HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
Most of you will know my views on CSS but I've just developed a soft spot for it.
I had to work at 330 yesterday morning so took advantage of an early finish to play in the midweek medal with Sundance and a couple of other members. It was hot, really hot with no wind to speak of and I was hoping to get a cut down to single figures.
As it turned out I couldn't really find any rhythm, no-one could, the heat seemed to be sapping energy from everyone but I managed to reach the turn in 6 over thanks largely to a lost ball and a treble bogey on 7.
A par on 10 and another lost ball on 11 followed by a double on 12 and a bogey on 14 saw my handicap used up by the 15th tee.
To be fair my short game was keeping in with a chance of the buffer zone and I somehow found myself with a 12 footer on the last for a birdie and a 79. The birdie grazed the cup on the right edge and I signed for a nett 70 and another buffer finish - or so I thought.
Sitting in traffic on the M25 this afternoon I get a text from Sundance. It turns out that not only was my 70 good enough to win division 1, but CSS had gone up to 72, 2 over SSS, and my handicap has dropped the 0.4 I needed to become the forums latest single figure golfer.
I'm absolutely over the moon, I always told you CSS was a good thing
I had to work at 330 yesterday morning so took advantage of an early finish to play in the midweek medal with Sundance and a couple of other members. It was hot, really hot with no wind to speak of and I was hoping to get a cut down to single figures.
As it turned out I couldn't really find any rhythm, no-one could, the heat seemed to be sapping energy from everyone but I managed to reach the turn in 6 over thanks largely to a lost ball and a treble bogey on 7.
A par on 10 and another lost ball on 11 followed by a double on 12 and a bogey on 14 saw my handicap used up by the 15th tee.
To be fair my short game was keeping in with a chance of the buffer zone and I somehow found myself with a 12 footer on the last for a birdie and a 79. The birdie grazed the cup on the right edge and I signed for a nett 70 and another buffer finish - or so I thought.
Sitting in traffic on the M25 this afternoon I get a text from Sundance. It turns out that not only was my 70 good enough to win division 1, but CSS had gone up to 72, 2 over SSS, and my handicap has dropped the 0.4 I needed to become the forums latest single figure golfer.
I'm absolutely over the moon, I always told you CSS was a good thing
