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

[Whereditgo]

First time I touched my clubs for a couple of months on Saturday to try and let a shoulder injury sort itself.

Played pretty well considering, chipping and pitching was a little rusty though, managed a triple from 130 yards out on 14, just caught the greenside bunker then sand wedge bounced on hard pack to blade it into the opposite bunker. And a double on the last after a 230 yard hybrid to the centre of the fairway, then proceeded to thin a gap wedge into the clubhouse

Finished with a nett 70 (par 72).......but more importantly the shoulder seemed ok .....and no damage to anyone or anything on the 18th

Arrrrrrgh! - Just seen the results, 2nd place on countback, a board comp too

 

[JonnyGutteridge]

West Hill today and was blessed with lovely weather. Lovely place, 3rd and 18th standout holes for me, definitely not as charming as Woking but a good test of golf, well conditioned and quite tough in places - the railway line is annoying though!

 

[louise_a]

today we made a trip down to Oswestry, we played there last year and so decided a return was in order, I played pretty well despite a couple of 3 putts, it was a 4BBB open and we were going along steadily until the 7th where my partner had a birdie with a shot for 4 points, an odd thing about this course, from the red tees at least is that all of the par 3s are single number indexes, so on the 9th I holed a nice putt for a 2 and another 4 points, so we turned with 22 points for some reason there was a big delay on the 12th, another par 3 where you have ot wait for those on the 13th tee to tee off before you can take your shot, there were 3 groups waiting to play and there is something seriously wrong with the way this hole is organised, maybe it should be a call through hole. anyway the 30 minutes delay didnt hel pus and we only score one point on 3of the next 4 holes, and htis took us to the 17th quite a steep uphill par 3, I hit a nice tee shot and when we got up to the green it was just 12 inches past the hole, so a tap in 2 and another 4 points.
We scored 40 points which was 2 more than the 2nd best so a nice win for us, for my two 2s I got nothing, I didnt put in for the twos as normally all you get is golf balls which i dont use.
We were on of the last groups out and the prizes were pro shop vouchers, but the shop had closed so I will now have vouchers for a pro shop that is a 90 min drive away, a bit annoying.

 

[Imurg]

After my 9 x 1 point holes on Monday and a very beneficial solo early yesterday that answered a few questions, I felt fairly confident going into todays Stableford.?..
10 x 1 point holes tells me I ain't got it right yet......
29 points and I scored on every hole.....
There are no words.....
At least I got a 2 ...

 

[HeftyHacker]

Bogey Golf at Fleetwood today. Just something seemingly going wrong on every hole.

 

[Imurg]

Out with my mate Andy this morning.....a much better display.
Normally when you birdie the 1st your game goes to rat poo but not so today.
Driving was back to something resembling normality, irons and chips were on song and the putting was OK...
Lost a ball on the 6th - 2nd shot clipped a branch and dropped...obviously into a worm hole as we couldn't find it even though we both saw it drop...
18 points out, 17 back for a small 0.1 cut...
Maybe there was a club outing to the BMW or something as there was barely anyone on the course..
Great weather, decent company, decent golf......doesn't get much better

 

[clubchamp98]

Played our seniors championship today.
Two under gross after four holes.
Schoolboy error on 5th tee., I teed it up on the whites and played away.
only noticed when another player told us, if he was 30 seconds faster ?..
Trouble is we were playing off the yellows.
Just one of them moments where I just went on auto pilot.

I never play the yellows and this cost me a NR.
Shot 36pts so not to bad .

wasn’t troubling the winner with 45pts though.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

On tour with ma society this week in the Bristol area playing off my society handicap of 24 (whs index is 23.9)

Tuesday played Chipping Sodbury nice parkland course, came 3rd with 30 points.

Wednesday played Thornbury (where we are staying , really impressive Lodge) good layout, but possibly the worst bunkers I’ve ever seen, some of the fairways needed a good haircut too.
Played decently 4th place with 33 points and joint leader overall.

Thursday, played the Thornbury par 3 course in the morning, which was good fun, won on countback on 50% handicap, (doesn’t count in the overall standings)
In the afternoon went to Clevedon about 18 miles the other side of Bristol, great views over the Bristol Channel.
Quite a hard course, but played really well to amass 33 points and won the day. And overall leader by 5.

Lovely course, but their signature hole ( highly elevated tee 300 yard par 4 with houses on the left) has been reduced to a Mickey Mouse hole. The safety netting on the tee encroaches half way across the line of play, so you have to hit a significant draw to stand any chance of hitting the fairway. A fade will be in the bundoo, plenty of lost balls in the scrub, but I was lucky, mine popped out and got a 5/2.

Going into the last day at Chippenham, looking forward to it, but my legs want to go home

Watch this space

 

[Dando]

On tour with ma society this week in the Bristol area playing off my society handicap of 24 (whs index is 23.9)

Tuesday played Chipping Sodbury nice parkland course, came 3rd with 30 points.

Wednesday played Thornbury (where we are staying , really impressive Lodge) good layout, but possibly the worst bunkers I’ve ever seen, some of the fairways needed a good haircut too.
Played decently 4th place with 33 points and joint leader overall.

Thursday, played the Thornbury par 3 course in the morning, which was good fun, won on countback on 50% handicap, (doesn’t count in the overall standings)
In the afternoon went to Clevedon about 18 miles the other side of Bristol, great views over the Bristol Channel.
Quite a hard course, but played really well to amass 33 points and won the day. And overall leader by 5.

Lovely course, but their signature hole ( highly elevated tee 300 yard par 4 with houses on the left) has been reduced to a Mickey Mouse hole. The safety netting on the tee encroaches half way across the line of play, so you have to hit a significant draw to stand any chance of hitting the fairway. A fade will be in the bundoo, plenty of lost balls in the scrub, but I was lucky, mine popped out and got a 5/2.

Going into the last day at Chippenham, looking forward to it, but my legs want to go home

Watch this space

I played Cleveland a few years ago and really enjoyed it

 

[PhilTheFragger]

I played Cleveland a few years ago and really enjoyed it

Well I played Clevedon, Cleveland is oop north.
Partially liked the elevated par 3, reminded me of the 17th at Castle Combe

 

[Dando]

Well I played Clevedon, Cleveland is oop north.
Partially liked the elevated par 3, reminded me of the 17th at Castle Combe

oh bugger - i meant Clevedon!

 

[HeftyHacker]

33 points this morning. 4 lost balls off the tee so 8 dropped shots there .

My miss with the driver has gone from a low hooky left to a big high right. Unfortunately 4 of our holes have the Wyre Estuary running alongside the right hand side so right is a no go .

 

[Orikoru]

Afternoon off, played Oakland Park with the missus. Did my usual trick of starting horrendously before eventually playing some decent golf. Three-putted the first three greens because they were deathly slow - double bogeys on the 1st and 5th. But managed six straight pars from the 7th onwards followed by a birdie. Back nine was only two over par in the end so finished with a 76 for 41 points (it is a short course, par 67 and under 5000 yards). If only there was a way to not start rounds of golf like a total numpty, I'd be making some good scores at the moment.

Wife hadn't hit a ball in a few weeks and it showed unfortunately, only 26 points for her (off of 40). She enjoyed it though and the weather was superb.

Edit: just noticed I had 37 putts - not far off half the bloody score! I need a way to force myself to putt better on slow greens.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

On tour with ma society this week in the Bristol area playing off my society handicap of 24 (whs index is 23.9)

Tuesday played Chipping Sodbury nice parkland course, came 3rd with 30 points.

Wednesday played Thornbury (where we are staying , really impressive Lodge) good layout, but possibly the worst bunkers I’ve ever seen, some of the fairways needed a good haircut too.
Played decently 4th place with 33 points and joint leader overall.

Thursday, played the Thornbury par 3 course in the morning, which was good fun, won on countback on 50% handicap, (doesn’t count in the overall standings)
In the afternoon went to Clevedon about 18 miles the other side of Bristol, great views over the Bristol Channel.
Quite a hard course, but played really well to amass 33 points and won the day. And overall leader by 5.

Lovely course, but their signature hole ( highly elevated tee 300 yard par 4 with houses on the left) has been reduced to a Mickey Mouse hole. The safety netting on the tee encroaches half way across the line of play, so you have to hit a significant draw to stand any chance of hitting the fairway. A fade will be in the bundoo, plenty of lost balls in the scrub, but I was lucky, mine popped out and got a 5/2.

Going into the last day at Chippenham, looking forward to it, but my legs want to go home

Watch this space

So played Chippenham today, really nice course, greens were greased lightning but so true,
Came 3rd with 30 points and also picked up the nearest the pin in 2 prize and shared the birdie pot.

Won the 4 days overall so picked up a decent amount of cash.

How much are you allowed to win before your amateur status is questioned?

 

[JonnyGutteridge]

Today was our exchange day with Hayling, about 80 of us go down for the day whilst they (are there any Hayling members on here?) enjoy our course.

Beautiful day to spend on the coast, course was looking very nice as well, was swallowing up golf balls as well!

 

[DeanoMK]

36 holes at Burnham Beeches today with my work society.

The morning round is always treated as a 'practice round' with the main comp in the afternoon. This particular event is one I won last year so I was trying to become the first person to win it back to back.

Having never played the course before I was grateful for the morning round, it certainly gave me a much better understanding of the course and I played okay for 32 points. I fell away on the back 9 a little after a solid start.

A quick lunch between rounds and we were off for the main event.

I started very well and reached the turn with 20 points, with 2 double bogeys.

A bit of fatigue set in and I'm still fighting some dodgy swings too, the back 9 went bogey, blob, double, par, blob, par, double, par, bogey.

I had hit a fantastic 3rd shot on the last hole to leave me with a 2 footer for par and missed it. I lost the competition on countback.......

Absolutely gutted but also pleased I put up a good defence.

Burnham Beeches is a lovely course and I thoroughly enjoyed my day there.

 

[Jimaroid]

Town Match. Old Course. Won 3&2. Back to clubhouses for breakfast. Bloody Mary and Eggs Benedict.

Perfect golf.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

6 over 78 today, with 5 x 3 putts

 

[patricks148]

After hardly playing for weeks this week saw me playing 5 times. Hit the ball well from tee to green on our Autumn Jolly to Fife, but struggled on the slower parkland greens. Today was our last silver trophy of the year, on a beautiful Autumn day. Played OK, but had 3 doubles from green side bunkers with little or no sand in the middle, every one thinned out 70 yards away. 76 gross which isn't the worst it could have been. I think that's me done comp wise now, only managed a dozen cards at most. Really enjoying my new job, but it's meant I've hardly played since Mid June. Might have a difficult decision to make come next year.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Today was wet, very wet. Rained overnight, loads of people cried off. I expected the course to be closed but surprisingly it wasn't. Front 9, 17 points. Very happy with that, really solid golf.

Back 9, the rain dragged me down, I struggled to keep concentration. Water was laying on the green and fairways making it a bit silly. Shots started to go awry, lazy swings, all very messy. We finished, I went to the pro shop to rewrite my pp scorecard as it had turned into a soggy mess and the pro told me the comp had been called off. Ah well, saved a rubbish score, didn't bother working out my back 9 but it would have been grim.

So, positive from 9, forget the back 9. Thank you Mr Sports Psychologist