Recent content by cookelad

Once a week most weeks, since daughter number 2 came along, might get an extra game in for special occasions, would be good to start playing more again then I might get close to playing to my handicap again

I agree, there's a Scottish fella over here plays off +4/5 and I reckon the only real difference is his short game, I match him club for club, drive it the same if not longer. I obviously don't have his stats but it seems like he's getting down in 2 more often than not from inside 100yards and...

I was a member at Aldersey Green in Cheshire from '94 as a junior through to when I moved to London in 2012 (well with a little break from age 16-19 when I discovered beer and pretty things!), 2012 joined Shooters Hill till I moved to Poland in 2018 since then I've back and forth at the two...

Played a match for Shooters Hill against Lamberhurst, as the high handicapper on the team I was 'sacrificed' and put up against their best player, all I really remember about the match was being 1 under through 4holes and 4 down and shaking hands on the 12th.

In summer I'll try my best to get out, especially as I'm only getting one round in a week at the moment, but now the temperature's dropped off (it had been mild up until a few days ago) it's not worth it and chances are any precipitation we get now will be snow.

I'll be playing right through if the course is open, though our back 9 has closed this week and probably won't re-open until March. We plan on heading back to the UK for a couple of years so I can retrain but I'd really like to finally break par at my course over here before we do, it's...

I think he should've taken his moment coming over the bridge in 2022.

Played an Open at Wrexham one Saturday morning about 15-odd years ago , shotgun start, fourballs off all 18 tees so 72 blokes showing up at 8am for a 9am tee time aaaaaaand "the kitchen's opens at 10" couldn't even get a brew. How can you be that clueless? 72 fellas teeing off at 9am, "I know...

Not at the current course, judging by the conditions today the back 9 will be closed soon and the tee's will be moved forward on a number of holes on the front. At the other course "in" the city you can, but, they close the whole course at slightly inclement weather at this time of year, if...

Reading the handicap change & (to some extent) the who won what threads, and getting (randomly) irritated at the fact that clubs over here only put on about 8 qualifying comps a year, roughly one per month from April through to November, we would play 8 comps in August back at the courses I...

A couple of Best Grosses and longest drives. Nowhere near winning anything nett and sadly the club championship they were charging the equivalent of about £75 to enter (and it was my daughter's birthday)

Agreed and well done for calling it a pitch mark repairer instead of a "divot tool" ranks right up there with "fairway metal" on my fingernails on a blackboard list

2.6 across the board 6 qualifiers, and I've played in all but 2 comps (3 rounds) at the club this year and one away qualifier. (Looking forward to getting back to Blighty and playing regular comps again!)

And by adding 100+yards every year to the course. The 1st tee in on the putting green, the 5th tee is on Hooters car park, ok it's not but they literally had to move a road, the 10th is also on the putting green, 11 has been pulled back about 80yard into the trees, the 13th is on another golf...

For me the narrow the fairways and grow the rough argument does exactly the opposite of what it's supposed to do, they've been doing it for nearly the 30years now and players keep getting longer because it's still beneficial to be long in the rough than short in the fairway, and even if it did...