Week commencing 15 August 2011

[hocko]

I haven't played yet, i just thought i'd start a thread for this week.

[AndyP]

Terrible post-boosting.

[AndyP]

Terrible post-boosting.
+1

[MegaWatty]

Nice shooting, Hocko. What's that make your handicap now?

[Jarro]

Hey just, can you bring those yellow Precept pills to Nudgee again next Sunday ?

oops, sorry ... thought it was a WAnker thread

[hocko]

Terrible post-boosting.
Agreed.

[hocko]

+1
I agree with that too.

[hocko]

Nice shooting, Hocko. What's that make your handicap now?
28,
Righto that's enough, i am playing tomorrow so i may even post a score.

[just]

Don't let them bully you into playing hocko. On the other hand perhaps your just not sacrificing enough to post a round. Get on the email and phone and see if you can book a round somewhere. But only if you really want to.

[hocko]

Don't let them bully you into playing hocko. On the other hand perhaps your just not sacrificing enough to post a round. Get on the email and phone and see if you can book a round somewhere. But only if you really want to.
How come two mods and one admin dude were the only people to comment?

[PeteyD]

Cos they are closet WAnkers.

[MegaWatty]

Cos they are closet WAnkers.

I'm out and proud.

[Iain]

Played at Reddy Bay this morning. Played ok, didn't feel like a great round, but had 20/20 40points. So I scored well, without hitting it very solid. I had 1 wipe.

Stats:
30 putts (no 3 putts)
36% FIR
39% GIR

[Daves]

Played at Reddy Bay this morning. Played ok, didn't feel like a great round, but had 20/20 40points. So I scored well, without hitting it very solid. I had 1 wipe.

Stats:
30 putts (no 3 putts)
36% FIR
39% GIR

Nice scoring Iain. I had the opposite problem, hit the ball quite well but just could not score.


19 - 16 = 35 points with 2 wipes

7/18 GIR 39%
11/14 FIR 79%
35 putts

[Eag's]

On a roll Iain, nice work.

[Courty]

I played a round at Cairns this morning with Haysey, Solarman & the reigning club champ (who also happens to be Haysey's cousin - it is apparent that golfing ability does not run in the family ;)).

All things considered, I'm quite happy with this round. I didn't do anything particularly well, but was able to avoid any blow-outs. It just would have been nice for a few more putts to drop.

Stats here (http://golfshot.com/Rounds/Detail/228-6623346-6623587).

[Captain Nemo]

Played yesty in the shit drizzle at Royal Kogarah.
38 PT'S with 1 wipe, pretty happy with that.:mrgreen:
Had 2 up in a Par round on sat also so things are on the up!
Getting used to the i15's now, but havnt got the lofts adjusted yet so that will help.
Prob only hit 4-5 f/w's over the last 2 rounds, so there is an issue there!:roll:
Bring on the G208-)

[Courty]

Played at Royal Gordonvale this afternoon with Haysey & Solarman.

I started with a birdie and it was all downhill from there. I was swinging like a mong for the most part, couldn't even put chip shots close to the middle of the face. :roll: Somehow scrambled enough to rescue a score on the second (front) nine.

Stats here (http://golfshot.com/rounds/detail/230-6644738-6644981).

[AndyP]

I took my 7 year old to the course today, and he finally showed some enthusiasm for it. He reckoned he had the game figured out by the time we played our last hole. :roll: He walked and carried his bag for 10 holes too (4 clubs). Now that footy season is finished I'm hoping he plays a little more and improves. I've got no idea how to instruct him, so I might have to look at taking him to a clinic at Oxley Driving Range or junior group lessons at McLeod.

I hit too many shanks to bother reporting anything else on my game.

[timah!]

Great stuff about the munchkin Andy!

[haysey]

Played at Royal Gordonvale this afternoon with Haysey & Solarman.

here (http://golfshot.com/rounds/detail/230-6644738-6644981).

I thought the collective teeshots on the last were awesome. You should do a google map thingy.

[backintheswing]

2 Ball Ambrose today in Mackay. 67 off the stick. 63 nett. Not even close to winning. I think there was a 59 nett in when we left. I played with my son and we had 16 handicap combined. (me 4, son 12)

[BrisVegas]

67 is good going bits.

[Courty]

I thought the collective teeshots on the last were awesome. You should do a google map thingy.

Can't be ****ed, but I lasered it out at 165m between where the tee shots finished. Everyone (except Red) missed the hole by 2 fairways. :lol:

[Dcanto]

Can't be ****ed, but I lasered it out at 165m between where the tee shots finished. Everyone (except Red) missed the hole by 2 fairways. :lol:

Did anyone end up on the race track?

[Courty]

Did anyone end up on the race track?

Yes, but the catch is we were playing the 9th, not the 18th. :lol:

[Dcanto]

Yes, but the catch is we were playing the 9th, not the 18th. :lol:

I realised that. That's why I asked - given how haysey's comment suggested you all sprayed it off the tee I thought for sure someone got it wide enough to be on the track.

[Daves]

Played a Single Stab at Redcliffe this morning and finished with 38 points 16 - 22. I am hitting the ball very well, but struggling to score. I finally started to come good on the back nine, but still no birds.

8/18 GIR 44%
11/14 FIR 79%
36 putts

[haysey]

Did anyone end up on the race track?


Two on the race track. One on the tenth, off the ninth tee. Truly awesome stuff.

[Progolfgear]

Had an interesting one yesterday. Missed putts of 4' on 1, 6' on 2 and 3' on 3. Made a few pars and birdies until 13 where I had 50m in to the par 5 and hit a socket, took bogey, missed a 2' putt on the next for birdie, missed a 3' putt for par on the next and finished birdie birdie for a grand tally of -2.

Pretty dissapointing to shoot -2 with 7 birides.

[Daves]

Had an interesting one yesterday. Missed putts of 4' on 1, 6' on 2 and 3' on 3. Made a few pars and birdies until 13 where I had 50m in to the par 5 and hit a socket, took bogey, missed a 2' putt on the next for birdie, missed a 3' putt for par on the next and finished birdie birdie for a grand tally of -2.

Pretty dissapointing to shoot -2 with 7 birides.

You should try having 5 birds in a round and still finishing over par! The realities of being a hacker!

[Progolfgear]

You should try having 5 birds in a round and still finishing over par! The realities of being a hacker!

Heh, don't worry, I have had my fair share of rubbish. Highlight has to be hitting 17 g.i.r and shooting 80.

[Courty]

-10 in a par event at Sea Temple. It was an abomination.

[AndyP]

20/08/2011, Wolston Park GC, 4 person ambrose.

1 eagle.
11 birdies.
6 pars.

Scoring bbbbPbePb PbPbbbPPb
Score: 27-27-54 nett 48.5 (Par 35-32-67 ACR 65)

Oxy (19) and I (10) played in an ambrose event this morning with two other guys (7 and 8). The other two have both competed in long drive events before, so we played some holes from places we weren't used to, like greenside chipping on holes 1 and 2.

We started on the toughest hole on 17, but went on a birdie streak after that, which set up our round. There wasn't much that we did wrong as a team, even the pars were respectable. I took my usual role in these events as the first to hit off, and kept putting it on the middle of the fairway, allowing the others to go for it. I was happy with how I played.

Everyone contributed to our good score, and our compulsory 3 tee shots were used with holes to spare and without making a sacrifice. Oxy nailed a few ripper putts including the one that got us the eagle. It made for a fun day and we should win gross, if not nett as well.

Next round: OZgolf round at Nudgee on Wednesday.

[AndyP]

-10 in a par event at Sea Temple. It was an abomination.
Where are the stats?

[Courty]

Where are the stats?

I gave up after starting with 6 straight -'s. It was too demoralising.

As predicted, I ended my run of no 3-putts on the first hole. :roll:

[Ronny]

First round club camps at Pine Rivers

45 /43 = 88 (69 nett) 6 off gross leader in c grade as I left. Still the afternoon field to come in so not expecting to remain near the top.

up and down round went like this

1 Bird
6 Pars
7 Bogeys
4 others

BBPPPBTBD BBQTPPPbB

33 Putts, So 5 holes after the turn killed me and nearly dropped the round but held on to finish last 5 holes in even par!

[BrisVegas]

well played P & oxy. Would be fun to have carl and his LD mate able to unleash in a 4 man ambrose!

[Courty]

I forgot to mention that we saw 2 crocs on the course today. I have some related video that I will upload in the Solarman thread later. 8)

[rubin]

First round at rocko in a comp round today. Live and learn I suppose.

Put myself in some trouble early on, purely by taking more club than what was needed, and sent the reedy of the round not taking enough. I really need to work on my short game, chipping, pitching etc were absolutely atrocious. Ball striking is significantly better than before, from driver through to 9i. Wedges need some work on the full shots.

Putting was good today. I've settled in the knowledge I'm never going to be a brilliant putter, but 1 3 jack for the round isn't a bad effort for me.

I'm excited to be back out on the course consistently. And for the WAnkers, this fits the rocko story: played with 3 blokes all equal to about 3 Tourfits in size. Tee off at 8.17 exactly. First bloke has his shot, walks back to the cart and cracks the first VB at 8:19. Then tells us the wife made him take up some sport to loose weight. So he plays golf, and takes a cart to play every week.

[jimandr]

I was surprised to get a Saturday game at Camden Lakeside today after a very wet Friday and overnight. If the rest of Sydney got the rain we did there won't be many courses playing.

I sort of wished we didn't play either. I played awful for 27 points, and I suspect considerable damage was done to the course through buggy and foot traffic over very wet ground.

[Yossarian]

First round at rocko in a comp round today. Live and learn I suppose.

Put myself in some trouble early on, purely by taking more club than what was needed, and sent the reedy of the round not taking enough. I really need to work on my short game, chipping, pitching etc were absolutely atrocious. Ball striking is significantly better than before, from driver through to 9i. Wedges need some work on the full shots.

Putting was good today. I've settled in the knowledge I'm never going to be a brilliant putter, but 1 3 jack for the round isn't a bad effort for me.

I'm excited to be back out on the course consistently. And for the WAnkers, this fits the rocko story: played with 3 blokes all equal to about 3 Tourfits in size. Tee off at 8.17 exactly. First bloke has his shot, walks back to the cart and cracks the first VB at 8:19. Then tells us the wife made him take up some sport to loose weight. So he plays golf, and takes a cart to play every week.

Score?

[rubin]

93 gross. One of the muppets I was playing with shot 142. I was trying to work out why it was a 6hr round.

They want me to put in 3 cards again before they recognize my cap. I dont know why though.

[Yossarian]

That is strange, you think they would just officially adjust it out to 36 :D

[AndyP]

well played P & oxy. Would be fun to have carl and his LD mate able to unleash in a 4 man ambrose!

Limited opportunities for full iron shots.

[Johnny Canuck]

Could be the proportion of NCRs that he had on his old handicap.

[rubin]

Could be the proportion of NCRs that he had on his old handicap.

Pretty sure u have NFI

[Ned]

Your Golflink link in your signature is showing as dead, maybe your old club yanked your number before the new club could transfer.

[Johnny Canuck]

It was a condition that was discussed with the new handicapping system. If you had a certain number of NCRs, your cap could be rendered invalid until you played a certain number of rounds.

Seeing as how you were batting about 25% on NCRs qt Kennedy Bay, it could be a possibility.

[Pieface]

It was a condition that was discussed with the new handicapping system. If you had a certain number of NCRs, your cap could be rendered invalid until you played a certain number of rounds.

Seeing as how you were batting about 25% on NCRs qt Kennedy Bay, it could be a possibility.

Getting the lowdown from Rubin's squeeze JC? Or are you making up shit :D

[Johnny Canuck]

It was in the thread about the new handicapping system.

Rubin makes up enough crap. He doesn't need my help!

[idgolfguy]

Shot 44 pts in club comp on Saturday. 19 on the front and 25 on the back. Gross 45 on the front and 38 on the back. Would have been even par on the back if I didn't double bogie the 19th.
Fixed - meant par 5 18th.

[oz]

31 points at Thurgoona. Good front nine (+1), but a string of four double-bogeys in a row from 13 just sank my scorecard. Putting was shabby again, too.

[Johnny Canuck]

Shot 44 pts in club comp on Saturday. 19 on the front and 25 on the back. Gross 45 on the front and 38 on the back. Would have been even par on the back if I didn't double bogie the 19th.

Double bogey on 19? I think I found your problem Vic.

Great shooting.

[idgolfguy]

Double bogey on 19? I think I found your problem Vic.

Great shooting.
Good luck today.

[Johnny Canuck]

Cheers. Hoping the weather holds off. Getting pretty frustrated with the rain preventing me from using my carry bag.

[Eag's]

Nice shooting idgolfguy.

[BrisVegas]

9 hole hit and giggle at nudgee today in the rain. 36 for 22 points. Chipped and putted well. Stayed dry mostly, but my umbrella has finally given up the ghost.

[aimnhit]

To f&@king many..

[Ferrins]

9 hole hit and giggle at nudgee today in the rain. 36 for 22 points. Chipped and putted well. Stayed dry mostly, but my umbrella has finally given up the ghost.

You guys are soft as.

[Daves]

To f&@king many..

Ouch! but then most of us would kill to shoot 70 71 around there!l

[aimnhit]

Ouch! but then most of us would kill to shoot 70 71 around there!l

Yeah your right... But it doesn't cost you 3k a week to play golf for fun...:)

[Jarro]

Yeah your right... But it doesn't cost you 3k a week to play golf for fun...:)

Well, maybe perci ;)

[Daves]

Yeah your right... But it doesn't cost you 3k a week to play golf for fun...:)

What is you standing on the money list? I see you are 119 on the Fedex, is that going to be enough to secure the 2012 card?

[aimnhit]

What is you standing on the money list? I see you are 119 on the Fedex, is that going to be enough to secure the 2012 card?

I'm gonna need about 200k more I think... But I really need to sneak into these playoffs... It's to close to call, 125 get in and my projected ranges anywhere from 126- 122 depending on about 8 people.. Not a fun day tomorrow

[BrisVegas]

good luck bowdo. You can do eeeeetttttttt.

[Daves]

good luck bowdo. You can do eeeeetttttttt.

x 2.

[Pieface]

Well played id 8)

[hocko]

http://www.ozgolf.net/images/styles/augreensmc/misc/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by hocko http://www.ozgolf.net/images/styles/augreensmc/buttons/viewpost-right.png (http://www.ozgolf.net/showthread.php?p=679337#post679337)
Backed it up with a f**king aweful 77.
I hit one fairway all morning! The weather was fairly ordinary at 7 am this morning, And the two blokes i played with were in a cart and seemed like they needed to be somewhere by 10am. They both shot over 110 too. I dont think this helped my game today!
Had a look at the sheet yesterday and found out that i am only one shot behind in the A grade nett and coming 10th in gross overall.
The guy who is winning is leading by 14 shots at 4 under.
A good round on Saturday may put me in the top 8 for the last round?


The flu and the pressure got to me yesterday, i only hit two fairways and pushed most of my irons to the right.
I three jacked six greens ended with an astrotious nett 81?
Goodbye champs!

[Johnny Canuck]

Hard luck mate.

[hocko]

Hard luck mate.
Thanks mate.
I hope you have better luck.

[idgolfguy]

Same here

[Johnny Canuck]

Cheers mate. I'd love to make the final group on the Sunday. Top 5 would be decent. A win is a very big longshot but anything can happen. I'm a streaky player, I just don't know if I have 4 full rounds of streak in me.

Who's dominating at k town, hoeve? How's Marty doing?

[hocko]

Daniel is in front by about 17 or 18 shots.
I think Marty is about 23 behind and Joel is 20 odd behind.

[Talart]

Monthly Medal and Gallerie / Caledonian Inn trophy rounds Stroke comp and a 2nd place finish with 85 gross 72 nett 32 putts. Great day to be outside the golf was fun and can even be improved on. Had nothing left in the tank though by the finish today and did the best I could.

[TourFit]

I bit the bullet and tried a round at Mt Lawley on Sat morning...last week before Champs, which I am well & truly OUT of.

Finally played decent golf for a change. Still hampered by the foot, but didn't seem to be quite as bad. Tried VERY hard to just concentrate on each shot & not worry about the pain!

The greens were lethal (running at 12'+ at the minute), and caught me out a few times, especially on the 1st putt. I hit a lot of good 2nd putts, but generally was disappoint overall with my work on the greens. Haven't played much and come back to greens like that a few weeks out from Champs...what else did I expect?

Anyway had 34pts, was OK off the tee and was really solid with my iron play. Dropped by 0.2, which is the first downward movement (NO HOMO) in about 6 comp rounds!

Now to take a small break for Champs, and beat Adlo at the Matchplay.

[Nuffie]

Great round idgolfguy (44pts) and tough luck hocko in Kwinana champs, after giving it your best shot on sat/sun.

K-Town set up in championships with quick greens and less run would be test at this time of year, so don't be too hard on yourself. Even tougher for us folk that normally only play once a week.

TourFit, sounds like you are also getting it back with 34pts at ML. I hope the foot gets better soon.

JC, streaky golf is sometimes the best us once-a-week golfers can manage, but when the stakes are raised you seem to always find a way to rise to the challenge. Just pretend it's a skins game and your playing for $$$... you can take it to the very top a-grade harty 'hotshots'. Making a good start IMO is what will help you the most and your experience can bring it home.

[Lucasto23]

Played Redcliffe today,
Was my first round in 3 weeks and man it was good to be out on course ever with the early showers.
Had 82 for 33 points
9 fwys in reg
8 GIR
36 putts :( 1x 1putt and 1 x 3 putt) had no clue today

Stuck everything really well today except some 50m pitch shots
highlight of the day ways hitting 3 wood, 3wood on 18 to still be short in and absolute gale and holing a bomb for PAR :)

[hocko]

Backed it up with a f**king aweful 77.
I hit one fairway all morning! The weather was fairly ordinary at 7 am this morning, And the two blokes i played with were in a cart and seemed like they needed to be somewhere by 10am. They both shot over 110 too. I dont think this helped my game today!

Had a look at the sheet yesterday and found out that i am only one shot behind in the A grade nett and coming 10th in gross overall.
The guy who is winning is leading by 14 shots at 4 under.
A good round on Saturday may put me in the top 8 for the last round?




The flu and the pressure got to me yesterday, i only hit two fairways and pushed most of my irons to the right.
I three jacked six greens ended with an atrocious nett 81?
Goodbye champs!


UNBELIEVABLE...................
The Gross leader is leading the Nett competition as well, he can't win both so that leaves me..................................
Equal third in the A Grade Nett and only three shots behind!
Dropped to equal 12th in the Gross.
I may need another Nett 68 on Saturday though.
I am now wondering why i didn't care about the back nine last week.

[Pieface]

...
I am now wondering why i didn't care about the back nine last week.

Kwinana has usually broken my spirit around that time too Hocko ;)

Good luck for this week mate. Try to remember that the other blokes might be in worse shape than you if you start thinking negative.

[hocko]

Thanks mate, may need to shoot the lights out on Saturday though.

[rubin]

Thanks mate, may need to shoot the lights out on Saturday though.

forget the pressure. Just go out and have a bit of fun.

[hopeihitstraight]

Well just found out me and my partner qualified for the final 16 teams for the 4ball match play. Never been in one so hope to get the goods.