pokerjoke
Money List Winner
Played in a senior roll up today on 15 temp greens 3 main greens and a shortened course and had 7 birdies and an eagle (no gimmies,chucked in 2 double bogies as well
Played 18 yesterday and 2 x front 9 today thanks to a bit of a lull at work, tested the Arccos sensors that came free with my irons before deciding whether to keep them. It's been super windy and not great conditions, but even taking that into account I have played really poorly in pretty much all facets.
Arccos isn't telling me anything I didn't already know but it is providing numbers which add a bit of starkness. Comparing me to a 14 handicapper (the arbitrary number Arccos reckons I can get down to in a year ), I lose ~13 strokes per round on driving, ~2 on approach, ~2 on putting and actually gain +1.5 on short game. I try and use a 3-wood and the number of times I'm 3 off the tee is embarrassing, I genuinely have no idea where it's going to go between straight and a huge slice right. I'm starting to try and fix it on the hoof just by trying things and its mentally starting to impact other areas which isnt great.
I've mailed my pro for some lessons focusing on this but, given our driving range is ~185 yards I won't be able to hit anything stronger than a 6i so it'll need to be an on the course lesson. I guess I might need to think about getting a few lessons somewhere else, get filmed and just figure out a method that keeps the ball in play
What are you off currently? You seem to be given so much away off the tee. I would be looking at somewhere and with someone that could give me a driver lesson and also sort the three wood out. That would seem to be the quickest fix to lowering the scores and handicap
Off 29 at the minute. 3 off the tee probably somewhere between 3-6 times a round so definitely needs sorting ASAP. I'm in Woking so there shouldn't be a shortage of pros who can fix it.
A fresh and beautiful morning out on the Silloth links today ️ The wind picked up a bit towards late morning but was only 16-18mph so not a bother (and a nice tailwind coming home) It was blue skies and sunshine all the way round ? Lovely!
Photo taken after post game coffee refuel, when the cloud cover had came in (I was enjoying the golf too much earlier to take a photo ?)
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Cheers, had tee times booked Tues, Wed's and Thurs which were obviously binned with the weather and the one nice day I had stuff on ??
Doesn't make it any better ??Sorry ? It was stunning out there this morning, fresh, but beautiful blue skies and sunshine (sunglasses on) The greens were fast and running well too - a glimpse of summer ahead.