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

[GG26]

Played in an Open (medal) at Sherwood Forest this morning. Lovely heathland course and longer than what I am used to.

Started very well with a birdie on the 2nd and after eight holes was three shots better than handicap. Unfortunately two consecutive four putts did a fair bit of damage to the card and frittered away a few more on the back nine, to end up with a 99.

There are a couple of par threes with a fairly long carry into the wind on the back nine and even with a good strike of my four iron I ended up in a bunker or gorse twenty yards short of a couple of greens. A good strike with a driver was sufficient to reach the fairway on the longer holes, but the carry required on the last was silly and even with a perfectly struck drive I was still 40 yards short of the fairway in semi-rough.

 

[ADB]

Another day, another couple of brain farts, another round of +5 which seems to be standard for me at the moment.

Particularly annoying because I'd managed to salvage some respectability with birdies on 12 and 14 bookending a good par on the hardest hole on the course before throwing in a stupid double on 15. Then missed good birdie opportunities on 16 and 17.

Two doubles plus two three-putts on other holes. There's a decent score coming if I can just cut out the rubbish.

Just write that on my headstone when i depart...

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Just write that on my headstone when i depart...

I've given up waiting. I know there is a decent score in there but try as I can I manage to keep it firmly locked inside

 

[DanFST]

Played cracking from tee to green.

Only made 1 out of 5 birdie putts, turned an eagle putt into par..... I hate golf.

 

[beduffshirl]

Played the first of my three handicap qualifying rounds. 41 over par but managed to keep the same ball all the way round which is a miracle for me!

 

[Deleted member 3432]

Was due to play yesterday, a very cool 14 degrees and heavy rain so give it a miss and went to the driving range.

Torrential rain rain today so not even considering the range.

Summer looks to be over in the Lake District by the look of things. At least the lakes and river levels will be getting back to normal levels...

Forecast not great for the weekend and Club Champs qualifier off the very back tees. Going to be at least 2 holes where 80% of the field will struggle to reach the fairway

 

[Marshy77]

Played last night. So much better than previous game.

Did the unthinkable and watched a YouTube on stopping your slice but it definitely helped. I think I was slightly gripping the club wrong - holding the club across my palm rather than more towards the bottom of my fingers and also couldn't see more than 1 knuckle on my left hand. Helped loads, especially driving. Hit every fairway with my driver apart from the first. That's never happened. Felt confident hitting my driver which also is a very rare thing. Putting was good, few left short but more 2 putts than 3+. Happy.

 

[Italian outcast]

went out to finish off the back 9 after my front 9 was rained off...like a different person out there in good conditions

Hit a 66 for the front 9 (shocking i know) and then 51 for the back 9. Some difference when i leave the driver in the bag and forget about trying to hit the pin - a nice and simple shot going about 150 yards each time is all im needing

hopefully i'll be close to breaking 100 soon enough

Yip - it may be worth going round a few times leaving your problem club at home

That way you can get a benchmark on how you can score without too much self inflicted chaos - then you can reintroduce the bad boys

 

[patricks148]

Played Castle Stuart this morning on a freebie, chucked it down for the front 9 then was fine for the back. Greens were very slow, slowest i've every played them TBH. Also one of my mates had a nightmare off the tee, and from somewhere it was hard to lose a ball he must have lost 6 at least that only just missed the fairway.

Hit it pretty well again esp off the tee, played from the whites as we were all lowish handicaps, but all the white boxes with the exception of 13 was on the black tee, so was a bit of a slog at times

 

[Slime]

Beautifully warm but very windy this afternoon.
Tee shot on the 2nd took a huge bounce and finished 20yds through the green ......................... it took me three chips to finally find a greenside bunker!
Managed to finish the front nine with 16pts.
Had a better back nine, well 8 of them anyway, and birdied the last for 21pts despite blobbing the 16th.
Found something with my driver and sent a few bombs out there, thanks to Tom Gaguto!
My brother was buying the beers tonight ...................... all is sweet.

 

[Bdill93]

It wasn’t today it was yesterday but it’s taken till now to post!

First ever comp and what can I say? Everything went to pot. Had to walk back to the first tee after losing my tee shot (in an area it’s practically impossible to do so) and went round in a disastrous 111. 7 penalties off the tee and officially my worst ever round at the club ?

PP’s were true gents who supported me the whole way round, and a lovely pint afterwards. Great day, bad golf.

 

[BubbaP]

It wasn’t today it was yesterday but it’s taken till now to post!

First ever comp and what can I say? Everything went to pot. Had to walk back to the first tee after losing my tee shot (in an area it’s practically impossible to do so) and went round in a disastrous 111. 7 penalties off the tee and officially my worst ever round at the club ?

PP’s were true gents who supported me the whole way round, and a lovely pint afterwards. Great day, bad golf.

Well you can only have a first ever comp once, so the only way is up ...

 

[Bdill93]

Played the first of my three handicap qualifying rounds. 41 over par but managed to keep the same ball all the way round which is a miracle for me!

From one newbie to another - Well done! I’ve got to the 18th before (tough tee shot at my course) on the same ball but never made it the whole way round with 1! Fair play to you, hope you’re happy with the round!

 

[upsidedown]

Played Lindrick in an Open today, first away day since golf came back and furthest I've travelled, all rather strange.
Cursing missing two great birdie chances that went begging that would have seen us in the prizes when all we hope for is a great day out.
Full marks to Lindrick, great course and very well organised Open

 

[Imurg]

1st comp at the new club and...............
Leader in the clubhouse with 38 points.
Long way to go and many more scores to come in but I'm chuffed with 78 gross.
Unexciting front 9 but a back 9 of 22 with 2 birdies in the last 3 holes ( one of them a 2) and a cut should be coming my way as well as some 2s cash...
CSS currently down 1 and if it stays then I'm back to 8...
Happy days...

Results confirmed...
2nd overall(out of 143) and in Div 1(69)...got beaten by a 4 handicapper who shot 4 under gross...guess I'll let him have that one, could have been bad form winning my first comp.
Cut to 8.6 as CSS matched SSS.
Played today but an unexciting 31 points - didn't find the middle all that often......

 

[patricks148]

Beautiful morning at Nain no wind and warm. The highlight was a big pod of Dolphins out in the Moray firth quite close to the shore..... the lowlight... my golf

 

[larmen]

Weird couple of weeks of golf. Played well last week, 101 of the white tees in a stable ford competition, then steadily got worse. Played a 55 on 9 holes on Tuesday where I shanked everything, lesson on Wednesday which sorted that out and on Thursday I played a few shots better for 9 holes, 1 shank in the round but a few duffed shots. Thrown in a range session since with mixed results. Having a medal (my 1st one) coming up on Sunday, hopefully it works out well. I am thinking I go driver and as many 8i as needed to get to the hole/wedge range rather than hitting anything longer in-between.

Btw, how would people approach a medal rather than a stable ford competition? Play it just the same? Be less aggressive? More aggressive?

 

[Orikoru]

Weird couple of weeks of golf. Played well last week, 101 of the white tees in a stable ford competition, then steadily got worse. Played a 55 on 9 holes on Tuesday where I shanked everything, lesson on Wednesday which sorted that out and on Thursday I played a few shots better for 9 holes, 1 shank in the round but a few duffed shots. Thrown in a range session since with mixed results. Having a medal (my 1st one) coming up on Sunday, hopefully it works out well. I am thinking I go driver and as many 8i as needed to get to the hole/wedge range rather than hitting anything longer in-between.

Btw, how would people approach a medal rather than a stable ford competition? Play it just the same? Be less aggressive? More aggressive?

Maybe on the side of less aggressive. If you had a tricky long putt for a point in Stableford you're going to smash it at the hole, whereas in medal you might be a bit more conscious of not wanting to three putt. Hit more provisionals if you are in any doubt at all as well. If you lose a ball unexpectedly and you haven't hit a prov, then your options are walk all the way back to the tee or NR, knocking yourself out of contention, so always err on the side of caution there. Other than that just play your game.

The up side is that you don't need to worry about the par of the hole at all. In Stableford the par and S.I kind of dictate what you need to score, but in medal you only need to get it in the hole in the least shots you can, so as I say, the par is fairly irrelevant.

 

[Crow]

Weird couple of weeks of golf. Played well last week, 101 of the white tees in a stable ford competition, then steadily got worse. Played a 55 on 9 holes on Tuesday where I shanked everything, lesson on Wednesday which sorted that out and on Thursday I played a few shots better for 9 holes, 1 shank in the round but a few duffed shots. Thrown in a range session since with mixed results. Having a medal (my 1st one) coming up on Sunday, hopefully it works out well. I am thinking I go driver and as many 8i as needed to get to the hole/wedge range rather than hitting anything longer in-between.

Btw, how would people approach a medal rather than a stable ford competition? Play it just the same? Be less aggressive? More aggressive?

If you don't think you can put a score together to compete for places in the medal then treat it like a Stableford, that's how any handicap adjustment will be made.
No point playing cautious for a net double bogey if it won't get you any points for your Stableford score and hence handicap reduction, especially true on putts where if it's your last shot at a point then be firm and don't worry about the one back should you miss it.

 

[BubbaP]

Weird couple of weeks of golf. Played well last week, 101 of the white tees in a stable ford competition, then steadily got worse. Played a 55 on 9 holes on Tuesday where I shanked everything, lesson on Wednesday which sorted that out and on Thursday I played a few shots better for 9 holes, 1 shank in the round but a few duffed shots. Thrown in a range session since with mixed results. Having a medal (my 1st one) coming up on Sunday, hopefully it works out well. I am thinking I go driver and as many 8i as needed to get to the hole/wedge range rather than hitting anything longer in-between.

Btw, how would people approach a medal rather than a stable ford competition? Play it just the same? Be less aggressive? More aggressive?

Out of interest in the stableford you said you scored 101, which I assume is a gross score - so did you actually play/score a medal round?