Golf Random Irritations

[Orikoru]

rain reactions

greenkeepers have banned trollies and buggies for today

How stupid. I just wouldn't be playing then, without my trolley I have nothing to stand my umbrella up on!

 

[Deleted member 21784]

How stupid. I just wouldn't be playing then, without my trolley I have nothing to stand my umbrella up on!

Carry bag with a Stadry towel over the top the club's

Hold the brolly in-between shots and when it's your shot put the stand down one of your bag slots.

Works well

Banning trolleys is a pain tho

 

[Orikoru]

Carry bag with a Stadry towel over the top the club's

Hold the brolly in-between shots and when it's your shot put the stand down one of your bag slots.

Works well

Banning trolleys is a pain tho

It's a lot more effort holding a brolly in one hand, picking up and putting on your carry bag with the other and vice versa though! Much easier to stay dry with the trolley.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

It's a lot more effort holding a brolly in one hand, picking up and putting on your carry bag with the other and vice versa though! Much easier to stay dry with the trolley.

Have to admit I do neither

Waterproof jacket

Waterproof hat

Rain gloves

Doesn't matter if my face gets wet

 

[Orikoru]

Have to admit I do neither

Waterproof jacket

Waterproof hat

Rain gloves

Doesn't matter if my face gets wet

Yeah I have all that stuff, it's just nice to have the respite of being under the brolley while you walk along, then you only really get wet briefly when you step out to hit. Plus I stick a dry towel up in the umbrella spokes to dry my hands on (I only tend to use the left rain glove rather than two).

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

what shaft is it ??

if its stock shaft they can usually be picked up cheap on the bay

A ProLunch Red Stiff (I think). However I think I might swallow my inherent reticence over spending a load of money on golf gear and go for new stuff. I've always gone down the 'make do and mend' or cheaper option route. Maybe after 50yrs playing this ruddy game and only now being able to afford to spend a bit before my earning ceases - I can treat myself - especially as my Mrs seems OK about it (I note she is looking for me to buy her a diamond necklace for a significant birthday she had just had...spending similar amount as a new set of irons plus a driver - on a necklace )

 

[patricks148]

A ProLunch Red Stiff (I think). However I think I might swallow my inherent reticence over spending a load of money on golf gear and go for new stuff. I've always gone down the 'make do and mend' or cheaper option route. Maybe after 50yrs playing this ruddy game and only now being able to afford to spend a bit before my earning ceases - I can treat myself - especially as my Mrs seems OK about it (I note she is looking for me to buy her a diamond necklace for a significant birthday she had just had...spending similar amount as a new set of irons plus a driver - on a necklace )

its your lucky day then, i have a mizuno Mp600 with pro launch red in stiff in it i don't use and havn't in about 10 years, yours for £20+postage, you will just need to get it pulled and stuck in your head by your pro

 

[NearHull]

Rain reaction number 3
course closed

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Yeah I have all that stuff, it's just nice to have the respite of being under the brolley while you walk along, then you only really get wet briefly when you step out to hit. Plus I stick a dry towel up in the umbrella spokes to dry my hands on (I only tend to use the left rain glove rather than two).

Bit like you I like to have a towel under my brolly but I don't have the umbrella stand. I'll simply put it partially down and stand it between bag and trolly. Doesn't bother me about any form of respite as once it's all wet, its all wet

 

[Slab]

While you're all faffing about with umbrellas... what the hell is your caddie doing!

 

[Orikoru]

While you're all faffing about with umbrellas... what the hell is your caddie doing!

She'll be at the shops or sitting at home watching TV.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

its your lucky day then, i have a mizuno Mp600 with pro launch red in stiff in it i don't use and havn't in about 10 years, yours for £20+postage, you will just need to get it pulled and stuck in your head by your pro

That sooo appeals to my 'make do and mend' thinking...

Especially as my Pro would do the fitting at no charge.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

She'll be at the shops or sitting at home watching TV.

No - she's cleaning my other golf shoes

 

[patricks148]

having a great lie in a NPZ, and having to drop it into the scabiest part of the rough, full of holes... and the ball goes straight into one of said holes

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I can knock off early today and fancied a few holes by myself - I need the 'me-time' on the course to sort my golf head out.. Checking tee availability - plenty of spaces with others but no empty tee times until 6:30pm...

Now I know we need a tee booking system at the moment to manage numbers - but in normal times we don't have a tee booking system and so I would just have rocked up at about 5pm and if the tee was free head off by myself - or wait my turn. And I wouldn't have had to wait until 6:30pm.

Even now I don't want to put my name down for 6:30pm in case another member sticks their name down with me. That might sound very anti-social or miserable, but I really just need to have time by myself on the golf course. And so I'll book a time on the practice ground and when 6:00pm comes around I'll book the 6:30pm slot. If it's taken I'll decide whether to play or not. A bit frustrating and the main reason I'll probably still be in the 'no tee booking' camp (other than for comps) when we next come to debate it in the club.

 

[Mandofred]

I'm breaking club rules....I'm a bad boy. We aren't officially able to practice on the field and play on the same day. There are so many other people starting to break rules that I'm fed up with not being able to warm up/practice before I play. I've started going out about 45 minutes before I play (also breaking the "don't arrive more than 15 minutes before playing" rule) and hitting about 20 balls with wedges just to see what isn't working on the day. It's about 7:30am.....nobody around..... I'm just hoping our old roll-up groups can start before toooooo much longer. Just not as much fun without them going.

 

[Slab]

I can knock off early today and fancied a few holes by myself - I need the 'me-time' on the course to sort my golf head out.. Checking tee availability - plenty of spaces with others but no empty tee times until 6:30pm...

Now I know we need a tee booking system at the moment to manage numbers - but in normal times we don't have a tee booking system and so I would just have rocked up at about 5pm and if the tee was free head off by myself - or wait my turn. And I wouldn't have had to wait until 6:30pm.

Even now I don't want to put my name down for 6:30pm in case another member sticks their name down with me. That might sound very anti-social or miserable, but I really just need to have time by myself on the golf course. And so I'll book a time on the practice ground and when 6:00pm comes around I'll book the 6:30pm slot. If it's taken I'll decide whether to play or not. A bit frustrating and the main reason I'll probably still be in the 'no tee booking' camp (other than for comps) when we next come to debate it in the club.

If there’s demand sufficient to book all tee slots to 6;30 what happens if there was no booking system, would all these players also be there at 5pm meaning there’s still no tee slot till 6:30

You still cant tee off till 6.30pm so what’s the difference?

(genuine question, I haven't used a 'turn up and wait' system)

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

If there’s demand sufficient to book all tee slots to 6;30 what happens if there was no booking system, would all these players also be there at 5pm meaning there’s still no tee slot till 6:30

You still cant tee off till 6.30pm so what’s the difference?

(genuine question, I haven't used a 'turn up and wait' system)

In normal times let's say the groups turning up to play would arrive steadily in advance of their respective tee times. But unless they were all standing by the 1st tee when I turned up at 5pm then I'd follow those that were. Chances are that all players of all groups planning to tee off after 5:30pm wouldn't be there at 5pm. I might have to wait for maybe three groups to tee off - and even then that assumes that all members of these three groups were by the tee or on the putting green (by the 1st tee) when I put my ball in the chute at 5pm.

 

[Slab]

In normal times let's say the groups turning up to play would arrive steadily in advance of their respective tee times. But unless they were all standing by the 1st tee when I turned up at 5pm then I'd follow those that were. Chances are that all players of all groups planning to tee off after 5:30pm wouldn't be there at 5pm. I might have to wait for maybe three groups to tee off - and even then that assumes that all members of these three groups were by the tee or on the putting green (by the 1st tee) when I put my ball in the chute at 5pm.

But while its exceptional for covid etc, doesn't the booking system show that those tee slots are needed, so if you were to slot in based on arrival time then someone else has to miss out at worst or get delayed at best?

 

[Imurg]

On Friday there is a competition, a qualifier, for the Elders or Seniors as most people know them as.....
I'm 1 day too young to play in it...