upsidedown
Tour Winner
Mixed Board Comp BB medal and shot level par and Hid on card twice when I bogied 2 par 3's, 7 under but 12 under was leading when we left.
I played today and..(Rolling) -originally created by JohnnyDee
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Bazz
Q-School Graduate
Yep stunning hole. I put it in the trees off the tee twice so picked up ?
Crow
Crow Person
After my lesson on Thursday, spent trying to instill some confidence in my swing, it was the Monthly Medal today.
Confidence lasted well into the second practice swing on the first tee.
Slapped the tee shot into a tree and bounced out short of the ladies tee, massive fat for my second shot that made it onto the ladies tee but, important to note, it was past the ladies tee markers in two.
Doubly bogey start.
Rest of the round was some good, some bad and some downright shocking for 88 gross net 74, 2 over par. Fingers crossed I'll have buffered.
Confidence lasted well into the second practice swing on the first tee.
Slapped the tee shot into a tree and bounced out short of the ladies tee, massive fat for my second shot that made it onto the ladies tee but, important to note, it was past the ladies tee markers in two.
Doubly bogey start.
Rest of the round was some good, some bad and some downright shocking for 88 gross net 74, 2 over par. Fingers crossed I'll have buffered.
HomerJSimpson
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First major (honours board event) since we returned - in fact first of 2020. Jubilee Cup which is a pairs, better ball stableford event. I won it in 2010 with an ex-forum member HTL (now living in Hong Kong with 2 kids). My current partner and I came second last year only to be DQ'd for not completing the log-in process on PSI correctly although my partner was adamant he had done so.
Played off 90% and after getting to cut to 12 last weekend it meant I was off 11 today. Ling time since I that low even for a day. We started like a train with 5 x 3 points on the first five holes. Out in 23 and my partner then birdied 11 for 4 points. I birdied 14 for the same 4 points and he birdied 15 for 3 points. Back in 25 for 48 in total. We had a ball that did 180 and stayed up and three other lip outs so we could have broken the magical 50 point barrier. We've weighed in and the scores have been published so no repeat of last years DQ and we're major winners and I've won it for the second time. I had 36 with my own ball off 11 so was very happy with my individual performance but we simply dovetailed brilliantly to win by three
First major (honours board event) since we returned - in fact first of 2020. Jubilee Cup which is a pairs, better ball stableford event. I won it in 2010 with an ex-forum member HTL (now living in Hong Kong with 2 kids). My current partner and I came second last year only to be DQ'd for not completing the log-in process on PSI correctly although my partner was adamant he had done so.
Played off 90% and after getting to cut to 12 last weekend it meant I was off 11 today. Ling time since I that low even for a day. We started like a train with 5 x 3 points on the first five holes. Out in 23 and my partner then birdied 11 for 4 points. I birdied 14 for the same 4 points and he birdied 15 for 3 points. Back in 25 for 48 in total. We had a ball that did 180 and stayed up and three other lip outs so we could have broken the magical 50 point barrier. We've weighed in and the scores have been published so no repeat of last years DQ and we're major winners and I've won it for the second time. I had 36 with my own ball off 11 so was very happy with my individual performance but we simply dovetailed brilliantly to win by three
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Shooter McPowick
Head Pro
Gross 83 so 1 over handicap which I was happy with considering it’s the first time out in 2 weeks. Dreadful 3 putt start for a double, easy par on the second and then another 3 putt double on the 3rd with an unplayable lie. Held it together from there with 9 pars except another stupid double on 12... despite a couple of 3 putts the putter saved me multiple times including sand saves in 5 & 15
davidy233
Tour Rookie
Sixth hole on Ashludie Links, Monifieth, photographed from third green
View from 12th tee, Monifieth Medal course, with 11th green on right of picture behind some gorgeous blonde rough
After starting back from lockdown playing unexpectedly well, and a month ago hitting my irons as well as I have in my life, the last couple of weeks have seen me badly struggling with them - very frustrating driving well and then shanking, thinning, duffing irons - think I've been thinking about what I've been doing too much.
So I went out for a few holes tonight with just the mini driver and half set of irons and the intention of just hitting the ball and not thinking about it at all, didn't quite manage to completely switch the brain off - but I did manage to find something and was hitting my irons really solidly. Ended up playing 13 holes, had to stop at 9.45pm as i had run out of light, but I'd have happily stayed out there for a lot longer - that was a lot of fun.
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
Lovely photo at the top. Is that a load of pitch Mark's on the 3rd green? The members need beat with a stick if it is.
davidy233
Tour Rookie
It is indeed - I’m not guilty I missed just left of green - chip hit the hole, tap in par
DeanoMK
Club Champion
Played 18 last night by myself, got around in 2:45 which was nice!
Only had my putter, SW, PW-5 iron and a hybrid. Got 37 points with a blob. Amazing what you can do when you restrict yourself.
Only had my putter, SW, PW-5 iron and a hybrid. Got 37 points with a blob. Amazing what you can do when you restrict yourself.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Played in a club competition last night. The NAPGC Clapham Cup or something like that. When I signed up I didn't know the format, as it turned out it was greensomes Stableford! I had never played greensomes before as it didn't really appeal to me, but I was already entered so had to get on with it really. I was playing with my mate so we know each other's games well. And we were playing at Thorney Park, which is a course we know fairly well too as we've played there quite a few times in the past.
I decided to adjust my driver up one degree to 11.5° because I've been struggling with slightly thin low drives and also leaving it out to the right, and I thought the added loft might help on both counts - and it worked well to be fair, I felt I drove the ball better than I have in the last month or two. As my mate is a longer hitter, I went first every time and just tried to make sure I hit the fairway, meaning he was safe to grip it and rip it on his drive. This also worked well for us as I was hitting the fairways, and he was driving brilliantly with the freedom of knowing he had a free shot at it, kind of thing. Course was dry as a bone and he was getting around 290 yards, just leaving short pitches for me to the green on a few occasions. All the par 3s were roughly the same length off the whites, strangely, I hit my Benross 28° for all of them, and it was working really well this time, we ended up using my tee shot on four out of the five, resulting in three pars and a birdie. (The other one I sliced miles right and my mate put it in a bunker so we only made a 5.)
I felt we did quite well considering we'd never played the format before, after a bit of a slow start we had 18 points for the front nine, then we went on a great run of 3-pointers on the back nine before sadly blobbing the 16th and killing our momentum off - ended up with 19 on the back for 37 points total. Two birdies but as luck would have it they were both on holes where we didn't get a shot. Our opponents shot a very impressive 43 points, but they were the home pairing - they were very tidy throughout and one of them's putter was absolute fire. But it wasn't us v them in a match scenario, it was several teams playing where all your points count, so our fellow club members seemed quite pleased with our score of 37. I didn't see the final scores because there were people playing at other courses as well and I didn't see the grand totals of everyone together, I guess that'll come out today.
I actually quite enjoyed the greensomes format. I was one of those who probably wrote it before, off as only playing half the shots or whatever, but whenever it was my partner's shot we were talking about it and strategising, so it still felt like I was involved even if I wasn't the one hitting it. And it took a little bit of the pressure off tee shots knowing you had your partner to fall back on if you hit a crap one. The two chaps we were playing with were good company as well and the pints afterwards went down a treat. Very enjoyable day/night (we didn't tee off til 4.30!).
I decided to adjust my driver up one degree to 11.5° because I've been struggling with slightly thin low drives and also leaving it out to the right, and I thought the added loft might help on both counts - and it worked well to be fair, I felt I drove the ball better than I have in the last month or two. As my mate is a longer hitter, I went first every time and just tried to make sure I hit the fairway, meaning he was safe to grip it and rip it on his drive. This also worked well for us as I was hitting the fairways, and he was driving brilliantly with the freedom of knowing he had a free shot at it, kind of thing. Course was dry as a bone and he was getting around 290 yards, just leaving short pitches for me to the green on a few occasions. All the par 3s were roughly the same length off the whites, strangely, I hit my Benross 28° for all of them, and it was working really well this time, we ended up using my tee shot on four out of the five, resulting in three pars and a birdie. (The other one I sliced miles right and my mate put it in a bunker so we only made a 5.)
I felt we did quite well considering we'd never played the format before, after a bit of a slow start we had 18 points for the front nine, then we went on a great run of 3-pointers on the back nine before sadly blobbing the 16th and killing our momentum off - ended up with 19 on the back for 37 points total. Two birdies but as luck would have it they were both on holes where we didn't get a shot. Our opponents shot a very impressive 43 points, but they were the home pairing - they were very tidy throughout and one of them's putter was absolute fire. But it wasn't us v them in a match scenario, it was several teams playing where all your points count, so our fellow club members seemed quite pleased with our score of 37. I didn't see the final scores because there were people playing at other courses as well and I didn't see the grand totals of everyone together, I guess that'll come out today.
I actually quite enjoyed the greensomes format. I was one of those who probably wrote it before, off as only playing half the shots or whatever, but whenever it was my partner's shot we were talking about it and strategising, so it still felt like I was involved even if I wasn't the one hitting it. And it took a little bit of the pressure off tee shots knowing you had your partner to fall back on if you hit a crap one. The two chaps we were playing with were good company as well and the pints afterwards went down a treat. Very enjoyable day/night (we didn't tee off til 4.30!).
larmen
Head Pro
After playing so well last week this week it is going all bad again. Putting was awful, and so was everything else. Duffs and slices, really astonishing I didn't actually lose any balls.
30 to 60 yard was still great, just the rest ...
Best shot was a provisional tee shot on the 5th par 4 were I was a yard short of driving the green. The score card says 292 yards but it was more like 245 yards from the tee box to the ball (I lasered it)
Does anyone know what these scorecard yardages actually mean? Considering tee boxes are being moved around those places anyway to protect the area?
A few things to tidy up before the competition on Thursday.
30 to 60 yard was still great, just the rest ...
Best shot was a provisional tee shot on the 5th par 4 were I was a yard short of driving the green. The score card says 292 yards but it was more like 245 yards from the tee box to the ball (I lasered it)
Does anyone know what these scorecard yardages actually mean? Considering tee boxes are being moved around those places anyway to protect the area?
A few things to tidy up before the competition on Thursday.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
I always assumed the card yardage was just the most common tee position measured to the middle of the green. But as you say tees do tend to get moved around so you can give or take 10-20 yards sometimes.
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Deleted member 25172
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Club medal yesterday. 4 over after 4 and I had pretty much given up already, just to birdie our first par 5, followed by 3 straight pars and then lip out for eagle on our par 5 9th, but tapping in for birdie.
Sloppy 3 putt for bogey on 10, par the 11th, lip out birdie on 12 for a dissapointing par.
After that it pretty much fell apart, with bogey, bogey, double bogey and bogey. The double bogey the most dissapointing one as it’s our index 1, a 440 yard par 4. After my tee shot I had 140 to the pin, the ball perfectly in the middle of the fairway.
Managed to finish on a high note though with a par on 17 and birdie on 18 for a gross 77, net 70, CSS 72 so got cut from 7.4 to 7.0.
Shouldn’t be dissapointed but cannot help to be after 2 really bad 3 putts and having to take 3 off the tee on the simplest hole on the course, a 135 yard par 3, costing me a double bogey.
Sloppy 3 putt for bogey on 10, par the 11th, lip out birdie on 12 for a dissapointing par.
After that it pretty much fell apart, with bogey, bogey, double bogey and bogey. The double bogey the most dissapointing one as it’s our index 1, a 440 yard par 4. After my tee shot I had 140 to the pin, the ball perfectly in the middle of the fairway.
Managed to finish on a high note though with a par on 17 and birdie on 18 for a gross 77, net 70, CSS 72 so got cut from 7.4 to 7.0.
Shouldn’t be dissapointed but cannot help to be after 2 really bad 3 putts and having to take 3 off the tee on the simplest hole on the course, a 135 yard par 3, costing me a double bogey.
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Deleted member 21258
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Feel like we went to visit an old friend, hadn’t seen Dave for months, was it great to go back, talk to him, play with him and see the castle, who doesn’t love a golf course with a castle.
Nice socially distanced game, no group within 3 holes of us.
Got to love links courses:-
8th 474y par 5 into wind, driver, 3 wood, gap wedge and 1 putt for Birdie.
9th 483y par 5 with wind, driver, 5 wood, 2 putt for birdie.
The rest of the round was non eventful and the rough was brutal, condition was good and surprisingly green compared to home garden.
I have missed you, my old friend, Dave. Hope it won’t be so long until I see you again.
Nice socially distanced game, no group within 3 holes of us.
Got to love links courses:-
8th 474y par 5 into wind, driver, 3 wood, gap wedge and 1 putt for Birdie.
9th 483y par 5 with wind, driver, 5 wood, 2 putt for birdie.
The rest of the round was non eventful and the rough was brutal, condition was good and surprisingly green compared to home garden.
I have missed you, my old friend, Dave. Hope it won’t be so long until I see you again.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
Another mixture of the sublime and the ridiculous. 33 points and 4 lost balls. Played some great stuff, hitting 4H and long irons better than ever, but 2 dreadful drives, a well struck but badly directed wedge that ended up in a clump of trees,and a knifed bunker shot that was never seen again meant it was a case of what could have been.
Game definitely improving though which is really satisfying.
Game definitely improving though which is really satisfying.
davidy233
Tour Rookie
I always thought courses had a measured position on each tee - I’d have thought from back white tee position
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
I thought it was from the measured point from each tee (e.g. the plates) to the centre of the green
shun_naka
Club Champion
Had an extreme case of front/back 9 Jekyll and Hyde tonight.
A terrible 62 on the front and a good 49 on the back, which would have been less if it wasn't for a water hazard giving me an 8
Overall a 111 for my best round out of my first three. And the good news is that's the 3 for my handicap complete and can now play in competitions
A terrible 62 on the front and a good 49 on the back, which would have been less if it wasn't for a water hazard giving me an 8
Overall a 111 for my best round out of my first three. And the good news is that's the 3 for my handicap complete and can now play in competitions
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
Good news about the three cards. Any idea what you'll be off? What went wrong on the front nine
shun_naka
Club Champion
Thanks!
That 111 has been the best round out of the three (back after a 3 year hiatus) so I'm expecting mid 30s for a handicap unfortunately.
Hard to know what happened on the front 9, had an 8 and two 9s that killed me, again no lost balls just stupid duffs or tops that didn't help. Back 9 I settled down and took my time over every shot which made a huge difference
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