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

Smoj said:
managed to get 18 in after work at a 4 pm tee time, the sun was out, and the course was almost empty. After a fairly decent 18 last week, driver, woods, hybrids and short game were firing on all cylinders, surely with this nice weather and taking my new trolley out for a spin should be a great late afternoon round of golf....

No exaggeration, I sliced everything to do with the driver, woods, and hybrids, bar about 3 shots, duffed every shot from 7 iron to 58 wedge, bar about 2 shots.
My short game and putting were the only things I was hanging on to, to stay out there, but after hitting one of the better shots into the sun, and couldn't find my ball, and hitting 3 trees, then slicing a 9 iron on a 98 yard shot, I decided to go home on the 15th :p

Now, I would say can't wait until next week to have a fresh go at it, but my local course has now taken away booking as a 1 ball.. so after work rounds might be the thing of the past now.
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Seriously? That can't be right that they wouldn't let you play on your own on a quiet weekday evening, surely not?
 
IanM said:
30 pts round a rather windy (but sunny) Ashburnham today. Always enjoy a game there, plenty of variety of long and short holes and good greens. Always a nice welcome and good food in the clubhouse too.

Plenty of excellent golf if you venture west of Cardiff. Too many stop at Celtic Manor and venture no further😉😁
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Played Ashburnham a couple of years ago during an autumn storm..40mph winds but little rain...possibly the most fun I've ever had on a golf course.. :ROFLMAO:
Par 3 16th(?) from the top of the hill....
Aimed 50 yards left and still missed 20 yards right......😲
 
Following on from my decent practice round on Wednesday I backed it up with a solid performance in todays comp in testing breezy conditions.

Gross 77 for 37 points should see me get a cut of around 0.5 to 8.7.

Can think of 3 strokes that I could improve by quite easily.

I think 39pts by one of the other blokes in my group was leading when we went home.
 
First mates 'major' of the year (birthdays and the golf trip). Wycombe Heights was the venue, I hadn't played it in six years so was good to be back. Greens were in good nick and the fairways were mostly pretty dry with decent roll on them.

I had a very good front nine, 4 over for 19 points. Back nine was continuing to go well until the 14th. The weather turned a bit and the gusts of wind had got really strong - I went up a couple of clubs hitting into it, struck it a little thin and the wind just died so I went into cabbage at the back and made my first and only double of the day for a blob.

Got amazingly lucky on the 15th - and this was genuinely unbelievable. I once again misjudged the wind and airmailed the green, also tugging it left. The ball hit a low fence which stopped it being out of bounds / lost, and it ran down the path towards the next tee. When I went to take my free drop off the path - I kid you not - there was a driving range mat that someone had just slung into the area the other side of the path (must have been the 16th winter tee) and it was exactly in the area where I could take my drop. 🤣 So I dropped bang on the middle of it and hit a lovely chip onto the green. Unfortunately I didn't make the par putt but was happy to take bogey all day.

Didn't make another par but bogeyed the remaining holes in a really testing wind, so I finished on 81 gross for 34 points. Pipped the birthday boy by 1 to take the win. After winning 3 and a half out of last year's 5, it's nice to pick up where I left off and win the first major of this year!
 
Bank holiday scramble at my club. I've dodged these for a few years. Only 15 teams entered. 3 other chaps all younger than me, but with varying higher handicaps. Gave us a PH of 8.
Minimum 4 tee-shots each and one of those must be on a par-3. We made 4 birdies on each nine and no bogeys for a nett 16-under and second place.
My pro-shop credit has increased from £0.05 to £22.55 :)
Enjoyable day, but still think it is a daft format.
 
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Orikoru said:
Seriously? That can't be right that they wouldn't let you play on your own on a quiet weekday evening, surely not?
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Here is the Email reply I received

Dear Sir/Madame,

Thank you for your email. We no longer allow 1-ball bookings to be pre-booked online. Going forward, single players are welcome on a walk-in basis only but this may change during winter months. This is to help us manage tee availability more effectively and make the best use of tee times, particularly during busier periods.
That said, you are still very welcome to come down and we will always do our best to accommodate you where space allows!

So the way I see it is, if I lug my golf stuff into work, a 15-minute walk, then walk to the course after work, a 10-minute walk, and they have no tee-times or 'space' for a 1 ball, I don't get to play golf and have to walk home. But I guess it'll only happen once before I boycott the club, I used to be a member for 2 years too
 
Smoj said:
Here is the Email reply I received

Dear Sir/Madame,

Thank you for your email. We no longer allow 1-ball bookings to be pre-booked online. Going forward, single players are welcome on a walk-in basis only but this may change during winter months. This is to help us manage tee availability more effectively and make the best use of tee times, particularly during busier periods.
That said, you are still very welcome to come down and we will always do our best to accommodate you where space allows!

So the way I see it is, if I lug my golf stuff into work, a 15-minute walk, then walk to the course after work, a 10-minute walk, and they have no tee-times or 'space' for a 1 ball, I don't get to play golf and have to walk home. But I guess it'll only happen once before I boycott the club, I used to be a member for 2 years too
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Are you a member of the course, or is it a green fee booking?

If you're a member, that's very daft. I'd be booking a 2 ball with another member, who miraculously had to cry off!

If you're not a member, can you see how busy it is the night before do you can decide whether to take the clubs to work?

Can you add your name to another group?

If they don't want your money, it's their loss
 
IanM said:
Are you a member of the course, or is it a green fee booking?

If you're a member, that's very daft. I'd be booking a 2 ball with another member, who miraculously had to cry off!

If you're not a member, can you see how busy it is the night before do you can decide whether to take the clubs to work?

Can you add your name to another group?

If they don't want your money, it's their loss
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I was a member, but gave up my membership last year, as I took a year off. So I'm not sure how the BRS booking works for members these days.

I always check the night before when I can book tee times. I liked the security blanket of booking, paying and having a tee time, but I'll test out the waters next week and see how it goes :rolleyes:

The only after-work alternative is playing another course, which I played on Thursday, which is a harder, bigger and hillier course, and as I don't drive and don't really have a problem walking, it's still a 40-minute walk from work. I was knackered before my round even started, which I am completely putting down to why my round was so bad :LOL:
 
Started on the 10th this morning. My putting on the first nine was absolutely atrocious. From 43 shots, I had 20 putts, plus at least one occasion where I used putter from off the green - so literally half my shots were with putter. Three-putted three times. Abysmal. A normal person's brain, when leaving a few putts short early on would think "they're not as fast as I thought" and start hitting them harder. Not my brain though, oh no. My brain thinks "hmm, that's weird, I wonder why they're stopping short, the greens are definitely fast. I'll just carry on as I am." 😣

Anyway, after a 13 point front nine the back nine was vastly better. Not sure what I did differently but only 16 putts this time and no three-putts. Consequently a 4-over par nine for 18 points. Was especially pleased that when the 30mph winds started kicking in towards the end I still managed to keep my ball in play and par both the par 5s to finish. 82 gross and 31 points. Not the best but a good recovery.
 
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Captains day, shotgun start. Bloomin cold, windy at times, wet at times, it got colder 🥶.

25 points. Didn't play that badly, just lost shots through cold messing with my concentration. A mixed bag, not so great with my 4 wood today. I need that a lot for long second shots so it's tough when it doesn't work.

I might not be warm for the rest of the day.
 
4BBB comp today, off the Yellows and preffered lies, played really well as a pair and ended up with 42pts, one of those that could of been so much better.

Got back into the Clubhouse to find us in 2nd place to 46pts, left the clubhouse after an hour and we’d slipped to 7th on countback.😬

Got a 2 as well so this years “pot” has begun
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Captains day, shotgun start. Bloomin cold, windy at times, wet at times, it got colder 🥶.

25 points. Didn't play that badly, just lost shots through cold messing with my concentration. A mixed bag, not so great with my 4 wood today. I need that a lot for long second shots so it's tough when it doesn't work.

I might not be warm for the rest of the day.
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You must of kept the weather north, not too bad at ours, 1 small period of drizzle over 10 minutes, not too breezy either, although the wind was getting stronger.🤷‍♂️
 
Monthly Stableford this morning. 35 points in pretty friendly conditions on greens which are improving steadily after the early spring maintenance.

What was particularly pleasing was the fact my front nine wasn’t great - 14 points with far too many single pointers. I really wasn’t feeling it at all.

But a par, par start back, followed by a very close look at an ace at 12, and the back nine was a different story.
 
timd77 said:
Windy, very very windy.

Stood on the 14th fairway, 112 yards to the pin which was near the back, normally a gap wedge. Wind rattling straight into my face so I hit a nice punchy 9 iron, I was approx 30 yards short, didn’t even reach the green!
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I remember playing Littlestone on a forum meet a few years ago. Playing 17th par 3 about 170. Driver to a little short on front edge.
 
Played yesterday - qualifying conditions have been re-instated - the course is nowhere hear ready for them.

Playing again today, it's currently hammering down and the wind is picking up when we tee off. I'll be amazed if I score over 25 points.
 
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