Recent content by timd77

Last time I played was in Turkey last week, shorts, T-shirt and sun cream were order of the day! Today it’s was trousers, multiple layers, woolly hat and scraping ice off the car! Anyway, stableford comp, 22 points after 9 holes, hello. Back 9 a totally different (yet familiar) story! Scraped...

I’d say the players is the best of the non-majors but it’s not an event I’m counting down the days to during the sparse winter months, that’s reserved for the masters. However, I do enjoy watching it. Main reasons for that are the time it’s on, it’s a good watch in the evenings and even in bed...

Not sure where you are but we had rain every day for nigh on 2 months. As I say, 1 day after a particularly bad downpour which lasted a few days, we had all temps for a day. Then it was just the 3. Considering every other course I knew of was either closed or on full temp greens and tees, that...

In answer to the putting practice swing, at the moment I don’t, it’s just a case of feel. The only time I do, and it’s very rare, is if I’m well off the green and something is stopping me from chipping (tight or scabby lie, water behind etc), for those I need to get an idea of how the pace might...

Assumed it would be, they seem to be going for an all round golf and leisure facility. Played there last year for the first time in a while, the new owners have definitely made some nice improvements to the clubhouse.

At one point, the 28 said to the 34 something along the lines of ‘you’re a 34 handicap not scratch so why are you expecting to hit every shot perfectly’!!

Just come back from a week long golf holiday in Turkey, what a stunning place! I don’t mind playing with any skill level of golfer, I’m mid handicap, who am I to say that someone is crap if they’re a high handicap. However, spent a round with a 34 handicapper and his attitude stunk from the...

Ours has gone up by 6.5% ish, £1150 to 1230. Quite a dry course, rarely closed and we’ve had a maximum of 3 temp greens this winter (apart from one day when it felt as if the big flood was coming). Happy with that increase really. I play every week, twice in the summer months, so I definitely...

I think I was kind of half expecting Luke to have another go, but hoped he would stand aside and maybe vice captain with Frankie. I can only assume that Rose was next in line for a couple but his form means they wouldn’t want a Bradley situation. I also think the way forward is 2 cups...

Probably best to wear some trousers over those pants, most clubs have a dress code! 😉

It would be interesting to go back to the pre-Tiger days and see what the interviews were like then. Pretty confident they wouldn’t contain some of the daft questions that get asked now, such as the one being discussed above. I’m watching the final round from last year’s masters at the moment...

Ah ok, makes sense. I’m no expert on it, but we same the same thing every year, why don’t the water companies build more reservoirs so that we don’t have droughts in the summer, every year! Eats into their profits I guess, more 💩 dumped into rivers instead! I mean we do the same in our homes...

The annoying thing is that in 4-5 months the courses will be brown, grass dying, it’ll be like hitting off concrete again. Got me thinking, do golf courses have reservoirs where they can keep all of the rain we get in winter and use it on the fairways in summer?

The thing that always staggered me about how quickly he developed, was as you say, taking up the game aged 13-14, he talks about practicing from dusk till dawn, trying to emulate the swings of the greats such as Nicklaus, palmer and sarazen, and 5-6 years later he’s beating Nicklaus in the Ryder...

I’ve got the non waterproof version, and as good as it is, I’d get a waterproof one next. When it chucks it down I have to get everything out of the pockets to let it all dry, even stuff I’ve not used. Same with any bag that’s not waterproof I guess. Other than that, it’s perfect. Spacious...