How did your golf go this weekend?

[Crow]

April medal, first qualifier of the year, due to my recent shanking habit the plan was not to play any iron longer than a 7.

Was driving well and found 8 fairways, misses being only just off apart from one where it clattered into the trees. Had a nice birdie on the 7th but then hit my poor tee shot on the 8th, hit a good recovery and then forgot the game plan and went for a 6 iron, shanked it and made double! Followed that with double on the 9th for 43 out, one over handicap.
Steady golf on the back 9 saw me needing a par on the par 5 18th for an 82, one under handicap. Played two good shots leaving a straightforward 8 iron in, but pulled it into a horible lie and made double for 84 nett 73, one over handicap.

What really annoyed me then was that CSS was 73 so just a bogey down the 18th would have given me a small cut!

 

[Revolt]

put 2 handicap cards in this weekend, +12 and +15 first weekend really playing the course, had some good runs of holes and some absolute mares, including an 8 on the first today

 

[Fader]

Started off excellent ripping the driver, solid with the irons and average with the putter.

Ended up losing the will to live after it took 3hours for 9 holes! Gave up caring how to play on the back half even started putting with my Wedges

Finished the round on a high after 5 & Half hours of slow play torture, when I ripped a driver and 2 hybrid over the water to 8 feet I. / shots on out par 5 finishing hole.

 

[thecraw]

Brilliant. Great golf course, great company and decent feed after. No witch hunts.

Golf doesn't get better.

 

[stevek1969]

Brilliant. Great golf course, great company and decent feed after. No witch hunts.

Golf doesn't get better.

:whoo:


Started of good but the snow/sleet came in and lost the will to play as it was that cold and miserable, ball was flying nowhere.

 

[T89]

Not the best!

My first comp since starting playing a month ago. Also my first time off the whites, which made a massive difference as although it was firmer it wasn't carrying a great deal.

My driving was awful and the front 9 I was in trees to the right far too often, ended up with a couple of blobs and 13pts.

Back 9 I decided to start compensating for my ridiculous slice, ended up with a blob, but all day my short game was much better, chipped in and chipped within a couple of feet a couple of times. Also a 110 yard PW left me 3 ft for birdie. Driving was still shocking, but managed 17 pts and a total of 30, for my first time on whites and such poor driving I wasnt too annoyed with (perspective)

Booking a lesson this week, Sort this slice out!

 

[bladeplayer]

alot better than expected , finished on 40pts .. been playing dirt so hopefuly a decent handicap cut when results posted tonight .. could be lowest handicap ever so far depending on CSS.. either way it was a nice surprise

Through the constant freezing of HDID web pagei finaly got confirmation , new lowest handicap ever of 6.6 happy chuffed chappy ..

 

[rickg]

Through the constant freezing of HDID web pagei finaly got confirmation , new lowest handicap ever of 6.6 happy chuffed chappy ..

well done BP.....now go lower !! :thup:

 

[Lanark_Golfer]

Through the constant freezing of HDID web pagei finaly got confirmation , new lowest handicap ever of 6.6 happy chuffed chappy ..

Excellent, well done :thup:

Hopefully I can get mine moving in the right direction as the season kicks in

 

[rickg]

good weekend for me.....regained my CAT 1 status yesterday and won our club match today....

 

[Lanark_Golfer]

good weekend for me.....regained my CAT 1 status yesterday and won our club match today....

Ideal Rick, well done mate :thup:

 

[BrizoH71]

Went down to Peebles.. course was in great nick but I played like it was the first time I had swung a club. Couldn't stop slicing my drives.. if I'd sliced them any more, they'd have been heading back to me! For once it was my short game that was saving my score and I was getting pretty close from within 50-100 yards... getting there was the problem though!

Still, despite all the wayward drives, I managed 96 for nett 73 off yellows so +4 overall. Certainly not my best, but I'll take it.

 

[kid2]

Greens at our course are still a lottery so im not reading too much into my score.....I turned 7 over gross and came home 7 over gross so it was a nett level par for 36 points......I lost 2/3's of my shots through leaving myself too much work on my second putts....I was leaving them 6-8ft short and the ones i was hitting harder over the sand were running 4 or 5 feet past......

I think once the work has finished on the greens i can do some decent damage to my handicap as my swing is getting more consistant by the week.

 

[bladeplayer]

well done BP.....now go lower !! :thup:

Thanks Rick , realy chuffed , was hoping CSS might be bit lower but over the moon none the less ...Hopefuly get down near your handicap mate , thats the plan anyhow but its hard work , well done on Cat 1 .. hopefuly the new bats will drive you lower

Excellent, well done :thup:







Hopefully I can get mine moving in the right direction as the season kicks in

Thanks mate , best of luck with your own ,

 

[Captainron]

Couldn't buy a putt. Irons went from awesome to awful in the space of 2 holes. The RSPCA want to question one of my playing partners and our host got told off in the bar for an untucked shirt. Pretty standard really

 

[Stuey01]

No golf for me this weekend because I'm trying to shake off a slight wrist sprain that I haven't allowed to heal because I've been playing too much golf. Got some decent putting practice in.

 

[Tommo21]

Cut .3 last week, buffer this week. Playing some of the craziest golf of my life. Example 1/...massive hook, 238 to the front of the green into the wind, flush three wood into greenside bunker, out the bunker sink the putt. 2/...duck hook into the rough, iron on, sink putt. 3/...friday night, royal musselburgh, hit a drive so bad I have 240 to the green from the short rough, flush 3 wood, sink a 40 footer...bang. Today, start with a 5 then fire thirteen 4s on the bounce, spoiled by a 3. Mad.

 

[Hobbit]

Saturday - hit the ball really well tee to green but a stone cold putter saw a frustrating day.
Sunday - 37pts @ Slaley in the GM northeast meet, inc two blobs and a 1pointer.

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

Frustratingly, 10 over after 9, missed a shortish par putt on 10 and spat the dummy for an n/r, decided to carry on in any event and finished 10 over, so will get .1 back when quite possibly would have got a 0.2 cut. SILLY BOY

 

[la_lucha]

I had a really hard time of it this weekend in our first Medal of the season. Hitting a 3 wood instead of the Driver saw me hit 9 Fairways straight and long. This left me with ideal second shots on most holes, where I struggled though was anything off the deck. I literally couldn't hit the ball off the floor. Onced I thinned, sliced and topped my way to the greens I was fine with just a single three putt. This episode left me with a shocking 103 and only one par on the day.

I'm blaming the bad back that I acquired in the Gym on Wednesday stopping me from rotating the body and causing me to swing with the arms more. As I sit writing this a full 5 days after hitting the Gym I'm still feeling tight and slighty sore. I'm sure I'll be back down to a decent score next Sunday. What really upset me is that in appalling conditions last weekend I hit 37 points and played a really solid round. So to go into this weekend and to play 8 over my handicap is real frustrating.