The Golf Thread - 2018!
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You can't beat decent, focused practice. Experimenting with crazy club angles, ball placements etc I find really useful. It's amazing what you can get away with!
Not sure I'll be going to many more ranges though. Got to be off the ground IMO. Plus that's free, as long as you've got a bag of balls and somewhere suitable to hit them.
Not sure I'll be going to many more ranges though. Got to be off the ground IMO. Plus that's free, as long as you've got a bag of balls and somewhere suitable to hit them.
Agree and there in lies the rub - you can get away with it at the range but on the course, half the time not.
The range for me is all about getting my swing on the right plane and angles and trying to make sure I get good contact - more muscle memory for a particular club. I am not really bothered about distance as much as I am bothered about direction of the ball.
The range balls we are forced to use are old and in very poor shape!
The range for me is all about getting my swing on the right plane and angles and trying to make sure I get good contact - more muscle memory for a particular club. I am not really bothered about distance as much as I am bothered about direction of the ball.
The range balls we are forced to use are old and in very poor shape!
Really useful lesson in which I learnt that I wasn't turning my wrists over AT ALL through impact (doh!), just playing cover drives all the time. If I'm being honest, I think I knew that. I've just been changing other things (stance, ball position, backswing) to get the ball where I wanted it to go.
Anyway, went out the next day with the lads and the new swing and scored 42pts with two blobs and a thigh pull from yoga the night before, so that was a result. Hope to keep it going on the Sat morning rollup. Two-dayer at St Pierre coming up next month.
Anyway, went out the next day with the lads and the new swing and scored 42pts with two blobs and a thigh pull from yoga the night before, so that was a result. Hope to keep it going on the Sat morning rollup. Two-dayer at St Pierre coming up next month.
Blackpuddin said:
Really useful lesson in which I learnt that I wasn't turning my wrists over AT ALL through impact (doh!), just playing cover drives all the time. If I'm being honest, I think I knew that. I've just been changing other things (stance, ball position, backswing) to get the ball where I wanted it to go.
Anyway, went out the next day with the lads and the new swing and scored 42pts with two blobs and a thigh pull from yoga the night before, so that was a result. Hope to keep it going on the Sat morning rollup. Two-dayer at St Pierre coming up next month.
You're playing some great golf so early in the year, look to be cut in the summer Anyway, went out the next day with the lads and the new swing and scored 42pts with two blobs and a thigh pull from yoga the night before, so that was a result. Hope to keep it going on the Sat morning rollup. Two-dayer at St Pierre coming up next month.
DuncanM said:
Blackpuddin said:
Really useful lesson in which I learnt that I wasn't turning my wrists over AT ALL through impact (doh!), just playing cover drives all the time. If I'm being honest, I think I knew that. I've just been changing other things (stance, ball position, backswing) to get the ball where I wanted it to go.
Anyway, went out the next day with the lads and the new swing and scored 42pts with two blobs and a thigh pull from yoga the night before, so that was a result. Hope to keep it going on the Sat morning rollup. Two-dayer at St Pierre coming up next month.
You're playing some great golf so early in the year, look to be cut in the summer Anyway, went out the next day with the lads and the new swing and scored 42pts with two blobs and a thigh pull from yoga the night before, so that was a result. Hope to keep it going on the Sat morning rollup. Two-dayer at St Pierre coming up next month.
Blackpuddin said:
Hope so! Our group plays every week of the year and has its own handicap structure separate to the club. I'm on 17 with the group but this will knock me down to 15 (14.8) which is the lowest I've ever been. Not been able to do any club qualifiers for a good few weeks so am still on 20 there. Thankfully the St Pierre group works with club handicaps but if by some miracle I do well on day one I'll get a cut for day two. That happened two years ago and I lost more shots on the Sunday evening spoof game so ended up playing off something crazy like 12 on day two, I think I came in with about the same number of points that day. I'm really keen to get my 'proper' club handicap down though and hope to be on the way now but of course you can never tell.
Did you get into Golf late? I ask because I note that you're 65, but are playing like someone who hasn't reached their full potential yet?DuncanM said:
Blackpuddin said:
Hope so! Our group plays every week of the year and has its own handicap structure separate to the club. I'm on 17 with the group but this will knock me down to 15 (14.8) which is the lowest I've ever been. Not been able to do any club qualifiers for a good few weeks so am still on 20 there. Thankfully the St Pierre group works with club handicaps but if by some miracle I do well on day one I'll get a cut for day two. That happened two years ago and I lost more shots on the Sunday evening spoof game so ended up playing off something crazy like 12 on day two, I think I came in with about the same number of points that day. I'm really keen to get my 'proper' club handicap down though and hope to be on the way now but of course you can never tell.
Did you get into Golf late? I ask because I note that you're 65, but are playing like someone who hasn't reached their full potential yet?Well yesterday was fun - not.
Started really, really well - my best outward nine in a while: +3 for the nine. I was feeling and swinging well: putts were dropping and my 56 and 60 deg wedges were working as they should have done.
Inward nine - heat and humidity really did kick in and I shot +8. So a total of +11 on the round. One of the guys I played with packed up as it was so hot and humid and he did not feel well (dehydration).
We (two of us) got back to the club house and the fourball that was behind us, 2 were already sitting on the verandah, they could simply not carry on.
I hate playing in these conditions.
Started really, really well - my best outward nine in a while: +3 for the nine. I was feeling and swinging well: putts were dropping and my 56 and 60 deg wedges were working as they should have done.
Inward nine - heat and humidity really did kick in and I shot +8. So a total of +11 on the round. One of the guys I played with packed up as it was so hot and humid and he did not feel well (dehydration).
We (two of us) got back to the club house and the fourball that was behind us, 2 were already sitting on the verandah, they could simply not carry on.
I hate playing in these conditions.
yorky500 said:
Well yesterday was fun - not.
Started really, really well - my best outward nine in a while: +3 for the nine. I was feeling and swinging well: putts were dropping and my 56 and 60 deg wedges were working as they should have done.
Inward nine - heat and humidity really did kick in and I shot +8. So a total of +11 on the round. One of the guys I played with packed up as it was so hot and humid and he did not feel well (dehydration).
We (two of us) got back to the club house and the fourball that was behind us, 2 were already sitting on the verandah, they could simply not carry on.
I hate playing in these conditions.
Sympathy levels for this post: quite low.Started really, really well - my best outward nine in a while: +3 for the nine. I was feeling and swinging well: putts were dropping and my 56 and 60 deg wedges were working as they should have done.
Inward nine - heat and humidity really did kick in and I shot +8. So a total of +11 on the round. One of the guys I played with packed up as it was so hot and humid and he did not feel well (dehydration).
We (two of us) got back to the club house and the fourball that was behind us, 2 were already sitting on the verandah, they could simply not carry on.
I hate playing in these conditions.
Bloody freezing here.
Played in the monthly stableford on Saturday morning, frustrated as it could have been so much better!
Managed to finish on 34 points (playing off 8) but managed to:
Blob 3 holes, one for putting a 5 iron into a bush and losing the ball when trying to play "safe", when they decided to put a temporary tee right behind a ~15ft sapling - I struck the 2" diameter trunk (15 yards away) middle stump and the ball wen OOB behind me....then on the last hole where I tugged the drive and fatted 2 chips and the last
Miss 2 <3ft tap-in's, one which resulted in a three putt par on after driving the green of a par 4!
Miss 3 easily make-able <8ft putts
Oh what could have been....
Managed to finish on 34 points (playing off 8) but managed to:
Blob 3 holes, one for putting a 5 iron into a bush and losing the ball when trying to play "safe", when they decided to put a temporary tee right behind a ~15ft sapling - I struck the 2" diameter trunk (15 yards away) middle stump and the ball wen OOB behind me....then on the last hole where I tugged the drive and fatted 2 chips and the last
Miss 2 <3ft tap-in's, one which resulted in a three putt par on after driving the green of a par 4!
Miss 3 easily make-able <8ft putts
Oh what could have been....
kiethton said:
Played in the monthly stableford on Saturday morning, frustrated as it could have been so much better!
Managed to finish on 34 points (playing off 8) but managed to:
Blob 3 holes, one for putting a 5 iron into a bush and losing the ball when trying to play "safe", when they decided to put a temporary tee right behind a ~15ft sapling - I struck the 2" diameter trunk (15 yards away) middle stump and the ball wen OOB behind me....then on the last hole where I tugged the drive and fatted 2 chips and the last
Miss 2 <3ft tap-in's, one which resulted in a three putt par on after driving the green of a par 4!
Miss 3 easily make-able <8ft putts
Oh what could have been....
Don't you just love golf!Managed to finish on 34 points (playing off 8) but managed to:
Blob 3 holes, one for putting a 5 iron into a bush and losing the ball when trying to play "safe", when they decided to put a temporary tee right behind a ~15ft sapling - I struck the 2" diameter trunk (15 yards away) middle stump and the ball wen OOB behind me....then on the last hole where I tugged the drive and fatted 2 chips and the last
Miss 2 <3ft tap-in's, one which resulted in a three putt par on after driving the green of a par 4!
Miss 3 easily make-able <8ft putts
Oh what could have been....
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