Essex_Stu
Tour Rookie
So happy today so just had to brag/share it. Our club Championship is played over two days and after a complete disaster yesterday which resulted in a N/R(balls randomley vanishing) I wasn't too optimistic today especially with the strong wind, my confidence was so low I was only taking a hybrid off the tee for par 4&5's. Running alongside the main championship is a Comp for 20.5hcp over 18 holes off scratch. Well my round today couldn't of started any worse. Walked off the 10th(my 1st hole) with an 8 on a par 4. Then hit some rhythem and bogeyed 11,12,13,14,15 before a nasty triple on the 16th. Bogeys at 17&18 gave me a 49 going out. Finally had a par on the 1st then bogeys at 2&3 before another par on the 4th. Then disaster struck.
I hit a hybrid to the centre of the fairway on 5 and helped my partner find his ball in the woods tucked up against a tree. I start to walk away, turn back to see him moving his ball away from the tree!!!. Couldnt belive what I just saw and waited to see if he called it unplayable. Of course he didn't!. Being angry at this I thinned a hybrid right into the bunker lip then followed it up by hitting a 7 iron into the cabbage. A couple of hack outs and a 3 putt and I walked off with a 9. Then got stuck somehow behind the ladies medal which was a fourball. Double bogeyed the par 3 6th before a bogey at 7 and a triple at 8 after waiting 5 minutes on the tee. Bogeyed the last for a gross 49 in which gave me a total of 98 nett 75. No chance of winning it I thought. Watched each group come in before the winners were announced.
Couldnt believe it when the captain announced second place(a very good 21hcp) was 101. Then I got announced as the winner of the Tom Attree trophy!. Honestly thought I had no chance at all but seemed everyone else struggled with the wind. Won 3 comps recently but this win just seems so much more important to me. Really happy but so annoyed about my playing partner cheating and the ladies comp being sent off in the middle of the Club Championship. But in the end it was a good weekend.
Two questions for you guys/gals though. What was your first trophy and how should I of pulled up my playing partner over his "preferred lie"?
I hit a hybrid to the centre of the fairway on 5 and helped my partner find his ball in the woods tucked up against a tree. I start to walk away, turn back to see him moving his ball away from the tree!!!. Couldnt belive what I just saw and waited to see if he called it unplayable. Of course he didn't!. Being angry at this I thinned a hybrid right into the bunker lip then followed it up by hitting a 7 iron into the cabbage. A couple of hack outs and a 3 putt and I walked off with a 9. Then got stuck somehow behind the ladies medal which was a fourball. Double bogeyed the par 3 6th before a bogey at 7 and a triple at 8 after waiting 5 minutes on the tee. Bogeyed the last for a gross 49 in which gave me a total of 98 nett 75. No chance of winning it I thought. Watched each group come in before the winners were announced.
Couldnt believe it when the captain announced second place(a very good 21hcp) was 101. Then I got announced as the winner of the Tom Attree trophy!. Honestly thought I had no chance at all but seemed everyone else struggled with the wind. Won 3 comps recently but this win just seems so much more important to me. Really happy but so annoyed about my playing partner cheating and the ladies comp being sent off in the middle of the Club Championship. But in the end it was a good weekend.
Two questions for you guys/gals though. What was your first trophy and how should I of pulled up my playing partner over his "preferred lie"?
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