Played Little Aston today. Jacket and tie required in the bar and dining room after 12:30pm every day. Only place that is exempt is the casual bar.
Proper traditional golf club
Fantastic year you've had. What do you think is the most significant change you made that's led to this? I know you were doing the speed stuff but you were already hitting it pretty long when I played with you in 2023.This post covers a few different topics but ultimately the best place for it is here.
I played The Bedfordshire yesterday with a friend of mine, we decided to play off the black tees which unbelievably gave me a playing handicap of 14.
I was losing an 11.2 differential and was thinking that it was likely to be a small handicap rise coming up.
First hole; fairway and green in regulation and I sunk a monster putt for birdie and suddenly everything just felt great.
4 over at the turn, which should have been better in all honesty. Back nine continued in a similar fashion, had some decent birdie looks but ultimately didn't make another one, got to the last hole 7 over. Pulled my tee shot left, played a decent 2nd shot to get back into play leaving a bump and run into the pin. Annoyingly I struck it too well and it had too much spin and finished 30 foot short. Made an annoying 3 putt for a double bogey but ultimately a 9 over 79.
A differential of 6.2 and I woke up this morning as a single figure golfer!
Definitely not solely speed related but it's absolutely helped. The main thing for me is the work I've put in with Liam Robinson's Tour Golf Network drills, it's massively improved the quality of my strike and getting my weight shift right in the swing.
I love the thought of some old chap sauntering up and casually dropping in the fact that he won the Brabazon.
Either that or he was with the fairies.He was so nonchalant, and quite modest. I assume he's won plenty so it was normal!
Maybe he won the Saunton Trophy round the Brabazon?
This post covers a few different topics but ultimately the best place for it is here.
I played The Bedfordshire yesterday with a friend of mine, we decided to play off the black tees which unbelievably gave me a playing handicap of 14.
I was losing an 11.2 differential and was thinking that it was likely to be a small handicap rise coming up.
First hole; fairway and green in regulation and I sunk a monster putt for birdie and suddenly everything just felt great.
4 over at the turn, which should have been better in all honesty. Back nine continued in a similar fashion, had some decent birdie looks but ultimately didn't make another one, got to the last hole 7 over. Pulled my tee shot left, played a decent 2nd shot to get back into play leaving a bump and run into the pin. Annoyingly I struck it too well and it had too much spin and finished 30 foot short. Made an annoying 3 putt for a double bogey but ultimately a 9 over 79.
A differential of 6.2 and I woke up this morning as a single figure golfer!
That's a bit mean
Haha. I've had this debate so many times that I don't know where I stand anymore. In the old system I agreed with you, 9.4 or lower would be single figures. Because it was always rounded up or down from that number no matter what course you were at, so you'd have to be 9.4 to receive 9 shots on the course. But in the new system, it's so fluid I don't know anymore. For example, if you got down to 10.5 at my course, you'd have a course handicap of 9 off the whites. So as that's your home course you could argue you're off single figures then? Perversely you could be off 9.0 but have a course handicap of 11 at a tough course, so you're a single handicapper who plays off 11? The waters are very muddy on this.
Dean is single figures in my eyes, for exactly your reasoning. Single figures = less than 10, as the rounding is irrelevant as it could go either way. So well done DeanoHaha. I've had this debate so many times that I don't know where I stand anymore. In the old system I agreed with you, 9.4 or lower would be single figures. Because it was always rounded up or down from that number no matter what course you were at, so you'd have to be 9.4 to receive 9 shots on the course. But in the new system, it's so fluid I don't know anymore. For example, if you got down to 10.5 at my course, you'd have a course handicap of 9 off the whites. So as that's your home course you could argue you're off single figures then? Perversely you could be off 9.0 but have a course handicap of 11 at a tough course, so you're a single handicapper who plays off 11? The waters are very muddy on this.
I would say it's worth a new thread but I think there's been one, and it may even have been me that started it.
I hope I can join you in the near futureIf you have a couple of general play cards on your record, are you a true single figure handicapper?Haha. I've had this debate so many times that I don't know where I stand anymore. In the old system I agreed with you, 9.4 or lower would be single figures. Because it was always rounded up or down from that number no matter what course you were at, so you'd have to be 9.4 to receive 9 shots on the course. But in the new system, it's so fluid I don't know anymore. For example, if you got down to 10.5 at my course, you'd have a course handicap of 9 off the whites. So as that's your home course you could argue you're off single figures then? Perversely you could be off 9.0 but have a course handicap of 11 at a tough course, so you're a single handicapper who plays off 11? The waters are very muddy on this.
I would say it's worth a new thread but I think there's been one, and it may even have been me that started it.
