Golf Random Irritations

[Crow]

Recently moved to a new club. The rough is less penal so I'm losing fewer balls.
However, the new club has hard, stoney paths for trolleys and buggeys to use when it's wet. Every round so far I've managed to keep landing my drives on them. I didn't lose any balls today but the paths scuffed up 2 sufficiently to leave them unusable.

Pretend that the paths are fairways.

Here to help

 

[HampshireHog]

Weather forecast for the weekend

 

[patricks148]

yet another weekend with still no prospect of being able to play.

 

[Imurg]

Looks like a good week to have the crappy weather we're likely to get..
Course closed tomorrow for Professionals Day..(can't play it anyway)
Sunday looks like Armageddon
Monday ladies comp
Tuesday Ladies open
Wed/Thur 9 holes shut for course maintenance....
Didn't want to play anyway...

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Golf shoes that have been wonderfully comfortable for two years are now rubbing my little toe. How did that happen?

 

[Pants]

Golf shoes that have been wonderfully comfortable for two years are now rubbing my little toe. How did that happen?

Think I would probably blame the toe, not the shoe

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Bogey comps

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Think I would probably blame the toe, not the shoe

It's the same toe that's been there for the last 2 years, so why now? I get your point though.

 

[Mandofred]

It's the same toe that's been there for the last 2 years, so why now? I get your point though.

Too many hills yesterday?

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Too many hills yesterday?

Ha ha, possibly. Maybe I have flat course feet

 

[Pants]

It's the same toe that's been there for the last 2 years, so why now? I get your point though.

You've only had that toe for 2 years??? Hardly run in yet

 

[Imurg]

For, I think, the 2nd time in nearly 5 years.....my course is closed due to rain....
Mind you it has been hammering down all night plus a lot of yesterday too....and it isn't going to stop anytime soon
The water table is still very high after the housings earlier in the year.
Didn't want to play anyway

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I have a sniffle (man flu defcom1) after standing in the rain for 2 days at the golf

 

[peld]

BETTER INWARD HALF

How is there not a more sensible alternative to this?
Small comp yesterday (medal/trophy winners final) - 5 players tied for the win with net +3, including me (course is so difficult)
I came 3rd, but 5th also had the same score.
Why is having a better back 9 deemed better than having a good front 9 when golf is played over 18 holes??

In the very old days, before penalty shoot outs, winners of drawn football matches were decided on number of corners as it demonstrated the best attacking team - what about number of eagles and birdies being the deciding factor in a tie? Order something like:
#gross eagles
#net eagles
#gross birdies
#net birdies
#gross pars

(and yes im favouring gross first for lower hcppers)

 

[Neilds]

BETTER INWARD HALF

How is there not a more sensible alternative to this?
Small comp yesterday (medal/trophy winners final) - 5 players tied for the win with net +3, including me (course is so difficult)
I came 3rd, but 5th also had the same score.
Why is having a better back 9 deemed better than having a good front 9 when golf is played over 18 holes??

In the very old days, before penalty shoot outs, winners of drawn football matches were decided on number of corners as it demonstrated the best attacking team - what about number of eagles and birdies being the deciding factor in a tie? Order something like:
#gross eagles
#net eagles
#gross birdies
#net birdies
#gross pars

(and yes im favouring gross first for lower hcppers)

If you used another method and you still lost would you then be moaning about that method? No one way is any fairer than another but something must be used and better that the same method is used everywhere.

 

[Orikoru]

BETTER INWARD HALF

How is there not a more sensible alternative to this?
Small comp yesterday (medal/trophy winners final) - 5 players tied for the win with net +3, including me (course is so difficult)
I came 3rd, but 5th also had the same score.
Why is having a better back 9 deemed better than having a good front 9 when golf is played over 18 holes??

In the very old days, before penalty shoot outs, winners of drawn football matches were decided on number of corners as it demonstrated the best attacking team - what about number of eagles and birdies being the deciding factor in a tie? Order something like:
#gross eagles
#net eagles
#gross birdies
#net birdies
#gross pars

(and yes im favouring gross first for lower hcppers)

If you think countback is silly already - imagine it at my course which has a three-tee start most weekends. Yet they still use countback, as in your score on holes 10 to 18, not the last nine you played. The one individual comp I ever won was a monthly Stableford, I won it on countback despite the fact I started on the 13th, so six of my countback holes were actually my first six holes.

Edit: I actually wouldn't have a problem with it being decided by best gross score / lowest handicap (since they would both amount to the same thing). It's harder for a 9 handicapper to achieve 40 points than a 29 handicapper, so why not give the lower guy the nod?

 

[peld]

If you used another method and you still lost would you then be moaning about that method? No one way is any fairer than another but something must be used and better that the same method is used everywhere.

I havent even looked whether I would have won or not (club didnt even put this a comp on BRS), and there was no prize or sweep - i just think BIH is a silly way to decide a competition. Was just highlighted from the result yesterday.

 

[BubbaP]

For, I think, the 2nd time in nearly 5 years.....my course is closed due to rain....
Mind you it has been hammering down all night plus a lot of yesterday too....and it isn't going to stop anytime soon
The water table is still very high after the housings earlier in the year.
Didn't want to play anyway

More 'auto-carrot'?

 

[Imurg]

 

[YandaB]

More 'auto-carrot'?