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Miocene said:
Got small win & each way bets on Dechambeau, Morikawa, Koepka and Schauffele paying out 9 places plus ties.
Leader board like it is will do nicely thanks.
I have the and Rahm... I mean Oosthuizen no ill will, but I could do with him picking up a couple of bogeys. He looks solid though, and Rahm can’t get an approach close enough to nail a putt.Leader board like it is will do nicely thanks.
Edit... Oooo yes he can...
Edited by abzmike on Monday 21st June 00:19
Genuinely pleased to see Rahm finally land a major although it was one of those rounds where you just felt his name was on the trophy; his drive on the 9th looked out of bounds but he somehow got away with it and there were other occasions where he hit poor shots but managed to avoid any real trouble. I know there's the old saying 'the harder I practice the luckier I get' but I do think he got the breaks when it mattered yesterday whereas some of his opponents didn't!
But that said there have been instances when he certainly hasn't had the rub of the green and I do think he's a very worthy winner of a major - hopefully the first of several!
But that said there have been instances when he certainly hasn't had the rub of the green and I do think he's a very worthy winner of a major - hopefully the first of several!
As said, great to see Rahm close it out with a great finish, keeping his head when everyone else was losing theirs, even the usually unflappable Oosthuizen. After the Memorial it seemed written in the stars, and it’s been coming along with world number 1 ranking. It won’t be his last either.
Tried a new course yesterday - Temple Newsam municipal course in Leeds. Could do with a bit of work but considering the council were going to close it the compromise of losing 9 holes and leaving 18 rather than the old 27 seems fair.
Big course though (for me anyway). The experiences mentioned above rang true as well - dog walkers, cyclists and at one point around 40 youths on off road bikes coming down the first and crossing the 5th was an interesting interlude. Still, for £19 it's decent value
Still a bit shaky with the new irons and need to get some big dogs into play if I'm going to play larger courses, but definitely improving and managed 3 pars (gross) including 2 in a row for the first time ever on the back nine (pars were 2 x par 4s and a par 3). New putter works nicely and the wedges are a massive improvement.
111 for the round - actually quite happy with that compared to what I normally shoot on a much shorter 18, and can see where I can improve just playing percentages before I even go for some woods/lessons
Anybody have a cheap driver with a stiff shaft knocking about? Current one is a regular and it's just too whippy for me to control
Big course though (for me anyway). The experiences mentioned above rang true as well - dog walkers, cyclists and at one point around 40 youths on off road bikes coming down the first and crossing the 5th was an interesting interlude. Still, for £19 it's decent value
Still a bit shaky with the new irons and need to get some big dogs into play if I'm going to play larger courses, but definitely improving and managed 3 pars (gross) including 2 in a row for the first time ever on the back nine (pars were 2 x par 4s and a par 3). New putter works nicely and the wedges are a massive improvement.
111 for the round - actually quite happy with that compared to what I normally shoot on a much shorter 18, and can see where I can improve just playing percentages before I even go for some woods/lessons
Anybody have a cheap driver with a stiff shaft knocking about? Current one is a regular and it's just too whippy for me to control
Pieman68 said:
Tried a new course yesterday - Temple Newsam municipal course in Leeds. Could do with a bit of work but considering the council were going to close it the compromise of losing 9 holes and leaving 18 rather than the old 27 seems fair.
Big course though (for me anyway). The experiences mentioned above rang true as well - dog walkers, cyclists and at one point around 40 youths on off road bikes coming down the first and crossing the 5th was an interesting interlude. Still, for £19 it's decent value
Still a bit shaky with the new irons and need to get some big dogs into play if I'm going to play larger courses, but definitely improving and managed 3 pars (gross) including 2 in a row for the first time ever on the back nine (pars were 2 x par 4s and a par 3). New putter works nicely and the wedges are a massive improvement.
111 for the round - actually quite happy with that compared to what I normally shoot on a much shorter 18, and can see where I can improve just playing percentages before I even go for some woods/lessons
Anybody have a cheap driver with a stiff shaft knocking about? Current one is a regular and it's just too whippy for me to control
£19 doesn't sound that cheap for the opportunity to play golf through the middle of the Fat Les Vindaloo video!Big course though (for me anyway). The experiences mentioned above rang true as well - dog walkers, cyclists and at one point around 40 youths on off road bikes coming down the first and crossing the 5th was an interesting interlude. Still, for £19 it's decent value
Still a bit shaky with the new irons and need to get some big dogs into play if I'm going to play larger courses, but definitely improving and managed 3 pars (gross) including 2 in a row for the first time ever on the back nine (pars were 2 x par 4s and a par 3). New putter works nicely and the wedges are a massive improvement.
111 for the round - actually quite happy with that compared to what I normally shoot on a much shorter 18, and can see where I can improve just playing percentages before I even go for some woods/lessons
Anybody have a cheap driver with a stiff shaft knocking about? Current one is a regular and it's just too whippy for me to control
SpeckledJim said:
Pieman68 said:
Tried a new course yesterday - Temple Newsam municipal course in Leeds. Could do with a bit of work but considering the council were going to close it the compromise of losing 9 holes and leaving 18 rather than the old 27 seems fair.
Big course though (for me anyway). The experiences mentioned above rang true as well - dog walkers, cyclists and at one point around 40 youths on off road bikes coming down the first and crossing the 5th was an interesting interlude. Still, for £19 it's decent value
Still a bit shaky with the new irons and need to get some big dogs into play if I'm going to play larger courses, but definitely improving and managed 3 pars (gross) including 2 in a row for the first time ever on the back nine (pars were 2 x par 4s and a par 3). New putter works nicely and the wedges are a massive improvement.
111 for the round - actually quite happy with that compared to what I normally shoot on a much shorter 18, and can see where I can improve just playing percentages before I even go for some woods/lessons
Anybody have a cheap driver with a stiff shaft knocking about? Current one is a regular and it's just too whippy for me to control
£19 doesn't sound that cheap for the opportunity to play golf through the middle of the Fat Les Vindaloo video!Big course though (for me anyway). The experiences mentioned above rang true as well - dog walkers, cyclists and at one point around 40 youths on off road bikes coming down the first and crossing the 5th was an interesting interlude. Still, for £19 it's decent value
Still a bit shaky with the new irons and need to get some big dogs into play if I'm going to play larger courses, but definitely improving and managed 3 pars (gross) including 2 in a row for the first time ever on the back nine (pars were 2 x par 4s and a par 3). New putter works nicely and the wedges are a massive improvement.
111 for the round - actually quite happy with that compared to what I normally shoot on a much shorter 18, and can see where I can improve just playing percentages before I even go for some woods/lessons
Anybody have a cheap driver with a stiff shaft knocking about? Current one is a regular and it's just too whippy for me to control
Pieman68 said:
Yeah the bikes bit was interesting (although it was only the once). Other than that the rest of people we saw on footpaths etc were actually pretty considerate. I'm just not good enough or playing regularly enough to justify spending a lot more for the minute
Worth checking somewhere like https://www.golfnow.co.uk/ and https://www.teetimes.co.uk/You should be able to find some decent options for £18-20 I'd have thought.
SpeckledJim said:
Worth checking somewhere like https://www.golfnow.co.uk/ and https://www.teetimes.co.uk/
You should be able to find some decent options for £18-20 I'd have thought.
Cheers Jim - can be forgiven for being the Flanders pigeon murderer for your help You should be able to find some decent options for £18-20 I'd have thought.
If I'm honest I was more bothered about the pars - 4 iron off the tee and then a 6 iron to about 20 feet on the par 4s. The par 3 was a 6 iron just short and right and then hit a gap wedge to 6 feet (my short game with my old irons was abysmal as I used to hit them fat - yesterday with my gap wedge i felt awesome anywhere within about 20 yards of the green)
SpeckledJim said:
Pieman68 said:
Tried a new course yesterday - Temple Newsam municipal course in Leeds. Could do with a bit of work but considering the council were going to close it the compromise of losing 9 holes and leaving 18 rather than the old 27 seems fair.
Big course though (for me anyway). The experiences mentioned above rang true as well - dog walkers, cyclists and at one point around 40 youths on off road bikes coming down the first and crossing the 5th was an interesting interlude. Still, for £19 it's decent value
Still a bit shaky with the new irons and need to get some big dogs into play if I'm going to play larger courses, but definitely improving and managed 3 pars (gross) including 2 in a row for the first time ever on the back nine (pars were 2 x par 4s and a par 3). New putter works nicely and the wedges are a massive improvement.
111 for the round - actually quite happy with that compared to what I normally shoot on a much shorter 18, and can see where I can improve just playing percentages before I even go for some woods/lessons
Anybody have a cheap driver with a stiff shaft knocking about? Current one is a regular and it's just too whippy for me to control
£19 doesn't sound that cheap for the opportunity to play golf through the middle of the Fat Les Vindaloo video!Big course though (for me anyway). The experiences mentioned above rang true as well - dog walkers, cyclists and at one point around 40 youths on off road bikes coming down the first and crossing the 5th was an interesting interlude. Still, for £19 it's decent value
Still a bit shaky with the new irons and need to get some big dogs into play if I'm going to play larger courses, but definitely improving and managed 3 pars (gross) including 2 in a row for the first time ever on the back nine (pars were 2 x par 4s and a par 3). New putter works nicely and the wedges are a massive improvement.
111 for the round - actually quite happy with that compared to what I normally shoot on a much shorter 18, and can see where I can improve just playing percentages before I even go for some woods/lessons
Anybody have a cheap driver with a stiff shaft knocking about? Current one is a regular and it's just too whippy for me to control
) Bootle golf course. That was an experience, the locals used to run across the fairway and scoop up your drive then try an sell it back to you at the 9th. You'd also get youths dredging the lake (makes it sound nicer than it was. It was more like a deep muddy puddle that had grown of it's own accord) in front of one of the par 3's with a couple of shopping baskets on scraggy bits of rope. The best was that in summer if you tee off before the pro shop was open then you could pay on the way out but sometimes the manager would drive around the course in his old Granada collecting green fees but as there wasn't any cart paths he'd drive down the middle of the fairways!Pieman68 said:
SpeckledJim said:
Worth checking somewhere like https://www.golfnow.co.uk/ and https://www.teetimes.co.uk/
You should be able to find some decent options for £18-20 I'd have thought.
Cheers Jim - can be forgiven for being the Flanders pigeon murderer for your help You should be able to find some decent options for £18-20 I'd have thought.
If I'm honest I was more bothered about the pars - 4 iron off the tee and then a 6 iron to about 20 feet on the par 4s. The par 3 was a 6 iron just short and right and then hit a gap wedge to 6 feet (my short game with my old irons was abysmal as I used to hit them fat - yesterday with my gap wedge i felt awesome anywhere within about 20 yards of the green)
You're successfully running a 5 hour marathon, and you'd like to run a 3 hour marathon. This is equivalent to shooting 111 and wanting to shoot 72.
If you set off at 3 hour marathon pace, within 30 minutes you'll be knackered, and lucky to complete the marathon at all.
If you choose your shots based on anticipating parring every hole, you'll end up in all sorts of horrible places and shoot lots of 8's, 9's, 10's and worse.
If you target a 4.45 marathon, then that's within reach, if you do the right things. Equally, if you target 100, then that's also within reach, if you do the right things.
If you can hit a decent 4 iron off the tee, and a decent 6 iron off the ground, then you can bogey any hole pretty much anywhere as long as you don't go hell for leather to try to par it.
That gets you your 90 and you're welcome in any four-ball on any course in the land. You can have an additional mistake on alternate holes, and still bring it in under 100.
For some reason we all understand our limits when we go for a run, and we forget them when we go for a game of golf. Yet the consequences of biting off more than we can chew are the same in both activities - we achieve less than we would have done had we been less ambitious and more realistic.
SpeckledJim said:
By all means tell me to shut up, but I'd make this suggestion (hopefully it's an encouraging one).
You're successfully running a 5 hour marathon, and you'd like to run a 3 hour marathon. This is equivalent to shooting 111 and wanting to shoot 72.
If you set off at 3 hour marathon pace, within 30 minutes you'll be knackered, and lucky to complete the marathon at all.
If you choose your shots based on anticipating parring every hole, you'll end up in all sorts of horrible places and shoot lots of 8's, 9's, 10's and worse.
If you target a 4.45 marathon, then that's within reach, if you do the right things. Equally, if you target 100, then that's also within reach, if you do the right things.
If you can hit a decent 4 iron off the tee, and a decent 6 iron off the ground, then you can bogey any hole pretty much anywhere as long as you don't go hell for leather to try to par it.
That gets you your 90 and you're welcome in any four-ball on any course in the land. You can have an additional mistake on alternate holes, and still bring it in under 100.
For some reason we all understand our limits when we go for a run, and we forget them when we go for a game of golf. Yet the consequences of biting off more than we can chew are the same in both activities - we achieve less than we would have done had we been less ambitious and more realistic.
Oh shut up You're successfully running a 5 hour marathon, and you'd like to run a 3 hour marathon. This is equivalent to shooting 111 and wanting to shoot 72.
If you set off at 3 hour marathon pace, within 30 minutes you'll be knackered, and lucky to complete the marathon at all.
If you choose your shots based on anticipating parring every hole, you'll end up in all sorts of horrible places and shoot lots of 8's, 9's, 10's and worse.
If you target a 4.45 marathon, then that's within reach, if you do the right things. Equally, if you target 100, then that's also within reach, if you do the right things.
If you can hit a decent 4 iron off the tee, and a decent 6 iron off the ground, then you can bogey any hole pretty much anywhere as long as you don't go hell for leather to try to par it.
That gets you your 90 and you're welcome in any four-ball on any course in the land. You can have an additional mistake on alternate holes, and still bring it in under 100.
For some reason we all understand our limits when we go for a run, and we forget them when we go for a game of golf. Yet the consequences of biting off more than we can chew are the same in both activities - we achieve less than we would have done had we been less ambitious and more realistic.
Actually that's a very good approach and one I will certainly take on board. Realistically I'm thinking of getting reliability with the irons ad trying to break 100 regularly for the time being - and I need to play a little more regularly to do this. Challenging myself on a longer course is a good indicator of progress though
I usually shoot about 102-103 around here
https://www.wvgc.co.uk/scorecards-for-the-pine-val...
But as you can see this is their 2nd course and is on the short side
Yesterday was quite a large jump distance wise - a lot of uphill holes that felt to play longer as well
https://howdidido.blob.core.windows.net/clubsitesp...
So I was fairly happy with the 111 on there
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