I played today and..(Rolling) -originally created by JohnnyDee

[Lump]

Blowing a gale today. 3-4 club wind. Didn’t really have a swing today and steady bogeys delivered quickly. Shot an easy 80 nett 76. Seems that the course was playing a wee bit tough as when I left CSS was sitting at 75.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Really strong wind and bitingly cold for the Centenary Medal (which I won two years ago). Not today with a net 79 (+9) but felt I hit it better than that. Beter ball stableford tomorrow and hoping having a partner will raise me up as I've been playing well midweek in practice

 

[Orikoru]

My golf literally gets more ridiculous every week. Was playing in a betterball Stableford match today at Thorney Park, but I kept track of my own individual score. Front nine, played brilliantly, I got 21 points and that was off 19 because it was 90% handicaps. Back nine, total mess. Hit five shanks, lost four balls; 9 points. I actually wanted to cry after the fifth shank. It used to be that I couldn't hit hybrids, and now hybrid was the bloody safe option. How can I go from my very best golf to my absolute worse in a click of the fingers?? Can't swear on here, but eff this game, seriously.

As for the actual match, we were 3 points ahead at the turn 22-19 but ended up losing 38-39. My partner picked up the slack for a few holes while I was blobbing my way around the back nine, but then he blobbed a few so we were always going to struggle. Ultimately, the format was that every match's Stableford scores were added together, and we lost by 6 points - the main culprits were one of our home pairs who only managed 29 points sadly.

I'm just at a total loss what happened to my game. It started to go pear-shaped when I decided to hit 5 iron on the 10th tee (I never hit five iron usually but the yardage and wind kinda dictated it) and shanked it out of bounds. I just totally lost the plot after that, two shanks on the 11th, another one on the 13th, and the last one on the 15th. I've never felt so despondent or clueless on the course before. Now I have to admit I'm actually feeling quite scared about my round on Monday. Scared! How ridiculous is that. Bah, this game.

 

[Wolf]

First monthly medal since the full swing changes and still so much to do but a lot of promise as well.

Bizarre round making sure I stick to routines and swing changes, in total 6 double bogies, 4 birdies and 8 pars for round that saw me buffer. Good thing is can see the positives ahead and when I left I was the only one in the clubhouse with a 2, so that could be a cheeky win.

 

[chrisd]

Our first serious comp off the tomb stones, pretty cold and windy at 8.30am.

So, 8 x 1 points in a total of 33 points - strange round 🤔

 

[Crow]

Today I tried out the set I'll be taking to play at Fleetwood GC this coming Thursday in a persimmon and blades meet (anybody who is interested could probably still get in, drop me a PM if you are)

Playing a laminated Walter Hagen 1 wood, a persimmon Slazenger Bobby Locke 3 1/2 wood and a laminated Uniroyal Arnold Palmer 4 wood. Irons were Dunlop Maxfli Australian Blade 2 iron, 3 to wedge Dunlop Peter Thomson blades, Craigton Neil Coles SW and a Spalding W Model putter. (I just realised, that's 5 greats from the past named on these clubs!)

It was the Monthly Medal today so what better time to try the set-up out.
Started with an 8 after blading a bunker shot over the green into deep bundu.....
Steadier after that but put my second in the pond on the 7th hole leading to a DB, out in 46, 5 over handicap.
Started the back nine much better and was looking like I might salvage a buffer until a melt down on the 15th when I putt two more balls in another pond and racked up a quint bogey 10!

Back in 44 for 90 gross, 78 nett, 6 over handicap, oh well.
There were a few promising signs in with the rubbish.

 

[chrisd]

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There were a few promising signs in with the rubbish.

When you say rubbish ...... clubs or game ?

 

[Crow]

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When you say rubbish ...... clubs or game ?

Careful...

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Day 2 of Comp, heard on arrival a nett 63 was in meaning I’d have to overhaul a 9 shot gap, ie 1 over gross to have a chance.
Started off with 2 birdies in the first 4 holes, but after 8 holes normality had returned
Finished on nett 72, 2 over, nowhere near, but pleased with my 2 days efforts.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Fuming. Pairs comp, better ball stableford. My partner was there early and told me he had signed into PSI so I got the card and thought no more of it. We played brilliantly as a pair. I chipped in for birdie on two, made a few clutch putts and my partner came in for several crucial holes and we came in with 44 points. When we got in the handicap secretary said we're DQ'd as we hadn't entered into PSI correctly. Also, as an honour board event it was off the plates and yet our incompetent green staff left the white markers in situ and so a few pairs played off them and were DQ'd as well. To rub salt in the wounds our handicap secretary then talked my partner what he should have done and it entered us and took £3 off our competition purse online which I shall be asking to be refunded

 

[louise_a]

First trophy comp for us today, I won, I hit the ball well but was wasteful around the greens especially on the front 9 but had the lowest score of the day although in honesty it wasn't a great score CSS was 75 and reductions only and I didnt manage to get a cut.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Fuming. Pairs comp, better ball stableford. My partner was there early and told me he had signed into PSI so I got the card and thought no more of it. We played brilliantly as a pair. I chipped in for birdie on two, made a few clutch putts and my partner came in for several crucial holes and we came in with 44 points. When we got in the handicap secretary said we're DQ'd as we hadn't entered into PSI correctly. Also, as an honour board event it was off the plates and yet our incompetent green staff left the white markers in situ and so a few pairs played off them and were DQ'd as well. To rub salt in the wounds our handicap secretary then talked my partner what he should have done and it entered us and took £3 off our competition purse online which I shall be asking to be refunded

That’s an unusual dq homer.

Do you have white tees plus additional white tees?

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Had a cracking day today.

Played this morning at The Nottinghamshire with Dan from Woodhall and we paired up with region 3 and his mate Mark as Andy was injured.

Had a good time, course was way better than expected, £23 including a carvery was superb.

Gary and Mark had 44 and was 2nd when we left, with no wind I would be surprised if they finished in the top 5.

Got back to Woodhall and the weather was perfect so we had another 18 on the Hotchkin course, I offered to play Dan off scratch matchplay, I got hammered 🤣

Thoroughly enjoyable day

 

[Spear-Chucker]

Somehow came top ten in the monthly medal playing on the worst day of the weekend with rain, hail and general Armageddon type weather. That’s after a swing rebuild, a four month layoff, injury and overall declining health. My game is still unconscious but has a strong pulse... hope it wakes up.

Changed my chipping and bunker play technique to be aiming much squarer, with oddly good results. Hmmm...

 

[garyinderry]

Playing for the club today in alternate shots format down at dunfanaghy. top 4 teams go trough from 15.

We qualified by 1 shot. Scores of +5 +8 (us) +12 & +15 got the job done.

Think it was ment to be. One of our guys had a hole in one. I chipped in for a 2 on 17 and our last group birdied the 18th to take us through.

Delighted.

 

[Curls]

Foursomes Friday night lost on the 20th hole to the better team

Blowing a gale and horizontal hail Saturday, suffice to say it was not vintage stuff

Carried that into Sunday individual matchplay, was 5 down at the turn but dug deep, I was not going home with a weekend wasted, found my game and won it on the first playoff hole with a birdie. Crazy game

 

[Deleted member 25172]

Played on Open competition at Princes Golf Club today and it was terrible. 96 gross on the first 18. Quick lunch and out again for another 18. Started par, par, bogey, par and birdie and I was hoping that I could recover somewhat from the first round when all hell broke loose with a lousy tee shot on a par five, ending up a few inches from an out of bounds fence. Managed to get the ball out a few yards, decent 3rd shot, fat forth shot leaving me with a wedge to green. I topped it so bad it came out like a bullet through the green and in to some thick thick stuff which took me 2 shots to get out, chip on to green - fat. 3 putted and 11 on the card was a fact. A broken man, and I couldn’t recover from that mentally and in the end I carded a 90 for the second round. So embarrassing. I hate golf. But the weather was ok.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

International day at the club. Playing with a lady member of "Team England" who I know (and Liverpool fan) and two other ladies from another side. Painful doesn't sum it up. How often (and how much) can you put clothing on and off. Very little chatter and even my partner and I rarely engaged past the footie as she spent all her time talking with her friends. Very long and rather lonely day and played poorly. Fortunately it was better ball and my partner did a lot of the work. Nowhere near the prizes but a good day and great food

 

[richart]

International day at the club. Playing with a lady member of "Team England" who I know (and Liverpool fan) and two other ladies from another side. Painful doesn't sum it up. How often (and how much) can you put clothing on and off. Very little chatter and even my partner and I rarely engaged past the footie as she spent all her time talking with her friends. Very long and rather lonely day and played poorly. Fortunately it was better ball and my partner did a lot of the work. Nowhere near the prizes but a good day and great food

Sorry but how is that a good day ? Slow, company not great, and you didn’t play well. The food must have been stunning.

 

[Orikoru]

My golf literally gets more ridiculous every week. Was playing in a betterball Stableford match today at Thorney Park, but I kept track of my own individual score. Front nine, played brilliantly, I got 21 points and that was off 19 because it was 90% handicaps. Back nine, total mess. Hit five shanks, lost four balls; 9 points. I actually wanted to cry after the fifth shank. It used to be that I couldn't hit hybrids, and now hybrid was the bloody safe option. How can I go from my very best golf to my absolute worse in a click of the fingers?? Can't swear on here, but eff this game, seriously.

As for the actual match, we were 3 points ahead at the turn 22-19 but ended up losing 38-39. My partner picked up the slack for a few holes while I was blobbing my way around the back nine, but then he blobbed a few so we were always going to struggle. Ultimately, the format was that every match's Stableford scores were added together, and we lost by 6 points - the main culprits were one of our home pairs who only managed 29 points sadly.

I'm just at a total loss what happened to my game. It started to go pear-shaped when I decided to hit 5 iron on the 10th tee (I never hit five iron usually but the yardage and wind kinda dictated it) and shanked it out of bounds. I just totally lost the plot after that, two shanks on the 11th, another one on the 13th, and the last one on the 15th. I've never felt so despondent or clueless on the course before. Now I have to admit I'm actually feeling quite scared about my round on Monday. Scared! How ridiculous is that. Bah, this game.

Just quoting the above for context. Had a friendly fourball at Wexham Park, and for the first time I can remember, I was slightly dreading it after Saturday's shank fiesta. Had absolutely zero confidence teeing off, and consequently lost a ball on the 1st and on the 2nd. Managed 12 points for the front 9. The back nine though was a totally different story. Confidence was back and I shot a back nine of 39, four over par, 25 points. So basically I did Saturday's round in reverse, only this way round is far more preferable! So golf is great again I guess.

I wonder what it's like playing well for the entire round? Must be nice.