Golf Things That Gladden The Heart

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Great 6 under today by Lottie Woad in the 2nd round of the Women’s Amateur Championship being played over Portmarnock.

Just what’s required following her 3 under 1st round that had seen her joint leader. Now she’s finished the strokeplay element of the championship five ahead of 2nd place. But that’s now by-the-by as it’s now 64 who made the cut into six rounds of matchplay.

Lottie Woad leading qualifier at The 121st Women's Amateur

World number one Lottie Woad led the way among the qualifiers for the match play stage of The 121st Women’s Amateur Championship at Portmarnock today.

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[Bdill93]

Great 6 under today by Lottie Woad in the 2nd round of the Women’s Amateur Championship being played over Portmarnock.

Just what’s required following her 3 under 1st round that had seen her joint leader. Now she’s finished the strokeplay element of the championship five ahead of 2nd place. But that’s now by-the-by as it’s now 64 who made the cut into six rounds of matchplay.

Lottie Woad leading qualifier at The 121st Women's Amateur

World number one Lottie Woad led the way among the qualifiers for the match play stage of The 121st Women’s Amateur Championship at Portmarnock today.

www.randa.org

What a funky format that is! Good luck to her!!

 

[Bratty]

Hitting a 310 yard drive down a par 4 in a Texas Scramble with baby fade to the centre of the fairway. Personal best for me and unlikely to get repeated any time soon. Love North Foreland GC!

 

[Tashyboy]

Arrived last at the course yesterday for our fuddle. Quick practice and last to the tee. we were playing 3 ball teams and there was 9 lads at the tee. They bust a gut to tell me that one of the lads who was most vocal about me being the first to play off yellows was actually playing off the yellows in the fuddle. They were gobsmacked and gave him some stick. Out of 18 lads over half went off the yellows. Am not sure why there was a change of heart, but on Tuesday they decided for everyone to play off yellows as a few of the lads were paired to play board comps. I think a few enjoyed it and decided to stick with the yellow pots.
So when we were sat at the 19th I was suttle in how I brought it up.
Suffice to say a few of the lads got quite vocal about it. One of the lads who is usually very quiet asked “Is there much of an advantage in playing off yellows”. A guy said “ of course there is”. “ well bloody play off them” he replied. It was quite funny listening to them disagree over what pots to play from. Ironically the guy who moaned about playing off yellows. His 3 ball cleaned up overall for a steady £54.

 

[DeanoMK]

My index is now down to 10.9.

Even if it goes up from here, I don't mind, I've smashed through my goal for this year and I couldn't be happier.

I will of course try and get to a single figure index, but I'm just going to keep playing my golf and let everything happen naturally.

 

[Dingy]

I've made a few changes to my swing recently and it's starting to come together now resulting in me doing the back nine at my course in a gross score of 34, which is par for the back nine and a net score of -8.

 

[Bratty]

My index is now down to 10.9.

Even if it goes up from here, I don't mind, I've smashed through my goal for this year and I couldn't be happier.

I will of course try and get to a single figure index, but I'm just going to keep playing my golf and let everything happen naturally.

You'll get there, mate. If I can, anyone can!

 

[DeanoMK]

You'll get there, mate. If I can, anyone can!

Playing with you at Princes was all the proof I needed

 

[Orikoru]

Golf is so simple sometimes. Just been down the range to see if I can stop fat-slicing my fairway woods. In the end I just gripped them half an inch lower and started piping every one. I'm sure it won't last, but out of all the potential solutions that was a nice simple one at least.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Played on Wednesday evening and part of the way around my trolley, GoKart Mk1, 7 yrs old, started making noises that it really shouldn't make. I looked at it afterwards and the front wheel had a wobble on it. I messaged GoKart yesterday, asking for their advice on what this might be and received a phone call stating that the problem was the front bearings. I went onto their website, ordered a replacement kit, £16 delivered. It has arrived this morning. Cracking service. Now to fit it..........(look out in Random Irritations later )

 

[ExRabbit]

Played on Wednesday evening and part of the way around my trolley, GoKart Mk1, 7 yrs old, started making noises that it really shouldn't make. I looked at it afterwards and the front wheel had a wobble on it. I messaged GoKart yesterday, asking for their advice on what this might be and received a phone call stating that the problem was the front bearings. I went onto their website, ordered a replacement kit, £16 delivered. It has arrived this morning. Cracking service. Now to fit it..........(look out in Random Irritations later )

It's pretty easy - I just use a rubber mallet to knock the old set out, give it all a bit of a clean and put the new set in.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

…and so today…Lottie is Women’s WAGR #1 - first Briton to achieve World #1 amateur standing. Fantastically well done and merited Lottie, and well done to Luke her coach. My golf club is an extremely proud club today. From little acorns do oak trees grow…lots more growing to come.

https://www.golfmonthly.com/news/augusta-winner-lottie-woad-moves-up-to-world-no1-amateur-spot


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Lottie is off to France with her coach on Sunday to play in the Evian. Her coach is going to caddy for her for The Evian and The Open (in August). Great learning opportunity for them both.

 

[Orikoru]

At the bottom end of my handicap record I now have 6 green rounds in the bottom 7 places. Can't wait to get all those lovely shots back! 18 handicap here we come!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

At the bottom end of my handicap record I now have 6 green rounds in the bottom 7 places. Can't wait to get all those lovely shots back! 18 handicap here we come!

El Bandito heading to H4H

 

[Imurg]

Hold my beer

 

[srixon 1]

At the bottom end of my handicap record I now have 6 green rounds in the bottom 7 places. Can't wait to get all those lovely shots back! 18 handicap here we come!

Similar thing just happened to me. Three minus differentials dropped off in succession and I went from 1.0 to 2.8 in a matter of a week. I dare say that a purple patch will see me shoot back down again. Pretty volatile this WHS system.

 

[IanM]

Senior Amateur at Saunton starts tomorrow. I've walked a few folk round and prepared notes for them.. course is playing tough.

..but I won't see any of it, as I'm in Surrey for mum in law's 86th birthday!

 

[sunshine]

Similar thing just happened to me. Three minus differentials dropped off in succession and I went from 1.0 to 2.8 in a matter of a week. I dare say that a purple patch will see me shoot back down again. Pretty volatile this WHS system.

I think we all need to adjust to the fact that our HI is now based on current form instead of potential, and will therefore jump around a lot more. It will take years for the mindset to sink in.

 

[Voyager EMH]

My HI seems to be based on the average difficulty of the course this year compared with last year.

 

[Orikoru]

I think we all need to adjust to the fact that our HI is now based on current form instead of potential, and will therefore jump around a lot more. It will take years for the mindset to sink in.

I look at it differently though. If I go up by 2 shots now, it's not so much that my current form is terrible, it's just that it's not quite as good as a purple patch I had 9-10 months ago. My form was much worse two or three months ago than it is now, but my index didn't change because I hadn't got to the green rounds on my record yet.