Recent content by JonnyGutteridge

Yeh pretty much this. I suspect as you improve, changing from “obviously too hard” and “obviously not hard enough” to “5ft past/5ft short” keeps the exercise relevant. Perhaps if you’re really good you can do “2ft past” and “2ft short”!! I wouldn’t know 🤣 That’s actually something my pro did in...

Heard a convo recently around putting & practice swings. If you’re struggling with pace, do 3 practice swings ; one to lag it up, one dead weight, and one to hit it 5ft past. If you’re hitting everything short, then hit the actual putt with the “longer” stroke, and vice-versa if you’re over...

Clearly some foul play at hand from the golfing gods. We finally clear the constant rain, and both Saturday & Sunday golf cancelled due to fog 😂 At this stage, it really does start to feel like there’s a conspiracy to keep me off the golf course at all costs 😢

I refer to my previous post 😔 It really is quite depressing.

We used to have some comps which were like this throughout summer on Sundays from 1pm, but that’s not how our summer “board comps” work - they are obviously mandatory entrance into the comp. I play so much 4bbb social golf and winter league 4bbb golf that i actually haven’t played my own ball...

So, this is my major golfing irritation actually. I used to play most winter stablefords under the old handicap system, as they were often non-qualifiers or “cuts only” - which I believe was standard. These days, our winter stablefords are qualifying competitions, so I don’t bother. I’m not at...

I don’t think I wore my expensive Galvin Green waterproof trousers for about 2 years after I bought them… It was either so wet that the course was closed, or not wet enough to warrant putting them on 😂

Is it just me or does it seem to rain heavily every single Friday?

Isn’t it a fairly simple (lol) case… If you want to have a chance at making the fewest possible putts (1) on any given hole, you need to abide by the “never up, never in” approach. But if you want to reduce the number of putts over a given round, leaving a few short is likely to help that. If...

I got an Eagle at the weekend, but on a par 5 with a temp green! You can take that eagle from my cold, dead hands. 🦅 🦅 43 pts in pairs better ball, top of the winter league and through to the knockouts, with 44/44/41/43 pts as our best 4 scores. We can’t make the final round, but won’t need to...

I saw this article and thought the forum would appreciate it, and then argue for several pages. Bonus points for including the 4th at Woking https://golfcoursewiki.substack.com/p/i-spent-the-last-month-and-a-half?%5Cutm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Chelsea fan, I thought it was a foul - but the referee missed a foul on Palmer which led to the incident in the first place. The referee was terrible all night. Let Arsenal get away with all their persistent fouling, Saliba and Gabriel especially at it all game. I thought he looked out of his...

Adding it into the debate, missing high vs missing low. The myth is that missing high typically is a better putt than missing low. I’ll let you argue about which option leaves an easier 2nd putt!

I’m going to tinker with the bag this year. d/3w/3h/3i-PW/52/58 is my current bag 3 wood, 3 iron and 3 hybrid is strange. 3 iron is likely to be dropped. I need to find space for an extra wedge, ideally I want a 50/54/58. My 3w is rarely used and is getting replaced. Maybe for a 4 wood. My...