Arthur Wedge
Well-known member
To add to this , the lad is now awake and today stood up and said his first words - some really encouraging steps for him
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To add to this , the lad is now awake and today stood up and said his first words - some really encouraging steps for him
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Saw one of our GK's today. They are putting down MOT of a long path from a winter tee to the next tee (the holes cross). He was saying about other courses posting on FB about doing xyz work on their course, and they couldn't do any on ours as they were chopping the fallen trees down. Give me strength. Leave the damn things where they are (they were no hazzard), and do the work the course needs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well. They'll be my £1.3L short come April as well as the £7K from another six I know are leaving. Good eh?
DeanoMK
Club Champion
First proper competition of the year yesterday, however, it was non qualifying due to being off the new winter tees.
I played well, 36 points with a blob but I knew there were going to be some high scores and lo and behold, two people came in with 46 points. For me to have a chance, I need to shoot 1 under gross......
I played well, 36 points with a blob but I knew there were going to be some high scores and lo and behold, two people came in with 46 points. For me to have a chance, I need to shoot 1 under gross......
Crazyface
Tour Winner
It never ceases to amazed at what people score in the winter. The group I've just joined up with dock the winner each time they play. Todays winner with 38 points is currently playing off 6 (H/C 11). Me? 27 points off 13 (H/C 15) How do they do it?
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Also, our GK (again). (We think) Putting a new winter mat down. 3 weeks before the start of the season! Well it'll be ready for the start of winter said one bloke full of positivity. "You sound like my bluddy misses" LOL
Oh and golf mats. I've asked our Pro if he's got any of those Spurk ones. No none left. I could see if another place has got any. Ok, just let me know. That was 13.30pm today. Have had a call? Nope! Now before you jump in. He's got nothing else to do. It's a sale, and therefore money for him. BTW, we all think he's rubbish. The joke at the club is if you want something for winter or summer for got to get your order in 12 months in advance.
Oh and golf mats. I've asked our Pro if he's got any of those Spurk ones. No none left. I could see if another place has got any. Ok, just let me know. That was 13.30pm today. Have had a call? Nope! Now before you jump in. He's got nothing else to do. It's a sale, and therefore money for him. BTW, we all think he's rubbish. The joke at the club is if you want something for winter or summer for got to get your order in 12 months in advance.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I'm definitely shocked when a high handicapper beats his handicap in winter. For a good ball-striker I can understand it, with the greens soft and tees shortened, they only need to go up one club for the cold and lack of roll and it's easy for them to hit and hold greens. But when I was a higher handicapper I found winter golf impossible to score well - when the slightest fat contact means hitting mud and your balls goes 60% of the distance. Zero roll means all long par 4s are three-shotters. I don't know the handicaps of the ones Deano was talking about, but for 46 points to even be possible they'd have to be fairly high you would think. Unless his course is a hell of a lot shorter for winter and a 6 handicapper shot 4 under.
The Squirrel
Well-known member
Depends on course.I'm definitely shocked when a high handicapper beats his handicap in winter. For a good ball-striker I can understand it, with the greens soft and tees shortened, they only need to go up one club for the cold and lack of roll and it's easy for them to hit and hold greens. But when I was a higher handicapper I found winter golf impossible to score well - when the slightest fat contact means hitting mud and your balls goes 60% of the distance. Zero roll means all long par 4s are three-shotters. I don't know the handicaps of the ones Deano was talking about, but for 46 points to even be possible they'd have to be fairly high you would think. Unless his course is a hell of a lot shorter for winter and a 6 handicapper shot 4 under.
Our winter tee mats are well forward of the regular tees.
Add in some temp greens also well forward, and all of a sudden distance requirements are much lower.
I’ve been trying to get a hole-in-one at one of our par 4s for the last month as I can drive the green (well, more accurately I can drive it the same distance as the distance to the green but in a different and unintended direction) and I’m definitely no bomber
Neilds
Assistant Pro
You forgot to factor in the (almost) perfect lie from teeing the ball up on tufts of grass or worm castsI'm definitely shocked when a high handicapper beats his handicap in winter. For a good ball-striker I can understand it, with the greens soft and tees shortened, they only need to go up one club for the cold and lack of roll and it's easy for them to hit and hold greens. But when I was a higher handicapper I found winter golf impossible to score well - when the slightest fat contact means hitting mud and your balls goes 60% of the distance. Zero roll means all long par 4s are three-shotters. I don't know the handicaps of the ones Deano was talking about, but for 46 points to even be possible they'd have to be fairly high you would think. Unless his course is a hell of a lot shorter for winter and a 6 handicapper shot 4 under.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
I got a shot back from last weeks shocker of 28 points. And still managed to score less!!!! Again. How do they do it? I finished last and last!I'm definitely shocked when a high handicapper beats his handicap in winter. For a good ball-striker I can understand it, with the greens soft and tees shortened, they only need to go up one club for the cold and lack of roll and it's easy for them to hit and hold greens. But when I was a higher handicapper I found winter golf impossible to score well - when the slightest fat contact means hitting mud and your balls goes 60% of the distance. Zero roll means all long par 4s are three-shotters. I don't know the handicaps of the ones Deano was talking about, but for 46 points to even be possible they'd have to be fairly high you would think. Unless his course is a hell of a lot shorter for winter and a 6 handicapper shot 4 under.
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Maybe you need to up your game and play better. It’s not others fault you keep coming last perhap rather than complaining about how they’re doing it you should put the work into your own game
!irip
Head Pro
Don’t be so meanMaybe you need to up your game and play better. It’s not others fault you keep coming last perhap rather than complaining about how they’re doing it you should put the work into your own game
It’s obvious everyone else should stop trying and practicing so everyone is included and has a chance.
I had a mate years ago who was a 24 handicap.
He then retired and spent all winter at the range, had loads of lessons and got new clubs.
First competition he won it by a mile and people were calling him a bandit and worse.
They didn’t mind taking his money when he was playing rubbish though
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Mean me. No idea what you’re on about I’m a sensitive soul that would never upset anyone
Just makes me laugh when you see so many complain about others winning, moan it’s the fault of the handicap system, call people bandits or allude to them getting magic scores. Yet this always existed under the old system, people do have good days, there are rapidly improving players and the ironic part is when someone calls out others for it but states they’ve played crap but still not their fault for not being competitive
cliveb
Head Pro
Yes, but temp greens are a lottery to putt on (at my course, and I guess many others).
On one temp green your 6 foot putt bobbles about, misses the hole and races way past.
On the next temp, you hit a 6 foot putt the same pace and it stops 2 feet short.
Then when you go to tap that in, the ball somehow manages to slalom its way around the hole.
It's just impossible to putt with any confidence. (Or chip onto the green, for that matter).
That said, winter golf is good exercise for ball striking - anything less than perfect and you're stuffed.
Forget about the putting and use it as a training session for the irons.
The Squirrel
Well-known member
Forgot to mention ... we're also on mats in winter; get a Spurk and it's like hitting at the driving range
Yes temp' greens are a lottery, though if you're bad enough at putting(we are talking whether high handicapers should beat their handicap in winter remember) that's as likely to help as to hinder.
Balance against that, temp greens further forward will take all the greenside bunkers out of play. Again if we're talking high handicappers, bunkers are particularly penal as escaping a bunker is not necessarily a one-shot exercise, so removing their danger is a BIG reducer of scores.
Shorter tee. Shorter green, mats on fairways. No greenside bunkers. You could be talking some holes playing nearly a full 2 shots easier than in summer...
