AliB
Q-School Graduate
Good day at Wales Open but CM need to sharpen up a bit before 2010!
Car-park was a quagmire (and that was going in) and the whole course is quite low-lying and liable to get v. muddy.
The catering was pretty minimal so just as well we had our sarnies. Coffee was like dish-water - beer was okay and cheaper than the coffee but only availabe in 'tented village' which looked more like a summer fete in Ambridge than big golf event.
Still, we enjoyed the golf - mainly followed clarke, Karlsson and Hanson (nearly had an ace) - also Harrington, Dougherty, Monty (who had a good day)and Dredge (who didn't).
Best fun was prob Havret , Efors, Ilonen. Edfors went for green on second shot of par 5 where everyone else laid up. Went Ob with 3-wood so tried again with driver - need I say more? Apparently he then broke the rake in a neighbouring bunker in temper. Mind you, played a great shot from the rough to get down for 6!
Lasting impression? - those who ended up in greenside bunkers ALL got up and down, i.e. I need a bunker lesson or 2 (and in what way are these hazards for the pros?)
Stayed from 8.30 to 6, including a demo from Harrington (the 'big name' of teh tournament - except he missed the cut!) so got our money's worth.
I think a tight course but not especially scenic aprt from new eighteenth - stunning from behnd the green (well, it would be, wouldn't it!)
Now have to summon up some energy to play tomorrow
And so to bed ...
AliB
Car-park was a quagmire (and that was going in) and the whole course is quite low-lying and liable to get v. muddy.
The catering was pretty minimal so just as well we had our sarnies. Coffee was like dish-water - beer was okay and cheaper than the coffee but only availabe in 'tented village' which looked more like a summer fete in Ambridge than big golf event.
Still, we enjoyed the golf - mainly followed clarke, Karlsson and Hanson (nearly had an ace) - also Harrington, Dougherty, Monty (who had a good day)and Dredge (who didn't).
Best fun was prob Havret , Efors, Ilonen. Edfors went for green on second shot of par 5 where everyone else laid up. Went Ob with 3-wood so tried again with driver - need I say more? Apparently he then broke the rake in a neighbouring bunker in temper. Mind you, played a great shot from the rough to get down for 6!
Lasting impression? - those who ended up in greenside bunkers ALL got up and down, i.e. I need a bunker lesson or 2 (and in what way are these hazards for the pros?)
Stayed from 8.30 to 6, including a demo from Harrington (the 'big name' of teh tournament - except he missed the cut!) so got our money's worth.
I think a tight course but not especially scenic aprt from new eighteenth - stunning from behnd the green (well, it would be, wouldn't it!)
Now have to summon up some energy to play tomorrow
And so to bed ...
AliB