What do you do for the winter

sssssiiiiimon

Just wondering how other golfers spend their winters. I know a few guys who just put the clubs away for three months. I like to get up the range and maybe pay once a week. Obviously weather permitting. Do you think it is a good time to get a few lessons. I'm quite intrigued with metro golf. Going there tomorrow night to see how it is.

TGoodall

planning to spend the winter practicing short game myself. Have never bothered practicing this before so hopefully it pays off next year. Great time for lessons though. Loads of time to practice what you pick up at the lessons without being distracted by results on the course at first.

charlieIRL

played a few rounds of winter league last year, weather permitting. That way you had to go out and play your rounds before a certain date.

stringy

I continue to play!

why would you give up? Courses stay open weather permitting, which from experience remains most of the time.

Most clubs play 12/15 holes comps, and I think a lot of clubs have moved to all weather greens.

Wrap up warm, and enjoy

hades

My game is just about turning around, and i'm finally starting to play to my handicap (19) since i took up golf. I'm now regularily starting to hit the 36 points, but my rounds aren't solid enough yet, with one 9 always going bad. 11 points on front 9 followed by 25 points on second 9, or vice versa for example. But there is progress being made. So i was going to be damned if i was going to let that slide only to go back to square one after the winter.

My plans, which i've already started are, practice short game as this is the one area that i'm really suffering with. I picked up Phil Michelsons "Secrets of the Short Game" dvd and i've worked on the 3 ft, 6 ft and 30 ft putting routine. Along with general pitching and chipping.

To practice all this, i've joined the Fota Academy, and its great. Been going the last 2 weeks now, and i've already seen the benefit when i get to play at the weekends.

My hope is, keep the level of my game over the next few months and come out guns blazing in the spring...... Here's hoping.

jhcabs2010

Are there any good places for practicing short game and putting during the evenings in Dublin? The Fota academy looks excellent but its in Cork and I want to keep up the practice during the weeknights here in Dublin. Stupid work gets in the way.. Lepardstown range stay open late but its just irons and drivers which I've kinda got a handle on. kinda!

AGC

jhcabs2010 wrote: »

Are there any good places for practicing short game and putting during the evenings in Dublin? The Fota academy looks excellent but its in Cork and I want to keep up the practice during the weeknights here in Dublin. Stupid work gets in the way.. Lepardstown range stay open late but its just irons and drivers which I've kinda got a handle on. kinda!

Carton. the best €100 odd you will ever spend. Floodlit putting green and chipping areas. ill be investing again this year

foxyboxer

Last December in England, the week before Christmas, I was at the local driving range hitting balls. It was about 4pm and getting dark. The range was freezing cold...I looked around and there were 2 of us whacking away...just thought to myself "WTF am i doing here!?!?!"

I'll probably work on weights with 6kg dumbbells to maintain strength and muscle memory and leave the range to the ice and cold.

jhcabs2010

AGC wrote: »

Carton. the best €100 odd you will ever spend. Floodlit putting green and chipping areas. ill be investing again this year

Is that the place up in Kildare? I was just on the website but couldn't see any info on it. sounds good though

dnjoyce

AGC wrote: »

Carton. the best €100 odd you will ever spend. Floodlit putting green and chipping areas. ill be investing again this year

Is the chipping area floodlit aswell or just the putting green beside the main building?

mag

dnjoyce wrote: »

Is the chipping area floodlit aswell or just the putting green beside the main building?

afaik its just the putting green thats floodlit.

conno16

floodlit greens can be very deceiving
i dont think its a very useful exercise, but thats just my experience
as far as i'm concerned you'd be as well practicing on some carpet at home, while watching tv, with a cup of tea in one hand.

k.p.h

I'm going to get a few lessons anyway. It was a disaster year for me trying to keep changing and improving my swing. So I' hoping to do the improvement over the winter so I'm not thinking about mechanics on the course next year.

And once the course not frozen I'l head out any time I can.

FixdePitchmark

I'm going to play for the first year of my life in the winter, hate the cold, hate the wet, hate the soft ground.

So I've got good gear , will play links, and get a few lessons at that Carton House place. I'm playing to 11 and trying to get to single figures , so I'm thinking a good early start next year could get me there.

A bad slice on my drive has come into my game , has gone from slight left to right, to fade , to slice But my irons are straight. Went from Stiff to Reg ? on driver, but swing speed slower these days.

So hoping I can get that sorted and Sub 80 by Aug. next year.

Going out in my new Mizuno Thermals in a.m. NIce weather for Golf at mo. so take it when you can.

Benny Cake

Broke my f*cking leg on Tuesday night playing soccer so no golf for 3 months.. :( Absolutely gutted as I love playing golf on cool, sharp winter mornings (when the course is open of course!!)

FixdePitchmark

D_Red_Army wrote: »

Broke my f*cking leg on Tuesday night playing soccer so no golf for 3 months.. :( Absolutely gutted as I love playing golf on cool, sharp winter mornings (when the course is open of course!!)

**** one dude.

This is the first time of my life 35 next month, when I look at playing other sports, I'm thinking could I hurt myself doing that and could the injury stop me playing golf.

Hope you recover well.