So far for Mount Pleasant on Sunday 14th April we have:
1. Hatch
2. Nadg63
3. Thecollective
4. Wazamac
5. Hard_Pan
6.
7.
8.
So far for Mount Pleasant on Sunday 14th April we have:
1. Hatch
2. Nadg63
3. Thecollective
4. Wazamac
5. Hard_Pan
6.
7.
8.
Last edited by nadg63; 27th March 2019 at 04:15 PM.
Last edited by Hatchman; 2nd April 2019 at 04:29 PM.
I'm not able to make it to this one
"Golf makes different creatures of us all, some worse, some better, but all enthusiastic" Evening Journal, 1897.
Just a reminder to all Mount Pleasant has the honesty box for Green Fees.
Let the moths out the wallet, bring Cash.
Car needed $700 worth of parts, said no way flogging it on Gumtree, so I posted a beaten up Falcon for $500 on Gummy, think of the clientele interested in it.....
Sold tonight, then copped 2 abusive bogan phone calls (coz I gave out my number, intelligent move) gutted they missed out, one threatened me and told me to 'get the f ing car back off the **** now!'
NEVER again, will I EVER use Gumtree, mark my words
Last edited by thecollective; 9th April 2019 at 08:08 PM.
Home now. I suppose I better put the club's in my car now otherwise I will drive all that way and have to borrow.
Once you go yellow, you will never go back
thanks for the hit today guys, was interesting to see the change from my vague memories of MP. Good to see couch fairways on a country track, they have held up well considering the heat and lack of rain. Greens are currently covered in fairway couch, they made for a brilliant chipping surface, we were told by one of the course volunteers (I assume) that the greens are getting re-done soon. If they take that nice green couch and use that to collar the green fringes they should setup quite nice. Layout is a bit up and down, I enjoyed the last hole the best, a nicely perched short Par 3.
Lamb & Rosemary pie was a complete winner as usual. Vanilla slice was off the charts tasty! good choice Nadg, became too much to bear for most of us watching you devour that thing of beauty. 3 vanilla slice orders later and we were all very satisfied.
Lake Albert was touted as a potential next venue, happy to travel and accommodate anyone else.
Was a good social outing again, good to catch up with you all again. Yes, the course has suffered a bit due to the total lack of rain here over the summer but it was what I expected it to be and accept the fact there is not much they can do about it really.
The 'slice' was the choice choice
Should've gone the Kitchener!
Thanks for the whack guys even though my swing and striking is getting worse with every game that passes.
Very nice bakery indeed TC. The pasty was very nice.
I have seen the course in better nick but they are doing the best they can with the resources they have. Great layout but as
Hatchy says, maybe they need to consider reducing to 9 holes to make it easier to maintain. Don't know which 9 to keep though.
I think the front 9 is better.
Once you go yellow, you will never go back
Thanks for the hit everyone that attended. Conditions were perfect for a game and excellent company as always.
Sadly the condition of the course is getting worse each year I have I hit there. They have a massive job ahead of them to get it back to a reasonable standard that attracts regular repeat Greens Fees paying players/groups. These clubs rely a lot on this outside money to keep small country clubs ticking over. Local membership can only get clubs so far.
I wish them all the best in there journey to get it back as the layout is great and it would be shame to have it gone forever. IMHO I think small country towns are fighting a losing battle trying to maintain a full 18 holes these days. Meberships are generally lower and running costs of maintaining a course with water, chemicals and grounds maintence equipment are escalating.
Enough of the doom and gloom and despite the criticisms above it’s still better than Highercombe.
Gamed the old now illeagle Callaway ERC II Driver and the Callaway S2H2 irons. The old Driver was a pleasure to hit all day and only hit one shocker that I tried to jump all over. Made solid contact with the irons all day where I had a full swing. Short game was non existent and putted like a muppet using my own putter this game. Actually looking forward to the next game already.
Shot of the day would have to be Nadg’s long putt on a green through a mixture of beach, forest desert and little bit of ok greens grass near the hole.
I was the odd one out and never had the snot block at lunch. Everyone gourged on pastries while I enjoyed fish and chips.
Here’s a Google Earth Pic of Mount Pleasant Course.
For a bit of fun everyone that played on the weekend have crack at carving the layout up into a 9hole course.
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Ha, I forgot about that one and yes that might be the winner. Takes great talent to dunk it and have it hit the bottom of the cup not the lip and bounce straight back out. Must be all the practice getting it in the hole lately
It think that inspired the quote “ Mount Pleasant’s greens are great ...... to chip off”
Last edited by Hatchman; 15th April 2019 at 09:36 PM.
I’ll kick off the chop job.
A must keep hole IMHO is the current 3rd hole across the dam leaving the problem of how to do you get down to the tee block to for that hole.
I’d change the very difficult long Par 4 1st adding some length to the Tee Block and push the green back further and tuck it in behind the trees making it a short Par 5.
I would have liked to have started from the existing Tee block and take the hole to the Par 3 second hole’s Green but that would only make the bombers go for the current 3rd hole Fairway making it an easy get home for 2. The only way to do that would possibly move the Tee Block more towards behind the Club House.
I think I would make this hole somewhere else in the order and no longer be the first.
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Last edited by Hatchman; 16th April 2019 at 08:42 AM.
Doing that to the first would easily now turn the third hole into the second hole.
Once you go yellow, you will never go back
Yeh, that bit is easy but I'd rather have that over the dam hole mid to late round as I think it's better to step up to a hole like that when your more warmed up and to have it as a good round wrecker.
It brings in a few more choices on how much you want to risk it. Im fairly sure that gum that overhangs the green in the picture is no longer there which makes the approach so much better too.
Ill work on the hole sequence as there's a few others I'd like to keep.
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