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Midlands Regional Qualifier (Take 2)

I'll be the first to say it was a cracking day, my thanks to Robin for organising and his company today. I even gave him a good giggle by just managing to knob one 6" past the ladies tee on the 3rd.

Thanks also to Ian and Glynn for their company. Ian if your putter had been even lukewarm today you would have walked it, well if not walked it gave the winner a run for his money. As I said to you at the course Glynn all you need are the low stroke index holes where you really concentrate. 25 handicapper getting 3 points on each of stroke index 1 2 and 3 and 4 point on SI 6. You really have the potential to get that handicap down quickly.

For info guys the day was won by Upsidedown with 39 points off 5. A cracking round of golf.
 
Excellent day out there... Thanks for organising Robin ( Free the Fish ) and great company with you, Malc and Ian.

Shame I left my short game at home, but luckily my driver decide to come for a ride and game of golf today!
 
virtuocity said:
39 points off 5 handicap? That's seriously good golf, congrats. AND you have a reg shaft driver?!!! There's hope for me yet.

Come on, tell us the tale of your round.
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Cheers :thup: Apart from the second drove the ball really well and made some birdies and bogies 3/5 ;) Made some good up and downs :)
 
I'd like to add my thanks to Robin for a great day, great greens, great organisation, great course and great company. Despite my inept putting I thoroughly enjoyed the day. The only downside for me was the LONG wait for the roadworks to get on the A14, but we can hardly lay that one on Fish.

Best of luck to upsidedown at Hill Side.

Cheers
Ian
 
A great day's golf superbly organised by Robin and, as has been mentioned above, Coventry GC were very welcoming.

Thanks to my playing partners, Paul, Mark and Mark, really enjoyed the round, and very well played upsidedown, he even won the nearest the pin!

The only thing that let the day down was the standard of my golf, even my driving deserted me today, I can't remember finding one fairway, and I struggled to 25 points. (The zero friction glove didn't help me)
 
Well played upsidedown, 39 points and nearest the pin. Not a bad days golf.

Thanks to fish for arranging the meet, and we couldn't have asked for a better day weather wise. Sunglasses and suncream were even mentioned!

Coventry Golf Club were great hosts and the course was a tough test, as my score proves. And those bacon rolls were great.
 
Firstly I would like to thank everyone who attended in today's Midland "Race to Hillside" qualifying round at Coventry golf Club. Everyone arrived in plenty of time and we all enjoyed a chat, a coffee and our bacon butties before going out to warm up prior to our tee times.


A huge thanks to my club (Coventry) for being such excellent hosts, the friendly welcome shown towards all my guests was exemplary, Kay (Secretary) and Martin (Pro) were on hand along with all their support staff to ensure our competition ran smoothly before, during and afterwards.

The course was in very good condition considering all the rain we have had and the greens had been ironed just prior to going out, which I think caught a few people out being true but very quick!

We all went off the whites which were all slightly forward of our true competitions tees but with a good mix of handicaps this was for the best in what could be deemed still as winter conditions, although I did order a dry day and we indeed got a great sunny day.

Scores on the doors.

Upsidedown (5) - 39
Fish (21) - 34 "on count back"
Wrighty1874 (9) - 34
Ibsmith04 (6) - 33
Bigfoot (14) - 32
DaveMc1 (25) - 30
Glynntaylor (25) - 29
Sweatsock41 (14) - 26
Crow (8) - 25
Mexicomark (11) - 23
Callawayne (28) - 20


I didn't have P1ng's card and unfortunately I have forgotten his score but he didn't need to hand the card in as he wasn't entering the qualifier.




Congratulations to Upsidedown (Ben) for a very credible 39 points off his 5 handicap on a course not played before, his 5 x pars and 1 birdie on the front was bettered on the back with another 5 pars but 2 birdies (back-to-back) and he justifiably wins the Midlands Regional Qualifier and a free place at Hillside on the 21st May with a 2 over gross, but, then not being satisfied with that, he also won the £18 pro shop prize for nearest the pin on our 17th par 3 and duly put it towards 2 sleeves of the new Prov1 balls from the pro shop.

Thank you for all travelling to my new club, I hope you all enjoyed my course and your day and I look forward to meeting you all again soon around the country at one of the many Golf Monthly meets we all love to get involved in. I shall be arranging a large late summer meet at Coventry Golf Club, details to follow.

Acknowledgements:

Ibsmith04, Sweatsock41 & Glynntaylor for being great company today:
Kay (Secretary CGC) for fitting me in at short notice:
Martin (Pro CGC) for being the catalyst and making the day run smoothly:
Pokerjoke (Tony) for posting this:


Another £10 now heading to Val for Mentmore, I think I've paid for Hillside already lol.

Thank again everyone, it was emotional ;-)
Fish x


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That bleeding m6! Took me hours to get back :(

anyway, that doesn't come near to spoiling what was a cracking couple of days, but I'm gonna do a thread on that later in the week when my golfings done.

so, thanks to fish, Nick, dangerous dave, Wayne and Ben for putting up with me! I loved every minute of it.

Scored 30 points, which is a gm meet high for me, so alls good :thup:
 
Sounds like a great day. Not jealous much sitting in my office looking at the weather outside!

Just a heads up for any low hc's fancying a game here....

I don't know what they call Midlands for entries sake, but the midland golf Union have an event here in a couple of months.

You have to live in their catchment area whatever that is, and play off 7 or lower.

2 rounds, light lunch and supper for £30.

I hate filling forms in and sending cheques, but I will do for this!
 
I may be be a bit late with this but many thanks to Fish for a superb day at Coventry Golf Club.

Right from the off everyone there was very friendly and helpful. Thanks for the great company to PING, CROW and MEXICOMARK.

Well done UPSIDEDOWN on what sounds like a great round of golf. Pity you can't play the pairs comp at our place!

I will look forward to another chance to get to CGC.
 
Enjoyed the day and course was in good nick considering the rain we had this week.Great round by Ben.Well done Robin on organising the event. Good to see Sutton again after 5 years or more.Safe trip to Scotland Dave.
 
Thanx for a great day fish.realy enjoyed playing with dave wrighty and well done ben.hope i didnt slow you down with my poor efforts,hope for better next time we meet
 
Once again, another great day organised by Fish - he really is a credit to the forum and GM - Free the Fish! I'm really looking forward to the summer meet and improving on my measly 26 points.

Great course, great weather and a really warm welcome from the club - I was especially impressed that the pro took the trouble to chat with us while we were enjoying breakfast and give us a few bits of advice about the course.

And of course, thank you to my playing partners Nick, Mark & Mark for the company and for helping me find my wayward drives.
 
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