Mel Smooth
Hacker
Stableford Trophy today, our 3rd ‘Major’ of the year, and a board comp.
Came home with 41 points despite 3 blobs, to take the win.
Came home with 41 points despite 3 blobs, to take the win.
So did you get the 85?First round of Club Championships today....anyone shooting 85 gross (15 over par) or better gets to play in the second round next week.
1: Par
2: Treble Bogey (including falling into a gorse bush whilst trying to identify a ball buried deep within....to add insult to injury (a lump of gorse branch stuck deep into my left arm) it wasn't my ball)
3: Par
4: Par
5: Par
6: Birdie
7: Par
8: Bogey
9: Par
10: Par
11: Bogey
12: Bogey
13: Double Bogey
14: Quadruple Bogey (including a 4 putt)
15: Bogey
16: Bogey
17: Three balls OOB at various stages of the hole including a provisional that followed the previous shot (my 4th shot on the hole, having had 3 off the tee) OOB. If I'd have had a 3rd go (8th shot) then wedged to the green and 2 putted it would have been a 6 over par 11.
18: Par
Enjoy it while it lasts.Another day, another card, another cut......the form is definitely back from its holiday in Ibiza....
78 blows and fairly disappointed with it to be honest..
Starting on 10 with a bogey, birdie combo and ending the 9 with the same and only a couple of other bogeys in between...20 pounts and 2 over gross
Got to our back 9 (1-9) and we found that the greenkeepers had spread a fertiliser on the greens.
To say this changed the speed is a slight understatement....took a few holes to get the speed anywhere near sussed
A 5 over 17 points was decent but if we'd had the green speed from the other side...well, who knows
A 0.2 cut in the offing, gets me back jnto the 5 points somethings.
Index down by 3 shots in 6 weeks.....lowest its been since April.
Contentment
Senior Open at Coxmoor, probably one of the days I've been looking forward to the most all year.......
Started off with a shaky bogey for 2 points but then everything went tits up. Shanks galore, fats, thins, 3 putts, lost balls. You name it, I did it.
8 points going out, I needed to make a big rally to gain even the smallest degree of respectability, nope, 6 points back for 14 total
When I was driving to the course I wouldn't have dreamed I'd be looking forward to seeing the 18th green so much. (In fact I didn't venture onto it as I'd picked up before I reached it)
It's a cruel game.
The only good thing was that we finished before a heavy rain shower, I'd got no waterproof gear with me.
Club championship this weekend, doesn't bode well.