Recent content by AMcC

Have the new ones possibly been lined with some membrane before the sand went in ?

Played on Saturday, 9 of us turned up for a game. Dry but very windy when we started, managed 6 holes, then jumped over to 13th, as the rain was starting and only hit our 2nd shots and gave up. Combination of rain and wind just too much. Long walk back in to the elements from 13th green wasn't...

All I do is have two tabs on my spreadsheet and record each month and how much income I get and the date received. the second tab is for expenditure and I tend to leave that until year end and download my bank statement as a csv and dump it straight in to the expenditure tab. But also keep all...

I am also a sole trader working from home and also get an accountant to do my books. I have a spread sheet set up with income and expenditure for each month. Can't rally add much than what the others have already said, except, I would advise him to get a bank account and put all his expenses...

I will be 55 later this year and also have some aches and pains. What makes it worse and harder to handle is I had always been very active without any real after effects until last year. Since then every day my hip is sore, bizarrely sorer when I sit than when I walk. After an xray it urns out...

Interesting you should say that, one of the guys I played with on Saturday was off 5 and I consistently out drove him, usually 10 or so yards. However, I watched him get up and down many times from around the green and up to 30 - 40 yards short of it.

Thanks Bob, I had had a lesson on short game last week and I was told that my main problem was an overswing on the backswing which always has the potential to create massive deceleration. That combined with my body not rotating enough towards the target meant no consistency

Many thanks for posting that link, I was searching through the thread headers and couldn't see an obvious one. If I take within 30 yards as my metric as NGIR then my score on Saturday was 12, which equates to a handicap around 10, so well under where i am and really confirming my problem. I had...

I wondered if it was Ross, great guy and and a fabulous coach. that is who i have been going to as well. He just needs a PA to sort his diary for him, I am sure you know what I mean. How are you enjoying Loudoun ? I played there through the eighties and early nineties and still have many good...

Really interesting post and I am sure many of us can relate to the story, in particular not trusting the pro enough and properly committing to a practice regimen. As a matter of interest which pro did you go to ?

In both games I haven't been laying up, just going for greens. My driving was ok both games, on Saturday there I hit 7 fairways and was in the first cut on 4 others out of 15, so decent. I think if I can improve my chipping and pitching then lower scores would come, but I have too many scars...

My putting generally isn't the problem, averaging 32 putts a round over the last few seasons. Now I have started keep this stat the next few weeks will be interesting as long as I keep practicing and I will report back end of March and your cheque will be in the post :p

Says the man who won the the Royal Aberdeen open last year ;)

I have taken out the putts now and have 23 and 17 respectively now, so still way too high and really need to work at getting the ball on the green firstly from that distance and then closer to the hole.

Still way better than mine though