Recent content by Fitz

I haven't picked up a golf club in over a month (not even the Range) now due to weekends being spent painting and decorating our newly purchased house. Unlikely to play in September either until we've finished and moved in completely. What are people's longest non-playing periods (for any...

Once you get past Carlisle when the M6 becomes M74 you can really put your foot down all the way to Glasgow on an empty wide good surface motorway. I read somewhere a while back the average speed on there is 74mph, thats the AVERAGE!!! Then the A9 between Perth and Inverness is the frustrating...

Its just some people are more obsessed with how fast they can go round in rather then what score they can achieve and making it enjoyable. If these people are so keen to play a round in sub 3 hours they should take up 20 20 cricket as that was designed for the younger generation of people who...

My folks live in Ullapool (60 miles northwst of Inverness) and i always take my clubs up there and play around Inverness. As im the same handicap as you and not made of money i ignore your Castle Stuarts and the Royal Dornochs etc as i think they'd rip my game to shreds and wouldn't be...

Did anyone playing today on courses between Huntingdon and Essex hear a massive explosion/bang at 11.30am? Turns out it was a sonic boom caused by a RAF Typhoon. I had just teed off and was putting my driver back in bag and one of my playing partners was poised to start his backswing when...

Congratulations! Me too!! after about 8 months of self scoring and social rounds with no sub-100 scores, i played in a Stableford today and scored 37 points (28hcp). When i totted up my actual strokes...97. Only 1 lost ball and only a handful of duffed shots but plenty of crisp strikes of...

Played first ever medal today, nightmare front 9 including a 10 somewhere and a 9 on the first (tee shot landed within sight of all 3 of us but ball had vanished when we got to its supposed landing zone in hte 1st cut) so had to go back and tee off again. Not a great start. then overshot the...

Has anyone ever played with a Honma club? I see them in the equipment supplements in magazines and can't get my head round the price of them. From £12k to something like £40k for a set!!! I understand they hand made to order individually etc and are Japanese but if they were that good why...

My usual playing partner is now a less frequent playing partner so what i do is turn up early to your club on a weekend morning (saturday usually) say around 8, speak to the pro and he'll usually know the golfers who usually turn up at a similar time most weeks and he'll ask them if they mind an...

I played 9 holes on my own last Sunday night after pretty much loosing the will to live watching United v Chelsea. Tee'd off at 6pm on an empty course in beautiful weather. It was millionaires golf, no-one behind me and anyone who was ahead of me were on the back 9 when i started. Hit at...

Well played that man. I can only dream of a 93 though, I'll be happy with sub 110 I think.

I can recommend loads, stick with American dramas and you can't go wrong. If you want more grown up stuff then I can recommend the west wing, soprano and the best cop show ever, the shield. Absolutely brilliant. If you want cliff hanger edge of your seat stuff every episode then stick with 24...

Close range putts say 8 feet and in, pretty good. Long range, say 30ft plus also not too bad. But anything in between I just can't get right. The vast majority end up short, quite often leaving a very missable putt instead of gimmee distance. Then when I deliberately hit it harder it shoots past...

Joined my first club last September, signed up for comps etc then 3 weeks later whilst stretching to reach a innocuous drop shot at tennis, my lower back decided to go into spasm with possibly the worst pain I've ever experienced. Finally managed to pick up a club again in January but was...

Probably not as can't play another three rounds and hand a card in each time before the medal. The reason for no official handicap is another story but club said I could enter the medal and it would speed up the process of getting probable 28!!