Been away for a week on a family holiday, we stayed at a place just north of Haverfordwest way over near the south-west coast of Wales. I think I mentioned a bit ago that my oldest nephew got into golf about 6 months or so ago and my youngest has also been keen to get clubs and try so I did two things, for the youngest I bought a cheap set of junior clubs (he's 10, almost 11) for just under £40 and then looked around at courses and found/decided on St. Davids City GC for a couple of reasons.
Bit of a side note but the junior clubs I bought for some reason had a full length putter (~35 inches) so having never regripped a putter I bought a cheap new grip and got out the power tools, cut it down to ~30 inches which is arguably still a bit long for him but hey. Fitted the grips with the compressed air method and seemed to work well enough. Actually now thinking of cutting down one of my putters as I do 'hunch' over the putter so often gripping down at the bottom of the grip...
Anyway, St. Davids City GC is a 9-hole links course which has an honesty box system, which you can now do online, so given there were the 2 kids and also my stepdad plays a bit they did an offer of £200 for a 'family' (2 adults + 3 kids) for 7-days, I was planning to play a fair bit so went for that. Ended up playing 3 days with all 4 of us doing 9-holes and then I played solo for 18. Could've maybe done an extra 2 days but we did other stuff too, either way it seems reasonable really.
Course was good though, not the longest but the wind made up for that, also played across an incline so some holes weren't long as such but were decently uphill. Greens were decent and pretty fast, 2 holes have 2 flags for front/back 9, bunkers were always nicely raked and decent sand, only real 'downside' as such was they had rabbits so some hefty rabbit holes around including one we lost a ball down that looked to be >1 meter deep!
For the solo 18 I shot 83, +15 with a quadruple bogey (that technically would've been reduced to a mere triple), felt that was ok really, definitely could've done better though. Actually just checked and I'd get 19 shots on that in 'EG' so even better than I thought
Anyway, back yesterday, everyone enjoyed themselves so that's good and back to the normal Bristol golf today.
Played ok in Bristol, 4 bad holes really messed with the scorecard but 10 pars and 4 bogeys was ok, and a counting score just for a small handicap drop.
but might head to the range, if not tomorrow has to happen!
