GM Midlands Meet #1

I'll be wearing my black Cross waterproof bottoms as I think it could be a bit soft underfoot in places and their very warm. Black AQL's, Black UA baselayer, black UA Polo and a lined jumper which amazingly isn't black :eek: Sunderland L/W Jacket (Black) in the bag which I don't expect to get out, unless its a little chilly at the start.

Like yesterday, it was a chilly start but after 2 holes we were down to short sleeve order.

I have demanded the sun makes an appearance for our entire round ;)

Buggies might be available tomorrow but I didn't see any today.

With the suggested £2 in the sweep each there will be 3 prizes up for grabs if everyone takes part, £18 for the winner, £9 for 2nd and £5 for 3rd which I think is a good split, I'll bring a booby prize along for the wooden spoon (lowest score) ;)
 
Like others has said Fish, please don't wait around for me if i'm not there before you want to warm up, I'm aiming to be there before 9, but you never know.
 
Big thanks for all your hard work Fish. We should be there "around" 9. Have arranged kid cover but was planning on getting there at 0930. I can be on the road for 8:30, so won't be far behind.

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Ok not a problem for those coming closer to 9am or later. I just worked backwards for everyone to be together at the 1st just after 10am, 30 minutes on the range and chipping area (free token supplied), 10/15 minutes putting and 20/30 minutes food & drink with introductions. Had that to just over 1hr-ish pre-game as an average so I suppose closer to 9am suits more people and some people just turn up and play!

As Rick said, its the military background embedded in me ;)

See you all later, looking forward to meeting you all.
 
Ill be the first to say a big thank you to Fish for an excellent day.....and to the guys I played with today...it was nice to play with the eventual winner, who hit some excellent shots and to lee who played his first full 18 holes on a championship course!!! Nice to meet some fellow forumers....Thanks guys and off course Jan for a good day...
 
Well I'm home already ;) in fact, I've already had a couple of cups of tea ;)

Anyway, today's report.

It was a very harsh frost here this morning and on arrival at the course around 8.30am I was informed that there was going to be another inspection at 09.30 due to the severe frost and as such we could be going off late!

That in fact worked out OK as we then all eventually met in the Zest bar because some that only lived in Leicestershire took 2 hours to find the course :eek: We then all had our coffee's and Bacon Rolls, went off to the range, chipped a few in that area also and then finished off on the putting green before teeing off on the 10th at 10.30hrs (13 minutes later than scheduled).

The course was very wet in some area's, but considering on Wednesday we were still under a few inches of snow and then rain all Thursday night I think it held up a lot better than some courses I have played recently. Even in the eventual sunshine and chilly wind there were some damp area's and the greens were soft and bumpy due to feet marks that couldn't recover. As the first group out on the course I was amazed at how many unrepaired pitch marks there were, obviously from the day before. The wettest area's were between the greens and the next tee's so that didn't really affect the game as such but in some area's it was very boggy. You had to stay on the fairway or it was very tough.

With no run on the fairways the course played very long and was a tough test of golf for everyone of all handicaps, not the place for your first 18 holes of golf on a Championship course! Anything just short of the greens would comfortably plug so getting your distance and approach shots right was the order of the day and attack the pin. All the scores achieved most certainly reflected the level of difficulty everyone faced today, but at least it was dry (no rain) and we got out there to play 18 holes and meet some new faces ;)

My companions for the day were Chris (Slicer30), Steve (Gibbo) and Jan (Teegirl) who were full of banter and were great company and all of them showed a great attitude towards today's tough conditions whilst at times displaying some good golf. I thank them for there excellent company today :thup:

To the spoils

1st Prize went to Fundy (£18)
2nd Prize went to Andy "guest of Zlinuk" £9)
3rd Prize went to Andy "guest of Region3" (£5)

4th WideEyedFox
5th Fish
6th Cirrus
7th Teegirl
8th Rob2 (on countback)
9th Mark "Region3 guest" (on countback)
10th Ping (on countback)
11th Paul "Region3 guest" (on countback)
12th Slicer30 (on countback)
13th Gibbo (on countback)
14th Zlinuk
15th Region3 (withdrew scoring after 9 holes)

16th Wooden Spoon and for finding the water more than anyone else went to Lee, WideEyedFox's guest (Frog cuddly toy)

The winning score was only 32 points from a very competent golfer ;) so that underlines the difficulty we all experienced today.

Thank you to everyone who made the journey and I hope you enjoyed the day and the course which wasn't at its best but then again it is mid February and I am sure you can all see that if it were not for the extreme weather conditions we have endured recently it could have been a much better day and course conditions but at least we got out their to play.

Teegirl on the Tee.jpg

Teegirl erm, on the Tee, nice swing ;)

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Gibbo concentrating

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Slicer30, his practice swing was excellent, the next photo had to be destroyed along with a couple of ducks that he wounded with his duffed tee shot ;)

Nice to have met lots of new faces;)

Robin (Fish)
 
Just back home here, massive thanks to Robin for organising, it was a nice smooth forum meet (as they all seem to be) and nice to play with 3 guys Ive not played with before, so thanks to them for the company :)

Course was very wet in spots and pretty tough, was a good day to hit a lot of fairways (rare for me lol) and even then it was still tough getting the ball back to the holes, like most I expect the front edge of the greens got more than their fair share of action!

Roll on Friday and Tadmarton Heath ;)
 
fundy said:
I took it as the compliment it was meant Ian :p
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It was a compliment, knowing you've been a scratch player and possibly the lowest handicap out there today, so if you found it tough, the rest of us felt it more.
 
crap course, crap company and crap golf!!! ;)

only kidding, well apart from the crap golf.

just supping a brew and contemplating going to bed, shattered doesnt even come close.

Great to play with some new faces, apologies for any mild tantrums, at least I didnt helicopter a club after umpteen duffs from the soggy rough.

I can't believe how quick the day goes. Pants 1st 9 from me and a mediocre 2nd 9. 3 balls into water on par 3's so ditched the dx2 and played a soft feel or noodle combo = much better, obviously the cheaper the ball the better I hit them so its pinnacles all the way from now on.

Massive thanks to Steve (fundy) for the lift and the conversation both to and from FoA & to Robin for organising :thup:

Overall a very decent day out that is much better than sitting at home or doing housework

Oh yeah, 5-0 to the mighty reds - Get in there my son :D
 
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Another stat for the day, out of 16 players, there was a single birdie all day, and it wasn't a par 3 :eek:
 
Imurg said:
Mr Montague on a par 5 by any chance...?
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Was actually me on our first hole of the day (the 10th), longish dogleg par 4, hybrid off the tee left me 195 in up the hill, hit a 4 iron to 25 feet and canned it, probably missed 5 easier chanes afterwards though lol. The par 5 I shouldve birdied I dumped the appraoch in the water lol
 
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