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Country: United Kingdom Where you play: Boringdon Park Handicap: 10 Irons you play: Cleveland CG7 Tour Driver you play: Taylormade Tour Burner Shoes you wear: Depends on the outfit of the day Golf Magazines you read: Your favourite player: Natalie Gulbis!?! Your best round: 73 Your favoutite drink: Guinness |
| Description:I've got all the shots but just not in the right order! |
Playing at St Mellion tomorrow. Haven't played the Nicklaus course since March so we'll see how it goes. It's a team competition so if we lose it won't all be my fault.
Time to "s**g that flag!"
Played to 4 the other day. Unfortunately, played to 12 in the monthly medal. Loving the new driver- much easier to control the shape and flight. Driving's fun again!
Just bought a Progen full-bore driver. Tiny head, cheap as chips but I love it. No more looking down on a head the size of a Nissan Micra, great off the fairway too!
Anyone want to buy a Taylormade Tour Burner?
Things seem to be going well at the moment. Ball flight's good, putting solid, accuracy good; even my temperament seems to be better. I've taken the mind-set of being a golfing goldfish and only giving myself 4 seconds to think about a shot, after I've hit it. Seems to be working- no longer do I take it out on the next shot and more often than not I'm rescuing par.
Comp on Saturday so let's see how it goes. I might find out the meaning of the word kibosh!
Loving playing at Boringdon Park. Still haven't got to grips with the 4th and 6th holes but I just love the greens. So many borrows- when you do hole one from a distance you've certainly earnt your birdie (or double bogey!)
The course still need to grow up a bit but it's getting there.
It's all change for 2010. New bag, new driver, new irons and new swing. Just had a lesson and now my left shoulder hurts! I dislocated my AC joint a few years back and perhaps that's why my swing comes back on the inside. But NIck (The pro) knows best and I was hitting the ball cleaner so I'll stick with it.
It can go either one of two ways. So, hello single figures or hi to high scores. Only time will tell.
Played last Saturday in winds gusting up to 80mph and came in only 9 over! It seems that if conditions are rubbish it gives me something to focus on.
Going out again tomorrow. Come on wind, I'll have you!!!
Didn't swing a club but had a great day watching the lads playing in the ICT Golf at Taunton and Pickeridge (Nice). The lads done well. Finished second by a couple of shots but won the individual Nett & Gross competitions.
Watching them play makes you realise how the short game sorts the wheat from the chaff. I'll be going to the chipping and putting area tomorrow.
Bogey, birdie, par, par, bogey, bogey, par, par, bogey, double!!, par. After that it was pretty ordinary but the job had been done by then.
Trying to bottle today's weather for Monday!
Played the Belfry again the other day- I will eventually get the greens! I did start to come to grips with the greens by the 10th.
The usual John Daleyesque preparations the night before, added to the 1st tee jitters but, once I'd got that duff out of the way, it went well.
Organised a golf competition for Monday- just hoping the weather stays good.
Just not quite there at the moment. Hitting the ball well but not finishing off. Need to take stock and get my head back on. It will all work out in the end ( I hope) buut it looks like single figures are out of reach this year.
Caddying today for Richard Woods in the Parman Trophy at St Mellion. Andy Wool's also playing. It will be our own little Bunkerfest!
I've snapped out of my strop now and I'm now looking forward to a few days of golf. The weather doesn't look the best but one can't have everything.
Playing the Brabazon on the Thursday afternoon- try to keep it all together and keep my head in check. Hope to get a few good vids and pics.
And I don't use that acronym lightly. What happens to my head? Why do I take on the impossible? (What was worse was that I laid up first and then stuffed it in the hazard!) Then (yes there's more) I thought I'd try and play it out of the four foot deep hazard. MUPPET!! 4 over on the par 5 15th. I almost got hit by a wayward shot as I walked towards the 16th tee and to be honest I wish it had knocked me out cold.
So a round best forgotten- 5 over handicap and if I had the energy I'd make some quip about how many times my balls lipped out. Don't think I'll be qualifying for tomorrow especially with so many high handicaps playing to stupid numbers.
F.S.P.W!
That's it. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow night.
Played in the Captain's Day yesterday and scored 49pts!!! To be honest it was actually 43 because there were 2 extra pts available for hitting the fairway on 4 selected holes (Missed 1).
Finished 3 over par- treble bogey on 16!! 4 birdies on the front nine and 2 on the back. Could have been even better if a few putts had dropped.
Hope this is the beginning of a few good rounds but probably you'll hear the sound of wheels falling off in the very near future.
Golf is continuing to improve but it's hard work getting your handicap down on th Nicklaus course. Just played in a better ball stableford and we scored 36 pts off 3/4 handicap so not bad. Birdied the first! So it was all down hill from there. Also birdied the 17th, which if you know the course you'll know that's quite an achievement.
The "acquired" Scottie Cameron putter is still going well. Whoever chucked it away needs to be taken down a dark alley and have some sense knocked into them.
Weather's great isn't it...
Just changed my grip and things seem to be going well. I was Sh*****g little chips so I've gone to an overlapping grip (tip from Golf channel) and as I've got more confident I've been using the same grip from further out.
Touch wood, it seems to be going well. Played to 10 on the Nicklaus course on Sunday so quite pleased. Finished 3rd and got cut to 9.5.
If you hea a loud clanging sound in the near future that will probably be the sound of te wheels falling off but until then, enjoy.
Please find the enclosed:
r and h
Please add them to my "Grip change" comment as appropriate.
Tanks
Just spent the weekend at Trethorne for a bank holiday golf jolly. 80 quid for evening meal, b&b and unlimited golf. Great laugh- loads of alcohol, (not that I'm condoning binge drinking) variable golf and a decent course.
Highly recommeded.
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