Forest Pines Meet 2016

[ruff-driver]

A few snaps of this great weekend:thup:

Team Farts


Team Whippersnappers


Captains tee shots



A few of the course




And a big up to steve & dave from day 1, a great tussle resulted in a draw

 

[Kraxx68]

Awesome few days guys - great win for us youngsters (coff) - Quick thanks once again to Rob who organised a fantastic few days... take a bow oldman

Thanks to all the youngsters, well played... :whoo:

 

[patricks148]

I didn't know George Doors was a forum member??:rofl:

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Looking at those pics forest pines looks in very good condition.

 

[irip]

Ruff Driver
Sorry mate you made a mistake, instead of posting a picture of the old farts you have put one up of dads army.

Dont tell em your name smiffy:rofl:

 

[ruff-driver]

Ruff Driver
Sorry mate you made a mistake, instead of posting a picture of the old farts you have put one up of dads army.

Dont tell em your name smiffy:rofl:

Team colours for next year to match their golf...DRAB :rofl:

 

[Region3]

Looking at those pics forest pines looks in very good condition.

It really was. Considering the amount (and dare I say type) of traffic they get, it was superb.
Not an unusual amount of divots or pitchmarks, and the only thing I'd even start to criticise was that the greens were a little slow and soft but I can forgive that with all the rain we've had lately.

Even though the rough is only a couple of inches deep it was incredibly difficult to play good shots from, very thick and lush.

It was a decent test of golf without being overly punishing.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Could someone do a L-R names please on those pics as quite a few I don't recognise :thup:

 

[Hobbit]

Difficult to tell which team are the old farts and which are the whippersnappers

 

[ruff-driver]

Difficult to tell which team are the old farts and which are the whippersnappers

Agree the hair colour is the same but the youngsters have their own teeth :rofl:

 

[Smiffy]

It really was. Considering the amount (and dare I say type) of traffic they get, it was superb.
Even though the rough is only a couple of inches deep it was incredibly difficult to play good shots from, very thick and lush.
It was a decent test of golf without being overly punishing.

Spot on Gary. All three courses were in superb condition, especially when you consider how busy they are.
The greens could have done with being a bit "nippier" but they only a smidgen from being "perfect"
I hear what you say about the rough!! It was very deceiving. You thought you had a great lie in it, only to find your club come to a grinding halt and half the distance was knocked off.
Chipping out of it from around the green was a bit nervy to say the least!
Despite the "Beeches" 9 being looked on as the poorer of the 3 9's, I was very impressed with the condition of it, and a few of the holes on there were "stand out" ones, especially the 2nd and 3rd.
I certainly wouldn't mind having two bashes at it next time. It's the one 9 where I think some prior knowledge would come in really handy. I had only played it the once before, and that was a good few years ago, so I couldn't really remember it.

 

[Fish]

Some dodgy swings from the leading 4-ball :smirk:

First up, James (Just One)

[video=youtube_share;M4aOE5FDQXI]https://youtu.be/M4aOE5FDQXI[/video]

 

[Fish]

Second up Stu (Kraxx68)

[video=youtube_share;CqjLnyB_PPU]https://youtu.be/CqjLnyB_PPU[/video]

 

[Fish]

Third is Chris (ChrisD)

[video=youtube_share;mo1DwxmFhmo]https://youtu.be/mo1DwxmFhmo[/video]

 

[Fish]

I'm still playing and editing our illustrious leaders first drive, it will be uploaded soon :smirk:

 

[chrisd]

Cheers for doing that Robin

 

[Deleted member 17920]

It really was. Considering the amount (and dare I say type) of traffic they get, it was superb.
Not an unusual amount of divots or pitchmarks, and the only thing I'd even start to criticise was that the greens were a little slow and soft but I can forgive that with all the rain we've had lately.

Even though the rough is only a couple of inches deep it was incredibly difficult to play good shots from, very thick and lush.

It was a decent test of golf without being overly punishing.

Fair play and if Forest Pines got the same amount of rain we had over the weekend its impossible to keep them fast and smooth.

I must get over for a game as its been a few years since I last played it.

 

[fundy]

Some dodgy swings from the leading 4-ball :smirk:

First up, James (Just One)

[video=youtube_share;M4aOE5FDQXI]https://youtu.be/M4aOE5FDQXI[/video]

nothing dodgy with that swing (just the body swinging it lol), good to see James has still got it

 

[Marshy77]

Spot on Gary. All three courses were in superb condition, especially when you consider how busy they are.
The greens could have done with being a bit "nippier" but they only a smidgen from being "perfect"
I hear what you say about the rough!! It was very deceiving. You thought you had a great lie in it, only to find your club come to a grinding halt and half the distance was knocked off.
Chipping out of it from around the green was a bit nervy to say the least!
Despite the "Beeches" 9 being looked on as the poorer of the 3 9's, I was very impressed with the condition of it, and a few of the holes on there were "stand out" ones, especially the 2nd and 3rd.
I certainly wouldn't mind having two bashes at it next time. It's the one 9 where I think some prior knowledge would come in really handy. I had only played it the once before, and that was a good few years ago, so I couldn't really remember it.

Agree with that. When we played a couple of weeks ago I thought the Beeches course was as good as the other 2 yet it doesn't get the same praise. The 3rd is a cracking hole and really liked the layout of the 9 holes.

Course was in fantastic condition as you say, we really enjoyed our stay.

 

[Region3]

Be interested to hear if anyone else struggled guessing what the wind was doing, on the Beeches especially.

There was no rhyme or reason to guessing which way it might be blowing from any previous holes, and it kept changing before we played our shots.

More than a couple of times I hit a shot knowing I had the wrong club, but not wanting to change it again.