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

Par Bogey comp today and my fine form from Wednesday continued as I played really well and shot a 73 to finish 5 up. Was actually annoyed I didn’t finish level par as my mental game got the better of me on a 3 footer for par on 13 when I told myself I hadn’t missed a short one for ages and promptly pushed it right. Managed to not lose the head though and I finished the round off well picking that shot back up on 16 when I rolled in a 25 footer. Other than that stupid mental mistake I putted really well again.

Fairways were fast and firm and the greens had a ton of water on them so I’m expecting a negative PCC, I wasn’t even leading when I left the club as a couple were already in with an 8 up and a 6 up from what I heard.
 
Lovely stuff today. Out early, it was misty when I arrived. We had cloud cover until around the 11th, that was appreciated.

Drove the ball really well, all round game was solid. Front 9 was very strong, 20 points, it could easily have been 22-23. Back 9 was a bit scrappier but I scrambled the backside off it and a strong finish brought me home with 19 points for a more than respectable 39.
 
Board comp today - a Stableford one which is rare in summer. I played really well. Couple of ropey tee shots, and still not trusting the driver 100% - got my fade back (no pull hooks) but a bit too far right on some of them, so in the end I kept it in the bag and hit 3 wood on a few holes where I wouldn't normally. Only hit driver six times in the end. Slapped a 3 wood 270 yards down the 11th, sort of proving driver wasn't needed really. Even the poor tee shots I recovered well from though, hit the greens from some tricky positions and scrambled a few bogeys and pars. In the end I shot 78 for 38 points, with one birdie, two doubles and no blobs. Putting was good even though I had two left a foot short that were perfectly on line.

17th summed it up for me - slightly over-faded the 3 wood off the tee, kicked right into the trees. Ended up right up against a tree, and worse still, the ball is sitting in a little hole in the earth. I chunked it out with a wedge, and it ran up against a different tree - luckily a staked one this time, so I took my free drop, and promptly stuck a pitching wedge to 18 inches for a tap-in par. 😂

Should be a cut of around 0.6 to see me back in the 14s, at around 14.4 ish I think. Finally getting somewhere. 😁
 
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Springveldt said:
Par Bogey comp today and my fine form from Wednesday continued as I played really well and shot a 73 to finish 5 up. Was actually annoyed I didn’t finish level par as my mental game got the better of me on a 3 footer for par on 13 when I told myself I hadn’t missed a short one for ages and promptly pushed it right. Managed to not lose the head though and I finished the round off well picking that shot back up on 16 when I rolled in a 25 footer. Other than that stupid mental mistake I putted really well again.

Fairways were fast and firm and the greens had a ton of water on them so I’m expecting a negative PCC, I wasn’t even leading when I left the club as a couple were already in with an 8 up and a 6 up from what I heard.
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So result is in, PCC was -1 as expected and the winner was 9 up, shot a gross -3 off of 6. There were two 8 ups with both guys shooting in the 90’s.

I was 7th with a 5 up. Knew the scores would be ridiculously good as the course was defenceless yesterday. Firm fairways making tee shots run for miles, watered receptive greens and very little wind. Still shocked at just how good the scores were though.

Bit bummed at the -1 PCC, makes my differential 1.3 rather than the 0.5.

My mate won best gross with a 68, again bogey free. That’s the last 2 comp rounds he’s now -9 and no bogeys in 36 holes. Annoyingly good. 😂
 
On Thursday I lost a 6.2 counting score, I didn't play badly but nowhere near that so my index went up from 8.4 to 9.3.

Board comp yesterday. I was 1 over for the front 9, playing ridiculously well. On the 10th I made an annoying double bogey but recovered with a lovely birdie 2 on the 11th.

My playing partners, knowing I was on for a good score and knowing what the target was (net 67), were fantastic support. After making a quite ridiculous putt for par on the 15th for an up and down from 88 yards, I knew I needed to par out from there.

On the 16th I left myself with quite possibly the worst possible putt on the green but a good first putt secured the par.

17th, after a great tee shot, I had 88 yards, so I played the same shot as the 15th, the ball pitched just before the hole, danced around the pin and settled about 7 foot away. I read a slight left to right break and the ball didn't move. All 3 of the guys I were with after said they'd read it the same way.

Head to the 18th, par needed, a tee shot I don't always fare too well with but I hit an absolute bullet. The pin is on the back of our two tiered green, 145 yards. I hit an 8 iron and caught a bit too much ground and it finished short of the green. I tried to bump and run an 8 iron up but hit it too hard and it finished up on the bank on the back of the green. Again, another tricky shot as the pin was right on the edge of the tier, anything long and I'm probably heading off the front of the green. I hit it really well and it finished a foot from the pin for a bogey.

Par would have indeed won me the comp, 5 over gross, net 68 and then I finished 6th on countback.

I hit 10/18 greens in regulation.

Differential of 5.9 so my handicap is now back to 8.4 too 😂

Sorry for the long write up too, haha.
 
Mel Smooth said:
Didn’t play myself but went to pick Jamie up from Dewsbury who was playing the midweek medal last night.

Pace was slow so when I arrived I walked out onto the course to see how he and his pp James were getting on - who absolutely munched one off the tee on 17 to about a foot. The scorecard says the hole is 399 yards… :oops:

Lad had entered the comp but not the two’s - he obviously made this one then stuck it to about 4 ft on the last and made on there as well.

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Great shot on the 17th. Do you still tee off over the top of the trees.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Do you raise your driver on the 1st tee and acknowledge all around you? I feel you should.

I'm equally impressed that you have actually kept a record of every club you have played at.
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I'm a data analyst by day and I can't help myself, all my scores go into a spreadsheet.
Although I'm clearly not a very good data analyst as I didn't realise it was the hundredth until it was too late to celebrate. I thought it was the 99th!
 
Board Comp, stableford.

Came 13th place out of 83 entrants. Got a 2 on the 6th and birdied 18th.

Beat my 8th best 5.3 with a 2.7
Could be down from 4.4 to 4.0 (given PCC of 0)

Next round will see a 2.7 dropping off.
So the 8th best that became 9th best could become 8th best again and I go straight back up to 4.4 🤪🤪🤪
 
Finally some light at the end of the tunnel - 77 at Pine Ridge on a glorious morning, four birdies helped offset some wayward tee shots which cost me a few bogies, my putting was very inconsistent but I didn't have any double's which normally kills my score.
 
I actually played yesterday...just was too knackered to share.

Club Championships....18 holes in the morning, anyone scoring 85 or better qualifies for the 2nd round in the afternoon. Was organised so that the low guys went out early so they could get the groups sorted for the afternoon and get them out and back in again in good time. First tee was 7:28, I was out an hour later. There were a couple of groups of higher handicappers mixed in towards the beginning to enable club staff to play a round and then get back to prepare lunches and do the scoring.

Off 10, was paired with a couple of guys off 15 and 19 which to be fair I wasnt best pleased about...there were others in my handicap range who went out later (which was surprising, given the desire to get those who would potentially qualify for the second round, back in to the clubhouse early) who could have been grouped with me. The two guys I'd never met before but were decent company, but it was difficult to concentrate on my game as I think I had to get involved in giving advice on the rules and procedure maybe 7 times in the first half a dozen holes, not to mention being a bit of a bloodhound for their errant balls.

Anyway I started like a train.....wreck. Two shots in on the first and I found myself in a fairway bunker on 18, eventually returning to my own fairway to card a bogey 6. A double bogey followed on the next as I donned crampons to scale the face of a greenside bunker and then I found myself 6 over after 4 holes when I thinned a shot from a greenside bunker into a lake and ended up with a treble bogey. By the time I reached the 9th tee I was a wonderful 9 over par.

Then miracles started to happen. A 15ft putt on 9, a ten footer on 11 and a 9 footer on 12 all saw me grab birdies to give a degree of respectability to the score....only some cling film on the edge of the 11th hole stopped it from being 4 in a row. The cherry on the cake came when I holed a 20 footer on the 13th for a par. It could have been even better had I not missed a 3 footer for birdie on 14 after losing focus trying to remove a beetle from the line of the putt...damned thing kept coming back!

Then the magic disappeared...a tough second shot from a hanging lie on the edge of a bunker saw me catch the top of a tree with my approach to the green, the resultant chip from within the trees wasn't good enough, resulting in a bogey 5. On 16 again a poor chip (not enough pace...the greens were a tad fluffy - apparently due to some mower issues!!) saw me drop another shot and on 17 a totally misjudged approach shot saw me find a greenside bunker as I hunted for the flag instead of the center of the green. More bogey woes on 18 after leaving a slow putt well short meant that I'd dropped 5 shots in the closing 4 holes.

Still, an 81 was good enough to qualify for the second round....some way off the pace with the leading pair at 70 and 72, but in with a shout of maybe nicking a lower place. Anyway...entered the clubhouse, returned my card to the scorer....only to be told that there wasn't anyone left that i could play with...all of the current 8 qualifiers had already been sent out for their second rounds. To say I was annoyed would be a bit of an understatement....especially as five other golfers had shot the qualifying score but elected not to go out for the second round.

It looked like the club would have to cajole someone into walking with me as a marker but luckily a guy off 18, playing 5 groups behind me, also shot an 85 and agreed, once he'd freshened up and had a drink and a bite to eat to go out and play the second round with me. It was probably a good hour and and 3/4's after I'd finished my 1st round that we were able to start the second...a good hour behind the two groups of other qualifiers. We did catch them up around the 13th but as neither of us were in any place to threaten anything (apart from maybe a few ducks in some of the penalty areas) we held back and let them get on with the business end of the competition.

To be fair the second round was much like the first, with the exception that my putter went cold and, with the exception of the 11th (someone had obviously removed the clingfilm from the morning round) birdies were absent from my card. Ended up with an 83 for a total 164 which gave me 8th place overall. (Doesn't sound so good when you remember that only 10 people played the 36 holes :ROFLMAO:).

Bit pissed off with some of the organizing decisions, bit pissed off with other golfers who qualified but didn't want to go out for a second round....but got a decent sun tan.
 
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