Played Pennard yesterday, long old day as it's ~112 miles away and I decided not to stay over anywhere, thought about it but as it was a 13:40 tee time didn't seem to make sense staying over the night before and working today so would've been a very early morning to drive back in time, so yeah. Ended up running out of daylight too as it was a long round, just over 5 hours and there were 2 groups behind ours I think, they probably should've started half hour earlier or so tbh. After the post-round meal you get I left there at 19:30 ish and got home just before 22:00, tired now
Anyway, great day, weather was lovely with just a bit of wind making it a bit tricky early on but glorious sunshine all the way through until it set as we were on the last couple of holes
And the course, dunno if anyone else has played Pennard but those views are stunning, sod the golf
Honestly think that's the best views I've seen on a golf course to date, just absolutely stunning pretty much the whole way around,.
Course was tricky though, lots of blind shots and undulations and especially having never played there before (none of us had) it was a bit of a hit and hope quite often, but it worked out for the most part. I scored +21 gross, playing off 21 (my index is 21 as well fwiw) so 36 points.
Generally happy with the game, my driver swing wasn't quite there early on but I was able to putt pretty solidly, nothing special but 2-putts generally on new to me greens that were quite rapid I'll take any day, and my partial wedge game inside 100 yards was reasonably on point too so getting around with bogeys etc. I did mess up the 10th though for a blob, my first actually properly decent drive too but just messed up from there unfortunately. Couple of other 1 pointers but then the Driver swing came back towards the end of for a nice finish.
That 36 points was good enough for 5th, winner was on 38 and then there were 2 on 37 and at least 2 on 36. My back 9 was poor with that blob at the start so probably lost on countback to at least one other 36. So didn't win anything but solid round nonetheless.
Really nice group too, it's been nice thinking about it that going solo to these events you're put in a 4-ball with 3 randoms and I've not had a bad one, this was a particularly good one though, lots of banter and fun times.
But yeah, Pennard, very impressed and will 100% go back to.
Oh, and given all those blind shots and no knowledge of the course... 0 balls lost. \o/
Felt some discomfort since the round at Pennard last Wednesday and over the weekend it became clear I've gone and got a hernia/an existing one has got worse, probably gonna need surgery so looks like no golf for me for a while...