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

[harpo_72]

Me, my mate and his son played millionaires golf this afternoon.
Played the course when it was set up about as hard as it could as this morning was the 2nd round of a big club major.
Poor start with a double but birdied the next but then had another double.....
Turned with 18 points and proceeded to double the 10th
A run of pars and a couple of birdies and im home in 36 points - bang on handicap on a tough set up.
A couple of shandy on the balcony finished off a very civilised afternoon.

Greens quick and receptive? Ellesborough has some of the nicest greens I have played- fast and honest

 

[davidy233]

Should be able to see the wifes head :lol:


The massive bunkers and brilliant steps into

Great to play, the bunkers are stupendous, so deep and unlike any other course, just brilliant.

Was playing well 5 over upto 15th tee, then went double bogey, bogey, bogey, bogey to finish on 10 over! doh

However it all came together yesterday played 14 holes in 1 under gross, before heavy rain stopped play.

Nice - where is this?

 

[OnTour]

crap weekend, played the 36th hole i the clubs champs needing a birdie for 3rd, one behind playing partner smashed it to 3ft looked like n ACE pitched and stopped hybrid no6. playing partner 40ft away makes a 3 and didn't even get to the hole.

Bought a left handed putter in the evening as at 47 time for a drastic chance in fortune. missed about 5-6 2ft putts over the 36 :-( back again next year for top 3 challenge

 

[Imurg]

Greens quick and receptive? Ellesborough has some of the nicest greens I have played- fast and honest

Very receptive at the moment with the rain we've had... Still very true but a tad slower than normal..

 

[BubbaP]

Late post as played on Saturday but was going to wait for the results (but then didn't find the time). Reason - well I no longer have a single figure 'cap ?
Oh well, was a fun 14 months (lot less golf!) & I hope we meet again. Am actually quite glad I did make the mini goal pre WHS.

Two weeks and one competition later, and I'm back! ?
Only down by 0.2 so will have to play decent in next two comps or it'll be goodbye again.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Played a competition at Muirfield today. Fair to say conditions were quite brutal, rain lashing for most of the front nine, drizzling afterwards and 2-3 club wind (non-prevailing direction just to add to the fun) all the way round.

Very thick rough - not the place to go, even the second cut meant just hacking out as best you can but beyond that was almost guaranteed a lost ball. I was very lucky to find mine the one time I hit it into the thick stuff. One of my PPs almost lost a club when it slipped out her hands and flew 50 yards into the hay - it was literally over waist high in there!

Shot 5 over par in the end which actually seemed pretty decent overall. Just a shame about the double on 17 after mostly holding it together until then. Surprisingly, I had the clubhouse lead when I left - scoring has been awful - but can't see it being good enough.

Got soaked - was glad when we finished, frankly, and looking forward to a bath now!

Great shooting and as you say shame about the double especially so late on when you've no time to get it back but lay back when you bask in the bath and consider just how well you did on a brute of a course in unforgiving conditions for the other 17 holes.

 

[davidy233]

Went to St Andrews Links Academy range after work and had to use one of the outside bays as it was full inside - hit my balls and then had nine holes on the Balgove in 30mph+ wind - bogeyed first and last and parred the rest - good fun, smashing place to get my irons going well

Thick flag sticks tapered towards the bottom on the Balgove course - rammed the short putts to see if they would bounce out - they didn't (can recommend this style of flag)


Short third hole with Tom Morris building in the background


8th and 2nd double green


9th green and bunker that led to my bogey

 

[Deleted member 21258]

Nice - where is this?

Ganton

 

[jamiet7682]

Ive went from playing 3 times a week to once a week (just moved house) and my game has suffered massively. Last two rounds have been 57 and 55 (par 33), i was shooting 46/47 a few weeks back and was aiming to get under 45.
Its my short game that is killing me, this morning drove 200 yards to middle of fairway, leaving me 132 to pin. Took me six shots to hole it from a prime position. Chipping and putting is abysmal so need to spend some time on the practice area.

Only managed 12 points so handicap might be going up, target of getting it down from 30 to 25 before winter seems a long way off.

 

[larmen]

9 holes today and I played awful with the irons. But for my play I scored really well with 10 over (9 holes), just 1 outside my best score. Again.

I duffed a lot but got lucky with the duffs, for example a par 3 tee shot rolling all the way onto the fringe.
If I wouldn't have taken 2 shots out of the bunker on the 9th , which I rolled in for 115 yards, then I could have equalled that best score again. And I had 19 puts for 18 holes, a couple too many again. But I also had some confident 1 puts as well as a few nice 2 puts.

Also had some great shots. Stuck a par 3 tee shot to a foot right of the hole, another one pin high for a 3 put bogey, a new longest drive at 231 years right into the middle of the fairway, inches short of the bunker, and another couple of over 200 yard drives into fairways.

Going to the range tomorrow, tidying up those irons.

 

[Imurg]

Paired up with one of the old boys at the club this morning and had a little matchplay.
Giving 4 shots to a guy who's been a member at Ellesborough longer than I've been playing- and I started in '94.....
Some of the lines he took for shots were way off lines I'd have taken, it was a real eye opener
4 down after 8 was the consequence although I did pull one back on the 9th but gave it back on the 10th
Got it back to 2 down after 13 but he had shots on the next 2 and used them well to win 4&3
After being 4 down after 8 I wasn't too unhappy and did match my handicap...
Splendid morning's entertainment, good company, decent golf....and no rain

 

[patricks148]

Played Royal Dornoch with 3 members today, no wind to speak of and it was quiet... round as a 4 ball in 3 hours, was abit misty and overcaste but nice temp wise.

other 3 guys are all off 3 so the golf was of a very good standard, though i couldn't really compete distance off the tee, all 3 were well past me on most holes, but still hit i pretty well 3 over gross, only bogey's on 2, 6 the new 7th.
course was in fantastic condition, the greens today were the best i've every played on at Dornoch, nice pace a true as anything.


well worth making the trip at the moment....

thing that did make me laugh was in the shop before we went out. there was a guy with his son playing later were stocking up on souvenirs of their trip. the usual ball marker etc, and the son says can i have a couple of these head covers dad, why not says Dad, so a Driver, wood and hybrid cover were selected... That well be £330 please.. for 3 head covers and a couple of vall markers and a yardage book dad gulps, how much are the head covers £105 each... FYI theye didn't have the head covers after all

 

[IanG]

36 holes, mostly between the showers, at Goswick today. We go there at this time every year and it impressed me again today. Lovely course and always a friendly welcome. My golf was ropey in the morning but a gross 78 with 4 birdies in the pm made the drive home much sweeter.

Already pencilled in for next year.

 

[harpo_72]

Got a late tee time for 9 holes. Was a bit rushed, the little fella just is slow at meal times. Got to the club, got a practice bucket, machine gunned them ... all down the same line, but deep divots. Which isn’t really me, but all were after the ball and it was going the distance.
Got to the first, toe’d a drive off to the left about 6 ft off the fairway, with 110 yards to the pin. Pulled out the 52, hit it just beyond and spun it back 2 ft, for an 8ft for birdie... missed that ?. Basically the round was much the same, with me absolutely flushing my irons and missing putts I could have been 5 under after 6, gross. The only issue was the driver was a little below expectations but even so being able to knock the 7 iron over the top of a 170 yard pin and stop it dead from a semi rough lie pretty much makes it all academic. The funniest one was a 56 degree wedge hit from a hard pan bunker to a pin 65 yards away leaving a 3ft birdie... which I missed.
I have played the last 5 yrs absolutely rubbish, my handicap has crept up from a 5 at Ellesborough to a 10.4 at this club. Tonight, was like the clock had rolled back. My power was there and my iron game was bang on the money. I need to get the putting sorted, but I think it was just a case of blimey o’reilly another close one. The levels of spin and the noise from flushing the irons was just mind blowing... I used a srixon Q star tour in sparkly yellow. They spin, they fly and the check up neatly.. and I am sure they putt fine with a softer insert putter Or for someone who can.

 

[USER1999]

Played with my usual Tuesday crew. Every time it looked like rain, let alone actual rain, it's let's go in. Eventually persuaded them to stay out, as we would get equally soaked walking in.
Finished in bright sunshine.
41 points, gross 78, net 67. Solid golf.
Got a bit wet on 13 only.

 

[davidy233]

Out for a wander starting at 7pm tonight, jumped around holes to make it interesting, courses were quiet - wife tagged along to have a go of my Scotty Newport 2 - bad move letting her use it, moaned about how it felt and it didn't look right - then holed half a dozen of at least the length of putt she's been missing recently, don't think we had a three putt between us in thirteen holes - may have lost the Scotty. Dull and a bit misty but quite warm and no rain, can't remember the last time I had waterproofs on.

Hit the irons pretty well but only really holed one putt of any length - that was on the last for a birdie so day ended well.


Short par 4 18th on the Ashludie course at Monifieth Links

 

[larmen]

9 holes today and I played awful with the irons. But for my play I scored really well with 10 over (9 holes), just 1 outside my best score. Again.

Picking up the theme from Tuesday, I played awful but I scored well.

I think this could have been my round to get under 100 but it wouldn't have deserved it.

I did 35 shots on the from 9, BUT I picked up on 2 holes, both par 4.
On the 3rd I was still in the bunker, or just came out (Can't remember) when I was on 9 strokes, on the 9th I missed a put across the hole green for 8.
That would be 18 on top of 35 for a 53 front.

I came back in 49 including 1 penalty for a drop out of the water.

But of those just over or under a hundred strokes I can't remember any nice ones. Maybe a couple of drives and a couple of chip shots.
I had a lot of good confident puts, made a couple of 6 footers and a chip in from the fringe. Only really had 1 bad miss on the green, that's where the score comes from.

I think I might get a cut to where I can start mentioning my handicap. Hopefully.


Edit: just looking back at it, I had 12 puts on the back 9, helped by a chip in 8 iron on the 14th. I had 13 puts on the front 9 in 7 holes.

 

[chrisd]

I played today with my 2 grandchildren this morning - they both got a "hole in one" but on different holes ???

To be fair I found the Pirates crazy golf at Hastings just not suited to my putting action ??

 

[YorkshireStu]

Played well today; although I didn’t hit my best score of the year, I certainly felt like I played better shots and displayed the foundations of some good golf. Hit 103 but with an average putt of 2.55 and with a few poor shots to the green, albeit half the holes worked very well for these, I can see the areas where I can move from a 96-110 golfer to an early 90s golfer. Short game was absolutely on point today, everything from 7 iron downwards did what I intended. Feeling great.

 

[Deleted member 23344]

Played Ilfield near Crawley today which, sadly, has apparently been sold for housing. So I wanted to play it while I could. Did OK ... 35 points. Like my club, it starts and ends with a par 5.