JustOne
Ryder Cup Winner
Wish me luck. I will carry the "Ping" flag
Break a leg!
Daily Express Matchplay.........
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Break a leg!
Sneds
Tour Rookie
Wish me luck. I will carry the "Ping" flag
Break a leg!
Or a hip... x
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Well, up nice and early this morning. Sun is shining, beautiful day for it.. clubs are all cleaned and raring to go.
Been feeling crap most of the week, went down with a stomach bug on Monday evening and still don't feel 100% (not making excuses honest) but will go out and give it my best shot.
Will let you know how I fare later....
Been feeling crap most of the week, went down with a stomach bug on Monday evening and still don't feel 100% (not making excuses honest) but will go out and give it my best shot.
Will let you know how I fare later....
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
You were right.
A combination of a very rusty game (last time I picked up a club was 2 weeks ago) and some bounces and bad luck that even my playing partner (Andy) who had been a member there for 5 years couldn't believe saw me tumbling to a humiliating defeat, so much so that I agreed to give him a "bye" into the next round.
A course that has some real horrors in store for anybody playing it for the first time.
A ball just trickling off the back of the green to be met with "you'll be fine" by my playing partner, to then find it had rolled another 30 yards down a slope and gone OOB.
A superb 5 wood hit up the middle of the fairway on 6, just rolled off into the first cut and when I get up there it had carried on rolling tight up behind a dry stone wall with no shot?
A back 9 with 3 par 3's on the trot, and what par 4's there were were all built on the side of a hill with not a hope of holding the fairways, such were the slopes.
Andy was a really nice guy, he'd just been cut another shot so I was only giving him one. He didn't play brilliantly himself, but just played less crap than me.
Would I go back there???? Nope. Not a chance.
bobmac
Major Champion
Smiffy, you have my sympathies.
It cant be easy giving shots to a guy on his own course that you haven't played before, especially as it was a goat track.
Keep your pecker up. There's always another day and a good game around the corner, especially if you can sort your driving out. Anyway, bad luck and see you soon at Forest Pines mate.
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It cant be easy giving shots to a guy on his own course that you haven't played before, especially as it was a goat track.
Keep your pecker up. There's always another day and a good game around the corner, especially if you can sort your driving out. Anyway, bad luck and see you soon at Forest Pines mate.
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Robobum
Money List Winner
You can't leave it there.
5&4 ??
Dog Licence??
Worse??
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Wanna bet?
Robobum
Money List Winner
Wanna bet?
10 & 8!!!!
Oh my good giddy aunt!!
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
10 & 8!!!!
Oh my good giddy aunt!!
Nope.
I'll tell you tonight
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Got to the turn 3 down but managed to par the 10th (par 5) to get it back to 2. Stood on the 11th tee, par 4 wide open on the left, row of trees and OOB tight down the right. Wound up to give it the big 'un and proceeded to hit a massive block right and OOB. Back to 3 down. Lost the next (par 4) where I failed to hold the green (no [****] Sherlock) with my wedged 2nd shot, chipped and two putted for a 5 but Andy made 4. 4 down and not looking good as we came up to the 3 par 3's on the trot. Andy parred all of them, I only managed par on one so I now found myself 6 down. Bloody hell!!
Played the next hole brilliantly, hit a great drive down, 9 iron which finished up about 2 feet from the pin. Andy applauded but he too had hit the green.... but was much further away. He two putted, I had my tiddler to get it back to 5 down but bloody missed it. Halved the next hole in 5's (par 4) and was then faced with an uphill par 3 (and I mean uphill) of some 150 yards. Andy hit his shot well but finished right of the green. Me? I hit my six iron with all the grace and finesse of a felled Ox. Fatted it about 50 yards! Wedged up but hit the green yet again and clattered out the back. Andy chipped on and two putted for a bogie 4 whilst I chipped back and missed the first putt makin a bloody 5. We shook hands, and it was then that I suggested we call it a one round match and gave it to him. I didn't fancy standing on the first tee at Highwoods next Sunday starting 7 down!!
All in all a crap day. A crap course. I played crap. The weather was crap. Did I mention the course was crap???? But I met a nice bloke. I wished him well for the next round, bought him a pint and then pissed off home
Played the next hole brilliantly, hit a great drive down, 9 iron which finished up about 2 feet from the pin. Andy applauded but he too had hit the green.... but was much further away. He two putted, I had my tiddler to get it back to 5 down but bloody missed it. Halved the next hole in 5's (par 4) and was then faced with an uphill par 3 (and I mean uphill) of some 150 yards. Andy hit his shot well but finished right of the green. Me? I hit my six iron with all the grace and finesse of a felled Ox. Fatted it about 50 yards! Wedged up but hit the green yet again and clattered out the back. Andy chipped on and two putted for a bogie 4 whilst I chipped back and missed the first putt makin a bloody 5. We shook hands, and it was then that I suggested we call it a one round match and gave it to him. I didn't fancy standing on the first tee at Highwoods next Sunday starting 7 down!!
All in all a crap day. A crap course. I played crap. The weather was crap. Did I mention the course was crap???? But I met a nice bloke. I wished him well for the next round, bought him a pint and then pissed off home
Ouchy,
It sounds like a track that you need to play regularly to learn to score on. Hywel and I have bitten the bullet and entered the Volvo Matchplay (use to be the Daily Telegraph/Wilson) and we should get the first round draw in early June. 4 ball better ball so you can guess who'll be doing all the work and carrying me again
I guess the only consolation was that whilst you didn't play great you came across a decent guy who was clearly playing well on a course he understood.
It sounds like a track that you need to play regularly to learn to score on. Hywel and I have bitten the bullet and entered the Volvo Matchplay (use to be the Daily Telegraph/Wilson) and we should get the first round draw in early June. 4 ball better ball so you can guess who'll be doing all the work and carrying me again
I guess the only consolation was that whilst you didn't play great you came across a decent guy who was clearly playing well on a course he understood.
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