To go for it or not to go for it...

[ScienceBoy]

You could play the best round of your life, and still finish second! That is one of the things of golf we have to accept

Yup too true!

I am going on how I saw the course that day, maybe I am being a bit "you know what" to assume that 40 will be on top. Again, I just have to wait until the results are up! Knowing our usual scoring 38-41 wins, the best I have seen in recent times is 43.

I have won with 37 points and 4 clear of the rest of the field so I have no idea what will happen. I do not play golf to win as that is out of my hands, I play to enjoy it and any successes that happen to fall my way!

I think even if my score is not good for a top 3 I will never regret going for the green in two, if I do not stand by that I will always wonder, with my swing going so well "what if?". This way I know and I did not ruin my round thanks to another good saving putt, about the 5th one to turn a potential dropped shot into a nett par or birdie

 

[Albanach]

I haven't read all the other posts but I reckon you should have laid up. As you said yourself your fairway woods were intermittent but your wedge and putter were on fire. Lay up to a wedge then 2 putts for a par but if you hole out a birdie is a bonus. Its the old risk reward question isn't it. Having said that as long as you commited fully to your 2nd shot you can have no complaints. Good score though!

 

[ScienceBoy]

I reckon you should have laid up.

Maybe this guy and those who thought that were right...

I came second on a count back...

Knowing if someone else was on for 40 points I would have laid up to get a 5 or 6 but with the thought of going for the best score I can that day I would always have gone for it, possibly getting that 4 or 5.

I will never regret it but what I can take from all this is a lesson about course management. I think I would rather tie having gone for it as I did than tie laying up but in future I think I will lean more towards the less risky strategy as I get to know my game better.