into the fairway. A planned 4 iron into the front bunker (I knew I couldn't hold the green from 210ish and the green is the size of a dime). A blast out of the bunker to about 6 feet and proceeded to make the putt!

Fun to see this thread pop back up.

 

Well, since it is Harbor Town Weekend, and my previous record came on those grounds, I thought I'd update this as I've broken my own record. 

 

Previous record, 11 shot swing: 50-39-89.

 

New record, 13 shot swing!!!!

 

47 - 34 - 81

 

US Open Local Qualifier to boot! Circa 2017 if I recall correctly. Opening tee shot went sooooo far left out of bounds it hit a Stop Sign on the fly. Proceeded to start with an opening Quadruple Bogey. Followed with 17 holes cumulative of +5. 

 

Probably the oddest round I ever played. 

 

Winds were strong, very strong, off the Narragansett. Probably 3 clubs into the wind, maybe even 4 at times, and 1 1/2-2 clubs down wind. Greens were lightning. Anything from 15 feet or so, and you were just lagging it down there with thoughts of 2 putting. 

 

I missed, on the day, in grand total, 3 shots, and it led to 81. My tee ball on 1, my tee ball on 5, and my tee ball on 9. Only 1 of those went OB. The tee ball on 1. Tee Ball on 5 and 9 were both left rough, clear vantage to the green on each. Outside of those 3 swings, I played damn near perfect. 

 

81 !!!!

 

47 - 34 - 81 !!!!

[gtcmap1]

44-34

[Warrior42111]

Pulled of a smooth 42-53 Friday.  Pretty sure my legs just gave up after a 5k the day before

[SnowbirdTom]

The first round with some Ping Eye 2s. Got the feel and range with them for the back 9.  😉

 

[slocagolfer]

Not nine holes but once I was 13 over par after 5 holes. I finished at 14 over. 

 

[Chief Penguin]

Interesting to see that ~10 stroke spread is pretty common.

 

last summer I did a +7 on the front and -3 on the back.

[Is Golf Fun or Work]

Off top of my head, about 11 shots.

[PNWGuy]

This is a thread I hoped I would never post in.  Went 37 - 52.  A recent swing change made a huge difference on the front but I regressed to an ugly hybrid of old and new on the 10th tee.  First came rope hooks which devolved into huge block banannas. The good news is that I know I can groove the new move with work.  

[djmohab2]

49-39 last Sunday. Made a 9 on the par-3 9th, and then immediately eagled the par-4 10th.

[Shushwap]

50 on the front and 35 on the back..

Took 2 oxy and 5 beers to loosen up 

I couldn't walk the next day as my back was so bad 

[oz dee cee]

31 front

46 back 

 

back nine blues are real… 

[bankbank]

46 front 33 back, so 13 was my biggest diff. This was years ago, but I remember that I had an eagle and 2 birdies for that 33. Didnt play the  front nine that bad, but had one nightmare of a par 3 where I went in the drink 4 times due to loss of focus

[nikemojo]

sadly, it would be 33, 45

[MNGolfer03]

43-33, birdied the last 3 holes on the back with a 40 ft bomb, a chip in, and hit the flag on 18 and stopped 6 in from hole.  

[cj0hns]

My last competitive round (back in 09) I shot 32 on the front and 57 on the back. It's still somewhat legend in these parts....and a nightmare in my heart

[lchang]

3 hours ago, cj0hns said:

My last competitive round (back in 09) I shot 32 on the front and 57 on the back. It's still somewhat legend in these parts....and a nightmare in my heart

 

😳  C'mon--can we get some kind of color commentary on what happened between front and back nines?!

[EaglesGolf99]

4 hours ago, cj0hns said:

My last competitive round (back in 09) I shot 32 on the front and 57 on the back. It's still somewhat legend in these parts....and a nightmare in my heart

 

33 minutes ago, lchang said:

 

😳  C'mon--can we get some kind of color commentary on what happened between front and back nines?!

I second this! ......That's a 25 shot swing, that frickin' IMPRESSIVE!

[Shushwap]

6 hours ago, lchang said:

 

😳  C'mon--can we get some kind of color commentary on what happened between front and back nines?!

Must have forgot about the beer on the back 

[LeePitts]

Not uncommon for me to have a 10 shot swing as a 20 handicap. I’ll have a 3 hole swing where I can’t do nothing right

[ZacR88]

Been playing some pretty good golf lately but the other day I was just struggling off the get go. 6 over front, 1 under back. 

 

Sometimes it be like that. 

[zaccaf]

Had two rounds 33-44… make the turn and Just feel like a different human lol

[r0scoe]

49 - 37

 

My game has been brutally inconsistent to start the year, my driver is everywhere but I finally have it back to a consistent fade (maybe a big fade if it's teed too high). Should see the scores settle back into the low-mid 80s soon

[amace04]

Last year, first round of the year.  42 Front, 62 back.

 

I've never recorded a 60+ in my life, hope to never do it again.