Foliage Finder
Head Pro
Evening all, thought I'd post a little (ish) reflection on the round I played yesterday.
Up until now, I've not really been keeping score on my practice rounds of golf, at the advice of my pro, who says that if the intention is purely practice, don't count your strokes as you're playing entirely differently to if you were playing to score well. Being new to the game still (I'll have been playing a year in July), and having had a mini-break for winter exams, I have only actually played four rounds! So on my fourth round I decided to actually utilise the scorecard for the first time.
My first goal is to break 100, and I shot 110 yesterday! Was playing solo, but then I was joined by a retired civil engineer on the 4th, and no doubt I'd have scored significantly higher if it wasn't for the little gems of info passed down from years of experience. Definite area for improvement was off the tee. Whilst matching his driver distance with my 6 iron, my shots were much, much more, erm, diverse... (found the rough on the far side of the next fairway off the 8th tee
).
What I impressed myself with though was how I recovered. Everywhere else apart from off the tee had improved from the last round I played. For example, from that rough lie on my 8th tee shot, I took my medicine, pulled out the PW and played a smooth half swing no more than 50/60 yards straight back onto the centre of the correct fairway. Then went on to card a 6 (par 4, SI 10), a theoretical par for a 28 handicapper, should I have had one.
Highlight of the round though has to be getting up and down out of a bunker to card a 5 on the par 4 13th. I had took 3 shots to get out of my last bunker. Then, after some wise words from my civil engineer friend, I got out of an intimidating high faced hazard (for Marland anyway...) for a tap in from 2 feet.
Then made a 6 on the 100 yard par 3 18th... you win some you lose some!!
Up until now, I've not really been keeping score on my practice rounds of golf, at the advice of my pro, who says that if the intention is purely practice, don't count your strokes as you're playing entirely differently to if you were playing to score well. Being new to the game still (I'll have been playing a year in July), and having had a mini-break for winter exams, I have only actually played four rounds! So on my fourth round I decided to actually utilise the scorecard for the first time.
My first goal is to break 100, and I shot 110 yesterday! Was playing solo, but then I was joined by a retired civil engineer on the 4th, and no doubt I'd have scored significantly higher if it wasn't for the little gems of info passed down from years of experience. Definite area for improvement was off the tee. Whilst matching his driver distance with my 6 iron, my shots were much, much more, erm, diverse... (found the rough on the far side of the next fairway off the 8th tee
). What I impressed myself with though was how I recovered. Everywhere else apart from off the tee had improved from the last round I played. For example, from that rough lie on my 8th tee shot, I took my medicine, pulled out the PW and played a smooth half swing no more than 50/60 yards straight back onto the centre of the correct fairway. Then went on to card a 6 (par 4, SI 10), a theoretical par for a 28 handicapper, should I have had one.
Highlight of the round though has to be getting up and down out of a bunker to card a 5 on the par 4 13th. I had took 3 shots to get out of my last bunker. Then, after some wise words from my civil engineer friend, I got out of an intimidating high faced hazard (for Marland anyway...) for a tap in from 2 feet.
Then made a 6 on the 100 yard par 3 18th... you win some you lose some!!
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