Week commencing 28th July 2014

[dunteachin]

18 holes at The Glades for the first time today. Absolutely gorgeous and even finished with the same ball I started with. I played well and would have broken my handicap if I had played comp - although in a comp I probably would have topped a few into the drink. The last three holes are probably the best finishing holes I've ever played offering a nice mix of risk and reward.

[mrbluu]

18 holes at The Glades for the first time today. Absolutely gorgeous and even finished with the same ball I started with. I played well and would have broken my handicap if I had played comp - although in a comp I probably would have topped a few into the drink. The last three holes are probably the best finishing holes I've ever played offering a nice mix of risk and reward.

One of my favourite courses....so fun to play!!!

[jimandr]

Grrr. The full story of my 33 points at Ballina today will not be told here. Perfect weather, course in great nick, pleasant playing partners. Why would someone be upset with 33 points?

See you in the Choke thread if you want to know.

[Courty]

35 pts in the CoC individual stableford.

Bugger all fairways
Bugger all greens
A few too many putts.

[benno_r]

Maryborough Pro Am this weekend. Friday's early start was delayed due to fog. First 4 holes it was foggy, and game sucked with it. Ended up getting back to 36 points with some decent scrambling.

Had the AD-BB6s in the Bio Cell for the first time, performed pretty good. Highlight was the 260m drive on the 18th, low light was the 230m draw into the piss on the 8th.

36pts 18/18 (87)
7pars, 6 bogeys, 5 ergh
4/13 fairways
5 GIR
32putts

Saturday dawned cool and clear, which meant we could start on time. Started much better with 3 pars and 2 bogeys off the bat. The driver was really working well today, didn't use it until my 5th hole (8th), and pumped it 260m straight over the water. The RocketBladez really performed as well, giving me more GIR than I have ever had. Most importantly was the Lajosi putter, nailed a lot of clutch putts to save par or bogey. Picked up a couple of birds, and finally wiped the last bogey off my 2014 eclectic. Only low light today was the 3 putt bogey on the par 5 15th.

Overall, gave me the best round I ever played, 78 of the stick. Came home as the B grade club house leader by 5 shots, though the afternoon field has a couple of lads who played awesome yesterday that are in with a shout.

45pts 20/25 (78 )
2 birds, 7 pars, 8 bogeys, 1 double
8/13 fairways
8 GIR
31putts

[3Puttpete]

Cripes! Well played Champ. Great stuff.

[backintheswing]

Great round benno. It's great reading that and knowing all the holes too.

[highballin]

Well done Benno!

MM today 86 nett 73. Have played a lot better and had a lot worse.

39 putts 4x3putts, 1 shank from middle of fairway into the sh*t playing a safe second shot with a 7 iron on a par 5.

Did enough to get handicap back to 12 so back to A grade for a couple of weeks then an 80 is going to drop off.

On the plus side was a beautiful day. Played in great spirit lots of laughs even when we f*cked up. Mate played a cracking hybrid 200m into wind 2ft from pin and missed the birdie putt.

[AndyP]

Well done, Benno. Great scoring.

[shazza_rs]

Nice round benno! 45 points is a bushranger score

[Steve57]

76/69 today, 2 birdies, 11 pars, 2 bogeys, 3 doubles
28 putts, 8 GIR, 9 FW
What could have been! Stood on the 15th tee 1 under the card and proceeded to finish, double, double, bogey, double!
Finished runner up in A grade on a countback, won the best gross and also the $112 Super Pin (2nd shot on nominated Par 4).
Walked away with $162 in Proshop vouchers and a .5 reduction in handicap to 5.5.
BITS - that Cobra Bio Cell is a definite keeper - missed 3 fairways with driver all day, 2 by 6 inches!

[benno_r]

Well done, Benno. Great scoring.

Nice round benno! 45 points is a bushranger score

Cheers! Got reminded of the burglary / banditry / bush rangering at presentation. Happy thing was, beat 6 pros and 12 A graders with my round today. Very happy.

[BenM]

Played a 4BBB match today and got thoroughly spanked - think it was 4&3 in the end but that scoreline flattered us. I worked out I would've shot low 90s - at best.

It didn't help we had a few little debates about rules. Our course is lucky to be playable today after this week's weather - there are something like 120 trees down across the course, GUR all over the show, bunkers out of play, etc.

[Buzz]

Ok so I got a little excited and started a thread in the wrong forum, I'll post here properly instead

Pacific Golfer 4BBB challenge yesterday and managed to shake off recent poor form for a team 49 points. Had 38 personally and my partner 39 but it just came together as a team sensationally. 13 3 pointers and 5 2 pointers between us, we pretty much traded 3s all day. Drove the ball probably the best I have all year ... 57% fairways which is well above my usual. Critically though I don't think we missed a putt under 3m all day which is where the points really came from.

Royal Pines in October is the prize!

[highballin]

Ok so I got a little excited and started a thread in the wrong forum, I'll post here properly instead

Pacific Golfer 4BBB challenge yesterday and managed to shake off recent poor form for a team 49 points. Had 38 personally and my partner 39 but it just came together as a team sensationally. 13 3 pointers and 5 2 pointers between us, we pretty much traded 3s all day. Drove the ball probably the best I have all year ... 57% fairways which is well above my usual. Critically though I don't think we missed a putt under 3m all day which is where the points really came from.

Royal Pines in October is the prize!

Geez Buzz great work ! Yep those putts are difference between ok score and great score like you had.

[coalesce]

24 points including 7 wipes today - so it was either good or awful with no inbetween.

It was drives into trees and then blading/shanking from 80m or closer that was doing it today.

Sigh.

[AndyP]

24 points is quite suckful, coalesce.

[Courty]

Seeing as tomorrow is a new week I'll only post the first 6 of my 8 rounds in 6 days.

Wednesday - City of Cairns individual stableford (team ball) - 35 pts
Thursday AM - Paradise Palms Blue Tee Challenge - 89/82 (including a quad, triple & double)
Thursday PM - Gordonvale GC individual stableford - 34 pts (including a double)
Friday - City of Cairns 54 Hole Classic (Round 1) - 85/78 (including a quad, triple & double)
Saturday - City of Cairns 54 Hole Classic (Round 2) - 88/81 (including 2 triples and 2 doubles)
Sunday - City of Cairns 54 Hole Classic (Round 3) - 84/77 (including 3 doubles)

The blowout holes clearly did significant damage to my scoring ability.

[coalesce]

24 points is quite suckful, coalesce.

No one knows that more than me.

[Talart]

Stableford and third place with 35 points 15 f9 and 20 on b9 good to get out and have a hit after a week of crap weather.

[Daves]

3 comp rounds last week.

Wednesday I played the Carbrook Shark Lake Challenge. Started well, but the omens were there early that it wasn't going to be my day. Started on 10, great drive left me with a short wedge in. My shot in landed in the hole, but spun out to about 20 feet, the Birdie putt lipped out! Lipped my par putt out on the next hole as well, ditto the 12th, and on it went. Ended up with a 93/81 for a disappointing score, given the way I was hitting the ball.

Friday we played the Black Marker Challenge at Reddie Bay, and I managed an 86/73. A couple of Birdies, but a couple of soft doubles spoilt what was generally a good ball striking. Managed to win the Pro's approach and finished in the top dozen or so (net 69 won the day).

On Saturday I played the Monthly Medal at Reddie Bay, and the good ball striking continued. I managed 3 birdies on some tough holes with some very good irons shots in. Again, a couple of soft doubles late spoilt what would have been a winning score. Ended up 3rd in B Grade with an 84/71 on a countback from the winner and 2nd place.

[yoyo]

Played indooroopilly for a disappointing 94 (79 with my self appointed h'cap of 15 for now)

7 FIR
6 GIR
36 putts

Approach shots were horrible and i really blew quite a few strokes from 90-120 out.
Havent played indro in over a decade so it was good to get eyes on it again.
Greens were very fast.

[LarryLong]

I won another monthly medal on Saturday. That's 2 in five months and 3 in the last two years. I'm not a handicap farmer, but after looking at my golflink you could be forgiven for thinking I am. Old blokes are grumbling in the clubhouse. I'm feeling a little bit guilty, even though I know these things are random and my game is unpredictable.

89/69, mostly bogies all the way around. Only 4 pars, one double and one triple, which is a really strange round for me. I topped two of the first three tee shots and got away with them, and that set the tone for the day. I probably could have done even better but I three-putted the last two greens. I guess my conscience got the better of me.

[mrbluu]

I won another monthly medal on Saturday. That's 2 in five months and 3 in the last two years. I'm not a handicap farmer, but after looking at my golflink you could be forgiven for thinking I am. Old blokes are grumbling in the clubhouse. I'm feeling a little bit guilty, even though I know these things are random and my game is unpredictable.

89/69, mostly bogies all the way around. Only 4 pars, one double and one triple, which is a really strange round for me. I topped two of the first three tee shots and got away with them, and that set the tone for the day. I probably could have done even better but I three-putted the last two greens. I guess my conscience got the better of me.

Well done mate and nice pulling up at the end!!!

[AndyP]

Well done, Larry.