Glen of the Down Competition

Ben1010

Any idea what score won yesterday singles competition. Think i might have a shout unless beaten by a bloody bandit. Shot 38pts yes off 11/

george67

Hi , 38 prob won't be enough to win there, usualy around the 40 mark would do it. Let us know how you get on anyway .:)

Ben1010

hahaha, 40...bleeding bandit!!!! :p:p:p

heavyballs

Ben1010 wrote: »

hahaha, 40...bleeding bandit!!!! :p:p:p

expecting to win with 38 was asking for a lot,and you seemed rather excited about the whole afair:p
????????why would you post here instead of ringing the course,did you not put your number on the card

commiserations on yesterday,not regarding the prize but for spending money to play that course:Dhow much was it ?

NoelAPM

Its a pitch and putt in my opinion! Played there once and got 49 points off 15! Thank god it wasn't comp!

Ben1010

heavyballs wrote: »

expecting to win with 38 was asking for a lot,and you seemed rather excited about the whole afair:p
????????why would you post here instead of ringing the course,did you not put your number on the card

commiserations on yesterday,not regarding the prize but for spending money to play that course:Dhow much was it ?

Don't remember putting down my number. Ah well i thought i done well especially when i scratch at least 3 holes. When you drive well here, you have a straight forward pitch.

No commiserations needed!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad:

Ben1010

NoelAPM wrote: »

Its a pitch and putt in my opinion! Played there once and got 49 points off 15! Thank god it wasn't comp!

A TRUE BANDIT!!!! CONGRATULATIONS.:):):)

NoelAPM

I certainly am on that course! It was made easy by driving the green at 18 and 12 I think... Down hill par 4.. and I hit a horrible fat shot on a par 3. Think it was 16 it went about 50 yards and rolled the remaining 100 down the hill and finished 3 foot from the pin! I wasn't used to being rewarded for such mistakes ha!

Ben1010

NoelAPM wrote: »

I certainly am on that course! It was made easy by driving the green at 18 and 12 I think... Down hill par 4.. and I hit a horrible fat shot on a par 3. Think it was 16 it went about 50 yards and rolled the remaining 100 down the hill and finished 3 foot from the pin! I wasn't used to being rewarded for such mistakes ha!

Yeah the 16th...poor poor par 3, you could hit a putter off the tee if you wanted to. Green is relatively small.

12th is drivable but difficult as you cant see the green off the tee and the green is surrounded by bunkers. 18th is defintely drivable but not worth it as there water in the rear of the green.

Lovely clubhouse!

heavyballs

Ben1010 wrote: »

Don't remember putting down my number. Ah well i thought i done well especially when i scratch at least 3 holes. When you drive well here, you have a straight forward pitch.

No commiserations needed!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad:

well in that case you've just elevated yourself into the famous 'bandit' brigade
you can half expect a high hcper scratching a few holes but an 11hcper??,that's a disgrace,and then you finish with 38,imo if you play off anything less than around 14 and have 3 scratches you should be scoring no more that around 33 pts,that would be the case with myself and most of my golf mates

Ben1010

heavyballs wrote: »

well in that case you've just elevated yourself into the famous 'bandit' brigade
you can half expect a high hcper scratching a few holes but an 11hcper??,that's a disgrace,and then you finish with 38,imo if you play off anything less than around 14 and have 3 scratches you should be scoring no more that around 33 pts,that would be the case with myself and most of my golf mates

YAWN........

dnjoyce

Ben1010 wrote: »

YAWN........

Scratching 3 and still having 38 makes you a bandit in my book as well I'm afraid - that means at least 8 3-pointers (allowing for 2 points on every other hole, which is probably unlikely)

Ben1010

dnjoyce wrote: »

Scratching 3 and still having 38 makes you a bandit in my book as well I'm afraid - that means at least 8 3-pointers (allowing for 2 points on every other hole, which is probably unlikely)

"probably unlikely"...In golf as you know (probably not in this case for you) anything can happen...anything!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Fore Iron

Weird thread this.

You're off 11 which I assume means you've been playing a while. Yet you don't seem to know that not that many competitions out there are won with 38 points and many see people in the 40's.

You've had 3 scratches meaning you were heading for 44 points yourself if not more, yet only "a bandit" could have beaten your 38 points returned.

What handicap did you start playing with? Have you never managed to score more than 40 points before?

Ben1010

Fore Iron wrote: »

Weird thread this.

You're off 11 which I assume means you've been playing a while. Yet you don't seem to know that not that many competitions out there are won with 38 points and many see people in the 40's.

You've had 3 scratches meaning you were heading for 44 points yourself if not more, yet only "a bandit" could have beaten your 38 points returned.

What handicap did you start playing with? Have you never managed to score more than 40 points before?

Started 19 last summer. Never managed to score 40..always around 30-37..sometimes less..hahah..
Just had a blinder of a day..bit of good luck as well..2 birdies with a help of the rub of the green. Hardly a BANDIT myself. The plan is to get to single figures this summer

Fore Iron

Jaysus, how have you managed to get down to 11 then? That's 25 0.3's off the handicap. If you shoot 37 points you might get 0.3 or 0.6 off but all the scores in the low 30's would be 0.1 back.

You must be playing a lot of golf!!

heavyballs

Ben1010 wrote: »

Started 19 last summer. Never managed to score 40..always around 30-37..sometimes less..hahah..
Just had a blinder of a day..bit of good luck as well..2 birdies with a help of the rub of the green. Hardly a BANDIT myself. The plan is to get to single figures this summer

is it just me or does something smell wrong???????????

what's the standard scr normally in your own club,find it hard to beleive you can go 8 shots in about 8 months without having 40 points

come on ............fess up

Ben1010

heavyballs wrote: »

is it just me or does something smell wrong???????????

what's the standard scr normally in your own club,find it hard to beleive you can go 8 shots in about 8 months without having 40 points

come on ............fess up

Nothing smells wrong here seriously! I'm playing quite well. Played at least twice a week , sometimes 3 times. My club sss is around 73 but i don't get as much as a cut in my club. The majority of my cuts came from playing open competitions around the country.

There nothing dodgy here...haha..:):) . It was easier at the beginning but now it slow down the cuts. Did lots of short game pratice in the evenings. So it all coming into play now.

Fore Iron

Ben1010 wrote: »

Nothing smells wrong here seriously! I'm playing quite well. Played at least twice a week , sometimes 3 times. My club sss is around 73 but i don't get as much as a cut in my club. The majority of my cuts came from playing open competitions around the country.

There nothing dodgy here...haha..:):) . It was easier at the beginning but now it slow down the cuts. Did lots of short game pratice in the evenings. So it all coming into play now.

This gets better! So you never really get cut at your home club but you managed to get 8 shots off your handicap in what I assume was actually about 5 or 6 months, given that qualifying competitions would be hard to find over the last 3 months at least, solely through playing other places. How often do you play at your home club? Is it Slievnamon? Cheap membership but never play there or something?

Ben1010

Just checked my gui handicap sheet...started last year from 16.3 and now 11.2

Not 19...my apology!!! 19 was the at the end of the year b4 last year.

My bad!!!:o:o:o:o:o

Also seen that most of the bigger cuts are played in V-Par competitions where i did well!!! Only had 3 0.1 backs!!

Ben1010

Fore Iron wrote: »

This gets better! So you never really get cut at your home club but you managed to get 8 shots off your handicap in what I assume was actually about 5 or 6 months, given that qualifying competitions would be hard to find over the last 3 months at least, solely through playing other places. How often do you play at your home club? Is it Slievnamon? Cheap membership but never play there or something?

Well it start on April and ended in September. Play every weekend at my club! And played open competition whenever i could which was alot. Played in Carrick on Shannon where i had a cut of 1.2.

Fore Iron

Well a shot a month off the handicap is about as good as you will see. Good shooting Ben!!

Ben1010

Fore Iron wrote: »

Well a shot a month off the handicap is about as good as you will see. Good shooting Ben!!

Thanks..appreciate it..Hope to get to single figures.