Recent content by Golfnut1957

Played in the N. E. Fire Service Spring Stableford at South Shields today, my first competitive round of the year. The day was great, blue skies with all the rain clouds scudding by way out west. A cold, two club wind out of the north made life difficult, but to compensate the course was, as...

Is that not just another "club comp" rather than a roll up?

I give them because I can. The thing is we play a lot of matchplay and gimmes are an integral part of matchplay. We played a match a few years ago. Our opponents targetted me, giving me nothing, giving my partner everything, fortunately I holed everything one might reasonably expect to. I left...

We closed last week for a day following some serious stuff the previous day. The good news is we appear to be at the point where the course can cope, i.e. the drying out is equal to a rainy day and only a sustained period of biblical stuff will set us back. Of course, a sustained period of no...

It generally depends on the sort of mood I'm in. The response can be, smile and ignore, a gentle coaxing back to the path of the righteous, or the full hair drier treatment. They would have to say something particularly stupid to get the latter.

Par 3s? Or are they accidental?

Don't forget the thread for those who think WHS is great and works fine called "WHS is the greatest thing since sliced bread". But then there would have to be a thread for the undecided called "I may be slow, but I'll work it out eventually".

Thank you for all the replies. There are some interesting points. The fact that individual clubs have turned the live leaderboard off for their own reasons, but apparently E.G. haven't instructed clubs to do so is one. Someone mentioned golfers looking up the leaderboard and not going out if...

This seems to be the place for all things handicap, perhaps the title should be changed, maybe something snappy such as: "WHS Works for Some But Not For others, But It All We Have, So We Better get on With It" It may need a little work.

Yes we are, and there doesn't appear to be any inclination to come off them any time soon. I read elsewhere that E.G. were permitting them up until the end of April and after that it is at the discretion of the county.

A question for all of you WHS experts. Since having Club V1 installed, we have had access to a live leaderboard for most competitions. At the beginning of this season the club announced that it would be turned off during play, effectively doing away with it, this is a trial for a month. What...

How about keeping a record of all your scores on an Excel spreadsheet, and keep your own record and/or handicap. You can just keep the WHS one in the background, only focusing on the handicap index for competition purposes, and your main focus can be on your forever record. I'm sorry if I'm...

That is unbelievable! If the 18th is under that much water then surely the 1st will be also, and the 5th? Say that our 11th, 12th and 6th green have looked like that countless time during the past 6 months.

The weather is turning and the courses are opening, you'll be fine, cold but fine.

To answer the question, no. As others have said, dominance equals boring. I fell asleep five minutes after the chasing pack fell away on Sunday. I have stopped watching F1 which I watched religiously. Chelsea thrashing Everton was fantastic for Chelsea fans (and Liverpool) but was over as a...