Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Sounds like my sort of luck Mike....Looks like one of the others got 25pts on the back 9
I played today and..(Rolling) -originally created by JohnnyDee
- Thread starter Imurg
- Start date
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Decided to try and enjoy playing and stop obsessing about a score. Played better, though still didn’t score very well due to a few dafties along the way. But enjoyed my round due to improvements in striking irons. 2 over my CH easily remedied.
need_my_wedge
Has Now Found His Wedgie
Club champs yesterday. Drove well and hit decent irons, but my putting, which is usually a decent part of my game, went and hid in a cupboard somewhere. The greens were pretty tough yesterday, some nasty pin placements, a fair few playing across slopes from every angle and running like glass, and the group in front must have put clingfilm over 4 or 5 of the holes…..??? ended with a net 80, which should have been better, but, not unhappy under the conditions. Missed the cut for today, but first go in the comp for three or four years, enjoyed the day.
Oddsocks
Ryder Cup Winner
Ouch……
Didn’t play today but yesterday won an inter club matchplay round 5&3, if I hadn’t missed a tricky putt on 12th it would have been 7&6.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Couldn't play yesterday and this morning I had to play a friendly with the Sunday League team, so I told my mates we could play this afternoon from 1:30. Consequently had to play 90 minutes in the blazing sun this morning due to other injuries (even though I'm still injured myself) so came home absolutely shattered before showering and going straight out to the course.
Just a friendly knock off the yellows thankfully, and had low expectations from my round, but kicked off with 4 pars to start - starting on the 8th so that's both par 5s, a testing par 3 and the 11th which I've only parred about once in the last year. Had a couple of miscues on the 12th and made a double, followed by a bogey, but then parred the next 6 holes in a row! So that was 10 pars out of 12 holes somehow. I think sometimes when the expectations are low and you don't care that inadvertently creates the perfect golf mentality and you play well almost by accident. ?
Did get a bit tired inevitably and went bogey, double, double from 2nd-4th with some poor shots. But got back on the par train at the 5th & 6th. Finished with a tidy bogey for a round of 77, 41 points. It's my second best score ever, and the best I've managed at my home course, so well chuffed with that, and really wasn't expecting anything like it all things considered. I think 12 has to be the most pars I've ever made on a round, and hitting 10 greens in regulation absolutely has to be a new record for me.
Good signs! Now I just need to somehow harness and replicate that "whatever" attitude going forwards and I'll be onto a winner.
Just a friendly knock off the yellows thankfully, and had low expectations from my round, but kicked off with 4 pars to start - starting on the 8th so that's both par 5s, a testing par 3 and the 11th which I've only parred about once in the last year. Had a couple of miscues on the 12th and made a double, followed by a bogey, but then parred the next 6 holes in a row! So that was 10 pars out of 12 holes somehow. I think sometimes when the expectations are low and you don't care that inadvertently creates the perfect golf mentality and you play well almost by accident. ?
Did get a bit tired inevitably and went bogey, double, double from 2nd-4th with some poor shots. But got back on the par train at the 5th & 6th. Finished with a tidy bogey for a round of 77, 41 points. It's my second best score ever, and the best I've managed at my home course, so well chuffed with that, and really wasn't expecting anything like it all things considered. I think 12 has to be the most pars I've ever made on a round, and hitting 10 greens in regulation absolutely has to be a new record for me.
Good signs! Now I just need to somehow harness and replicate that "whatever" attitude going forwards and I'll be onto a winner.
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Was working until 4 yesterday afternoon but the wife suggested a walk around Cooden as it was a lovely evening. Teed off about 5 o'clock and finished around 7.30, just in time to pop down our favourite Bexhill restaurant for a lovely meal. It was beautiful out.. this photo was taken just prior to me rifling a 5 iron into our 185 yard 14th hole and making a very rare par.
Dando
Q-School Graduate
Had the morning off and decided to get out for a game. Tee’d off about 7.45 and despite getting stuck behind someone who made @chrisd look like a youth the front 9 was ok and got 17 points.
Back 9 was similar and despite ballsing up 11 after a 270 yard 3 wood that found the middle of the fairway I got another 17 points.
Putting was poo as i had 10 putts for birdie and only holed 2.
Back 9 was similar and despite ballsing up 11 after a 270 yard 3 wood that found the middle of the fairway I got another 17 points.
Putting was poo as i had 10 putts for birdie and only holed 2.
Dando
Q-School Graduate
You almost look like a golfer
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Better day at the office today...but still some silly errors costing a shed load of shots.?
Started par, bogey but then went on a 4 par streak - all shot holes...
Then a double on another green with a , quite frankly, dirty pin position and 2 bogeys to finish..5 over..
Mixed bag on the back 9..2 birdies, 3 bogeys and a double but still only 3 over..
So a 79, 8 over and a small cut back to 7.
But at least half a dozen wasted shots....chips that I didn't hit hard enough so didn't make the green, a couple of dodgy drives and a couple of the obligatory bad bounces too....
There's a low one coming....I can feel it in me bones.
Started par, bogey but then went on a 4 par streak - all shot holes...
Then a double on another green with a , quite frankly, dirty pin position and 2 bogeys to finish..5 over..
Mixed bag on the back 9..2 birdies, 3 bogeys and a double but still only 3 over..
So a 79, 8 over and a small cut back to 7.
But at least half a dozen wasted shots....chips that I didn't hit hard enough so didn't make the green, a couple of dodgy drives and a couple of the obligatory bad bounces too....
There's a low one coming....I can feel it in me bones.
BiMGuy
LIV Bot, (But Not As Big As Mel) ?
Played yesterday evening. Played ok apart from a couple of holes without threatening a decent score. Tiredness due to the lingering effects of Covid caught up with me towards the end.
General ball striking is improving which is nice.
But, our greens have taken a turn for the worse. 2 weeks ago they were brilliant. They rolled nicely and were consistent. Yesterday every one was different. Some rock hard and like putting down a glass staircase, the others were soft and slower than a slow thing. Which made for difficult putting and anticipating what the ball would do when landing. I should really have been 3 or 4 shots lower. But isn’t that always the case.
I’ll take the positives from the 80 as that was the worst I could have scored.
General ball striking is improving which is nice.
But, our greens have taken a turn for the worse. 2 weeks ago they were brilliant. They rolled nicely and were consistent. Yesterday every one was different. Some rock hard and like putting down a glass staircase, the others were soft and slower than a slow thing. Which made for difficult putting and anticipating what the ball would do when landing. I should really have been 3 or 4 shots lower. But isn’t that always the case.
I’ll take the positives from the 80 as that was the worst I could have scored.
chrisd
Major Champion
Don't you mean gopher?
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
19 points out, 20 points in, with a stupid blob on the last! Can't recall ever blobbing that hole before.
I'm not far off being a golfer
?????
Played with the boys this morning, hit it ok by was def lacking some umph in my drives.
JonnyGutteridge
Newbie
Over the last weekeI managed 8 rounds of golf. Firstly, won the presidents invitational with my guest at my club last weekend (me on the left).
We had 37pts in greensomes off 9, followed by 42pts in the better ball. ??
Then I played Trevose, St Enodoc, Saunton East and Burnham & Berrow. All in absolutely magnificent condition especially given how dry it is at the moment.
Burnham was going to enforce mats off the fairway and par 3 tees from Saturday. Lucky we played on Friday. They said the reservoir is low and they’re pumping water directly from the mains at huge cost (£200+ per day) in order to try to keep the watering going, but are protecting the course in anticipation of further drought.
With the exception of Trevose, those golf courses are seriously tough. I managed 88, 88 and 83 at the latter 3 respectively, off the whites… and I barely missed a fairway, and lost 1 ball. I couldn’t chip or putt, and couldn’t find courage to smash driver all over the park.
Course record off the backs at Burnham is 69, par 71 ?
Pics:
- 9th at Burnham & Berrow
- 16th at St Enodoc (my mate took a 10!)
- 18th at Saunton
- 1st at Burnham & Berrow
We had 37pts in greensomes off 9, followed by 42pts in the better ball. ??
Then I played Trevose, St Enodoc, Saunton East and Burnham & Berrow. All in absolutely magnificent condition especially given how dry it is at the moment.
Burnham was going to enforce mats off the fairway and par 3 tees from Saturday. Lucky we played on Friday. They said the reservoir is low and they’re pumping water directly from the mains at huge cost (£200+ per day) in order to try to keep the watering going, but are protecting the course in anticipation of further drought.
With the exception of Trevose, those golf courses are seriously tough. I managed 88, 88 and 83 at the latter 3 respectively, off the whites… and I barely missed a fairway, and lost 1 ball. I couldn’t chip or putt, and couldn’t find courage to smash driver all over the park.
Course record off the backs at Burnham is 69, par 71 ?
Pics:
- 9th at Burnham & Berrow
- 16th at St Enodoc (my mate took a 10!)
- 18th at Saunton
- 1st at Burnham & Berrow
Attachments
need_my_wedge
Has Now Found His Wedgie
Bit of a plain Jane shirt in’t it Rob……?
Crazyface
Tour Winner
We played Lindrick in a mixed on Sunday. What an amazing course. Stunning design. Impossible flat greens that were not flat, how do they do that? And fast? You betcha they were fast. But it's the design of the place that makes it for me. Jumps into my top three with a bullet! We will be back next year.
Crazyface
Tour Winner
What did you think of the course?
Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
Yep. Sunday though, day of rest
???
louise_a
Money List Winner
I have played Chorlton quite a bit, the guy who I have lessons with was pro there when I started with him.
i quite like it it has a decent mix of holes, probably my favourite of the Mersey courses
louise_a
Money List Winner
A new course for me today Shaw Hill, the day did not start well, all ready to leave the house at 9am for a 10.11am tee time, I could not find my keys, looked everywhere, after 30 minutes I was starting to root through the bins, I rung up the girls I was playing with to let them know and kept searching, finally found them after a total of 45mins searching and rushed off.
I played mixed quite a few pars and several for 3 points but on 3 occasions I was on greens in regulation and 3 putted, I even putted off the green on the last.
i did enjoy the course it wasn't easy, and it would have helped to have played it before.
I played mixed quite a few pars and several for 3 points but on 3 occasions I was on greens in regulation and 3 putted, I even putted off the green on the last.
i did enjoy the course it wasn't easy, and it would have helped to have played it before.
