The Golf Thread - 2018!

[HaplessBoyLard]

Well, he WAS in the hazard.

He does it every time he attacks with driver.

[HaplessBoyLard]

I don’t really understand why he’s hitting driver when he HAS to keep it in Play there. He's not reaching in two so just hit 3 wood 270, then 2i 240. He’s flicking a wedge on.

[Digger]

HaplessBoyLard said:

I don’t really understand why he’s hitting driver when he HAS to keep it in Play there. He's not reaching in two so just hit 3 wood 270, then 2i 240. He’s flicking a wedge on.

Well you have the benefit of hindsight you (who has not won 14 majors) idiot!

[HaplessBoyLard]

Digger said:

Well you have the benefit of hindsight you (who has not won 14 majors) idiot!

??

Steady on

TW has the benefit of seeing several of his drives go high and right in this round. To put his faith in it when the one place he CAN’T go is right just seems mental.

When he was winning majors he’d have never made that error.

[Digger]

10 years ago and now a middle-aged alcoholic...

I have some empathy

[Blackpuddin]

Woods' first 9 was unreal. Not one fairway hit.

[Digger]

Ooh hello who did Tiger just kiss?

[Blackpuddin]

Think that was his Mum.

[Blackpuddin]

Has anybody played Woodbury Park near Exeter? Got an invite to play there next month. The website doesn't particularly excite me – it looks like your typical 'wedding venue with a golf course attached' – and the reviews of the hotel are poor. The reviewers that aren't moaning about the hotel do seem to rate the golf course but at £50 for a solo round or £90 for a two-ball it's not exactly cheap.

[thebraketester]

Blackpuddin said:

Woods' first 9 was unreal. Not one fairway hit.

If he starts finding fairways with his driver then I think he might ruffle a few feathers. His recovery shots in his last round were incredible.

[Blackpuddin]

thebraketester said:

Blackpuddin said:

Woods' first 9 was unreal. Not one fairway hit.

If he starts finding fairways with his driver then I think he might ruffle a few feathers. His recovery shots in his last round were incredible.

It was amazing to hear him say that he couldn't hit it straight on the practice tees that day, even with his wedges. Gives us all hope!

[HaplessBoyLard]

Blackpuddin said:

Has anybody played Woodbury Park near Exeter? Got an invite to play there next month. The website doesn't particularly excite me – it looks like your typical 'wedding venue with a golf course attached' – and the reviews of the hotel are poor. The reviewers that aren't moaning about the hotel do seem to rate the golf course but at £50 for a solo round or £90 for a two-ball it's not exactly cheap.

Mark Crossfield has done a YouTube playing vlog there. Might give you a better idea of what it’s like.

[Blackpuddin]

HaplessBoyLard said:

Blackpuddin said:

Has anybody played Woodbury Park near Exeter? Got an invite to play there next month. The website doesn't particularly excite me – it looks like your typical 'wedding venue with a golf course attached' – and the reviews of the hotel are poor. The reviewers that aren't moaning about the hotel do seem to rate the golf course but at £50 for a solo round or £90 for a two-ball it's not exactly cheap.

Mark Crossfield has done a YouTube playing vlog there. Might give you a better idea of what it’s like.

Thanks mon. Turns out the round is free! My pal won it as a raffle prize, so I'm in for that.
In other news, I've just bought a used set of Titleist MB 714s, gulp. Technically, I'm nowhere near good enough to polish them, let alone play with them, but I plan to take them out on my own for a good few rounds while keeping the Ping G10s for actual play. Scared, but also strangely excited.

[Pib1978]

So wee update on this golf journey after my first sub-100 a few weeks ago

Followed up with:
108 - 30c, Net 78 = 0.1 increase
101 - 30c, Net 71 = Buffer

Last nights Tuesday medal
97 - 30c, Net 67 = 1.5 decrease.

Been having some recent horrendous back 9's in terms of iron strikes.
Tee shots (usually driver) have been straight up the middle leaving me with relatively good approach shots from the fairway.

I go through my routine setup, then easy back, controlled downswing etc.
Front 9 I'm making good contact, getting the ball in the air and making reasonable enough distance.

By the time the back 9 comes round I find myself making bad contact - topping the ball 50 yards along the fairway - and in a couple of instances, taking large divots out the ground before the ball.

Realise without swing analysis its difficult to comment but what are the obvious things that I should consider as a novice player?

Part of me is saying, fatigue could be coming into play.
For Tuesday medals I go straight from work so I don't get fed until closer to 830pm - do the effects of hunger over and above a day of work become a contributor?

Bad iron contact cost me at least 5 shots yesterday so any tips / thoughts / drills from the more experienced players would be greatly appreciated!

[SpeckledJim]

Could well be getting tired and hungry. Are you eating and drinking on the way round?

[Pib1978]

Usually take a bottle of water and a bottle of Coke Zero with me.
In the bag I always have a few Tracker bars.

What's everyone's snack of choice for a quick burst of sugar / energy?


My home course is park land and on 2 sides of a hill - there are 5 uphill hikes, toughest to easiest being 2nd, 15th, 8th, 11th, 3rd.
The first 3 you are breathing out your ar5e as you set up for fairway shots so I'm considering retiring the push trolley in favour of an electric but also trying to do the man maths of spending half a grand on a trolley with a motor vs a fitted set of irons.

Former will make life a little easier going round the course, the latter may or may not make a difference given my inability to strike consistently.

[Dan_1981]

Playing after work I always make sure i've had a decent lunch and take a sports drink & usually some flapjack with me

I really struggle on the back 9 if i'm hungry.

[Juanco20]

Coming over seventeen at the weekend I had our club competition in the bag pretty much. I then proceeded to double bogey 17 and and a massive 14 on the last. Can't remember the last time I've done something that stupid

Wasn't that frustrated really, more so pleased with how I'd played for the first 16 holes

[Blackpuddin]

Pib1978 said:

So wee update on this golf journey after my first sub-100 a few weeks ago

Followed up with:
108 - 30c, Net 78 = 0.1 increase
101 - 30c, Net 71 = Buffer

Last nights Tuesday medal
97 - 30c, Net 67 = 1.5 decrease.

Been having some recent horrendous back 9's in terms of iron strikes.
Tee shots (usually driver) have been straight up the middle leaving me with relatively good approach shots from the fairway.

I go through my routine setup, then easy back, controlled downswing etc.
Front 9 I'm making good contact, getting the ball in the air and making reasonable enough distance.

By the time the back 9 comes round I find myself making bad contact - topping the ball 50 yards along the fairway - and in a couple of instances, taking large divots out the ground before the ball.

Realise without swing analysis its difficult to comment but what are the obvious things that I should consider as a novice player?

Part of me is saying, fatigue could be coming into play.
For Tuesday medals I go straight from work so I don't get fed until closer to 830pm - do the effects of hunger over and above a day of work become a contributor?

Bad iron contact cost me at least 5 shots yesterday so any tips / thoughts / drills from the more experienced players would be greatly appreciated!

I've been going through this hell also. Saw a very useful tip online about 'throwing' the clubhead at the back of the ball (on a downward trajectory of course), helped me to dig in. Dad was proud of his lawn and he's passed that on to me!

[yorky500]

Pib1978 said:

Been having some recent horrendous back 9's in terms of iron strikes.
Tee shots (usually driver) have been straight up the middle leaving me with relatively good approach shots from the fairway.

I go through my routine setup, then easy back, controlled downswing etc.
Front 9 I'm making good contact, getting the ball in the air and making reasonable enough distance.

By the time the back 9 comes round I find myself making bad contact - topping the ball 50 yards along the fairway - and in a couple of instances, taking large divots out the ground before the ball.

Realise without swing analysis its difficult to comment but what are the obvious things that I should consider as a novice player?

Part of me is saying, fatigue could be coming into play.
For Tuesday medals I go straight from work so I don't get fed until closer to 830pm - do the effects of hunger over and above a day of work become a contributor?

Bad iron contact cost me at least 5 shots yesterday so any tips / thoughts / drills from the more experienced players would be greatly appreciated!

Could it be that you are "too cocky/complacent" - not in terms of acting it, but in your mind? You said "horrendous back 9's" which would suggest good front 9's where the shots you hit were good, yet the same shots on the back 9 were poor. In your mind you have already hit a good shot (as you did on the front 9) but in reality it does not happen, as you think its too easy? Not sure if that came across right.

The above may just be me. I know before I even tee-up that my first 9 will be bad - something about it that I seem to struggle with, yet the back 9 is good. When I have a good front 9 (which I over the moon with), I then go and cock up the back 9! Complacency/too cocky/over confident - thats what I put it down to and something I have to get to grips with in the 6 inches between my ears.

Edited by yorky500 on Wednesday 15th August 13:58