No golf again!

[Basher]

Personally, I think it’s right that more or less everything shuts down. The messaging needs to be clear: stay at home. Once we get into stay at home except for x, y, z it seems the population at large starts to take the mickey.

Try telling that to the knobheads marching round London and in tier 4 and partying like it's 1999! While us northern monkeys were holed up in tier 3.
We've behaved but many haven't. Now we're all paying the price!

 

[eddie_1878]

Bought a net in the first lockdown, have to say it’s probably hurt my game more than anything. The lack of feedback from not seeing a ball flight being the main issue.

I’d advise against them. So unless you’ve got a Danny Maude esq setup at home, enjoy the break!

 

[DanFST]

Try telling that to the knobheads marching round London and in tier 4 and partying like it's 1999! While us northern monkeys were holed up in tier 3.
We've behaved but many haven't. Now we're all paying the price!

This is the exact issue with tiering. If everyone was following the rules up north, why was the rate climbing rapidly?

Having said that, glad takeaway beer has been removed.

Bought a net in the first lockdown, have to say it’s probably hurt my game more than anything. The lack of feedback from not seeing a ball flight being the main issue.

I’d advise against them. So unless you’ve got a Danny Maude esq setup at home, enjoy the break!

I'd get a really tiny bladed iron. In this temperature your hands will know if you've not middled it.

 

[Basher]

This is the exact issue with tiering. If everyone was following the rules up north, why was the rate climbing rapidly?

Remember the pre Christmas exodus from the big city? They brought it with 'em!
Also heard they were planning on bringing London and southern covid cases up to Yorkshire as the hospitals were filling up down there. Don't know if that happened though.

 

[Wildboy370]

This is the exact issue with tiering. If everyone was following the rules up north, why was the rate climbing rapidly?

Having said that, glad takeaway beer has been removed.




I'd get a really tiny bladed iron. In this temperature your hands will know if you've not middled it.

Because all the southerners decided to go walking and visiting and staying in the second homes in the north, south west, Wales etc rather than do what they were asked and stay put. Driving 220 miles from Kent to snowden for a walk. Ridiculous and ignorant.

 

[eddie_1878]

This is the exact issue with tiering. If everyone was following the rules up north, why was the rate climbing rapidly?

Having said that, glad takeaway beer has been removed.




I'd get a really tiny bladed iron. In this temperature your hands will know if you've not middled it.

I was using foot spray (the slightly cheaper alternative to buying a new iron!), strike felt good, was hitting most out the middle-ish...get to the course/range and couldn’t hit a thing. Still can’t after a 1hr lesson too. My pro said that’d been common with golfers who were practising at home.

I’m genuinely thinking of travelling to Doncaster and giving the zen golf fella £300 for an afternoon of miracle working....post-lockdown naturally.

 

[BiMGuy]

Remember the pre Christmas exodus from the big city? They brought it with 'em!
Also heard they were planning on bringing London and southern covid cases up to Yorkshire as the hospitals were filling up down there. Don't know if that happened though.

All our family are up north. They absolutely haven't been observing the rules up there either.

 

[DanFST]

Because all the southerners decided to go walking and visiting and staying in the second homes in the north, south west, Wales etc rather than do what they were asked and stay put. Driving 220 miles from Kent to snowden for a walk. Ridiculous and ignorant.

I forgot all inside the M25 went to visit Snowden, must have been why Wales' circuit breaker didn't work. My bad.

 

[sunshine]

Remember the pre Christmas exodus from the big city? They brought it with 'em!
Also heard they were planning on bringing London and southern covid cases up to Yorkshire as the hospitals were filling up down there. Don't know if that happened though.

You sound like someone who gets all their news from Facebook

 

[Shooter McPowick]

Thank heavens I got out on Saturday.... putt out mat and the chipping net for 8 weeks

 

[howbow88]

If I can go for a walk then I should be able to do so with golf clubs with one other person.....

This is why I think golf should be allowed. If I can meet someone on a public golf course and go for a walk, it's legal. Stick a golf club in my hand and a ball on the floor, and then it suddenly becomes illegal... Seems fairly illogical to me.

Still, golf isn't the only thing that seems a bit silly. Schools are shut, but nurseries will still be open

 

[SteveJay]

Will be interesting to see what my club, and no doubt many others, do about membership renewals which will fall due towards the end of the current lockdown. With the possibility that it might be extended beyond Feb 15th, I wonder how members will react to requests to pay their membership renewal. Appreciate its a bit different if you pay monthly, but I won't be in a rush to shell out the full years premium if we don't know when it will re-open.

Guess it will be a balancing act between holding off without risking losing your membership. Lets hope by Feb the way forward looks more rosy given vaccinations and , hopefully, the benefits of people adhering to the new restrictions.

 

[Mandofred]

Our course has 14 holes open this morning......

 

[SteveJay]

This is why I think golf should be allowed. If I can meet someone on a public golf course and go for a walk, it's legal. Stick a golf club in my hand and a ball on the floor, and then it suddenly becomes illegal... Seems fairly illogical to me.

Still, golf isn't the only thing that seems a bit silly. Schools are shut, but nurseries will still be open

Agree, but we have been here before, and the same questions were raised.
You (or they) have to draw the line somewhere. If golf was allowed, what about other recreational activities such as fishing, tennis, etc etc. Easier to be clear and just stop all such activities (although I do believe elite sport should also stop given the idiots in the Premier League who are flaunting rules every few weeks it seems).

 

[stevench]

This is why I think golf should be allowed. If I can meet someone on a public golf course and go for a walk, it's legal. Stick a golf club in my hand and a ball on the floor, and then it suddenly becomes illegal... Seems fairly illogical to me.

Still, golf isn't the only thing that seems a bit silly. Schools are shut, but nurseries will still be open

Unfortunately I think this is where the sentiment comes into it. When you allow a particular sport/past time to be allowed for one, everyone else then starts comparing and stamps their feet on why their hobby should be allowed which can then lead to unrest.
The hope is that these national lockdowns should be bringing a togetherness and a "we're all in it together" mentality to hopefully get us out of this mess.

 

[PJ87]

This is why I think golf should be allowed. If I can meet someone on a public golf course and go for a walk, it's legal. Stick a golf club in my hand and a ball on the floor, and then it suddenly becomes illegal... Seems fairly illogical to me.

Still, golf isn't the only thing that seems a bit silly. Schools are shut, but nurseries will still be open

Can see the nursery logic

For one enables people to work from home easier or if they have to go work

Also nursery for example my daughter's is a bubble of 30 kids. That's it

A school round here would be year group bubbles of 60 with years 1-6 so that's a lot of bubbles and kids

A one group bubble of 30 is so much smaller and less risk

Plus not all childcare is nursery. My mates wife runs childcare only has about 4 kids full time .. so that's a 4 kid bubble

 

[howbow88]

Agree, but we have been here before, and the same questions were raised.
You (or they) have to draw the line somewhere. If golf was allowed, what about other recreational activities such as fishing, tennis, etc etc. Easier to be clear and just stop all such activities (although I do believe elite sport should also stop given the idiots in the Premier League who are flaunting rules every few weeks it seems).

I get that. It just seems a bit lazy of the government to effectively categorize all sport as one. It would be like saying that all roads should just be a 30mph speed limit because otherwise people will get confused.

As for elite sport... It's a tough one. I'm not sure it should be going ahead, and some footballers really haven't helped things in the last couple of weeks... From a selfish point of view though, at least I have something to watch

 

[Deleted member 21258]

Feel for you guys I really do.

I mean no golf that would do my head in

 

[TigerBear]

Any statement from Scottish golf confirming that golfers in Scotland can still play in two balls?

 

[need_my_wedge]

Well we managed over two months in March , we managed 4 weeks in November - I’m sure we can manage 6 weeks during the worst weather months , just think about how well the course will be when they reopen ?

I can finish the decorating I started last lockdown, but stopped as soon as the course was back open