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

[Imurg]

Played today...well, waded around chasing a ball
Last week I mentioned that I'd hate to see the condition of the course if it was closed....last week was so wet but still open.
Well, today was even worse. I've never played on a wetter course
Last year it would have been closed but I just don't know what will close it now...
Anyway, 15 out, 18 back so quite respectable
More rain this afternoon and tomorrow.
I don't think I'm going to bother on Friday....might go exploring other avenues...

 

[williamalex1]

Played, instead of the 10th, lost 2 balls of the 12th tee with big tops into the rough. Also lost a ball on 5th into the ditch right, blobby blobby blobby chipping great again, greens pretty nippy, no rain, dry. 34 points with the 2 blobs.

Flipping game will I ever crack it and become consistent.

Look on the bright side , at Prestwick GC on Monday one of our guys a 15 HC lost 6 balls on the first 5 holes, steadied up a bit for a few holes then lost another 3 on the back 9.

 

[patricks148]

Look on the bright side , at Prestwick GC on Monday one of our guys a 15 HC lost 6 balls on the first 5 holes, steadied up a bit for a few holes then lost another 3 on the back 9.

why say one of the guys...? why not fess up and admit it was you

 

[harpo_72]

Surprisingly sunny, cleaned the house, mopped the floors, fixed the curtain rail , made SWMBO her lunch .. contacted a few agents and then popped out to hit a couple of buckets. Hit said buckets and then played 7 holes. Took an old Scotty Cameron squareback no2 that I had renovated and it was rather pleasant.. only mistake as trying to play a flop where a pitch would have been fine .. bit silly and a double bogey was the reward.

 

[williamalex1]

why say one of the guys...? why not fess up and admit it was you

The guy plays off 15 he hits it miles but sometimes with a massive slice or hook , I hit fairly straight but not far enough to lose it, I didn't lose any. Bunkers were my downfall, i putted my 3rd shot into the left bunker at the !st hole 2 to get out 2 putts .

 

[Tashyboy]

Once more it was purgatory. Don't get me wrong i was hitting the ball really well. Both driver and irons. But bloody slow play. Us four were stuck behind a four ball in a buggy and two trolleys. We waited on every hole on the front nine. We were stood on our 5th hole, a par 3. They were walking up to the green. We had taken 1 hour and 15 minutes to play four holes. i rang the club shop and told the pro. Complete and utter waste of bloody time. 2 hrs 40 minutes for 9 holes.

 

[Slime]

Once more it was purgatory. Don't get me wrong i was hitting the ball really well. Both driver and irons. But bloody slow play. Us four were stuck behind a four ball in a buggy and two trolleys. We waited on every hole on the front nine. We were stood on our 5th hole, a par 3. They were walking up to the green. We had taken 1 hour and 15 minutes to play four holes. i rang the club shop and told the pro. Complete and utter waste of bloody time. 2 hrs 40 minutes for 9 holes.

What was the pro shop's response?

 

[Tashyboy]

Slime.

I had spoken to the pro a couple of weeks ago about slow play re another group. A fellow PP today was moaning on the first tee. Why.? The Pro who rents out buggies and gets £20 a chuck had let two of the guys out as long as they stick to paths. Which they did. Except the path is Lhs of fairway and said guy hits it down the right. So he walks 50 yd across fairway, plays shot then walks back. By the time we are ready to tee off there are 2 X four balls behind us four. Fellow PP moaned for four holes I said to himX number of times to ring the club pro. Eventually I rang the pro. He said I will talk to them as he knew who had hired the buggy. Even though one buggy was stuck in the mud last week. They still send them out.
Anyway we were sat in the 19th having a cuppa and moaning PP came back from having a natter with Pro. The pro said " I know who you were on about and I didn't really want to have a word with them coz one of the four guys wife passed away last week". So that was that. What do you say?
What bogged us off, on our 7th a 170 par 3. The 8th tee is 50 yds behind it. Two of the guys drove passed the green to the next tee. Got out of buggy and walked back to green. Why? Why not park the bluddy thing ten yrds behind the green.
The problem is there are a fair old few seniors/fossils that go out within 30 mins before us. They saunter round for 9 holes then go home.
Quite frankly, at the moment Tashyboy is not enjoying his golf, bladder wet through playing golf for 5 hours is not my idea of fun. Ironically I did not go in the 9 hole comp cox the last few weeks have been apexactlyexactlyexactly the same. Pro looked gobsmacked when I told him I was not bothered about going in comp. I will not go in any NQ comps this winter.
Ave gotta finish on a positive though. Whilst waiting on our 4th hole a PP gave me another ball he had found. A pro V1 with a tash on it and No1 Dad. Saving that for the old farts victory Against the whippersnappers.

 

[Slime]

All I can say is that I hope it doesn't happen too often!
We have a couple of old guys, with a buggy, that take forever to play a few holes.
They don't let people through ............................. and never will!
I've spoken to them on a couple of occasions, but it makes precious little difference.
I feel your pain, if that's any comfort.

 

[Tashyboy]

All I can say is that I hope it doesn't happen too often!
We have a couple of old guys, with a buggy, that take forever to play a few holes.
They don't let people through ............................. and never will!
I've spoken to them on a couple of occasions, but it makes precious little difference.
I feel your pain, if that's any comfort.

Thing is Slime we see then every tuesday and thursday. They are polite etc etc. But 5 hours 😖
Dont think they know the 3 min searching rule either.
That aside i found the storm radar app is excellent today.

 

[Deleted member 21258]

Played West hill for the 1st time yesterday. Son and wife just back playing golf. Teed off after members roll up and followed 4 ball members out, finished in just over 3.30 hours, when following the roll up was great and got caught on 17/18 in the lovely rain .

Took driver to the 1st, only to find a ditch at the bottom, as we walked down the fairway, nice triple bogey!! Shot 7 over front nine and 2 over back nine, so 9 over, fairly happy. Lost the matchplay 4:5:0 but won the stableford and strokeplay.

Driver seemed to have a right hand side fetish, but chipping saved me and it was like I had been named bronty at birth.

Course, didn't quite do it for me. Was surprised to find for a heathland course, it was pretty wet and muddy in a lot of areas, very soft run ups to greens, which all meant quite a number of plugged balls. A lot of straight holes and pet hate of mine by way of forced lay ups off the tee, with ditchs, bunkers and heather across the fairways on some holes at driving distances. To balance it some of the views of holes were great and some holes were great.

Really enjoyed the round, very good in pro shop, spoke to a couple of friendly members, and a cracking journey down and back up. Great day out.

 

[Orikoru]

Didn't manage to sort myself out a group for the comp so I just rocked up at 10:20 hoping to get on after everyone had gone out. Got sent down the 10th and bumped into three members I know who said I might as well join up with them for the back nine, so I did. Proceeded to play exceptionally well! 6 pars and 3 bogeys so I was only 3 over par when I left them and went to play the front nine on my own.

Sadly I made a few more mistakes on the front nine so I finished with 80 gross - which would be my new best score, but I can't count it as the course was a lot shorter due to repair work going on. 10th was 100 yards shorter, 16th and 2nd were both about 160 yards shorter, and the 9th was reduced from a par 4 to a 70 yard par 3.

 

[Crow]

Friendly game, 9 points out, 20 back, can't beat a bit of consistency.

 

[Crow]

Winter League 4BBB, carrying due to the still wet course so a slightly reduced bag of; Titleist 1 & 3 steel head woods, Wilson Staff Tourblade, 4, 7 to SW, Bronty Silver Knight putter.
A top of our division clash and it was a good, close match with never more than a hole in it finishing all square.

Took a tumble walking off the second hole on the icy path to give me a bruised and sore hip and a slight loss of dignity.

 

[Slime]

Winter League 4BBB, carrying due to the still wet course so a slightly reduced bag of; Titleist 1 & 3 steel head woods, Wilson Staff Tourblade, 4, 7 to SW, Bronty Silver Knight putter.
A top of our division clash and it was a good, close match with never more than a hole in it finishing all square.

Took a tumble walking off the second hole on the icy path to give me a bruised and sore hip and a slight loss of dignity.

I bet it's the loss of dignity that hurts the most.

 

[patricks148]

played yesterday moring at Nairn, bright a crisp morning. winter greens though in reality it could have been on the main greens as the gound wa squite soft. Hit the ball pretty well. 12 th was closed for 1st golfto start on the new fairways bunkers. Specticles on the left gone and a great big fairway bunker right in the middle of the fairway as 250 (440 yards)off the medal tee, so another hole I might have to lay up short on...

 

[Deleted member 3432]

played yesterday moring at Nairn, bright a crisp morning. winter greens though in reality it could have been on the main greens as the gound wa squite soft. Hit the ball pretty well. 12 th was closed for 1st gold to start on the new fairways bunkers. Specticles on the left gone and a great big fairway bunker right in the middle of the fairway as 250 (440 yards)off the medal tee, so another hole I might have to lay up short on...

Great piece of design that for the average golfer

 

[patricks148]

Great piece of design that for the average golfer

it appears to me a M&E thing have a fairway bunker middle of the fairway right on the distance of a good drive, not a factor for the elite players they will fly them. it appears the whole course is going to be set up for Elite Am players off the back tee... wonder why that would be

 

[Deleted member 25172]

Played the first match in the winter singles yesterday and played like I had never been on a golf course before. Match was over on the 14th. Today I shot 76 gross when playing with my mates. This friggin game.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

So so weekend. 32 yesterday and 31 today. Not comfy with my swing (for no real reason) and swapped putters (yes I know) back to the 2 ball from the milled Odyssey #9 and putted crap. Short game crap today which is annoying after all the work I've put in. Enjoyed it despite both days being really cold and the groups I played in were top drawer company