Played Whipsnade Park today for the first time. My front nine was pretty awful. Knifed every iron - even shanked it twice. Scrambled ok to make a couple of pars but felt like I was playing so badly. 16 points but in truth I was a little creative with the score on one hole so in reality more like 14 points. Back nine was much better - I think because the holes are so bloody long I was having to hit driver, hybrid every time - no irons, no problem! 5 over 41 for 21 points.
The 10th was hilarious, I hit a great drive, had about 175 into the wind to the green - hit hybrid and rocketed it across the deck, daisy-cutter, the Sally to end all Sally's - it just kept rolling and rolling and ended up, no exaggeration, 3 inches from the hole for a tap-in birdie. My mates were really pleased...
The only thing I did consistently well was driving - I hit 78.6% of fairways! Including 7 out of 7 on the back nine. Since I put the loft up to 11.5 the other week I've been so much straighter with it. Maybe lost a few yards but I'll take it. Only hit 2 greens in reg though! 43.8% up and downs, and only 29 putts. Funny old round but got there in the end.
Really nice course. In very good condition, although on the front nine I twice managed to find a shocking lie just off the green. Greens were very soft after 24 hours rain. As I say, quite a long course for me, but luckily I was hitting hybrids better than irons anyway. Weather was great as well, around 22° all day I think - very windy though.
Both times funnily enough I was trying to go over trees, so I think I was trying to do too much with it, if you know what I mean. Particularly on a day where I was already not hitting it well. I don't want to overthink it, just one those bad strike days. I was a bit stiff after last night's football as well.
) and were only 6 back from the winners.Went round the Hotchkin yesterday in an absolute gale. Wind was brutal. Was a fun round though as asked to fill a spot in a team open. We had 80 points (I contributed about 15
