Golf Random Irritations

[HomerJSimpson]

Update

The club emailed me and confirmed there had been a huge admin cock-up and apologised. They also offered a number of bottles of wine each as an act of good faith which was a decent thing to do. The consensus amongst the group id they simply want the correct results published in the next news letter so we get the recognition of the second place and that the cost of the wine should go to the Ukranian charity money was being raised for

A shame it happened but it did and of course we couldn't expect anything to the value of the cost of second place prizes on the day but a reasonable outcome. I had suggested the credit to everyones club card which would have been a win-win as the club still get the cash back when the member bought food and drink but the wine was a nice touch

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

After a mess-up round I moaned to my pro/coach how much I was struggling with my new hybrid and that it was getting me into all sorts of problems on the course even though it was starting to work fine for me on the practice ground. His answer? We’ll just don’t take it out for the time being. And so for my planned knock tomorrow it stays in the car. Genius.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

After a mess-up round I moaned to my pro/coach how much I was struggling with my new hybrid and that it was getting me into all sorts of problems on the course even though it was starting to work fine for me on the practice ground. His answer? We’ll just don’t take it out for the time being. And so for my planned knock tomorrow it stays in the car. Genius.

Money well spent then. Poor advice and service imo

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Money well spent then. Poor advice and service imo

I’ll maybe not tell him that…? He’s giving me a free lesson next week (though all my lessons are free ?) and we’ll look to work on sorting it out then as we both know why I do what I do with it…?.

Meanwhile I’ll take his advice as truth is where I tend to use it I can easy take an alternative (though I might think differently after playing tomorrow).

 

[SteveW86]

Money well spent then. Poor advice and service imo

Why do you think this is poor service and advice?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Why do you think this is poor service and advice?

Because if I was paying for lessons and had an issue I'd want my pro to be giving me some advice, not just saying don't hit it. Even if the lesson is next week if that club is in my bag I want to know I can use the club if I need to and would want to be able to hit it with a degree of confidence and expectation.

 

[SteveW86]

Because if I was paying for lessons and had an issue I'd want my pro to be giving me some advice, not just saying don't hit it. Even if the lesson is next week if that club is in my bag I want to know I can use the club if I need to and would want to be able to hit it with a degree of confidence and expectation.

Ah, was your money well spent comment was because you thought SILH had paid for a lesson then, or the money spent to buy the club?

I think SILH has commented several times that his coach is family and he gets free lessons, as a frequent poster I’m surprised you hadn’t picked this up. I took the coaches comment to mean, put it aside for now and we can look at it when we next have a lesson.

Personally I think if something has stopped working, putting it aside for a round or two and coming back to it can be helpful, it’s often something in the mind that it causing the issue and this little break can reset you, but we are all different.

 

[BubbaP]

Missing out on a Place in the comp by a shot.....but still scoring well enough to get cut enough to lose a shot next time out..
Kick a Man while he's down eh?

Yep, looks like I've joined you ? Slightly feels like a missed opportunity, but then it's time to wheel out the ol' trusty ...
When you meet someone and they find out you play golf, do they ask if you recently placed in a little club comp, or ask what your handicap is? ???

 

[Deleted member 23270]

Yep, looks like I've joined you ? Slightly feels like a missed opportunity, but then it's time to wheel out the ol' trusty ...
When you meet someone and they find out you play golf, do they ask if you recently placed in a little club comp, or ask what your handicap is? ???

Neither........

Have you had a hole in one? ?

 

[Captainron]

Because if I was paying for lessons and had an issue I'd want my pro to be giving me some advice, not just saying don't hit it. Even if the lesson is next week if that club is in my bag I want to know I can use the club if I need to and would want to be able to hit it with a degree of confidence and expectation.

Not at all. Sometimes the best short term advice is to eliminate a part of your game which puts you in trouble.

 

[backwoodsman]

Because if I was paying for lessons and had an issue I'd want my pro to be giving me some advice, not just saying don't hit it. Even if the lesson is next week if that club is in my bag I want to know I can use the club if I need to and would want to be able to hit it with a degree of confidence and expectation.

Fair enough Homer. (Just remind us what your HI is now - and what it was 15 year ago when you joined the forum. And how much advice you've bought in between times )

 

[backwoodsman]

Coming to Spain to enjoy warmth & sunshine. Staying near the edge of the only desert in mainland europe. And playing golf in torrential rain.

 

[IanM]

Courses where previous tees and greens are in in each others way, so you have to wait for folk to play before you can.

 

[Foxholer]

Update

The club emailed me and confirmed there had been a huge admin cock-up and apologised...

Good to see someone is prepared to acknowedge their 'cock-up' and make good.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Playing in the early rain , shooting 1 under gross and not even in the top 15 ???????

 

[Rlburnside]

Texas scramble h/cs , having a 4 h/c playing in a team of 4 and team playing off 10, get a high h/capper in your side then your team will clear up.

I know it’s mainly supposed to be a fun day but starting out and knowing you can’t compete is not my idea of a fun day.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Ah, was your money well spent comment was because you thought SILH had paid for a lesson then, or the money spent to buy the club?

I think SILH has commented several times that his coach is family and he gets free lessons, as a frequent poster I’m surprised you hadn’t picked this up. I took the coaches comment to mean, put it aside for now and we can look at it when we next have a lesson.

Personally I think if something has stopped working, putting it aside for a round or two and coming back to it can be helpful, it’s often something in the mind that it causing the issue and this little break can reset you, but we are all different.

Correct. And he has been proved right. So much in the mind. The two rounds I've played with my hybrid left in car (as a temporary frustration-relief measure) I have managed just fine by hitting a 5i instead. And in a lesson with him tomorrow we'll have a look at my setup with the hybrid (as that is almost certainly my issue with it - in that I do not 'trust' my set up)

 

[mister v]

i cant hit a hybrid out on the course when it matters, its doing my brains in to the point i want to set fire to it. Im booking myself another lesson with a different pro to see what his take is.

 

[Jaco]

Can't find one of these (if we've even had one before) and I think it might be useful since golf irritations might get overlooked in the general OOB thread

I'll start with mine from the weekend...

Commentators (rightly) lauding up players when they land the ball several yards past the pin and backspin it to around pin high, then with the next breath/shot saying a player was “unlucky with the backspin there†when the ball lands pin high and spins back several yards. No the backspin wasn’t unlucky, the shot landed too short!

Pat Perez, can’t remember why but he just irritates me (come to think of it Charley Hoffman irritates me too)

4-putting because you were complacent with your tap-in 2nd putt and sent it screaming back down the hill!

Guys eyeing their shot through a rangefinder, shanking it 30 yards, then going through the same rigmarole all over again.….Have you NO embarrassment man?

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Mate of mine uses his range finder when he's 20-30 yards from the green. And then usually proceeds to either duff the chip or thin it through the green. I try so hard not to laugh but I am only human