Golf Thread

Played Carus Green yesterday and although it was good to get out with some other golfers the quality golf wasnt great. None of us were remotely near handicap, the fairways were quite boggy and the greens really fast. Fast greens were causing me problems as i play a links course where i have to give the puts some to get them going but on these greens little taps were sending them off quick.
Driver was brilliant for me for most of the holes apart from a few let down ones.
3/5 wood well they're candidates for the bin, likely look to trade them in.
Iron play i just struggled to get decent contact so wasn't getting distance / height expected
Wedges were either really good or dinked a yard or two in front.
I really do have a weak point in my game though in distance, my 7 iron carries 125-130 yards, my 5 around around 145-150 yards (i don't have a 6) and my 4 iron i don't have the swing speed to get it up in the air. At carus the last whole is a little pond just before the green at around 165 yards and i have nothing that gets me there, means i have to go quite far right and then chip in or go short and chip over the water. driver carries 180-190 yards so quite the gap.

Went out this morning to my local course took my 4 or 5 holes to fix my irons, just taking a lot of time on the back swing to make sure i'm extending out and shallowing the swing properly.
Playing another links course either next friday or the friday after which will be nice, another old course https://furnessgolfclub.co.uk/
 
Played this morning but we had an hour frost delay to begin with. Once we got out the weather did warm up quite a bit and I was regretting having the base layer on

Shot a disappointing 83(+11) with 2 lost balls, but my swing was not there today. Driver had a lot of pull, draws and pull draws which is not my normal shot shape and the number of iron shots I chunked was just ridiculous

Can't wait until things dry up properly and I can sort my ball striking out
 
Amazing day up here today albeit winter greens due to frost in the morning. 13 holes played, 0 GIR today, 2 fairways hit. 6 pars and a birdie. Chipped in once and lipped out twice from off the green
 
Played really well the other day, shot 10o and should have been lower. I went to practice today and lost 5 balls hooked into trees and couldn't hit a ball straight. No freaking idea what the hell I was doing any different. Makes no sense.
 
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And just like that shot 13over today. Yesterday was just a weird day. I was tired and had done loads of DIY.. Maybe I need to do some Yoga before a round.
 
Got out Saturday and Sunday. Had a good start to the round on Saturday (medal) before inexplicably shanking two in row on the 7th to come away with a double before hoicking one OB off the tee on eight for a triple. I was still on for a decent score when on the short par 3 15th I went bunker hopping. That killed my chances and I came away with a nett 75 (+3). Back was really aching when I got back home. Sundays pairs event and neither of us produced our best, couldn't hit a fairway wood to save my life. We came away with a disappointing 36pts for a better ball stableford. Winning score was 42. On the plus side my back was much better when I got back home so maybe I'm turning a corner. Got a sports therapist appointment this week so hopefully then can find out what's been going on. I'm sure a bit of deep tissue massage won't hurt either.
 
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My home course might be closing at the end of the month, but we got an email this morning to say that someone has vandalised both the 2nd and 7th greens

One of the group sent a couple pics in our WhatsApp chat that looks like it has been an electric bike that has done it

We are supposed to be playing in a final mixed competition at the weekend so will see how it looks
 
Had a bit of a meh weekend of golf, on the plus side I had a weekend of golf, and it was mostly dry so there's there :p

Post-lesson last week I feel like I'm just leaving the club face waaaay open at least half the time, when I get it closed/closer to closed I get some frankly great strikes but far too many leaking off to the right. Today I even managed to throw a couple of pulls into there as well, just for funs, who doesn't love a 2 way miss...

Today's golf was nice though, at Manor House in Castle Combe which is a lovely course, played it 3 times now and think it's great. Downside is it has 4 massive hills to climb, all 3 times I've played it it's been 'cart path only' and the second time we decided to walk. It's a killer, possibly literally :p my heart rate going up the climb from 2nd green to 3rd tee peaked at 192bpm :eek: (I do have a relatively high peak it seems, I was fine, even par'd the 3rd just after that) So yeah, today we took a buggy, way easier :p But does mean the whole guesstimating what club to take, taking 2-3 clubs over and finding out you got it wrong and have to make something work.
 
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