Haha, I'm the same - not a single par 4 at mine where I'm not taking a headcover off. Irons are for hitting greens!
I did exactly the last time I played.
So boring getting pars and lots of birdies.
I feel your pain! I had two near misses yesterday in the Wednesday Stableford, first one on the 5th, pitched 15 feet over the top of the flag and spun back to within 2 inches of the hole! Looked like a footprint prevented it from going in, it's uphill so we couldn't see.For 2nd time in two months my tee shot on our par 13th finished within one-handed tap-in distance of a hole-in-one. Back in Nov it was a ball width away - yesterday it was 6". Reasons to be cheerful, Par 3? (sorry - if you know you know). Of course. But in my quest for my first ever hole-in-one I might as well have missed the green...
I’m sure it’ll change by then, even if it’s just showers and you end up tweaking your tee times to play at the best times. Fingers crossed for you.
So boring getting pars and lots of birdies.
. He’d get more birdies, but also more bogeys. Obviously I do understand that he doesn’t play golf to entertain me, but if I was at his level I would probably be more aggressive in the monthly medal and save the conservative strategy for more important competitions.Portugal is on the Atlantic coast. It gets more rain than Milton Keynes, and it’s mostly concentrated in the period from November to March. I know many people (including me) who have had wet golf holidays in the Algarve, you have to expect it at this time of year. Good luck with the weather, but don’t forget your waterproofs!
Yeah, distance is everything at all levels. One of the things that annoys me watching some YouTubers is when they claim to be off like 6 or something, when they're hitting tops and shanks and generally looking much worse than me. Then I see they're hitting driver 290 yards and it all makes sense. The game's so much easier.Quite. On a 400 yard par 4, I’m hitting driver 250 and then an 8 iron, whilst he is hitting 4 iron and a PW, so I did understand he was playing the percentages and we talked about it.
But it would have been more entertaining for me if he hit driver and left himself a flick with a wedge
I haven't played since Dec 27th. Our course has been closed every weekend since then, most days midweek as well. It is not a bad draining course, there has just been too much rain, relentless rain. The water table is so high. It's been closed all of this week, I expect it to stay close at the weekend based on the firecast for the rest of the week.
