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Friday was a club away day at Troon Darley....

Course is starting to bake out but greens fairly slow still.

Played ok - 29 points for me - blobbed 2 holes on front 9 for 12 points but back in 17 was better. Short game and putting are decent but struggling off the tee at the moment. Swing not feeling great to be honest....

Today - 1st Round Club Champ qualifiers..... Probably not a great idea to have 7 or 8 pints after the away golf day last night...... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Poor today - just tired and no real concentration at all...... .Swing was awful, taking club back and feeling very lost - blaming the drink last night (hopefully)

Think I shot 85 gross or something - was really poor swinging. Short game was tidy again which is positive but rest of the game is shabby at the moment.
 
First round with the new putter this morning and I seemed to have the speed control from the very first putt

I did have a couple 3 putts but that was all on me misreading the steepness of a couple putts

Overall a decent round shooting 75 despite some early iron striking issues

1 birdie, 4 bogeys (2 of those came from the 3-putts) so very promising
 
last 3 weeks of comps : 23pts, 27pts and today 37pts. Joint 6th today which i'm happy with :) Had 2 pickups all round and just generally was pretty consistent at dragging some points in. Lost one ball all round too so wasn't to expensive. Handicap is around 27 at the moment which feels quite accurate for my play.
 
This game baffles me sometimes. Today I started amazingly. Kept the same setup, remember my swing thoughts and was level par after 7 holes, and just like that after a nightmare par 3 I fall to pieces.
Mentally I become broken and start fiddling and making mistakes.

Went from 19pts on the front to 30 in total. Disaster.
 
Wasn't able to recreate yesterday's heroics, in fact I had a terrible front nine (out in 49). Dug in and battled back to come home in 39. Had a putt on the last to shoot net level but just slid by on the low side. Round still good enough to shave a little off my handicap. Should be down to 15.1 come tomorrow!
 
Mixed bag today with a +1 front nine, but had a very mixed back nine with 2 birdies, 4 bogeys and a double to finish with a +5 round of 77

Putter is still positive for the second round, I just needed to read a few greens better and I can go lower if the rest of my game is there as well

Next up is an event at Pontefract on Friday, then a casual knock on Saturday with the guys and club comp on Sunday
 
Played Thornbury today and for the second time in a row had a decent front 9 (+5, although did have a triple, 6 pars though) and then a pretty mediocre back 9. Don't think it's a fueling thing, just seemed to decide I'd done enough good golf on the front 9 so could chill for the back 9... Not a single par on the back :(

Still an 'ok' score I guess, played to my handicap which was 19 for the course, and only 1 off my best ever for that course. But just that knowledge that I can play much better golf but struggle to keep it going.

Dunno if I posted but did pretty much identically last Wednesday, was playing Witney Lakes as part of my networking group and was +4 on the front 9 with some good golf/bunch of pars etc and then ended +19 by the end.

It's in there somewhere... :p
 
Handicap index now down to 15.0 after Sundays medal. Went out this morning for a casual knock, wasn't striking the ball well but somehow came away with an 85 :confused::p I guess ten pars goes a long way to help despite two balls in the water and three doubles and a triple on the card.
 
Argh, wed medal out in +2 (37) with a couple of nice birdies. Back 9 I'm cruising, picked up another couple of birdies and I'm sitting like -5 net or something after 15. Then proceed to finish triple, par, triple for an 80 d'oh!!

Definitely the one that got away, 2 pulled approaches out of nowhere absolutely killed me by landing me in the 2 toughest bunkers on the course, but hey that's golf
 
Handicap team match tonight....

Course I played about 25 years ago... looked at website and every holes seems to have OB left or right :D :D - should be fun.

Then Texas scramble on Sunday at Largs with mates. Always a fun day out.

Saying that - my knee is giving me a lot of issues at the moment so need to see how it holds up.... Going to stick a support thing on it and see how we get on.
 
Out tomorrow for a strokeplay comp, playing with someone playing off 6 and someone off 2 so might learn a thing or two from watching what i'm expecting to be some class golfers. My handicap has dropped a couple down to 24 after my last comp. hoping the weather holds out
 
Played at Pontefract today and shot 78(42/37) for 37 points and finished 7th overall

Couple bad bounces and greens that were slower than they looked like they would be cost me a couple shots, but overall still pleased with the round

I will also see my handicap cut again as it was a qualifying round, not sure by how much as I can't be bothered to work it out, but could be 0.2 which would see me back down to 6.2
 
36pts today in the the roll up, just a qualifier off the yellows, playing off 14. Lowest I've ever had to play off and managed my forth consecutive round in the 80's :eek: Unprecedented for me. Mentally knacked afterwards I was concentrating so hard on every shot. Again the par three's came up trumps for me. Played them in level par thanks to a lovely birdie on fifteen, the tee shot for which netted me the pin after I knocked it to ~3ft. Nice up and down from just off the back on the 5th hole for a rare par after a lucky approach shot, everything else I two putted - the other noticeable improvement recently. Should be down into the 14's for the first time ever tomorrow!
 
Played Largs Golf Club today in a scramble event. Great value via "golf in scotland" website - £30 a head. What a beautiful course.... Greens were lovely and smooth, and still not in "peak" condition according to the general manager in the clubhouse. We were mighty impressed with them and the course. Stunning view of Arran/Firth of Clyde etc.

Shot 65 between us less team handicap of 6.2 for 58.8.... We were sitting second with still about half the teams to come in. Leaders on 55.9.

Very very enjoyable day with the boys. Still hitting the ball poorly off the tee but chipping and putting very well at the moment.
 
Played my society game at Shrivenham today, pretty decent overall although I did try to do my recent routine of a good front 9 (+5) followed by a 'bad' back 9 but it was only +9 so can't complain :p

My putting was decently solid today, only half realised towards the end but looking at it now I had 30 putts with only one 3-putt, and a chip in birdie, so 30 putts total, don't mind that :)

Bit of an odd one but last night I cut down my driver by 1 inch, bit of a wild adjustment to just lop a whole inch off without any testing or anything but hey :p My thinking was that I made a mistake when recently buying a new shaft by going for a heavier shaft and it just hasn't been working out for me, so before buying yet another new shaft to get what I should've got in the first place I thought I'd try a cut down driver... Felt pretty good overall, still hit decent length but far less "power fade" than it has been recently, be interesting to see how it goes for a week or three before I consider buying a new shaft again.

Was reading that shortening a shaft from the butt end, as I did (removed grip and cut off the inch, thankfully whoever made the shaft used the air compressor setup I think as I got the grip off without cutting it and re-used it :p) causes the shaft to be stiffer, so if I do like it but still fading I might be tempted to get a regular stiffness and cut that down...
 
Got cut to 6.1 after Pontefract on Friday

Another club comp today, another top 10 finish and another cut coming, possibly down to 5.6 if my maths is correct

Left a good 3-4 shots out there as well as a few lip outs, so very happy with how I am managing my game just now

My next counting score to drop off (in a few rounds time) is a 4 differential so I may see a slight rise when that happens unless I keep the good form going
 
Productive weekend of golf for me - after I developed the shanks (again!), had a lesson last weekend, focussing on shallowing through transition which worked wonders - ended up with my best ever round of +4 on Friday, followed by a much more realistic round of +12 on Saturday - so handicap now down to 10.1.

I also discovered what it was like to be hit on the head with a golf ball. Drove the green on a par 4, went up to check it was my ball, was standing on the back of the green and watched my playing partner play on - he called it, so I covered my head - thought it had landed, so uncovered - THUNK. My fault, as I should have cleared the green before they played on - but would have appreciated another shout if they knew it was on track to hit me! Oh well, bit of a headache but all good - turns out I have a very hard head!
 
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