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

[HeftyHacker]

Went out with a pal and decided to put a card in to give me something to focus on and get me playing seriously.

I've had a torrid time off the tee recently and just wanted to try a tweaked grip ahead of Fairhaven for the handicap team on Friday.

What a difference! Driving it the best I have for months which, combined with my short game that I've worked on over the last 6 months (but haven't seen the benefit of scorewise due to my driving) managed to break 80 - just - for the first time this year i think.

Annoyingly that was with 5 dropped shots on our 10th and 11th due to silly errors and unlucky bounces.

Just the confidence boost I needed. I was dreading tee shots this time last week!

Unfortunately it will probably lead to a small cut ?

 

[louise_a]

We had a ladies versus Juniors match today, 4 matches of 4BBB, me and my partner played against a 17year old with a 6 handicap and one off 21.
I started birdie, par, birdie and my partenr also parred the 2nd with a shot for a nett birdie, so we were 3 up after 3! the rest of the match, there wasnt too much in it, the 6 cappper hit a good long ball but could be wayward, his partner more erratic but when he did get it together was very effective especially as he had a lot of shots, they got us back to 1 down but I parred the 17th with a shot to close it out, as an asside, while we were on the 16th green, a ball appeared about 20 yards away it was the 6 cappers brother must have hit it 320 plus yds.
The whole match finished 2-2, the lads wanted a chip off to decide the winnerso we all hit shots over a bunker, nearest the pin wins, your truely hit the first and no one got closer so a win for the ladies.
A good fun round and some of those juniors are scarily good

 

[GG26]

Senior pairs betterball open at Stanton-on-the-Wolds this morning. Early start and in the third group out. The club senior captain and starter must have thought that he had a hacker on the course as I topped each of my first four shots and took five to reach the green on the short par 4 opener.

Things improved from there and me and my PP (who had 26 shots to my 20) scored consistently and my 4 for 4 on the SI 2 hole helped us to a very nice 23pts on the front nine.

Apart from my par on the 11th, my PP took over and probably played the best nine holes of his life. He scored 21pts on the last seven holes giving us a total of 26pts for the back nine and 49pts overall.

It looks like there are only a couple of cards to come in and we are currently top of the leaderboard. We’ve never even troubled the prizes before in many previous opens so we’re rather chuffed.

 

[Imurg]

Another day, another small return to decent form and another small cut.
Started par, double which set me back a bit but a nice birdie on 9 saw me turn bang on handicap
Up and down back 9 but nothing worse than a bogey and a 79 (+8 and bang on handicap again)was duly signed for.
Looks like a cut to 6.4 so happy with that.
Downside is that the driver seems to be misbehaving, apart from a corker on the 17th......

 

[louise_a]

I played at Grange Park, St Helens today in a Lancs Ladies event, very surprised by the course, I really enjoyed it and the greens were fabulous to put on, I had a bit of a mixed round, a good number of pars but Iseemed to follow everyone with a double bogey, quite frustrating, I visited too many bunker off the tee. There were some crazy bounces but I put that down to the very dry conditions. It was a qualifying competiotn for a knockout in a couple of weeks, my net 80 was 3 shots over the last place.
The lady I played with is an interesting person, she played over 80 times in goal for England ladies and her hubby is Tommy Fleetwood's caddy, I refrained from bombarding her with lots of questions.

 

[Orikoru]

Had day off today and played at Pinner Hill. Last time I played there was over 4 years ago and I hated it - found it so long and too difficult but I was off 22 or something back then. Have been meaning to go back and give it another go so we finally did that today.

After two holes I was already wishing we hadn't bothered. My drive on the 1st was pushed/slice right of the trees, I had a sizeable gap to punch it back through but it clipped a branch and disappeared, never to be seen again. 2nd is a short one but a blind shot, my tee shot ran left into a ditch, after a drop I pitched it straight into the bunker - managed to scrape a 6 for 1 point here though.

I stopped messing about after that though and improved. Aside from a double on the 8th (which is a frankly ridiculous 430 yard uphill pig of a hole), I'd managed to reach the turn with a respectable 17 points somehow.

Back nine went up a gear again. Nearly reached the par 5 10th in two, but was just short and then annoyingly only parred it, but birdied the following par 3 to make up for that. Four pars in a row from 13 to 16 had me thinking I was on for a good score now. As we putted out on the 17th the heavens absolutely opened. I had been expecting showers at random intervals but somehow we had no rain until then - but it was an absolute torrential downpour. I doubled the last hole, struggling not to see the clubs go flying out of my hands.

3 over back nine for 23 points and 40 total - 84 gross. Very happy with that considering how it started! And the card is in on MyEG as well. I never normally put away cards in, but the slope & course ratings being so low at my home course, I thought it was worth trying one on a course with 129 slope and me getting 3 extra shots for once, and it paid off thankfully. Score differential of 11.6 so we'll see what that does to the index tomorrow.

 

[DeanoMK]

Played 9 holes tonight. 3rd hole is a short, driveable par 4 and I usually try and drive it but went with the lay up tonight.

100 yards left to the elevated green, I hit my PW an absolute dream and knew it would be close. Walking up to the green I couldn't see my ball and just knew immediately where it was. Thankfully I was right and there it was in the cup for my first ever eagle 2 ?

 

[backwoodsman]

Yesterday played the semi-final of the Seniors matchplay knockout. Versus a nice chap I know reasonably well. He said he was off 21 & I had to give him three shots. Gave away a rather 'generous' half on the first when having played three, he picked up his ball thinking my sunk putt was in for three. But I'd had 4 and told him to replace his ball & try for the half. Which he got.Went one down on the second to an outrageous long putt. Close for a short while, then got in front & started to pull ahead and was three up by the turn. Still three up with 6 to play. I then lost any ability to hit the ball properly and he got to square after 17. A squeaky-bum putt on 18 got me a half, so we started round again. A regular half on 1st, then he sank a long putt again (15ft) on 2nd, leaving me a 10 footer to get a half. A scrappy half on 3rd then finally he missed a 5 footer to give me the win on the 4th. Phew. Felt a bit guilty later when I was entering the result, as the system showed he was off 22 & should have had 4 shots, but then decided a) it was his fault for not realising he played off 22, and then realised b) he won the extra shot hole anyway. So now content. My first 'proper' final to come ...

 

[Deleted member 3432]

Just spotted a 32 handicapper had 30 points yesterday in our midweek comp, on the front 9........??

Obviously embarrassed about that as he had 14 points coming back including nr on the last two holes.

An improvement on last week's 43 points although he did win that one, only 3rd yesterday.

Handicap system obviously works for him as he's gone up 5 shots in last couple of years ?

 

[Crazyface]

Either we're too low or they are too high but either way the number of shots we were giving was way too many, i think we needed about 10 birdies to have a chance, managing 6 and taking them to the 17th was an achievement, thinking more about it I'm in a bit of a dilemma now, Dunbar off whites is about 400 yards longer than off the yellows, on some holes there is only a few yards difference and on some others 50 to 60 yards so I generally score way more off the whites, the 8 counting scores in my current hi of 4.8 is made up of 5 off the yellows (gp scores and Senior medals off yellows) and 3 off the whites, if I had all off whites I would be off about 9. As the 'friendly competitive' games with our group are mostly off yellows I would be laughed at playing off 9 but I can't play to 5 off the whites so I think I'll not be bothering with gp scores off yellows anymore and get myself off the whites more often to get myself up a bit ? maybe I need 2 separate h'caps

It exactly what I did this year. Yellows, just a flick round. Whites, tough as nails. Only cards I've put in are off whites or other courses.

 

[Springveldt]

Had day off today and played at Pinner Hill. Last time I played there was over 4 years ago and I hated it - found it so long and too difficult but I was off 22 or something back then. Have been meaning to go back and give it another go so we finally did that today.

After two holes I was already wishing we hadn't bothered. My drive one the 1st was pushed/slice right of the trees, I had a sizeable gap to punch it back through but it clipped a branch and disappeared, never to be seen again. 2nd is a short one but a blind shot, my tee shot ran left into a ditch, after a drop I pitched it straight into the bunker - managed to scrape a 6 for 1 point here though.

I stopped messing about after that though and and improved. Aside from a double on the 8th (which is a frankly ridiculous 430 yard uphill pig of a hole), I'd managed to reach the turn with a respectable 17 points somehow.

Back nine went up a gear again. Nearly reached the par 5 10th in two, but was just short and then annoyingly only parred it, but birdied the following par 3 to make up for that. Four pars in a row from 13 to 16 had me thinking I was on for a good score now. As we putted out on the 17th the heavens absolutely opened. I had been expecting showers at random intervals but somehow we had no rain until then - but it was an absolute torrential downpour. I doubled the last hole, struggling not to see the clubs go flying out of my hands.

3 over back nine for 23 points and 40 total - 84 gross. Very happy with that considering how it started! And the card is in on MyEG as well. I never normally put away cards in, but the slope & course ratings being so low at my home course, I thought it was worth trying one on a course with 129 slope and me getting 3 extra shots for once, and it paid off thankfully. Score differential of 11.6 so we'll see what that does to the index tomorrow.

It’s pretty easy to count on the fly what will happen to your handicap. Just take the difference between your current highest counting differential (or the one going off) and the new one and divide by 8

 

[Orikoru]

It’s pretty easy to count on the fly what will happen to your handicap. Just take the difference between your current highest counting differential (or the one going off) and the new one and divide by 8

(17.2 - 11.6)/8 = 0.7.

I got cut from 14.6 to 13.9 in the end. My God, you were right! Haha thanks for that, will remember next time. I thought there was more maths and wizardry that went into the index to be honest.

 

[patricks148]

Played in the roll up with the boys on Wednesday. Again hit itpretty nicely, but didn't hole any of the birdie putts. Only one over for 17 holes, but didn't find my tee shot on the 18th, wasn't in that much trouble and didn't even consider a provisional and wouldn't have had it been a comp either, but no sign of it. Had a caddy job in the afternoon, nice guys but the worste golfers I've seen this year which is a pretty low bar?

 

[IanM]

Played a Seniors Match at Creigiau this afternoon. Little place north west of M4 near Cardiff, not far from The Vale.

Super little course. Quite short, very narrow tree lined and in excellent condition. Played very well but only managed a half as was lacking local knowledge.

Another really nice course that charges very little, is really good and no one outside the Region has ever heard of! Shame the Welsh Tourist Board are not interested in promoting Wales as a golf destination.

 

[srixon 1]

Played my scratch KO singles semi final this evening against a scratch golfer. Where did that wind come from. I went 4 down after 12 holes, we had halved the other 8 holes. I then won 3 holes on the spin to get back to 1 down. We halved the 16th and 17th (the 598 yard par 5 16th with birdies) so we went down 18 with me still 1 down. Another halved hole so that’s me out of all the club KOs for another year. Probably didn’t help having a stinking cold and feeling a bit shabby.

 

[Yorkhacker]

Played Hallamshire on a courtesy today. Great course and lovely people there as well as fantastic scenery. Loved every minute of it even though I can't hit a golf ball to save my life atm.
It was pretty tiring, due to the hilliness and if I was a member, I don't think I could play more than twice a week due to that. Also, it must be pretty brutal in winter and when the wind really blows.
Not surprisingly, I didn't see any elderly golfers, or any buggies.

 

[Smiffy]

1st competition for me at Cooden today. And it's raining, despite none being forecast....

 

[Smiffy]

Played awful. Driving was a bit iffy, found two lakes from the tee on two of the par 5's which didn't help, didn't hit my irons very well, couldn't buy a putt but still came in with 38 points. Something is telling me my handicap is too high...???

 

[Imurg]

I think today could be described as A bit up and down......
Starting on 10 I didn't make a par on the first 9...4 bogeys, a triple, a double and 3 birdies - all for 4 points...came off with 16 points.
All over the place..except on the 3 birdie holes where I played like a God.....wtaf
2nd 9 began with 3 pars ( at last), 2 bogeys, 3 more pars to finish and another triple in the middle...
3 great birdies, 5 good pars and the rest.. well....roll on tomorrow

 

[Voyager EMH]

Today a club comp and I shot (75 - 70.8) x 113/132 = 3.6 and should be 0.3 off the HI.

It was a stableford comp, but I don't enter my stableford points on my handicap tracking spreadsheet and neither does the EG handicap info when I look at that.

Quite chuffed with how I played today. Greens were a bit ropey after scarification last week. Took 34 putts, but no 3-putts.