How far......

[kid2]

.................Have you got through a Medal round before you've messed the whole lot up.....

After last weekend i was a little nervous with how i was going to play....Lets face it 108 shots is not nice.....
So armed with the bit between my teeth i put the head down this morning and kept plugging away....Stood on the 18th tee i was level par for my handicap.....Happy out that it was a considerable amount better than the tripe i served up last weekend....

What do i go and do.....After driving the ball so well through the round to this point i stand up full of confidence looking out over the pot bunker just off the left of the fairway at 230 mtrs and the out of bounds down the right....


I tell myself aim at the right edge of the bunker....If i hit it straight im sorted.....If i pull it a little im still ok and if i do cut on i still have room.....

I take my stance settle over the ball drop the right foot back a little to close the stance and make a nice smooth swing like iv been doing all morning....
I had not put a foot wrong with the driver all morning.....
What transpires is not only 1 push slice but 2 and then 3 OOB.....
Absolutely disheartened so i swallow my pride and tee up to hit No.7.....
This isnt going right! Strengthen the grip same stance and what do i do....A big hook into a lake 80 mtrs from the tee:mmm:......
As much as it killed me to put it on the card i NR'd for the sake of speeding up play....Nothing much could have been done to save my round then....

There's always next weekend.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Think Hawkeye's last medal lasted two shots (both OB) before going tits up (sorry mate). I've had loads where it has gone wrong from nowhere. +6 gross on the 16th tee before going 6, 6, 6 (double, triple, single). +5 the next medal on the same tee and the same finish.

Plenty of times I've used all 12 (or whatever I was off at the time) on the front nine and then come back in only a few over. The problem with my game is that medal play is Russian roulette and every hole is just a bullet dodged

 

[DaveM]

Thats life. Our 18th is only a 165 par3. But heres the catch. Water all the way from tee to green and around 3 sides of the green. Bit of a bail out to the left. Its wrecked many a good card.

 

[G1BB0]

mine is the 4th, 5th and 6th. If I get through them unscathed I tend to do ok

went double, birdie, par today. It was the easy holes I cocked up... golf eh, stupid bloody game

 

[Imurg]

Many moons ago, a playing partner at my last club blew out of the Club Championships on the first hole. Stuck 4 OB and then hit a ladies tee marker - the ball came straight back at him, cracked him on the ankle and broke it........

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

kid

After the first (or even second) ball OOB, did it not cross your mind to hit an iron off the tee short of the bunker?

 

[kid2]

I wouldnt really call our 18th a hard hole to score on....Iv had plenty of pars and a few birdies also.....
Im wondering was it a bad decision to hit driver this morning knowing a bad one brings in all the danger everywhere....
Or would a better play have been to hit my 4 iron off the tee....Short of the pot bunker and short of the OOB's that growns out towards the fairway at the 150 mtr to the green centre mark......And then at most id have 180 mtrs to the green.....Which i could have played maybe PW GW and take a chance on a putt for par....

 

[kid2]

kid

After the first (or even second) ball OOB, did it not cross your mind to hit an iron off the tee short of the bunker?

It did pal....But i think after putting the first OOB...I said ok thats teeing up 3.......If i can at lest cream a sunday best out over the OOB and the bunker it'd leave me 80-90mtrs from the green and maybe i could save the score and finish in the buffer.....

A harsh lesson learned for me this morning though Pal.

 

[Imurg]

Sometimes you need to hit your 2nd shot first..

At my last club there was a par 5 with OB all the way up the right, pond at 300 yards and the wind blew left to right. Some people were there all day, pumping balls into the woods with a driver.
Very soon after joining I started hitting a 5 iron off the tee, then a 3 wood and then a wedge to the green. Once off the tee, most of the danger is gone - apart from the OB so it made sense.
Our first hole is tricky, I 've described it before but a lay-up to leave 200 to the green is the sensible play. Than a 4i/hybrid gets you there...

 

[Region3]

Our 18th has ruined a good card more than once for me. I remember 2 competitions in a row last year I was below my handicap and made 8 the first time and 9 the second time.

I've also used all my handicap up after 4 or 5 holes.

It's golf. Most of us don't play enough to expect any sort of consistency and mistakes can happen anywhere in the round. I have to say though that thoughts of your final score while you're still playing the round will never help.

 

[patricks148]

I once blew and open on the 18th at Brora.

I think i was about level par and then took a 13 on there which is a par 3.

3 wood over the back of the green
chipped passed the flag which was on the front, rolled off the green down the steep bank to the bottom of the hollow.
in a divot, duffed chip.rolled back to me
duffed chip ball rolled back to me
duffed chip
shank
shank
duffed
shank
each time the ball just rolled back to my feet at it didin't get yp the slope, decided putt
putt, putt same resault.
putt,putt.
Made buffer as it was an easy scoring day. everytime i go back there and play that hole it makes me sad.

 

[Curls]

Last Medal - 3 holes! Lost a ball on the first and again on the second, the rough at our place has gone nuts. By the 4th tee I stood 10 over, played the rest of the course 4 over, got plus 0.1 for my efforts. Had it been stableford I would have buffered easily, but that's Medal golf! Had a medal win this year too though, nothing worse than a bogey on the card, if you can keep those horror scores off it's an easy game.

Small if eh?!

 

[Curls]

I once blew and open on the 18th at Brora.

I think i was about level par and then took a 13 on there which is a par 3.

3 wood over the back of the green
chipped passed the flag which was on the front, rolled off the green down the steep bank to the bottom of the hollow.
in a divot, duffed chip.rolled back to me
duffed chip ball rolled back to me
duffed chip
shank
shank
duffed
shank
each time the ball just rolled back to my feet at it didin't get yp the slope, decided putt
putt, putt same resault.
putt,putt.
Made buffer as it was an easy scoring day. everytime i go back there and play that hole it makes me sad.

Ouch dude that smarts, feel for ya! Great going to get there level though

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Sadly Homer is right, two medals back I hit my 1st two shots OBand carded in 9 (par 3) then hit my drive on the 2nd OB and carded an triple bogey 8 so had used 9 of the 10 shots of my h'cap by the 3rd tee.
Not my finest hour

 

[doc333]

Golf can do your head in and we're not pro's. There are countless pro's who will never win an event and thats down to head.

Last week I was playing a round at malton with the wife, and she kept saying 'great shot, well done, hell of a shot' etc. I had just parred 10 and 11 where i had birdie chances, and thought to myself ..."seem to be playing some good stuff", so asked the wife (who was marking the card) how I was doing. after 11 holes I was one over par gross and running at 32 points!!!. I was gobsmacked and checked the card and she was correct. Brilliant I thought and then proceeded to do an 8 followed by a 7 ..... Thats the way it goes and obviously my head took over as it probably would if I had a chance of winning an event

 

[rosecott]

Last Medal - 3 holes! Lost a ball on the first and again on the second, the rough at our place has gone nuts. By the 4th tee I stood 10 over, played the rest of the course 4 over, got plus 0.1 for my efforts. Had it been stableford I would have buffered easily, but that's Medal golf! Had a medal win this year too though, nothing worse than a bogey on the card, if you can keep those horror scores off it's an easy game.

Small if eh?!

????

10 over after 3, then 4 over for the rest of the round - my maths makes that 14 over, handicap 12, must be in buffer unless you are talking 14 over par and not SSS/CSS.

 

[Curls]

????

10 over after 3, then 4 over for the rest of the round - my maths makes that 14 over, handicap 12, must be in buffer unless you are talking 14 over par and not SSS/CSS.

I was 11 at the time ;-) It was a calm day and scoring was good. So was mine only for the horrendous start!