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Second round at Hindhead in a week in a friendly four ball match. Course in great nick and win 2&1.
I played today and..(Rolling) -originally created by JohnnyDee
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louise_a
Money List Winner
Back to Pleasington for the knockout this morning, we were first out so a clear course infront of us, a little wet and quite windy, the girl I played was off 10 so we were evenly matched and for the most part there was never more than one hole in it, but I was never in front, she holed a few very good puts to keep me back and I was 1 down playing the 18th, we both missed the green in 2 and she seemed to have the easier shot and played it safe into the middle of the green but then after putting so well all round took 3 and I holed a 3 footer to take us down the 1st again. I hit a good drive an 2nd shot, chipped on and 2 putted for a par to finally lead the match at the death.
In the afternoon I was up against a 17/18 year old who played off 4 and had a golf scholarship to go to in the USA, I didn't hold out much hope just wanted to put up a decent performance. we had a very nice game as I had met her and played with her in the past, and her dad who was caddying was a laugh.
As expected she played very well, twice I parred holes and lost them, I finally won a hole on the 11th, but the match was over on the next hole, I believe I played better in the match than in the morning round and yesterdays, but she was just 1 over par when we shook hands.
I don't think I disgraced myself and enjoyed the the 2 days and I can have a lie in tomorrow
In the afternoon I was up against a 17/18 year old who played off 4 and had a golf scholarship to go to in the USA, I didn't hold out much hope just wanted to put up a decent performance. we had a very nice game as I had met her and played with her in the past, and her dad who was caddying was a laugh.
As expected she played very well, twice I parred holes and lost them, I finally won a hole on the 11th, but the match was over on the next hole, I believe I played better in the match than in the morning round and yesterdays, but she was just 1 over par when we shook hands.
I don't think I disgraced myself and enjoyed the the 2 days and I can have a lie in tomorrow
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Second round of the weekend board event. Hit is as badly as imaginable and lost a couple of balls and had no confidence. Managed a chip in for a point on one hole which steadied the ship for a few holes until I hit another errant drive. Despite all that scored better than Saturday when I hit it much better especially my driving, and hit the buffer zone
Beezerk
Money List Winner
Won a 4 man team comp this afternoon, best two scores from the four and we ended up with 90 points.
First prize is a 4 Ball at Slaley Hall so happy with that.
First prize is a 4 Ball at Slaley Hall so happy with that.
MendieGK
Tour Winner
Stupid format
backwoodsman
Tour Winner
Round 2 of the Senior's matchplay knockout. Played pretty well and ended up winning 6&4 Result flatters a bit as the oppo had a bit of a mare as regards putting, and had plenty chances to win or at least halve rather more holes. But that's matchplay, and a win is a win.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Totally agree and so glad we only have one bogey competition per year although it is an honours board event
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A cracking weekend, closest I have been to an albatross, 2 foot directly behind the pin on the par 5 9th, gutted but happy all in one
Yesterday entered the Texas scramble 4 ball social comp with wife, son and another lady and we won it, the first 7 scores were all within 2 shots of each other. Every team member played their part in the score. First thing we have won as a team, couldnt help but to go straight round to laid up mums to tell her and she guessed before we had walked in
Cracking weekend, if Kopparberg did golf weekends this was it.
Yesterday entered the Texas scramble 4 ball social comp with wife, son and another lady and we won it, the first 7 scores were all within 2 shots of each other. Every team member played their part in the score. First thing we have won as a team, couldnt help but to go straight round to laid up mums to tell her and she guessed before we had walked in
Cracking weekend, if Kopparberg did golf weekends this was it.
Shooter McPowick
Head Pro
Played in a memorial event yesterday, scoring format being stableford points.
No idea where the midweek form went, mentally I was just not there - like a light was on but nobody was home. Couldn't concentrate for the life of me.
3 drives over 300 yards (wind behind), on the longest drive hole I ran out of fairway at 330 - Annoying!
Couldn't putt to save my life leaving every attempt short including an 8 footer on the 2nd for 2's
Highlight a birdie 3 on the 5th, 329 yard drive, 3/4 sand wedge to 3 feet and a tap in.
Lowlight 3 putting on the last from 10 feet for a double bogey
Rubbish 29 points
No idea where the midweek form went, mentally I was just not there - like a light was on but nobody was home. Couldn't concentrate for the life of me.
3 drives over 300 yards (wind behind), on the longest drive hole I ran out of fairway at 330 - Annoying!
Couldn't putt to save my life leaving every attempt short including an 8 footer on the 2nd for 2's
Highlight a birdie 3 on the 5th, 329 yard drive, 3/4 sand wedge to 3 feet and a tap in.
Lowlight 3 putting on the last from 10 feet for a double bogey
Rubbish 29 points
Crow
Crow Person
4BBB match for the B Team, me and my partner dovetailed really well on the front nine to be 4 up after 8 but they gradually pegged us back to 1 up after 14, holes then halved until a par on the 17th won the match for us 2 & 1, I was playing the Dunlop Maxfli Roberto de Vicenzo set again, but swapped the putter for a Ben Sayers Parex.
(Whenever I hit a bad shot with the de Vicenzo set I now find myself wanting to utter his immortal line, "What a stupid I am".)
(Whenever I hit a bad shot with the de Vicenzo set I now find myself wanting to utter his immortal line, "What a stupid I am".)
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Hit the practice ground after my performance on Monday where I swung it so badly (turns out I managed 12th out of nearly 70 overall though feeling like I played poorly for both my rounds). Working on a better takeaway with the arms turning in connection with the chest to give a good firm base and then trying to simply turn back and through the shot. Felt everything had been hit with the arms with no rotation at the weekend. Some good results so took it on the course. A couple of poor shots and a couple of pulls with a driver (off pink castle tees while higher tees went more left to right - not sure why) but generally some positive stuff. With the weather looking iffy tonight I might retire to a range to work on it some more
played at tie in the scratch Knock out last night against a you lad off +2, so effectively giving away 6 shots as its scratch.
He finished School last year and is having a year off to play before going to Uni in September
He knocked it 60 yards past me on the first and had wedge in, where as i had to hit 3 iron as well as i could to get to the front edge of the new first green, he birdied. 2nd is 451 he hit 3 iron and 5 iron, where i was driver and 3 wood.. again as well as i can hit it to the front edge. raced my putt past and missed coming back, so 2 down after 2.
he took 3 iron off the tee on the 3rd but hooked it into the Horrocks Bunker on 3, so i took driver (380) and hit a good one and was comfortably on in two some 10 feet away and he in 3 but just inside me. Holed it to go back to 1 d. 4th hit a horrendous pull, which was heading for the beach, my oppo pushed it and was in the hollow back right. when we got up to the green some walkers informed me my shot had hit the rocks and bounced into the right hand bunker. he duffed it onto the green i hit a nice bunker shot to about 3 feet and he missed and i holes to be ASq. i won 5th with a birdie, he won the 4th with one, i then won 7th with a par after he found the heather on the left off the tee. i won the 8th and 9th to be two up at the turn he looked worried
it was here though his length paid off, the new bunkers on the 10th mean i have to lay up or take the risk... of still having to play it as a 3 shotter, hit my hybrid just short of the RH bunker. he flew them, hit my 3 wood just short of the green, get down to his ball which is some 140 from the front of the green according to the old Sprinkler head yardages, so 160 from the flag for him, down wind wegde 10 feet from the flag, i sent mine 6 ft past but holed the return, he sank the eagle, it would be nice to be able to play the hole like that drive and wedge on a 500 yards par 5. halved the 11th he won 12 with par after i found the bunker with my 2nd. 13th hit hit drive and SW, its a 430 uphill and SI1, i was my sunday best drive and 3 iron which ran though the back, another hole one. 14th he hit 3 iron to the front as the wind then switched to a Northerly so straight into it, some hit 220 into a 2 club wind, i hit 3 wood again as well as i could and only just made the edge then 3 putted 15th he almost drove into the wind i had driver and wedge a full one at that stone dead, so saved the half in 3.
16th was it for me, he hit it so far down he was just chipping over the green side bunkers to the flag, i again hit the driver as well as i could but still had 7 iron which went long. left my putt short, but a gimme, he holed for birdie.
3 and 2 loss, but didn't disgrace myself against a much better player, he admitted afterwards he was worried after 9.
won a bet too, my mate who had played with him in the club champs at the weekend bet me i wouldn;t win a hole.
It was a good game against a very nice young man, played in a great sprite.
its great to challenge yourself against better players, shows how good match play is, even scratch. i don't have much chance in these things at my club esp with so many plus handicap players.
He finished School last year and is having a year off to play before going to Uni in September
He knocked it 60 yards past me on the first and had wedge in, where as i had to hit 3 iron as well as i could to get to the front edge of the new first green, he birdied. 2nd is 451 he hit 3 iron and 5 iron, where i was driver and 3 wood.. again as well as i can hit it to the front edge. raced my putt past and missed coming back, so 2 down after 2.
he took 3 iron off the tee on the 3rd but hooked it into the Horrocks Bunker on 3, so i took driver (380) and hit a good one and was comfortably on in two some 10 feet away and he in 3 but just inside me. Holed it to go back to 1 d. 4th hit a horrendous pull, which was heading for the beach, my oppo pushed it and was in the hollow back right. when we got up to the green some walkers informed me my shot had hit the rocks and bounced into the right hand bunker. he duffed it onto the green i hit a nice bunker shot to about 3 feet and he missed and i holes to be ASq. i won 5th with a birdie, he won the 4th with one, i then won 7th with a par after he found the heather on the left off the tee. i won the 8th and 9th to be two up at the turn he looked worried
it was here though his length paid off, the new bunkers on the 10th mean i have to lay up or take the risk... of still having to play it as a 3 shotter, hit my hybrid just short of the RH bunker. he flew them, hit my 3 wood just short of the green, get down to his ball which is some 140 from the front of the green according to the old Sprinkler head yardages, so 160 from the flag for him, down wind wegde 10 feet from the flag, i sent mine 6 ft past but holed the return, he sank the eagle, it would be nice to be able to play the hole like that drive and wedge on a 500 yards par 5. halved the 11th he won 12 with par after i found the bunker with my 2nd. 13th hit hit drive and SW, its a 430 uphill and SI1, i was my sunday best drive and 3 iron
which ran though the back, another hole one. 14th he hit 3 iron to the front as the wind then switched to a Northerly so straight into it, some hit 220 into a 2 club wind, i hit 3 wood again as well as i could and only just made the edge then 3 putted 15th he almost drove into the wind i had driver and wedge a full one at that stone dead, so saved the half in 3.16th was it for me, he hit it so far down he was just chipping over the green side bunkers to the flag, i again hit the driver as well as i could but still had 7 iron which went long. left my putt short, but a gimme, he holed for birdie.
3 and 2 loss, but didn't disgrace myself against a much better player, he admitted afterwards he was worried after 9
.won a bet too, my mate who had played with him in the club champs at the weekend bet me i wouldn;t win a hole
.It was a good game against a very nice young man, played in a great sprite.
its great to challenge yourself against better players, shows how good match play is, even scratch. i don't have much chance in these things at my club esp with so many plus handicap players.
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garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
played at tie in the scratch Knock out last night against a you lag off +2, so effectively giving away 6 shots as its scratch.
He finished School last year and is having a year off to play before going to Uni in September
He knocked it 60 yards past me on the first and had wedge in, where as i had to hit 3 iron as well as i could to get to the front edge of the new first green, he birdied. 2nd is 451 he hit 3 iron and 5 iron, where i was driver and 3 wood.. again as well as i can hit it to the front edge. raced my putt past and missed coming back, so 2 down after 2.
he took 3 iron off the tee on the 3rd but hooked it into the Horrocks Bunker on 3, so i took driver (380) and hit a good one and was comfortably on in two some 10 feet away and he in 3 but just inside me. Holed it to go back to 1 d. 4th hit a horrendous pull, which was heading for the beach, my oppo pushed it and was in the hollow back right. when we got up to the green some walkers informed me my shot had hit the rocks and bounced into the right hand bunker. he duffed it onto the green i hit a nice bunker shot to about 3 feet and he missed and i holes to be ASq. i won 5th with a birdie, he won the 4th with one, i then won 7th with a par after he found the heather on the left off the tee. i won the 8th and 9th to be two up at the turn he looked worried
it was here though his length paid off, the new bunkers on the 10th mean i have to lay up or take the risk... of still having to play it as a 3 shotter, hit my hybrid just short of the RH bunker. he flew them, hit my 3 wood just short of the green, get down to his ball which is some 140 from the front of the green according to the old Sprinkler head yardages, so 160 from the flag for him, down wind wegde 10 feet from the flag, i sent mine 6 ft past but holed the return, he sank the eagle, it would be nice to be able to play the hole like that drive and wedge on a 500 yards par 5. halved the 11th he won 12 with par after i found the bunker with my 2nd. 13th hit hit drive and SW, its a 430 uphill and SI1, i was my sunday best drive and 3 iron
16th was it for me, he hit it so far down he was just chipping over the green side bunkers to the flag, i again hit the driver as well as i could but still had 7 iron which went long. left my putt short, but a gimme, he holed for birdie.
3 and 2 loss, but didn't disgrace myself against a much better player, he admitted afterwards he was worried after 9
won a bet too, my mate who had played with him in the club champs at the weekend bet me i wouldn;t win a hole
It was a good game against a very nice young man, played in a great sprite.
its great to challenge yourself against better players, shows how good match play is, even scratch. i don't have much chance in these things at my club esp with so many plus handicap players.
That's it. you just have to pull your socks up and go for it. was chatting to a team captain of young lads playing in a fred Daly comp at the weekend. handicaps range from 4-18 in that. matches played flat. I'm sure plenty of young guys face serious opposition but learn a lesson or two in the process.
i'm not sure i understand your point??
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
Those young lads potentially could be playing off 18 and come up against an opponent who is off 4. the match would be played flat. they just have to suck it up and give it their all.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Usual outing with CVG today...The Zoo is looking good!
Up and down front 9 for 17 points to CVG's 16.
Better back 9 of 19 to CVG's 17 so we both played recently.
Driver has been misbehaving so I swapped it out for a Mini Driver.....much much better and no real loss of distance.....
Got in just before it started raining.....perfect!
Up and down front 9 for 17 points to CVG's 16.
Better back 9 of 19 to CVG's 17 so we both played recently.
Driver has been misbehaving so I swapped it out for a Mini Driver.....much much better and no real loss of distance.....
Got in just before it started raining.....perfect!
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Swift 9 holes last night before dark with my wife at St Pierre.....driving is about as accurate as I can remember! Hope it is similar in the weekend comp!
hairball_89
Club Champion
Went out yesterday. A staggering and whole impressive 8 (yes eight!) points going out. Rescued it a tad with 15 coming back in. But Just couldn't get the putter firing. 4 putting on 3 holes definitely didn't help my day. Enjoyed the pint after though!
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
37 points at at open at city of Derry golf club. Pissing rain from start to finish.
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Decided to give supper club a miss as the drizzle and rain was incessant. Bumped into Sawtooth having a lesson with a guy I use to use and he was really happy with the outcome. I hit it reasonably well and can't wait to try it on the course tomorrow evening
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