Recent content by mcbroon

To my eternal discredit, I stopped my mate from buying a ladies shirt in a pro shop earlier this year. Only after the words came out did I realise the opportunity that I had ruined :(

6 for me. 1 buffer, 2 cuts and 3 x 0.1. Hasn't helped that a) it has been a crap summer, b) I smashed my finger with a sledgehammer and couldn't play for a month, and c) I've played a lot of matchplay. Might get another qualifier in before the end of the season but I probably need a lesson...

Beautiful shot to watch but tough to play. The compilation of Tiger's stingers on YouTube is just brilliant. I played them a bit with a 3w a couple of years back but fell out of the habit. Might go and practise them again. Cheers Gary :thup:

Mostly I just laugh at myself because it's not that big a deal. But sometimes, just sometimes, it gets the better of me and I'll chuck up a ball and try and hit it into a neighbouring field like a baseball shot. I never make contact. So usually, I just concentrated on murdering the hell out of...

Playing too much matchplay, my medal form has gone to hell. 2 x 0.1 in the last week, so,back up to 7.3.

Congrats :thup: My first HIO was when I was playing on my own. I don't count it, or at least it has an asterisk beside it in my head. I mean, it's still a hole in one, but it feels diminished by not having had a witness.

It may not be relevant to how anyone plays the game, or whether theyd be welcome at each of our clubs. However, it is relevant in a wider sense. Golf takes tournaments and a lot of money from countries where homosexuality is illegal. The more players who come out, the better, IMO, as it helps to...

3 Trump International - one of those places where you know it's special as you go round. 2 Western Gailes - partly for personal reasons but it's a beautiful place. Old school links golf. 1 The Old Course - it's just special. If I could only play one course for the rest of my life, it would be...

The first one I went to was great, and I've stuck with him since. Mrs bough me a lesson when I was getting back into golf 6 years ago and as soon as I met him, he had a very easy communication style and no interest in showing me how good he was. He has transformed my short game and given me...

No way should all social rounds be included. Totally different approach in bounce games. I'd bomb CSS, or at least stop CSS going down. And increase the number of rounds to 6. But making it 10 would mean a lot of people can't play enough qualifiers to keep a competitive h/c. There's not much...

In the car for now but once we get in the new house, I'll move 'em inside

Not sure it qualifies as 'on the course' but didn't one of the Irish boys rock up for a forum meet at the wrong course once? On a similar note, one of my mates flew from London - Aberdeen for a golf weekend last year. Only he arrived a week early.

Finding balls is is a good one. I find a lot of balls in horrible places, to the point that some PPs have remarked on it. If you hit it in the boondocks as much as me, you get good at understanding where the ball has gone. The real critical soft skill, though, is attitude. Being able to let go...

Absolutely correct. All the others mentioned have had good years but nobody else has had the year JT has had. Spieth is close and if either he or Rahm wins the FedEx then they have a shout, but it's JT for me just now. DJ was going great til he fell down the stairs. Hasn't quite got back to...

Could be 13 times, could be 9, or anywhere between. Depends on conditions and whether the other parts of my game as more or less rank on any given day.