Week commencing May 22nd 2006

[Flowergirl]

Played at The Dunes today. Guest Day 4BB. Gee I love that course!!!! If you ever get a chance to play there - just do it!! The weather was cold but the rain held off and the wind was light.

My partner - off 11 - had a great front nine - we had a lovely 24 points. Back nine we had a wipe for 20 points. Had to leave before the end - 44 points won't be enough to win it. Hopefully my NTP wasn't beaten.

I drove great - best driving round I've ever had. Every drive was long and straight in the middle of the fairway. Can't ask for more than that!! Fairway wood were better - but still need to improve. Had a great day

[Coffs_Hacker]

PLayed Sawtell golf club today, was great, wasn't bad either 36pts with a wipe and 2 1pts

6/14 fairways
4/18 Gir
30putts

Joke of the day was a 20ft putt uphill, I left it 1-2ft short then watched it roll 10ft back towards me. Spewin.

[shazza_rs]

Played in the Ladies Foursomes 27 hole champs at riverlakes today with Keza.

We managed to take out gross champs.... woohoo....!!!! Had a 125/110.... played like spastics on the back nine... lucky we only had to play that nine once.... came home in 1 under for the last nine we played and 1 under our handicap.

We also managed to win best nett by 7 and 1/4 but you can't win both.

Also picked up a NTP on the 3rd.

Not a bad day out!

[BrisVegas]

nice work girls! I could never get it going in foursomes....

[Grunt]

Played @ Oatlands this morning with Jono, Vince & Jamaal (a mate of mine from work). Had one of those "What if?" rounds, I feel I did not play as badly as the 27 points I ended up with indicated.

• I had a few great drives, but then had some very ordinary ones.
• Played horribly out of the bunkers; and I was in a fair few of them.
• Short game all up would be rated as not goood but not total crap either.
• Iron play I felt was fairly good with some good shots played.
• Putting was a highlight for me I hit the ball well it just was that I could not get my first putt to be from any less than 25 feet. So it made it quite hard to 1 putt anything, i had a few 3 putts but they were where I had already blown the hole and rushed the 2nd attempt.

Monthly Medal tomorrow, will have to see if my game can come back to me overnight.

[Flowergirl]

nice work girls! I could never get it going in foursomes....

Yea same..much better in threesome.

Well done Shazza.

Played 4BB on Wednesday with a good mate. She is one of the few girls I play with who I can sledge and she gives it back. Most female golfers are too serious!! We played pretty average for the first few holes - then we started stirring each other up and then we played great. She's off 16 and me off 18 and from holes 5 to 17 one or both of us made par ( stuffed the 18 with double and triple bogey.) Our 48 points wasn't enough - got beaten by 2 girls off 35 and 37. No one should be able to get a 5 pointer!!!!
Had a lot of fun.
Lesson today. Got to get things going for Club Champs that start June 7th. Still duffing too many easy shots.

[Jarro]

great to see you're playing so much golf Reenie

now tell us more about that threesome ....

[Flowergirl]

My lips are sealed

[BrisWesty]

Stableford today. Easy 36 points 21/15 - 84 off the stick (39/45) with a double and two triple bogeys in the 2nd 9. 34 putts, 8 GIR, 2 fairways

[BrisVegas]

Played Windaroo today with Tez. Much happier with how I hit it today than yesterday.

77 gross for 38 points
9 fairways
11 GIR
32 putts

New putter worked nicely. I had a couple of 3-jags, but that was mainly due to misjudging the speed on really long ones or tricky downhill putts.

First time I've broken 80 around Windaroo.

[Grunt]

Well today won't go down as a good golf day for me. I finally had had enough of the club I used to call home. I walked off after 9 holes, I was not playing that badly, I was 8 over. It was that I was not enjoying my golf there anymore.

[Jono]

Well today won't go down as a good golf day for me. I finally had had enough of the club I used to call home. I walked off after 9 holes, I was not playing that badly, I was 8 over. It was that I was not enjoying my golf there anymore.

What happened, Grant?

I remember you finishing your round in the pouring rain ... Can't imagine you'd walk off the course half way.

[Eag's]

Played Windaroo today with Tez. Much happier with how I hit it today than yesterday.

77 gross for 38 points
9 fairways
11 GIR
32 putts

New putter worked nicely. I had a couple of 3-jags, but that was mainly due to misjudging the speed on really long ones or tricky downhill putts.

First time I've broken 80 around Windaroo.

Nice shooting Dion
Good to see the new putter went well

[Grunt]

What happened, Grant?

I remember you finishing your round in the pouring rain ... Can't imagine you'd walk off the course half way.

I just was not enjoying my round and even though I was playing ok I thought to myself why waste half the day doing this?
Andrew posted a quote in another thread that I could not get out of my head. "when golf ceases to be fun it ceases to be golf" or something like that.

[jimandr]

My golf is never fun when I putt badly, but I never walk off the course. Today was a perfect example where stats don't tell the full story. Ball striking not as good, putting not as bad. My third 35 point score in a row.

Fairways = 12 of 14 (last 12 in a row)
Greens = 13 of 18 (last 9 in a row)
Putts = 39 - 4 three putts, 1 birdie on the last
Up & Down = 0 of 2
Sand Saves = 0 of 1.

On the back nine, I hit every fairway, and every green. Pity about 3 three putts!

[Coffs_Hacker]

We need a new OZgolf award - Worst putter, think i'm a shoe in for it

32 points
Fairways = 8 of 14
Greens = 3 of 18
Putts = 42 - 7 three putts, 2 birdies

[AndyP]

We need a new OZgolf award - Worst putter, think i'm a shoe in for it

Putts = 42 - 7 three putts, 2 birdies

We'll get Moe Norman or Peter_RS to send it down to you (I'm not sure which one is the current holder).

[connico]

30 points today...

8 on the front 9, with 4 wipes, 22 on the back with 2 wipes... driver was long and straight, irons where pushing right, and putter was f'd..40 putts today

[Grunt]

Went out for a hit at Botany this morning. Was great to have a game where you just played golf and there were no dramas all day.
Shot 37 points
32 putts
Could have be better had at least 3 putts stop on the lip or lip out.

Was my best game in quite a while. I really enjoyed playing with 2 veterans and having a good laugh as they sledged one another.

[AndyP]

28/05/2006, McLeod GC, Hackers Group - Social Tees

FWRR: Got my groove back?

7/13 effective T-shots.
6/18 effective approaches.
33 putts.
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1 birdie.
10 pars.
6 bogeys.
1 other.
Score 47-34-81 nett 64 [Hackers h/cap 17] (Par 37-34-71)

Considering my motivation of late, how I came out of this round was always going to be interesting. Started with a driver down the middle of the 1st, which was an encouraging start. However the bizarre 5 putt on the 2nd hole for an 8, where I kept putting too long (I was choosing to use rocks instead of my normal ball), followed by a T-shot into a water hazard I never knew existed on the next, made me drop the head.

In the end, it may have been a good thing, as it really made me forget about my score, and I started to just have some fun with the game. A 3 wood low punch off the tee to draw around trees, and using a hybrid to bump and run into greens isn't something I would normally do, but it was something to play with and I had some success with it. I just couldn't sink the putts on the front nine.

The back nine came from nowhere. The putts were dropping (I had 13 on the back nine, incl some from the fringe), and I was hitting the driver well off the tee (I'm normally more conservative). I seemed to be able to recover from anywhere also. Birdied the 10th, parred the next 8, including a fantastic recovery on the 17th, and I found myself on the 18th tee knowing very well that I was 1 under for the nine. Did the score matter now, considering I'd never played a nine under par? Yeah, I guess I did.

Tried to treat the T-shot as any other, and hit my best feeling iron shot of the day to an elevated green. I thought it was all over the flag, but get up there to find I'd hit it too well (adrenalin?) and was on a back tier, putting 10m downhill to a pin just at the bottom of the tier. Judged the putt pretty well, only to watch it hit the cup too hard, and get spat out a few metres. I pushed the next one, to three putt to finish the nine all square. Still very happy with it though, and more importantly I enjoyed it.

Next Round: June 12, Mt Coolum Men's Open

[Matt 3 Jab]

Nice back nine there, that'll bring you back next week for sure!!!

[AndyP]

Nice back nine there, that'll bring you back next week for sure!!!

Thanks, I wonder what my short term golf prospects would be like if I had had a shocker.

[amanda]

Great going AndyP

Had 98/77 in the 2nd round of the club champs to come 2nd on the day nett. Brad caddied for me as he wasn't up to golf and I'm glad he did! His imagination when it comes to options of what to do from crap lies/overhanging branches etc was excellent - I learned a few new types of shots.

Also had a great day with the putter - 31 putts - when greens were very slick (for New Brighton). One lady in my group putted the same putt 5 times on the same line - it just kept rolling back downhill towards her feet when it was short or when it went past the hole but not on line!

I was 2 shots behind a 24 handicapper (in B-grade) and I'm now 13 shots ahead - looking forward to another round of improvement next week

[AndyP]

I was 2 shots behind a 24 handicapper (in B-grade) and I'm now 13 shots ahead - looking forward to another round of improvement next week

Bloody hell, that's a handy lead, Mandy. Keep it going.

[amanda]

Bloody hell, that's a handy lead, Mandy. Keep it going.

The leader had a shocker - so she might come good again next week - I might actually practice this week - or perhaps that might throw me off!