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

[Marshy77]

The life of a high handicapper!!!

So annoying. Been playing pretty well, thought I had progressed with some of my game and then bang game is all over the shop.

Played a course in Leeds. Won't name it as it was in pretty bad condition, it's struggled for a few years but the last time I played they'd sorted a few issues out but yesterday it wasn't pretty at all. Think they've had issues with machinery but the fairways were cut but the cuttings were on the fairway. Big clumps and you could lose your ball on the fairway! Rough was brutal, bunkers not in play but totally ruined. Greens not bad but little things like overgrown tee boxes etc just visually looked run down.

Despite the poor condition of the course I just played really badly. Started well but after the 4th it went downhill. Poor drives, go to club hybrid was shocking, short again was the best of my game and putting was truly shocking. Our 4ball was a decent group but only my mate played well. I wasn't the worst in our group so you can tell how poor we were.

Onwards to the next game whenever that will be. So disappointing after recent rounds.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

A repeat of last week. 21 on the front 9, lovely ball striking, all under control. Declined on the back 9, choked it. 2 nil point holes, one which I've never blobbed before in 4 years of playing it ?, leading to 15 points. Deep sigh ?

 

[BubbaP]

A repeat of last week. 21 on the front 9, lovely ball striking, all under control. Declined on the back 9, choked it. 2 nil point holes, one which I've never blobbed before in 4 years of playing it ?, leading to 15 points. Deep sigh ?

A good 'un seems close. Is there an option to go at a quiet time and start from the 10th? Break the cycle, change the mindset etc.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

A good 'un seems close. Is there an option to go at a quiet time and start from the 10th? Break the cycle, change the mindset etc.

So close right now, hence the frustration. You make a good point and I think I will try to do that this week. I play 9 quite often mid week and it tends to be the front 9 because of the course layout.

Part of the issue is undoubtedly concentration more than particular hole issues. I start to drift for a spell at the 2-2 1/2 hour mark. Somehow I have to deal better with that second 9 lull.

 

[Paperboy]

Medal this morning, drizzled all the way around From 7 onwards.
Started with an 8, thought it was into the wind for my second and thumped it when I didn't need to.
Steady golf with nothing spectacular, lots of chances but didn't really get the pace of the greens.

Shot a 88 for a 1 over handicap, if the putter had been a bit hotter who knows how it would have gone!

 

[patricks148]

after yesterdays game where i hit the ball pretty well, which usually means terrible in the medal.

strange day again with heavy air and a slight easterly... and as predictable i was pretty terrible off the tee and when i did find the fairway, i hit a terrible shot.


but unlike the last few comps when i've been hitiing it well but not scoring, i putted very well and got up and down from everywhere including 3 sand saves, 7 single putts. 76 gross so should get a small cut as there were not any scores lower than 71 net and our CSS is usually two over 73.

prob the worste i'v hit it tee to green in weeks but best ive scored

 

[GG26]

Stableford comp today and finally translated my recent good form into a good round in a competition. Scored 41pts which should see me cut two shots to 19, but the results will not be posted until Monday.

Even though that was a great score, it could so easily have been even better. Missed a two footer on the 16th, and in the greenside bunker on 17 and just failed to get the ball out leaving the next shot from just under the lip of the bunker. It was only when putting the club back in the bag that I realised that I had used my 58 degree wedge, instead of the 54 which is my usual club out of a bunker. That would explain why it didn't make it out and that silly error cost me at least one and maybe two shots. I also had two long putts and a chip which caught a fair chunk of the hole but didn't drop.

 

[Orikoru]

Nearly achieved two of my goals for the year - the same hole ruined both!

Playing at Little Hay for the first time. It was raining when we started but that only last three hole really, just a kind of mist in the air for the whole round after that - still really humid though and we played in shirt sleeves. My front nine was superb - 3 over par 39. Had a birdie on the 6th where I knocked a wedge from 113ish yards to 6 inches for a tap-in. Did it again on the 11th, this time around 100 yards knocked to one foot for a tap-in birdie. From 13th to 16th I had a run of bogeys, but the two goals I mentioned were still possible - 1. complete a round with nothing worse than bogey, 2. break 80. The 17th is a par 3, I sliced my tee shot quite far right of the green but just needed to wedge it on. Thinking it would be tough to get out of the grass, I gave it too much and it flew into the bunker on the far side. Gave it too much again getting out of the sodden wet sand and could only make a six. Triple bogey, both goals dashed on the pavement of regret.

Still, parred the last to card a 10 over par 82. I believe that's my best ever round in relation to par, as I've shot 81 before but on my home track which is par 68. 42 Stableford points. Two birdies, six pars. That's two 72 par courses played this week and shot 39 and 42 points. Definitely playing the best golf of my life at the moment. My original goal of reaching 14 handicap this year should still be on if I enter enough comps before the weather turns.


On Little Hay - I quite liked the track but wasn't overly impressed with the course in terms of; nobody greeted us on arrival at all, we had to go wandering and found a staff member milling around in the bar, who simply said "oh if you've paid just go straight out". Didn't check anything, we could've just played for free! No signs on tee boxes telling you what hole it was or yardage etc, so we nearly went from the 2nd green straight onto the 7th, before double checking the map on the card. And the holes around the driving range were bloody dangerous - one sliced ball came flying over the fence and landed in between me and my mate. People don't tend to shout fore when they're hitting from the driving range do they? I appreciate the need to fit things into the space you have, but maybe some taller fencing is in order, we were practically jogging to get off that fairway and out of harm's way.

 

[davidy233]

Very nice walk this afternoon, though a bit frustrating on the front nine once we caught up with the amateur wannabe Butch Harmon giving a playing lesson to the usual youngster and his beginner mate - took a while for him to allow us through.

Still nothing to do with him that I double bogeyed the first or that I also doubled the thirteenth - apart from that it was a very solid round, Out in 41 which is nothing special but back in 36 (two over par) for 77 strokes which is my best of the year and my second best ever - having only ever shot below 80 three time prior to today it was very pleasing.

Especially as before my trip to St Andrews Links range on Monday I was really struggling with my irons - had a bucket of shanks in the couple of weeks before that.

Drove well, hit irons well, putted reasonably well, weather was nice, company was fine - life is good tonight.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

My bubble of good form gloriously popped on Captains Day with a paltry 31 off the yellows. Total rubbish including my first four putt for a very long time. That putter is back in the naughty cupboard

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

So inconsistent at moment, last 4 games - 39 points (comp), 19 points for 18 hole social, 21 points for 9 hole social comp and todays comp 22 points for the 18. OK, I could have scored a few more points in the 2 poor 18 hole games if I had bothered to hole out but when you know a .1 is coming I just lose all heart.

 

[garyinderry]

Shot 78 for my best comp round in a while. Putting on spiked and sanded greens wasnt easy. Burned the edge of the hole 5 times from close distance. The difference between a decent round and a very good round.


Ap3 irons starting to bed in. Still working out how far I hit them but by god does it make hitting mid range shots easier. I used to use an odd mix of blades and hybrids. Power irons are very useful indeed.

Hit two career long drives too and made birdie with both. We dont get firms fairways much here so was nice to take advantage of that this week.

 

[Papas1982]

Another round in the low mid 30's.

Half a dozen pars and then some rubbish.

SHOCKING start with my tee shot on the third going the fursthest in 5 holes and it was a pw to a par 3

 

[Shooter McPowick]

A Foggy captains day and as a team (best 2 of 4) we made 90 points only to loose to 107!! A personal 34 points with a blob on 11. Driving started strong finished poor short game saved me with 4 up and downs. Scenic as always

 

[Curls]

Royal Birkdale. Played great. Blown away. What a magnificent links ?

 

[OnTour]

Royal Birkdale. Played great. Blown away. What a magnificent links ?

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Great shot pal

 

[IanM]

Been too long since i was at Birkdale... blooming marvellous place to place.

Medal again yesterday, with a tidy buffer 2 over to follow up last week's cut. Another tap-in birdie on the par 3 second for a share of the sweep money...strewth I am getting very close to an ace there. Left on on the lip in July and this month two shots within a foot! Still no hole-in-one, but we live in hope!!

 

[BrianM]

Played this morning with my Dad and brother, went in with no expectations and it seemed to work, best I’ve played in ages, pace of play was excellent as well, 2 hours 45mins for a three ball.
My driving still not great, but straight, had 4 up and downs from 100 yards and in, short game all day was immense.
Irons decent but still not getting the same distance as my hybrids, hit my 3 wood off the deck 3 times, flew each time, glad I’ve found something, was close to quitting.
My old man was 9 over for round, plays of 16 ???

 

[Slime]

My driving still not great, but straight, had 4 up and downs from 100 yards and in, short game all day was immense.
Irons decent but still not getting the same distance as my hybrids, hit my 3 wood off the deck 3 times, flew each time, glad I’ve found something, was close to quitting.
My old man was 9 over for round, plays of 16 ???

Surely that's how it should be.
Hybrids are meant to be longer than irons ............................ or am I reading it wrong?

 

[shun_naka]

First competition play this morning, round in a terrible 114 for 29 points..not ideal!

I seem to have an issue with the front 9, the last few times I've been out I've been terrible for the first few holes and that's cost me a decent round..today I was out in 63 and in with 51

I think a warm up or something is needed for future rounds as it's the first 3 or 4 holes that do me every time