Recent content by pendodave

Yep, there's roll-ups, and there's... slightly more exclusive roll ups :) . Our club sounds like yours - our Tues and Thurs roll-ups are genuinely open to all and (with the help of the pro) actively encourage new members to join in. After all, it is a golf CLUB, not just a bunch of strangers...

Maybe it's because I'm verging on the elderly, but I'm never exercising through an injury, given a choice. Once we reach a certain age, being able to keep doing stuff is really important, and careful maintenance is a lot more important than peak performance 😀.

There's plenty of places that number could come from. I play with my kids and their other halves a few times every year on our local pitchnputt. So that would be a 5-1 ratio of "real" to "unreal" (in every sense...). When I've been in Spain (Madrid, not the coastal courses), lots of the golf...

Just on my way into Town to see Trevor Horn @shepherds Bush empire. I'm expecting a very classy 80s night 😀.

Corners and long throws have become un-ref-able. It seems to be an inevitable consequence of the ungoing enshitification of professional sports for mathematically quantified marginal gains. We've had the development of the professional foul to an art form, rotating team fouls to break up play...

I'm going to disagree with your first point. Our neighbours are the countries most similar to us. They have the same challenges of: an ageing population, provision of welfare and universal healthcare, the offshoring of production to low wage countries. That being the case, they probably offer...

Nope. Only possible exceptions are if I'm on a pre-booked trip somewhere, or a significant comp. There's enough dry days in East Herts every year for me to get in as much golf as I like without splashing about.

Thanks all. Lots to work with. As it happens, we stayed in Seahouses a couple of years back, and while I agree it's a great place to play and as a base for a trip, I think we'll give it a miss this time... 😉 Apropos not much, the English East Coast from Northumberland downwards has loads of...

Haha Slightly disappointed to find that Skeggy is not Hunstanton in disguise... especially as it has 2 of the courses we're looking to play. Will crack open Airbnb. And for info, we stayed in Hartlepool last year (in the old bit on the headland), so we're used to slightly dangerous ;-)

Thanks. Have you stayed at the North shore before? How is it? We normally take a decent sized house, but did wonder about this. Will look up the other 2.

Morning all, I'm just about to start planning our spring "tour". 4 capable golfers, nothing too fancy. We play a clay based parkland course, so always looking for seaside/ heathland stuff on our hols to mix it up from our regular diet. We've been working our way down the East Coast, and have...

I've also got worse, but it doesn't really feel like it. Started at 8.4 Finished at 8.8 But.... a couple of 9 hole low scores dropped off, and my 8 green dots are all in the last 13 counting rounds. To compound the felony, my highest handicap of the year (9.6) was actually achieved with my...

It's not scoring that makes me think that a rollback would be helpful, it's the one dimensional game that modern equipment delivers. drive, wedge, putt - very little else. It's entirely possible to keep scores low even in this dumb down scenario. We am see if every week - silly pin placements...

there's something extraordinarily grating about Jordan's delivery. I think it's the way he tries to use long words but almost always either mispronounces them or uses them in the wrong context. Or maybe he's just a bit of a kn0b?

I look at the people who seem most keen to get rid of the BBC (Murdoch, Telegraph, Mail) and am reassured that keeping it is definitely the right thing. Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean that we'd be better off without it. Our current media landscape is mostly owned/funded by...