I too doubt I'll be able to win our club champs - though I play every year with hope. I won the club scratch K/O at my previous club so I have that notch on my bedpost. As for the Club Champs I doubt I could win our Open scratch comp, but there is our Open handicap - and our trophy for that is fabulous - an 18" high solid silver model of a circa 17th century frigate - and winning that is clearly possible. And yes - maybe a seniors trophy.
I'd like to play all The Open venues but am not making very rapid progress.
I'd like to get par, birdie finish on The Old Course.
I'd like a hole in one, that I see drop and is as a result of a good shot. A scabby thin iron into a hole I can't see won't do it me.
You've done that several times already
You've done that several times already
As a young teenager playing with my father I holed a four iron for an eagle.
Thought I was the bees knees until he said, 'you caught that a bit thin, you were lucky'.
He was right of course, just a smigeon thin.
Not big on praise were my fathers golfing side of the family.
I'll caddie when you go for open qualifying ?
i won the scratch KO a couple of times and also lost in the final a few times. During my best golfing years we had a very good group of youngsters that were plus or scratch golfers. If you couldn't put two rounds together under par on the same day you had no chance of the club champs.
I've just looked back on my scores, I've had 127 Eagles, but none back to back, but had 2 Eagles in a round 3 times, the closest being the 12th & 17th at Maylands
Seems rather greedy to me.
Yup - the worse the weather (preferably strong winds rather than a deluge) the more chance I have of being in the mix going into the second round of our Club Champs.
