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A picture Tells A Thousand Words

  • 22-07-2008 2:57am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭


    How about this...
    Post with a photo of your swing or a moment in time from a round of golf?


    Attached Is a photo of me playing my approach (lob wedge) to the 16th green at St. Andrew (Old course). Photo taken 30/08/06

    My brother-in-law took this photo. Ball landed about 15 feet over the flag, took a bounce and stopped. Missed the putt of course, but the par was nice!


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Nice photo!

    Was the shot a bit heavy?!;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Admiral


    No I was really trying to mash into the back of the ball. Also being a links the soils very sandy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 480 ✭✭1916


    Admiral, whats even more impressive is the drive, must be +300 yards

    Q did your drive on the 17th go straight over the sheds?

    Nice pic

    1916


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,886 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Great pic - hope you had a caddie to carry that big heavy bag! ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Admiral


    Yeah it was a nice drive with a lot and I mean a lot of roll!

    I was told that you should aim for the 'C' in Course on the fence so this was the target line. After my nice drive on the hole before I thought I'd be hitting a PW into the 17th green.. Yeah, skied it, and ended up putting my rescue club through the back of the green.

    Our tee time was 6.40am. Unfortunately I didn’t know that they don’t let trolleys on the course before 12 noon so I had to carry the tour bag. Man my shoulder was sore but worth every ache


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭03mcgs0


    Admiral wrote: »
    Yeah it was a nice drive with a lot and I mean a lot of roll!

    I was told that you should aim for the 'C' in Course on the fence so this was the target line. After my nice drive on the hole before I thought I'd be hitting a PW into the 17th green.. Yeah, skied it, and ended up putting my rescue club through the back of the green.

    Our tee time was 6.40am. Unfortunately I didn’t know that they don’t let trolleys on the course before 12 noon so I had to carry the tour bag. Man my shoulder was sore but worth every ache


    Just out of a matter of interest how much was it to play at that time of the morning?

    I heard it isn't that much for locals to play or something, not sure how much truth is in that though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Admiral


    emmm I think it was about £70-80 GBP. It wasn't an early bird deal. You can either book 18 months in advance of enter a lottery the day before for a tee time the next day. They'll try and make sure every group going out are 4 balls. We where put with two guys from Sweden (3 and 8 hcp, the 3 hcp drove about 4 of the greens with his 3 wood!!!). We entered the lottery and we given this tee time. We where staying in Wishaw. So we got up at 4am to get there.

    As far as i know (and im sure im right), its a public course. All the locals of St. Andrews are automatically members and can play at a reduced rate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭03mcgs0


    Admiral wrote: »
    emmm I think it was about £70-80 GBP. It wasn't an early bird deal. You can either book 18 months in advance of enter a lottery the day before for a tee time the next day. They'll try and make sure every group going out are 4 balls. We where put with two guys from Sweden (3 and 8 hcp, the 3 hcp drove about 4 of the greens with his 3 wood!!!). We entered the lottery and we given this tee time. We where staying in Wishaw. So we got up at 4am to get there.

    As far as i know (and im sure im right), its a public course. All the locals of St. Andrews are automatically members and can play at a reduced rate.

    Thats good is see that the local people aren't being left behind. 18 months in advance, god thats a long time. So with the lottery is there a good chance of being able to play, obvious depending on how many is in the lottery but the chances of playing must be low?? £80 is actually quite expensive, I know its a great course, but I had heard it was very reasonsble to play, around the £30-40 range, obviously not!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭justfortherecor


    Great photo admiral.

    All locals can apply to be 'ticket' holders for the year. Its a public charitable links trust and there's no membership as such, just an opportunity to buy a ticket each year.

    I'm a ticket holder (student in the uni) and it costs me £125 for the full year to play on all six courses (think we may have to pay a £40 levy to play the new Castle Course). Its an exceptional deal considering a single round on the Old Course costs £130 at the moment.

    Only another month and a bit left at the uni, gotta make the most of it while it lasts!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Mister Sifter


    03mcgs0 wrote: »
    Just out of a matter of interest how much was it to play at that time of the morning?

    I heard it isn't that much for locals to play or something, not sure how much truth is in that though!

    Students living in the town can pay 113 pounds or so per year and they have access to all six courses in the two, including the old course, whenever they can get a time (there are a few limits on the old course obviously).

    Advance teetimes are booked months in advance. They have a daily ballot though for around 50% of the times on any given day. You find out the day previous around 5pm or so if you got a time. Time can be from 6am or so onwards.

    Fees are 130 pounds all summer, all times. During the winter they're a bit cheaper, but in nov and Dec you have to play off mats.

    I think local club members can ge discounts, but not sure what they are and something runs in my head that the old course isnt included. I have family there though so must ask.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭03mcgs0


    Great photo admiral.

    All locals can apply to be 'ticket' holders for the year. Its a public charitable links trust and there's no membership as such, just an opportunity to buy a ticket each year.

    I'm a ticket holder (student in the uni) and it costs me £125 for the full year to play on all six courses (think we may have to pay a £40 levy to play the new Castle Course). Its an exceptional deal considering a single round on the Old Course costs £130 at the moment.

    Only another month and a bit left at the uni, gotta make the most of it while it lasts!


    Thats a deal of a life-time!! When I was a student in the UK for 4 years we never had deals like that!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭justfortherecor


    46 scorecards for the year and counting!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Admiral


    Surely someone else has some photo's of there days on the golf course?


    St. Andrews was probably my most enjoyable game of golf ever.
    I'm getting brave. I'm attaching my drive on 18. I sliced the crap out of it... on to a roof... on to the road... off a car... and back in play just after the path that runs across the middle of the fairway.


  • Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    That drive up 18 is sooooooo memorable...... going for my second time in November.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Admiral


    Hope you get the weather.
    Love all the tourist around 18 green watching!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,952 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    <snip>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Admiral


    Nice course. I played there about 6 years ago. Really liked it. I remember one hole think it was about the 6th, massive drop down hill then sharp dogleg right. Heading to spain in Oct might get a few games in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭rigal


    Here's a pic of me playing high in the mountains in Spain at Golf at Alhaurin golf club a few years back.
    Unbelievably tough course,miss the fairway and you might never see your ball again.

    Did you like it? I didn't, found it to be a bit mickey mouse. Some of the landing areas were ridiculous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 308 ✭✭jampotjim


    Here's a pic of me playing high in the mountains in Spain at Golf at Alhaurin golf club a few years back.
    Unbelievably tough course,miss the fairway and you might never see your ball again.

    Played there a couple of years ago and is lovely tho gets so so so hot up there... Seve designed 1 hole that is damn right impossable LoL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,952 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    rigal wrote: »
    Did you like it? I didn't, found it to be a bit mickey mouse. Some of the landing areas were ridiculous.

    I enjoyed it overall.
    Some of the landing areas as you said are unfair,my playing partners were hemorrhaging balls .One chap ran out of balls !:D
    I played pretty well despite the hired set of clubs I had which were rubbish.
    The greens were a bit hairy too.
    Driving a golf buggy there is pretty dangerous its so hilly.
    I thought it was a decent course.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 BrazilianNutter


    Hey guys,

    I've just started playing golf 1 month ago, and boy...I'm lovin' it!

    My local club is Howth - Deer Park. It is so much fun.
    I'm really taking this seriously though...I have watched over 5 hours of videos and I'm organizing a group couching with my local Pro.

    Here some pics of me and some brazilian friends playing at Deer Park.

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    Ta-ra, Marcelo. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Admiral


    Where were they taking. Green looks nice for a pitch n' putt!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭Admiral


    Admiral wrote: »
    Where were they taking. Green looks nice for a pitch n' putt!

    sorry ignore. Didnt notice your original posting


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 BrazilianNutter


    Yeah, I also think that the green was very nice indeed.

    Overall it’s a very good Pitch and Putt course.

    Sometimes it gets a bit crowded over there (family playing..hehehe)….but that’s manageable.
    Last time I was there, there was a Father, Mother, and 3 kids (eldest about 7!) one hole ahead of me....I just skip that hole and catch it up in the end (laughs).

    Cheers, Marcelo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭ThunderCat


    Me playing the par 3 16th hole at Old Head of Kinsale.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,005 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    ThunderCat wrote: »
    Me playing the par 3 16th hole at Old Head of Kinsale.

    Nice pic..freezing cold there was it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭ThunderCat


    That pic was taken last month. It wasnt cold but you have to wrap up on account of the wind. On any costal course the wind comes into play but on Old Head because you are so high above the sea, the wind is unreal. I ended up taking a 7 on that hole. The shot im lining up in the picture went out of bounds right. Same with my 3rd shot. My 5th shot was good tho, back left of the green. The wind was blowing hard left to right and because i play a fade, i got crucified. Still tho, best golfing experience of my life. That place has to be seen to be believed. I went to play it on my own, but when i got there i got paired up with a yank and a norwegian. The yank was a member of muirfield village in ohio, and has played a lot of the top courses like pebble, turnberry etc. and he said he aint ever seen anything like Old Head. Pity they cant put a roof on it tho, and keep the wind out! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Mister Sifter


    ThunderCat wrote: »
    Me playing the par 3 16th hole at Old Head of Kinsale.

    That's a great pic Thundercat... looking at it just makes you want to have a go at the hole!


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