In a curry house around the corner, will be back in about 30 minutes 🍺🍺
Littlestone - Sunday 26th February 2017
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chrisd
Major Champion
Lets hope the knee recovers soon - you and Mrs BIM are a right pair of crocks, good thing that some of us are in perfect health!
Having driven home today Chris & sitting here with a bag of frozen peas on the dodgy knee maybe it was for the best. Had to break the journey down & back because of it. Anyway, enough of my whinging.
Thanks to all of you who made it to Littlestone for the best of the weather, God help those of you doing Monday & Tuesday.
Always nice to put faces to names and a few more were ticked off today. Forget United & Spurs, match of the day was Large & Larger v the Saint & the sinner. Large & Larger triumphed and I promised the owner of the most famous baby draw on the forum that I wouldn't tell anyone that I can knock a 2 iron past it, so I won't!Seriously, thanks to Fish, anotherdouble and Papas1982 for their company, and thanks to Fish for the money, :thup: and thank you for all the good wishes for Mrs. BiM.
Hopefully the weather is kind to you over the next two days, hopefully I'll be there next year to join in :cheers:
Seeing as you took the 5th and had an undeclared score, I reckon you were well carried by your other timber framed partner 😜😉🏌️ But well played, your pair won the front & match but we halved the back 9 for some respectability,, but as you heard my partner say, he did win 1 hole for a half 😜😂😂
Come on now. Let's quote me properly.
I said "At least I've won a half" 😂😂😂
anotherdouble
Journeyman Pro
BIM, fish and Papas thanks for a very enjoyable 18 holes of golf. The 3 of you made a hard day easy. Papas thanks for the money and no doubt you will get it back one day with interest.
Arrived at Littlestone in just a little over 3 & 1/2 hours but didn't feel too tired after such an early start. Packing the new van for her first long trip of 224 miles in the dark morning was much easier than using the car, and much more economical!
We started to gather upstairs and as always it's great to meet some new faces at these meets, not sure having a beer on arrival was ideal but hey ho :cheers:
Initially the wind didn't feel that bad, it was more than present and more than I was used to but by god did it gather some pace as the round unfolded
Everyone was looking forward to seeing the infamous baby draw off the 1st tee but unfortunately I decided to hook it into a grass bunker, but after a good recovery followed by a decent wedge into the green and the putter looking to be hot from the outset, I still walked away with a par
I was drawn with Papas1982 against BIM & Anotherdouble so I had to protect my partner from the Chelsea buzzards so we decided to walk down the right side of the fairways and out of the rough whilst they walked down the left :lol: further to say we surrendered the front 9 quite easily, even though I was pleased with 4 decent pars.
As we turned for the back 9 the wind was really ramping up and it was obvious being in the company of varying handicaps the going was getting really tough as we all started to struggle a bit.
We shook hands losing the match around the 14th I think but the back 9 was still within our grips to come away with some degree of respectively, unfortunately we did stop the rot but only by halving it.
The last 3 holes at littlestone have to be the toughest I've ever played, not so much the degree of difficulty with them individually but into the wind they were brutal and never-ending, notably the par 4 16th which after taking a driver and 2 x 4woods I still needed to use an iron into the green! The par 3 17th then needed a driver off the elevated tee as the wind was just mental and then on the 18th I had it in my grasp with the last putt of the match to grab victory, but a tricky downhill slider putt just stopped short for the half.
I was strangely satisfied with my 28 points as I was getting my drives away well for about 12 holes, my trusty 4w was on top form and keeping me in the hole and my putting as always is dependable, but the conditions played a major part in the latter stages and I didn't cope well off the elevated tees with the wind blowing a hoolie and some hooked and sliced drives followed trying to force my drives away, which we all know doesn't work!
A very entertaining match and round in great company with new forumites was a pleasure, Anotherdoubles iron play was very good, especially off the tee, he strikes a nice clean ball, Papas1982 has come down a lot of shots in a quick period and will take this season to adjust to them, when he got his drives away they were very good but his first experience of links golf in very testing conditions for even a seasoned player was very good and he battled away and has an excellent attitude and I'll look forward to playing with him again to see the improvements, he's definitely one to watch on future mets as the games in their :fore:
Thanks lads for an enjoyable experience and thanks to Richard for organising and playing especially with the personal stuff going on at home.
Right, back to the King's Head, a 1 hour drive away to Deal, a quick shower & change and then meet in the bar for a curry and a few beers.
8 of us gathered and I hope everyone enjoyed the food, I really like this curry house and we had a large table of ladies celebrating a birthday next to us, I was doing my best to have some banter with them but I received no support from my lot, I think they were all shy
A good range of food was ordered, even a Vindaloo
Back to the King's Head for a few more beers which were flowing nicely and it was great that Peter & Martin (Liverbirdie & Boxman) dropped in for a drink, also nice that Barry (Oddsocks) who wasn't staying at the hotel came out also, back in my room at 23.45hrs so not too shabby :thup:
Day 1 completed on the Golf Monthly Forumites Kent Tour in which Charlie (Hooker) took the spoils with a fantastic 36 points which placed him well at the top for the 3-day cumulative prize also.
We started to gather upstairs and as always it's great to meet some new faces at these meets, not sure having a beer on arrival was ideal but hey ho :cheers:
Initially the wind didn't feel that bad, it was more than present and more than I was used to but by god did it gather some pace as the round unfolded
Everyone was looking forward to seeing the infamous baby draw off the 1st tee but unfortunately I decided to hook it into a grass bunker, but after a good recovery followed by a decent wedge into the green and the putter looking to be hot from the outset, I still walked away with a par
I was drawn with Papas1982 against BIM & Anotherdouble so I had to protect my partner from the Chelsea buzzards so we decided to walk down the right side of the fairways and out of the rough whilst they walked down the left :lol: further to say we surrendered the front 9 quite easily, even though I was pleased with 4 decent pars.
As we turned for the back 9 the wind was really ramping up and it was obvious being in the company of varying handicaps the going was getting really tough as we all started to struggle a bit.
We shook hands losing the match around the 14th I think but the back 9 was still within our grips to come away with some degree of respectively, unfortunately we did stop the rot but only by halving it.
The last 3 holes at littlestone have to be the toughest I've ever played, not so much the degree of difficulty with them individually but into the wind they were brutal and never-ending, notably the par 4 16th which after taking a driver and 2 x 4woods I still needed to use an iron into the green! The par 3 17th then needed a driver off the elevated tee as the wind was just mental and then on the 18th I had it in my grasp with the last putt of the match to grab victory, but a tricky downhill slider putt just stopped short for the half.
I was strangely satisfied with my 28 points as I was getting my drives away well for about 12 holes, my trusty 4w was on top form and keeping me in the hole and my putting as always is dependable, but the conditions played a major part in the latter stages and I didn't cope well off the elevated tees with the wind blowing a hoolie and some hooked and sliced drives followed trying to force my drives away, which we all know doesn't work!
A very entertaining match and round in great company with new forumites was a pleasure, Anotherdoubles iron play was very good, especially off the tee, he strikes a nice clean ball, Papas1982 has come down a lot of shots in a quick period and will take this season to adjust to them, when he got his drives away they were very good but his first experience of links golf in very testing conditions for even a seasoned player was very good and he battled away and has an excellent attitude and I'll look forward to playing with him again to see the improvements, he's definitely one to watch on future mets as the games in their :fore:
Thanks lads for an enjoyable experience and thanks to Richard for organising and playing especially with the personal stuff going on at home.
Right, back to the King's Head, a 1 hour drive away to Deal, a quick shower & change and then meet in the bar for a curry and a few beers.
8 of us gathered and I hope everyone enjoyed the food, I really like this curry house and we had a large table of ladies celebrating a birthday next to us, I was doing my best to have some banter with them but I received no support from my lot, I think they were all shy
A good range of food was ordered, even a Vindaloo
Back to the King's Head for a few more beers which were flowing nicely and it was great that Peter & Martin (Liverbirdie & Boxman) dropped in for a drink, also nice that Barry (Oddsocks) who wasn't staying at the hotel came out also, back in my room at 23.45hrs so not too shabby :thup:
Day 1 completed on the Golf Monthly Forumites Kent Tour in which Charlie (Hooker) took the spoils with a fantastic 36 points
which placed him well at the top for the 3-day cumulative prize also.
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Here are the scores from Littlestone :smirk:
Hooker 36
Dando 30
Mike Chapman 30
Badger 29
MurghtheMog 28
Fish 28
Another Double 27
Oddsocks 26
Papas 22
Trojan 21
Lee Nixon 18
BlueInMunich NR
Hooker 36
Dando 30
Mike Chapman 30
Badger 29
MurghtheMog 28
Fish 28
Another Double 27
Oddsocks 26
Papas 22
Trojan 21
Lee Nixon 18
BlueInMunich NR
Hooker
Assistant Pro
Thanks for that Robin and great write up.
Maybe you should have vlogged it that would have been epic
:clap:
Maybe you should have vlogged it that would have been epic
:clap:
