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Grunt
2nd March 2007, 01:20 PM
How come its Friday and no one has posted here yet?

Well I played @ Cabramatta this morning, had a good round. The course is in great shape with all the recent rains but was a little soggy in parts.

88 Gross
70 Nett
35 Putts
7 fairways
4 GIR
1 Birdie
3 pars

Hopefully the game will stay the same for tommorows round, monthly medal.

amanda
2nd March 2007, 01:29 PM
Grant - is it a mixed open comp at Cabra?

Grunt
2nd March 2007, 01:36 PM
Was a social hit with some mates from work, we played off the members tees though.

Courty
2nd March 2007, 02:43 PM
How come its Friday and no one has posted here yet?

Cos you haven't played any rounds yet. ;)

Coffs_Hacker
3rd March 2007, 11:58 AM
First round of club champs today - ewwwww
par 72 had 86/75 to be about 7/8 behind already

1 fir - couldn't find a fairway even with the putter
5 gir
32 putts

1 birdie - chip in from 40mts

BrisVegas
3rd March 2007, 01:51 PM
Sat comp today at Brookwater.

74 gross for 40 points.
13/14 Fairways
7 GIR
25 putts

Played pretty well, but just missed a few greens, making the putting stat look better than it really was. Only blemish was a double on the 16th when I blew it long over the green into the water. Hopefully I can hit it like this next week at Barnbougle.

EDIT - Won the comp! That's 2 Sat comps in 3 weeks.:oops: :shock:

Jarro
3rd March 2007, 01:55 PM
nice shootin' Dion, you're in form there mate 8)

Eag's
3rd March 2007, 02:12 PM
Wow Dion, you keep this up and you will be back down to your old
handicap mate :smt023

Fishman Dan
3rd March 2007, 03:25 PM
Nett 2 over today. Tough day in the heat.

Had an 8 on the par 3 3rd due to a reload off the tee when I couldn't find my ball. Of course we found it after the reload, having blocked my 2nd tee shot - it had rattled and banged in the trees and was ejected greenwards, not what we were expecting. If the group in front knew any ****ING ettiquette, they could have pointed it out to us when they saw 4 blokes walking around in the bushes looking for a ball. After all, they called us up and would have seen it spat out of the trees.

Had another snowman on 5 (i was still seething), so in these 2 holes had shat out 6 shots. To end 2 down was pretty good, I got it back to 1-down after 12 but couldn't maintain it.

Pretty happy with my game (except wedges), absolutely ****ing livid with the ****wits up in front.

PeteyD
3rd March 2007, 07:45 PM
Nett 6 over today (and yes AndyP that is over a ton), thanks to a major brain fart on 2 holes (both par 3s on the back nine. Need to learn how to wait for 2 groups when it is congested and still be able to play when called up. Butchered both!). Including a double hit chip.

Good stufff - 9/14 fairways - and drove through the 8th into the wind (never done that before) 2 GIR, 2 pars and 9 bogeys.

oz
4th March 2007, 06:02 AM
79 gross in the Medal at Thurgoona yesterday. 1st round with new driver ITB. Driver was solid, but I need to build some confidence with it. Missed too many greens, and even more putts. No birdies. 5 bogeys, and one brain-fart double. I think I had at least 3 seperate greens where I had to chip twice. I seemed to draw an inordinate number of hardpan lies yesterday, and obviosuly didn't play them well.

Eag's
4th March 2007, 02:47 PM
Played Brooky today Single Stab.
24 points / 6 wipes :oops:
Hit the ball great of the tee but my wedge play was terrible to say
the least.
Hit 6 shanks and a few blades over the back, putting was crap as well.

12/14 Fairways
5/18 Greens
36 putts :oops:

BrisVegas
4th March 2007, 05:25 PM
Played Brooky today Single Stab.
24 points / 6 wipes :oops:
Hit the ball great of the tee but my wedge play was terrible to say
the least.
Hit 6 shanks and a few blades over the back, putting was crap as well.

12/14 Fairways
5/18 Greens
36 putts :oops:

.... with an ACE!!!! 8)

AndyP
4th March 2007, 05:52 PM
I noticed in the paper that a D Knowles won the stab comp at Brooky. Well done!

BrisWesty
4th March 2007, 06:49 PM
Medal at Caboolture yesterday.

88/76
1 fairway (but 9/13 effective tee shots)
3 GIR
33 putts

Hit some OK stuff, but spent most of the day scrambling. Need to work on my irons some more.

Grunt
4th March 2007, 07:24 PM
Monthly Medal yesterday
Started off crap and stayed that way. Mac Grange with all the recent rains has toughened up the rough markedly. Balls only a foot or 2 off the fairway were hard to find. Rough was roughly 6 inches long, it was what i feel the US open must be like. Maybe it is not but it sure as hell was hard to hit the ball with a club.
Gross 93
Nett 75
5 pars
lots of bad holes
One good thing to come out of the round was the driver was going great guns, the slice was more a fade, not a gay one though;)
No more golf for almost a week now.

goughy
4th March 2007, 07:53 PM
No more golf for almost a week now.



How do you live!! ;) :)

Flowergirl
4th March 2007, 08:15 PM
Played at Mornington - gee that is a tough course - last Thursday in a salver. 30 points - which was a lot better than the average. My driving has really improved and I was pretty pleased with the old short game.
Was looking forward to palying FRiday, Sat and Sunday - but I disclocated my friggin toe - watching the golf on tv. I forgot to walk through the doorway rather than into the door frame. So I now have a very sore second toe that has a noticeable lean to it. :sad: Hurty hurties.

Well played Dion - great shooting there mate.:smt002

Bruce
4th March 2007, 09:30 PM
I haven't had a chance to pick up a club in 8 weeks now and this thread is killing me inside. :(

Eag's
4th March 2007, 09:47 PM
I haven't had a chance to pick up a club in 8 weeks now and this thread is killing me inside. :(

Bugger Bruce :( hope you manage to get a game soon.

peter_rs
5th March 2007, 09:21 AM
OK...... I had a interesting weekend of golf

First two rounds of club champs at Middle Ridge.

I arrived sat to pay the enter fee only to find there had been a change in the rules (new club captian) and country members where no longer able to play, so I was told. I was a little p1ssed as Lady country members are and it was a special trip just for the golf.... I was more p1ssed that you have to book through the office for the champs so they check your a paid member (why let a country member register if they can't play). Anyway I figured since its not in the members book or rules I would ask for a ruling from the Match committee as the comp rules only say "full financial member & current agu".

Anyway after 9 holes I was only 4 over with 12 putts. not striking the ball well but still scoring. At half way I was giving a ruling by one member of the MP that my champs fee would be refunded and I could only play in the medal. A little over it I notice the leading score from the morning was 64. anyway long story short the back nine was a wash for a nett 74 (28 putts).

When I handed my card in I was told there was another ruling by the full match committee. a country member could win any non honor board event eg the net title for the champs (the only one I had a shot at :)). and the wording would change for next year.

Round 2.
The signs where not good, I hit the first two pins with my approach shots. one sat on the lip the other cannoned away to about 2m. After a few bad tee shots and missed iron shots/chips I was looking at a 2m putt for a 49, on the nine with 15 putts (The nine I had 50 on yesterday...Thank god I made the putt). I decided if I could get away to a good start on the back nine I could save the round.... away perfect drive then the next 30mins was a horror I went bogie, triple, Quad :( I hit some of the biggest hooks ever and a shank :(. At that stage I figured I could shot 100+ easy. I figured *** it, stop playing safe off the tee and try to score. I used driver from then on and played the next 6 holes in one over. :) so a round that had two birds turned out to be a nett 80 (with 30 putts).

I have only sported the net B grade leader 19 shots bring on next weekend. He's got nothing;)

The putting was the real shock of the weekend :)

I'm wondering if it's worth challenging the rule that a country members can't win Honor board events while the rule is new?

Grunt
5th March 2007, 09:28 AM
I'm wondering if it's worth challenging the rule that a country members can't win Honor board events while the rule is new?

As a country member at Bathurst, it is my fixture book that I was ineligible for the honor board events. I thought this was the general rule at all clubs. Sort of off topic but I am not even that sure I am eligible for events at Macarthur Grange as it is not my home club.

Fishman Dan
5th March 2007, 09:36 AM
I wasn't aware of the non-honor board titles, I don't think they are that strict at my Sydney club. I'd better investigate before I get my act together and win one of these things!

Mind you there's already 1 trophy with my name on it from last November ;)

peter_rs
5th March 2007, 10:00 AM
Fish at Middle Ridge only gross events are considered honor board. So I don't think it really effects me. The ridge wasn't strict either its the new club captian who started the rule..... Fun thing a country member beat him in the champs a few years ago.

out of interest does anyone know what the Club champs is worth at their club? At Middle Ridge its $500/grade first $100/grade second. They are also considering adding membership for a year.

BrisVegas
5th March 2007, 10:05 AM
no idea what it's "worth". I reckon the honour of being "club champ" would be reward enough!

AndyP
5th March 2007, 10:09 AM
Anyway I figured since its not in the members book or rules I would ask for a ruling from the Match committee as the comp rules only say "full financial member & current agu".
I wouldn't consider a country member to be a full financial member.


Sort of off topic but I am not even that sure I am eligible for events at Macarthur Grange as it is not my home club.
I thought home club was only something designated for golflink purposes. As a full financial member you should be eligible for everything. If not, you are getting screwed.

FWIW my eligiblity to win honour board events and monthly medals as a country member at Nambour stopped last year. Our club secretary was genuinely sorry about it, but it's there to stop a just a few bad eggs from exploiting the cheaper membership.

peter_rs
5th March 2007, 10:16 AM
Well when youre paying 3/4 as much as a ordiary member and its states on the application that


A Country member shall be entitled to the same privileges as an Ordinary member except that a Country member shall have no right to vote and no right to hold any office in the Club.

I would expect that includes gross titles. All the others member types have a note about gross titles in the fine print.

BrisVegas
5th March 2007, 10:20 AM
Pete - Isn't Riverlakes your home club nowadays? I thought you just kept the Toowoomba membership so you could play the odd weekend comp when you were up there.

peter_rs
5th March 2007, 10:27 AM
No... The ridge was still the home club and holds golflink. Every comp is a open comp at the rigde. I would just pay the vistors rate if I could not win gross or nett comps

Fishman Dan
5th March 2007, 10:56 AM
I wouldn't consider a country member to be a full financial member.

And therein lies the problem. Once upon a time across the board it was considered a full member of a course who lives outside the designated area. Obviously set up for locals who move abroad.


.....but it's there to stop a just a few bad eggs from exploiting the cheaper membership.

Finally he breaks his silence.

So for all those with country memberships with a view to playing cheaper golf in your local area, this is further development of the outcome.

peter_rs
5th March 2007, 11:07 AM
I look at it the other way in this case fish.... Your a country member and your commiting to travelling 130+km (plus the return trips) to play in each round at the course your a "member" of... your paying the same money to play in the comp you should be able to win.

AndyP
5th March 2007, 11:09 AM
And therein lies the problem. Once upon a time across the board it was considered a full member of a course who lives outside the designated area. Obviously set up for locals who move abroad.If you don't pay the same fees as the other members, you shouldn't expect the same rights.


Finally he breaks his silence.

So for all those with country memberships with a view to playing cheaper golf in your local area, this is further development of the outcome.
Break my silence?

The bad eggs are the guys who live just down the road from the club, but use an address in Brisbane that allows them to have a country membership. Clearly wrong.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say though.

peter_rs
5th March 2007, 11:16 AM
Then the membership should not say "same privileges as an Ordinary member". And the same rule should apply to ladies.

In the end I don't care as the chances of wining gross is nil. It would have been nice to be notified of the changes.

AndyP
5th March 2007, 11:20 AM
Pete, I'm generalising for all country memberships, not your specific situation where it is clearly stated that you should have most of the same rights.

If you wanted to follow it up, you should try to find some minutes where they have actually documented this decision. It doesn't sound right that they can just change it, without having it down somewhere.

Fishman Dan
5th March 2007, 11:24 AM
If you don't pay the same fees as the other members, you shouldn't expect the same rights.

A cheap member is better than no member at all. Therefore clubs introduced the Country Membership alternative, so they can keep their membership numbers up. Your view smacks of arrogance. Then again, so does joining a club 100's of kilometres away without any intention of playing there.

Pete - your situation is approaching farcical. You should definately get full playing rights at the club you have joined as a Country Member. As long as they know if you had to join a club as a full playing member, it's obviously not going to be theirs!!


The bad eggs are the guys who live just down the road from the club, but use an address in Brisbane that allows them to have a country membership. Clearly wrong.

Agree 100%. Just glad to see something topple you off your perch upon the fence ;)

AndyP
5th March 2007, 11:39 AM
A cheap member is better than no member at all. Therefore clubs introduced the Country Membership alternative, so they can keep their membership numbers up. Your view smacks of arrogance. Then again, so does joining a club 100's of kilometres away without any intention of playing there.
So if I pay less fees as a country member, I should expect to have full voting rights and full playing rights? I don't think so. It would be nice to be eligible to win the monthly medal, etc, but I certainly wouldn't expect it.


Agree 100%. Just glad to see something topple you off your perch upon the fence ;)
I don't recall sitting on the fence, perhaps it's your interpretation of my comments.

peter_rs
5th March 2007, 11:41 AM
Ok to add to this. I just contacted the office for "reference" as I'm no chance for any title. And as far as the office new a country member had full playing rights.. including honor board unless the match comitee passed a local rule. Which the club does not know about?

They said they will look into it?

Fishman Dan
5th March 2007, 11:48 AM
So if I pay less fees as a country member, I should expect to have full voting rights and full playing rights? I don't think so. It would be nice to be eligible to win the monthly medal, etc, but I certainly wouldn't expect it.

I do at Casino. Does the fact that I live 700+ km's mean this is more appropriate for me? I can only attend maybe 2 medal days per year, but otherwise I get full playing rights including $0 green fees for non-comp rounds.


I don't recall sitting on the fence, perhaps it's your interpretation of my comments.

It's more your lack of comment in the previous Country Membership rorts thread ;)

peter_rs
5th March 2007, 11:56 AM
OK THE VERDICT

Country members at middle ridge still have full playing rights including all honour boards.

If only....

Coffs_Hacker
5th March 2007, 10:44 PM
I think you should have the same rights as living 130km's away would mean that you would obviously not commute every weekend to play like most full members - its a cheaper rate as you don't get the value out of the membership as a full member.