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

[Orikoru]

Club Champs round 1 today. The wind was crazy at times, really difficult conditions to play in. I played pretty well, kind of a 'slow and steady' round, only 3 pars but plenty of bogeys. Finished with a gross 90, net 69 which is only +1. I was delighted with that given the gale force conditions. I was even more delighted when the results came in and I'm joint 1st in the division 2 net prize! One other chap got a 69 but no one bettered it. People really must have struggled in the conditions. I can't believe I'm actually in the running for a proper major comp here, roll on tomorrow!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Club Champs round 1 today. The wind was crazy at times, really difficult conditions to play in. I played pretty well, kind of a 'slow and steady' round, only 3 pars but plenty of bogeys. Finished with a gross 90, net 69 which is only +1. I was delighted with that given the gale force conditions. I was even more delighted when the results came in and I'm joint 1st in the division 2 net prize! One other chap got a 69 but no one bettered it. People really must have struggled in the conditions. I can't believe I'm actually in the running for a proper major comp here, roll on tomorrow!

Play it cool Trig. Tomorrow is another day and don't go there and set the expectations too high. That said, you did it in hard conditions so are in a bit of form so enjoy it, relax and see how it goes

 

[USER1999]

Sorry, I must have misread somewhere.

Your club championship has a div 2 net? Seriously?

It is called the club championship for a reason.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Club Championships round 1. Made it to what I refer to as the twilight zone; not good enough to win the handicap division (it's a given that I'm never going to win the scratch ), but made buffer so not bad enough to get tomorrow off. Might have a dog's chance in the over 55's if the ball would stop jumping out of the way of the middle of the club face...

Can’t believe you are over 55 😉

 

[Blue in Munich]

Can’t believe you are over 55 😉

Kilos, definitely.

 

[Orikoru]

Sorry, I must have misread somewhere.

Your club championship has a div 2 net? Seriously?

It is called the club championship for a reason.

There are several prizes, obviously a gross prize which is the main one all the best players are after, then a division 1 net prize (d1 is hcaps 1-14 in the club champs I think) which most of them don't really care about to be honest, and the D2 net which actually gives people like me a reason to turn up.

 

[backwoodsman]

Yesterday was one of our "big" comps - the 36 hole strokeplay, played off handicap. (The real biggie - ie the de facto club championship - comes later - 36 off scratch). Fortunately it didn't rain much, but wind was blowing a hoolie. (I have never, ever, ever before contemplated, let alone used, a 6 iron on our short par 3 6th!) Managed a nett 76 in the morning to be equal 15th place - shame about dropping 8 strokes in 3 holes coming down the stretch. Much better in the afternoon with a nett 71, putting me in overall 6th place (for the last of the prizes). Beaten only by proper golfers with low handicaps.

Best bit though was that CSS was at +3 (73) for the morning round, so my 76 (h/c adjusted 75) should have sneaked into buffer. And for the afternoon, it was +2 (72) so my 71 should be bring a small cut.

 

[patricks148]

it was the county championships today, 36 in a day off the very beck tees is too much for me now days, so played as a 4ball in the first time behind them. We decided to play off the new black tee's as well as they were out. Well weather forecast was wrong, it was rain and it was a lovely sunny morning and flat calm, easiest conditions they have had this comp in in some time.

played pretty well TBH, but after the field having a half hour start we caught up the last 2 ball on the 3rd, they had already lost a hole on the group in front of them. from then on we waited on every shot and the 2 ball by the time we got to 15th had lost 4 holes, so after almost 4 hours and only 15 holes we walked in. i would be surprised if either broke 100
it was interesting to play the blacks, very obvious the new bunkers are for the back tee's. played nice with the irons and even managed 4 birdes one being on the 7th which is 620 yards drive that only just made the fairway (no wind, the prevailing wind is a westerly) sunday best 3 wood and the new 3 hybrid, no chance with any kind of wind

 

[Orikoru]

Club Champs round 1 today. The wind was crazy at times, really difficult conditions to play in. I played pretty well, kind of a 'slow and steady' round, only 3 pars but plenty of bogeys. Finished with a gross 90, net 69 which is only +1. I was delighted with that given the gale force conditions. I was even more delighted when the results came in and I'm joint 1st in the division 2 net prize! One other chap got a 69 but no one bettered it. People really must have struggled in the conditions. I can't believe I'm actually in the running for a proper major comp here, roll on tomorrow!

So round 2 today, made a great start including parring the 470 yard 2nd for what I think might be the first time ever at that length - took a 30 foot putt to do it! Slipped up on a couple of holes but generally played really well. Putted the best I ever have which was saving me shots left right and centre. Three holes left I was right in it but the wheels fell off. 16th tee shot on out of bounds, par with the second ball for a 6. 17th tee shot lost, par it with the second ball for a 5. 18th was just comical, hook tee shot, chip out, rubbish 7 iron about 120 yards if that, but left a gap wedge to the green. Pull gap wedge slightly, takes an awkward bounce and finds the concrete path, where it obviously takes another 3 bounces out of sight and down onto the 1st tee about 30 yards behind the green. Chipped back on nicely but two putts makes it a 7. End up finishing 3rd in the division 2 net, four shots behind the winner. Quite gutting actually. Nice to have played well and competed but to finish with an epic bottlejob is not nice.

Won a fiver from the sweep for my score yesterday. Small consolation.

Edit: my gross score today was 92, so two worse than yesterday, +3 net.

 

[MendieGK]

76 72 in the club champs this weekend, good enough for 2nd overall gross and a .3 handicap cut

Down to 0.9

It’s close 😁

 

[Coffey]

Played in a charity day today at my old club. Funny day, drove the first green and managed a 4 putt for bogey. Double on the second. Then 180 yard par 3, nearly holed a 6 iron and tapped in my 2. Another 3 putt double on the 4th followed by another birdie at the par 4 5th.

This continued the whole way round resulting in 5 birdies with 5 blobs for 35 points. Putted amazing at times and horrendously at other times.

We were the first group out this morning and had a longest drive on the 5th. Absolutely smoked it down the middle about 320. Heading back up tonight to see if anyone has beaten it.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Club Championships round 1. Made it to what I refer to as the twilight zone; not good enough to win the handicap division (it's a given that I'm never going to win the scratch ), but made buffer so not bad enough to get tomorrow off. Might have a dog's chance in the over 55's if the ball would stop jumping out of the way of the middle of the club face...

And the twilight zone continued today. Buffered yesterday, I suspect today will get a 0.1 back as I tried to make something happen and failed miserably. Still, there's always next year...

 

[USER1999]

Scored yesterdays score in 7 holes today. Totally different game.

Stupid flipping game.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Played the usual Sunday roll up. Suffering in the last few days from insomnia and only getting a couple of hours per night, maybe less than that last night. Hit some balls to warm up and it may be the way forward. Hit it well. In the clubhouse for two coffees and then out. Played well and out in 19 points and made back to back birdies on 9 and 10 to be 3 under handicap. Fatigue, especially mentally caught up with me and made a mess of 13 to not score and 16 hit a well struck shot that went OOB and didn't fade back as planned. Good par to close out and 35 points. 36 won so a couple of poor wedge approaches and the two bad holes meant I could have taken the cash but very happy

 

[6535]

Played an A Team match today against our local nemesis over the years. Our team was a hotch pot of players that had to be called on, lowest 3 highest is 12 in our team. They had 3 county players, a former county player, one of them was the First team Captain of Lincolnshire for a couple of years.
He got to the 1st tee, introduced himself to our lads father and son pair and asked
‘What handicap are you’? To the young lad.
‘9’ he said.
‘I’m off plus 1’

Father Son shook hands with them on 14th green thumping the former county captain, player and knob 5&4. 😂😂😂😜😂

 

[Crow]

Played in the Central England Hickory Championship at Luffenham Heath today, scored 26 points which I was reasonably happy with all things considered.

The shaft on my mashie snapped in half on the second hole which took me down to 4 irons and meant I went from mashie niblick to jigger, which in today's clubs would be about pitching wedge to 5 iron..... a big gap and some creativity and lay up planning was required.

Although I putted decently for most of the round the ball just wouldn't go in the hole, I don't think I holed anything over 5 feet.

 

[IanM]

Played Trevose with my wife today in perfect weather... black clouds in the distance, but they stayed easy. Played nicely too....very pleasant

 

[BubbaP]

Have posted a separate self indulgent thread, but to do properly in here.
Club champ weekend. Proper gross places are out of my skillset, but the nett minor alongside is there to keep interest.
Scored not great in the wind when actually playing mostly okay - 87(77). Was enough to move me up the field 3 or 4 places.
Rolled the dice on day 2 and things came together for a 76(66).
Unfortunately only a handicap cut to show for it. Still really pleased though.

 

[Dan2501]

Net 71 (so level handicap) in the medal today despite starting double, double, par, double. Shot +9 front-nine, +4 back-nine so pulled it back nicely and had a really solid back nine. 0.3 cut, good day!

 

[louise_a]

A mixed greensome at ours today, we just didn't really get it going at all, and only managed a poor 33 points, got absolutely soaked over the last 2 holes as well due too of the early groups losing 2 holes on the group in front meaning a very slow back nine.