Start of April - How did you play?

[philly169]

Had my first round of the season (always count April 1st as season start) and played in a yellow ball competition. You rotate the yellow ball and it scores double points, then best 3 scores go on the card.

I've been suffering with a shoulder injury from football for the past 6 weeks and haven't really been out on the course or on the range, and with a lesson 3 weeks ago haven't really engrained my swing changes.

My swing changes were to help minimize my bad shots and try to control my ball flight and i was surprised at how well i played. I was good off the tee, one area I'm normally fairly hit and miss with, and was keeping it on the fairway or just on the fringe, club choice was also better, opting for hybrid on some occasions. Irons and short game were more controlled and my scorecard was covered in pars and bogeys which helped us get a decent score over the the 14 holes before we lost our yellow ball (my fault, lazy lay up swing after having smashed a tee shot within range of the green in 2 on a par 5...)

I was pretty pleased with my swing and am looking forward to Saturdays medal.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

I haven't played yet in April

 

[fundy]

36 points in a pairs aggregate comp. 2 stupid doubles and holed nothing. Hit 11 GIR but still dropped 7 shots so mainly good but a few frustrating bits in there

 

[Duckster]

Played exceedingly mediocre this weekend. Texas scramble, hit some really good shots and some not so good ones.

1st medal next Sat, trip to the range required before then.

 

[Slab]

Played exceedingly mediocre this weekend. Texas scramble, hit some really good shots and some not so good ones.

1st medal next Sat, trip to the range required before then.

Not really the start of my season but played Scamble at the weekend too, played well enough against my expectations, contributed my fair share to the team but the format doesn't let me see how things would really turn out, but I have a comp on Saturday which will let me know where I am but reasonably happy with progress so far this year

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Competition season started with a monthly medal. Terrible start with an 8 on our par 5 first followed with a double on the second but managed to finish with a net 66 which was the CSS so no +.1 is a reasonable start.

 

[Duckster]

Not really the start of my season but played Scamble at the weekend too, played well enough against my expectations, contributed my fair share to the team but the format doesn't let me see how things would really turn out, but I have a comp on Saturday which will let me know where I am but reasonably happy with progress so far this year

It was our 1st comp off white tees this year and I had problems getting it away from the tee for the 1st 5 or 6 holes. Think I was trying to hit the thing too hard. Approach play was a lot better though and my putting has improved from last year. Wouldn't have been a pretty medal score though with the trouble I would have been on on some holes.

We shall see what we shall see.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

First round of handicap summer knockout this morning

Only had to give him 15 shots - won 4&3

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Average. 33 points and 0.1 back. Some good, some bad and a lot that were mediocre

 

[guest100718]

First medal yesterday and shot one under my handicap. CSS can vary quite a bit on our longer course so will wait and see if its a buffer or a cut... Still some decent stuff in a brisk wind and on greens that were very sloooow. after a shocking 2013 it can onyl get better

 

[Paperboy]

Played reasonably well, poor short game front 9. Very solid back 9, ended up with 32 points and missing buffer by one.

Promising start considering how poor my front 9 was.

 

[patricks148]

Played in our annual match against Royal Dornoch, Nairn won overall but we lost our match, mostly due to my partner not being in any hole. I played ok giving away 7 shots and only lost 2-1

 

[Jack_bfc]

Played friendly game on Sunday morning.

Played fairly solid stuff apart from a couple stinker holes which would have wrecked a medal card...

Bunker disaster on the 11th. Then fighting with the trees on the 18th leading to a rank shank onto the road and into someone's front garden......

Apart from that, pleased with the ball striking and cant wait to start 'qualifiers' to see whether I can put it together when matters....

 

[Slicer30]

Played in our Texas Scramble yesterday. Plenty of good shots lightly sprinkled with some shocking efforts.

finished very strong which bodes well for next weeks Comp.

highlight of the day being a tee shot which went approx 2 inches . Topped it into the ground with Driver and it just about crept up out of the pitch mark. I may have muttered just prior to this drive that " I have been driving well today". Kiss of death.

 

[Stuey01]

Played in the club knockout 4bbb on Sunday. My partner and I both played really well, both well under handicap. But we lost 2&1 when one of our opponents went 1under gross on the 8 holes we played of the back 9, he's off 15. We couldn't live with that but it was a proper close match, never more than a hole in it til the end and all 4 of us played well. Good company and we all walked off smiling in the end. The forecast rain even held off til the finish.

Looking forward to the medal next week.

 

[Jack_bfc]

Played in our Texas Scramble yesterday. Plenty of good shots lightly sprinkled with some shocking efforts.

finished very strong which bodes well for next weeks Comp.

highlight of the day being a tee shot which went approx 2 inches . Topped it into the ground with Driver and it just about crept up out of the pitch mark. I may have muttered just prior to this drive that " I have been driving well today". Kiss of death.

I walked up our 11th telling the young lad I was playing alongside how good the bunkers were and you could really play a true shot etc etc.

4/5 shots later after hacking from one bunker to another and not getting out of that one. I picked up and walked on!!!!!!!

 

[Oddsocks]

12 holes of gash, 0.1

 

[SimonC]

I played 8 holes on Saturday from the white tees, shot level gross through 8 but then the heavens opened up so I decided to go in. The other 3 players I was out with were playing in the competition & decided to stay out.