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

[Orikoru]

Aye, -1. I can see why, it was a beautiful day, hardly any wind, ball was going miles and the greens are still quite long and slow so the ball stops on them. The rough this year is nowhere near as thick as last year, it's still thick in places and I found the thick places 4 times as my driving was off the planet left on nearly every hole. Luckily you can hit it miles left on nearly every hole at my place and still have a shot, it's right that's OB on 12 holes and in the bundai on 3 others. I didn't want to tinker with my driving though as everything was coming out the middle, just 50 yards left of where I thought I was aiming. I didn't want to adjust aiming miles right as 50 yards left and in play is much better than 3 off the tee.

The course I was at was dry as a bone and running too, but there are massive hills and sideslopes everywhere so that makes it harder on just as many holes as it makes it easier. There was one hole that's a short dogleg right, but the fairway slopes to the left. I tried to hit 3 wood with my normal fade and leave 100 yard wedge in - I accidentally drew it slightly, it ran a mile long and left down the slope onto a completely different hole and left me a 7 iron in instead.

 

[sjw]

22 points for a level par 9 saw me cut to 8.8 overnight. An eagle on 2 was immediately offset by a frustrating double on 3, being three off the tee after I just couldn't find my first ball despite there not being much to hide it. Bogey putt sat right on the edge of the cup as well. Bogeyed 4 then bounced back with a birdie on 5. Very narrowly missed a putt on 6 for birdie, lipped out for birdie on 7, then narrowly missed birdie putts on 8 and 9 as well. Was honestly a cumulative 8 inches or so from being 4 under. Buzzing!

 

[Slime]

Played okay during the 4¼ hours it took us behind a competition.
We were waiting on most tees from 4th onward ............................ and I didn't care.
It was a beautiful day, I was with my mates and my brother, we saw several chinooks, buzzards and red kites.
We laughed almost all the way round and it got me thinking.
Why do some folk get so hung up about slow rounds?
Honestly, there was nowhere I would sooner have been, it was awesome.
The golf was almost irrelevant.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Played okay during the 4¼ hours it took us behind a competition.
We were waiting on most tees from 4th onward ............................ and I didn't care.
It was a beautiful day, I was with my mates and my brother, we saw several chinooks, buzzards and red kites.
We laughed almost all the way round and it got me thinking.
Why do some folk get so hung up about slow rounds?
Honestly, there was nowhere I would sooner have been, it was awesome.
The golf was almost irrelevant.

The blade slap of the mighty Wokka Wokka is an impressive sounds and the downwash is something else. Absolute marvel of engineering really!

Sounds like a good days golf and amazes me how often you hear people moan about 4.5hr rounds I’d rather spend that amount of time in the course than an hour at work or shopping

 

[chico]

Played okay during the 4¼ hours it took us behind a competition.
We were waiting on most tees from 4th onward ............................ and I didn't care.
It was a beautiful day, I was with my mates and my brother, we saw several chinooks, buzzards and red kites.
We laughed almost all the way round and it got me thinking.
Why do some folk get so hung up about slow rounds?
Honestly, there was nowhere I would sooner have been, it was awesome.
The golf was almost irrelevant.

I'd still rather have a three hour round. That would leave time for a nature walk or cabaret for those so inclined.

 

[Mel Smooth]

Jamie had a Yorkshire Inter District Union match today - Halifax and Huddersfield hosting the Sheffield Boys who have been formidable this year winning all of their 5 matches, taking 124 points for - 56 against.
I expected it to be fairly one sided but as I walked the dogs up around the lower end of the course this evening, a lot of the boys were out following the final matches, which usually suggests it's fairly tight. Looped round and as I came back across the 17th I asked one of Jamie's team mates (Freddie) how it was going... "It's pretty tense" was the reply.
So Freddie was dormy on the 14th tee - last match out, and halved his game on 18 to halve the match. 6 x foursomes in the morning and 12 x singles in the afternoon and 18 points each.
Jamie and his mate Edward halved their match this morning, and Jamie took a win in the singles against a county player.

Been a rough week for the kid losing his Grandad on Friday but he's done him proud out on the course.

The President of the Union was absolutely buzzing with the result - hardly surprising given the last man out clawed his way back from 5 down with 5 to play to get back to level on the last.

Team golf in it's purest form - these lads are making great memories, building friendships, it's great to see.

Picture of Ed and Jamie about to attempt some David and Goliathing on the Sheffield lads. ;-)

 

[louise_a]

medal today much the same as the last umpteen times I played

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Really pleasing, enjoyable and encouraging knock in our Roll-up stableford. A gross 76 - 4 over par - and 39 pts is my best knock for many a moon and 3rd out of 38 playing. Plus it was a WHS round and the 4.5 for it will replace a 9.7 - so a hefty cut in my HI coming (and so this morning I’m 7.1).

What was also very pleasing - though perhaps a bit frustrating - was that I left stacks out there. I had about a dozen coulda/shoulda putts (3ft to 15ft say) that I either missed or that scraped just past the hole. I know golf doesn't work this way, so why I'm more pleased than disappointed or frustrated, but just holing the 3-4ftrs would have seen a level par round. But golf doesn't work that way.

What does, and what really pleased and encouraged me was that every time one slipped past I simply said to myself...OK - just hit the next green in regulation and you'll get another go. And I more often than not succeeded in that - though I still managed to keep missing the putts

 

[Imurg]

With 3 birdies in 5 holes around the turn it had the makings of a Google round...
Sadly the 13 either side of those 5 were worse than useless....

 

[louise_a]

Well I am seriously in despair right now over my putting, it is not secret that it has been poor for a while put it dredged new depths today, I played n a team open at Oldham, a very challenging course in the hills above the town, but I hit the ball really well, however a couple of holes really summed up my problems, 15th par 4, nicely on the green in two about 30 feet from the hole, first putt is decent put a little long and finished about 2 feet past the hole, putt for par is stabbed, misses the hole and runs same distance past, 3rd putt doesn't even reach the hole and I end up with a 6, one next hole, a par 3, lovely tee shot inside 20 feet, first putt was misread and is 3 feet wide of the hole, take your time say my partners, mark the ball and assess the putt, so I do, I stand over the putt concentrating on keeping my head still, and don't even hit the ball halfway to the hole. So on those two holes, nice play is followed by a 4 and 3 putt.

I don't know what to do, i go for lessons and my putting is fine, but once I am on a green in a competition I go to pieces with stabs, lifting my head a pulling the ball off line.

HELP!!!

and to cap off a wonderful afternoon, I lost my shotscope too.

 

[bigyin55]

Went out after work. High handicapper after a couple of years of play, still aim to shoot low 90s when I play.

Started birdie, bogey (stroke index 4 but imo the toughest hole), par. Then the usual. Back 9 went par, par, bogey, par.

I shot par at the stroke index 1 hole which is a 450y par 4 with OB all right, yet shot a 7 at the next which is the easiest hole on the course, an 87 yard downhill par 3.

Embarrassingly a 99 despite some good play. If I can limit the 3s off the tee and the rancid chipping I can knock huge amounts off my scores.

 

[GG26]

Played Silloth for the first time yesterday in their Senior's Open. What a beautiful course and well worth making an effort to go and play their if you have not been before.

The less said about my golf the better.

 

[Orikoru]

Well I am seriously in despair right now over my putting, it is not secret that it has been poor for a while put it dredged new depths today, I played n a team open at Oldham, a very challenging course in the hills above the town, but I hit the ball really well, however a couple of holes really summed up my problems, 15th par 4, nicely on the green in two about 30 feet from the hole, first putt is decent put a little long and finished about 2 feet past the hole, putt for par is stabbed, misses the hole and runs same distance past, 3rd putt doesn't even reach the hole and I end up with a 6, one next hole, a par 3, lovely tee shot inside 20 feet, first putt was misread and is 3 feet wide of the hole, take your time say my partners, mark the ball and assess the putt, so I do, I stand over the putt concentrating on keeping my head still, and don't even hit the ball halfway to the hole. So on those two holes, nice play is followed by a 4 and 3 putt.

I don't know what to do, i go for lessons and my putting is fine, but once I am on a green in a competition I go to pieces with stabs, lifting my head a pulling the ball off line.

HELP!!!

and to cap off a wonderful afternoon, I lost my shotscope too.

Sad to read, and sounds like the yips pretty much. The only way I've seen people come through that is to change something drastically, like using a long-handled putter or going left-handed. There are at least four at my club who putt left-handed quite successfully (playing right-handed), so I would recommend giving that a go if you wouldn't be seen dead with a broom-handle!

 

[Burnsey]

38 points today, 22 first 8 holes, then blobbed the 9th before a very sketchy back 9 totalling 16.

Await the winning score, but expect to be in the 40's.

Playing partner disagreed I could take relief from a path, so played it and later transpired I could and should have taken relief. Took 8 on that hole.

 

[RangeRat]

38 points today, 22 first 8 holes, then blobbed the 9th before a very sketchy back 9 totalling 16.

Await the winning score, but expect to be in the 40's.

Playing partner disagreed I could take relief from a path, so played it and later transpired I could and should have taken relief. Took 8 on that hole.

You can always play 2 balls in this situation, 1 taking relief and 1 from the original position. Putt both balls out and get a ruling as to which counts when you finish.

 

[Burnsey]

You can always play 2 balls in this situation, 1 taking relief and 1 from the original position. Putt both balls out and get a ruling as to which counts when you finish.

Yes, chatting about it, the lads said I could have played with relief and if considered incorrect thereafter, lose the points for that hole - your advice gives two options, so thanks and something I now understand.

 

[moogie]

38 points today, 22 first 8 holes, then blobbed the 9th before a very sketchy back 9 totalling 16.

Await the winning score, but expect to be in the 40's.

Playing partner disagreed I could take relief from a path, so played it and later transpired I could and should have taken relief. Took 8 on that hole.

Surely something that basic, is printed on the back of a clubs scorecard. Yet to see one that isnt

 

[Springveldt]

3 over 75 this morning which I wasn’t overly happy with. 2 stupid and avoidable bogies and a triple when I lost my head, 2 birdies and 13 pars. Really should have been much better again, shouldn’t have been any worse than 1 over or even level.

36 points in the comp, I’ll be lucky to be top 40 with that with how the course is playing. Hardly any wind, fairways running out and greens still receptive. Perfect scoring conditions really. Was hearing that a 15 handicap had shot 4 over earlier, think they might be in with a shout of winning.

 

[Burnsey]

Surely something that basic, is printed on the back of a clubs scorecard. Yet to see one that isnt

Funnily enough, that was what the playing partner referred to and it isn't - or is it?

Path is to side of a ditch, which is natural. At the end of the path is a block paved square and it sat on the edge of that and solid dirt next to it - it's a path. 99% of the world would say it is a path. The ball sat on the path. My stance was on the path.

Not a chance I was hitting the right club, an iron, not ruining by black irons, so took a hybrid and was a poor result.

No going back now, but will not back down as easily again.

 

[Imurg]

Surely something that basic, is printed on the back of a clubs scorecard. Yet to see one that isnt

Nothing like that printed on the back of our scorecards.....we've got a QR code.....get us....