Boards GS - 21 March - Naas Golf Club

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Fair play Seve - you beat a great round of golf in that one - nice to hear about yours ? - as I said to you before , you can do anything as well as anyone.

Cheers Fix, well the head is nearly back to normal now, so I'll skip the work for a few minutes and write you up a report.

I guess I did pretty much do everything as well as anyone the other day! Some days it just comes together and for first time since probably September, I not only broke 30 points, but I smashed it! All be it off my boards handicap with an extra couple of shots, but even still, I hit some of the best golf shots I've ever played on Saturday. I knew it was coming, I could feel it, but just couldn't pull it all together, so needless to say I was delighted.

Started a tough week, I don't get to see my cousin (we are more like brothers) that often as he lives in London and the last 2 weekends spent with him were poles apart from each other. Saturday was a celebration for his Stag party in Cork, but the previous week he was home unexpectedly as our Nana quite literally dropped dead, very unexpectedly. She was more like a mother to us than a Granny, we have a small but close family, so it's still quite raw. While she was a ripe aul 88, she was in tip top healthy condition so it was a massive shock. It was nice to just get a game of golf after a busy head busting week, maybe it was written :)

I think I may have hit 5 bad shots on Saturday, but got away with 4 of them, so when it's your day :rolleyes: ..... Golf was pretty solid, hitting fairways... or just off them really makes a difference when you don't have to hack out!! Of course having placing made a difference to the game aswell. There was nothing to special about my game except my recovery from the bad shots. I had no birdies, but 9 pars, 8 bogeys and a double. If you know me, you know I carry my bag, but recently dug out my old electric trolley for a round when I wasn't quite fully recovered from the flu, so I stuck with it for Saturday. It really made a difference, and defiantly contributed to my good game. I do prefer to carry, but the weight on the shoulders does not help the swing.

First bad one was on 5, in the trees down the left, had no shot at all, except a hack out behind me... so I took a lob wedge and tried to find a gap that just wasn't there.... duly hit a tree and ball rebounded 2 meters behind me! Same again, but this time ball found a branch which deflected it to the fairway and my fourth was almost perfect to about 12 foot above the hole. Stupid me though didn't ask Golfgraffix to move his marker and as my ball was heading for an unlikely 2 points in the centre of the cup it hit his 2 Euro coin to knock it off line and miss by a centimetre or so! I would have been mad if I lost by a point! It was my only 1 pointer, and after my third shot I was looking at a scratch, so it was nice to keep them from my card.

The 9th was a short tight hole, so I opted for a safe 3 iron from the tee and hit an awful short well right, but there was room out there and I hit a cracking 7 iron to about 8 foot. On the 13th I was back on form and hit my usual terrible sliced drive, heading for the 15th green, but it hit a tree which knocked it back into the open and I then flushed a 3 wood to leave me a short wedge to the green. The 15th saw another slice to leave me buried in the trees on the wrong side of them but no option to even go up the 13th fairway, so I went for a tiny gap, maybe 20 foot ahead of me and no more than a meter or so wide and from the ground. My knock down 3 iron had to be perfect and it was, I nailed it and she travelled the guts of 200 yards up the fairway, I can never pull those off, so for me, it was a shot in a million and ranks up there as one of my best ever. On the 16th I drove into the trees on the left, but found a bit of space and was able to get full swing and used the lob wedge to get myself over the trees and back in play. Another perfect lob wedge left me about 6 foot, which I left on the lip! One of maybe 5 putts that could have as easily dropped for me on Saturday but stayed out, so 42 should have been 43, and could have easily been so much more.

It was a long time since I played Naas, so much so I remembered very little of the place, but lads, what a golf course . She is a hidden gem, in lovely condition and we were spoiled with some great weather. Thanks to Golfgraffix, 3putt & Paulos for the game. Paulos had a solid game going, but I didn't realise we were neck and neck going down 16 till Golfgraffix said it to me, I thought I was a few ahead, but thinking back, he held some monsterous putts to keep it tight. Well done to all the winners, and I'll get cracking on the full results this evening.

Ladies & Gents, here are the full results. There were 8 lads who got two's, so a grand sum of €8.75 each. I'll have it for you at next outing, and there were a few lads who I owe some change to, so please make it know at Tullamore and I will have it for you.