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ForeRight

Is that a Gap Wedge?

PARlance

Looks like Metal Wee

bobwilliams

PARlance wrote: »

Looks like Metal Wee

looks like a really good wedge to me:D

Seve OB

I'm just glad to see she hasn't got a big smile on her face

slave1

Lovely morning in Esker Hills...

Arsenium

Damn it slave. With the pics of New forest last week and now Esker Hills, I am itching to go to both places. But not a chance of that happening for at least two weeks I reckon :-(

slave1

Ha, home for grub and then off to Birr in the afternoon, when the weather's there then go for it is my motto...

charlieIRL

slave1 wrote: »

Ha, home for grub and then off to Birr in the afternoon, when the weather's there then go for it is my motto...

Pity it wasn't the other way around and i would have joined you, am free from 5 tilll 9:30 and have the clubs in the car!!!

slave1

Some shots from Birr, a VERY different course from when I played it about a decade ago, new opening stretch and they've virtually eliminated the number of holes that crossed each other...

charlieIRL

Athlone yesterday.........

Loire

@slave, that last shot of Esker Hills is stunning!!

slave1

Thanks, I actually waited for the shade of the cloud to move from behind me and tried to catch the shade halfway down the hole, delighted with the result.
They now have their greens almost full fescue grass so more links style bump and run now.
Had a treble on the first and then 10bogeys and 7pars for 13over then went home for a break and some grub and couldn't hit a barn door in Birr for 25over, stupid game...

alxmorgan

slave1 wrote: »

Thanks, I actually waited for the shade of the cloud to move from behind me and tried to catch the shade halfway down the hole, delighted with the result.
They now have their greens almost full fescue grass so more links style bump and run now.
Had a treble on the first and then 10bogeys and 7pars for 13over then went home for a break and some grub and couldn't hit a barn door in Birr for 25over, stupid game...

Hope you didn't hold anyone up !!

slave1

Ha ha , teed off at 8.30 and no-one else teed until we were on the 11th so course to ourselves

Gumbo

Approaching the 18th on the Smurfit Course at the K Club today.


Smurfit Course at the K Club 18th Hole. by kceire, on Flickr

slave1

@kceire, was that fairway wet, just interested in knowing because it was brutal wet when we played there in September last year....

Gumbo

slave1 wrote: »

@kceire, was that fairway wet, just interested in knowing because it was brutal wet when we played there in September last year....

Wet would be an understatement.
Quite muddy in places and the constant rain yesterday afternoon didn't help.

Lovely course, would love to play again on a nice day.

I played with my work society. Only my third outing and my first with new putter and clubs. Enjoyed it though, even if the scoring doesn't reflect that

slave1

Sounds similar to the day we played it so but the 18th in particular was just soaked, did you know the 'rocks and cliff' to the right of the 7th are all artificial.

Gumbo

slave1 wrote: »

Sounds similar to the day we played it so but the 18th in particular was just soaked, did you know the 'rocks and cliff' to the right of the 7th are all artificial.

Had a feeling. They looked very man made. But then again I did study civil and structural engineering so maybe I had an advantage

*i got a close up if them. My ball decided he wanted to go for a swim

Kevinmarkham

slave1 wrote: »

@kceire, was that fairway wet, just interested in knowing because it was brutal wet when we played there in September last year....

Played it in April - still think it's a rubbish course. Even my dad, who normally wouldn't say a bad word about anyone/thing, was surprised by how poor it was. Last few holes are grand but, for the green fees, the rest are just pants!

slave1

It's certainly no Druids Heath to Druids Glen, much better complimentary courses

Gumbo

Kevinmarkham wrote: »

Played it in April - still think it's a rubbish course. Even my dad, who normally wouldn't say a bad word about anyone/thing, was surprised by how poor it was. Last few holes are grand but, for the green fees, the rest are just pants!

How much would normal fees be? We payed €40 in our society.

Kevinmarkham

kceire wrote: »

How much would normal fees be? We payed €40 in our society.

Website lists €95-€135. No doubt you can get it cheaper than that.

slave1

I think we paid something like €40/€45 for our society and that included breakfast

Gumbo

slave1 wrote: »

I think we paid something like €40/€45 for our society and that included breakfast

We got no breakfast
Although we didn't start till 1pm.

ForeRight

1st and 2nd



Great day!!!

Dormy

slave1

Some shots from Portumna last night...

Par 3 5th


Bugger had no intention of moving!


Par 5 17th, not a ripple on the water

Kevinmarkham

slave1 wrote: »

Some shots from Portumna last night...

Par 3 5th


Bugger had no intention of moving!


Par 5 17th, not a ripple on the water

How's the course playing, Slave?

slave1

Well the only change from last year is they have extended the 11th tee box back some 10/15 yards which took quite a lot of build up as it's an elevated tee.
Tee boxes all good, rough was thick, really wanted to keep an eye on your ball to find it quickly, greens were fine, hard to find your pitch-mark but all putts were true. Fairways were wet, we had constant muck-balls and got the general impression they were more "February/March not dried out" rather than May, granted there was some heavy rain recently but other courses in the area were not as affected, certainly no muck balls that I can remember.
Still a great course but the muck balls were a put off...