davidy233
Tour Rookie
I'm not sure which of the two sins I committed yesterday on the forum led to my punishment tonight, whether it was posting a thread semi gloating about getting eighteen holes yesterday in lovely weather when pretty much everyone was waterlogged or posting my opion that you should only walk off during a comp due to lightning or injury - whichever one it was I apologise, but I've been punished and hopefully with your forgiveness I can be allowed back to normal.
Here's my punishment - Went to the magnificent St Andrew Links driving range for a hit tonight - I hit the ball really well on the course yesterday, new swing has been repeating well, and just wanted to ingrain the latest swing change a bit more after it worked so well yesterday.
Got a bucket of fifty balls, out with my favourite six iron (the club I base my practice around) checked my posture was right and had a practice swing, checked top of the swing position - all was fine up to now - then I hit the ball, duffed fifty yards along the deck.
No problem I thought everyone duffs one occasionally - next one at least was airborne but it was weak, high and well right. Next one was better - solid hit - thirty degrees left. I went on like this for a while then I hit one sweet - I'll be OK now I thought - until I hit the next one which was back to the rubbish.
I'd have walked away at this point except that I'd paid £3.50 for the bucket of balls - it got worse as a wee ginger haired girl appeared in the bay next to me with a coach who told her to start with a six iron - she was about 13 or 14 and started firing lovely controlled draws which were going about 160-170 yards into a 20 mph wind - all this time I'm hitting alternate shoves balloon balls and big pulls - hit another good one with my second last ball - I should have left the last ball.
Two decent shots in 50 balls - while a little girl was ripping the same number iron on a prefect line time after time - with a pink glove on!
Walked out of the range gutted with golf - was starving by this point so went and got fish and chips and parked next to the eighteenth fairway of The Old Course to eat them - which cheered me up a bit.
I'm next due at the range on Thursday morning - hopefully forgiveness for my sins will come from the golfing gods by then.
Here's my punishment - Went to the magnificent St Andrew Links driving range for a hit tonight - I hit the ball really well on the course yesterday, new swing has been repeating well, and just wanted to ingrain the latest swing change a bit more after it worked so well yesterday.
Got a bucket of fifty balls, out with my favourite six iron (the club I base my practice around) checked my posture was right and had a practice swing, checked top of the swing position - all was fine up to now - then I hit the ball, duffed fifty yards along the deck.
No problem I thought everyone duffs one occasionally - next one at least was airborne but it was weak, high and well right. Next one was better - solid hit - thirty degrees left. I went on like this for a while then I hit one sweet - I'll be OK now I thought - until I hit the next one which was back to the rubbish.
I'd have walked away at this point except that I'd paid £3.50 for the bucket of balls - it got worse as a wee ginger haired girl appeared in the bay next to me with a coach who told her to start with a six iron - she was about 13 or 14 and started firing lovely controlled draws which were going about 160-170 yards into a 20 mph wind - all this time I'm hitting alternate shoves balloon balls and big pulls - hit another good one with my second last ball - I should have left the last ball.
Two decent shots in 50 balls - while a little girl was ripping the same number iron on a prefect line time after time - with a pink glove on!
Walked out of the range gutted with golf - was starving by this point so went and got fish and chips and parked next to the eighteenth fairway of The Old Course to eat them - which cheered me up a bit.
I'm next due at the range on Thursday morning - hopefully forgiveness for my sins will come from the golfing gods by then.
