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How did you score in your last round... 2018 ?
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Played Druids Glen today, something I've wanted to do since I started playing golf.
So I left the house at 11.30am to get there early for the 1.40pm tee time and 6 capri suns,2 packets of Tayto,5golf balls, just over 5 hours on the course and 31 points later I arrived home at 8pm.
The golf first.
Played alright, the course is much tighter and longer than what I'm used to so glad to say I picked up a handful of pars. Good enough off the tee and very good around the greens with a wedge. Irons were good enough for the day aswell. Putting was solid but that didn't help ( I'll get to that)
Playing partners were good company but the Matsuyama pre shot routines dragged the day on.
Honestly can't remember the first scratch, it was on the front 9 is all I know.
The second was on 16 from a fairway bunker of all places. Pulled one only to follow it with the other and just couldn't find them in time, I know I probably walked past them and just didn't see them as they weren't far off line.
The last came on 17 and I put it down to the difficulty of the hole and the fatigue. Put two in the water, first was a cold top and the second I pulled off target.
First lost ball was on the 13th. Hit a great drive but didn't want to take it on as I didn't know how much I had to play with so layed up to the water. Mid swing a ball landed no more than 30ft behind me and hit my only heavy shot of the day. I should have still got it across but it will stick with me
As a side note, they had no course planners available. On a course with so many blind shots I thought this silly oversight.
The course itself was a bit of a let down. Maybe because I hyped it up myself but I found it to be rough around the edges. Railings in bits in places,very little sand in most bunkers and terrible greens.
I spent the day repairing pitch marks and still had the ball leave the putting surface ( one for F%$king birdie) twice. They were really inconsistent going from fast to slow from one hole to the next and no where near true. Quite slow in general aswell. I played Moyvalley yesterday and greens were super.
But hey, I played it and glad I got it off the list.0 -
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& i'm back to rubbish played the junior scratch cup in Mallow yesterday (had signed up for intermediate but handicap dropped from 11 to 9.6 after last weekend). Course was in great nic.
Birdies: 0
Pars: 5
Bogeys: 8
Doubles: 5
GIR: 2
Out: 47 (+10) In: 43 (+8)
Pros: drove the ball well most of the round & had a run of 4 pars (9-12) & thought I turned it around... how wrong I was
Cons: had so many shanks: 1st, 4th, 7th, 16th(2) & 17th(2)… that's mental!!! I know it's a small thing & my head isn't helping it... just gotta get it out of my game0 -
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Missed getting a slot in the Pro-am in my place on Sunday, so booked in to the end of the open week in Craddockstown. Hadn't ever played before, but had heard good things, so figured it was worth a try.
Had one of those bizarre extreme up & down rounds.
Course opens with a nice dogleg par 5. I hit an ok drive, found fairway, was left with about 190 to the green if I went across the corner, but carry all the way over water. Decided I'd be sensible & knocked an 8-iron up to a safe spot. Left a flick of a wedge in, which I knocked to about 6 inches. Tap in birdie & thought "Here we go, 4-point start, this place is handy
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Followed it up with a handy par on the next hole, a short par 3 that cuts back across the same water that covers the first green.
Bogeyed the 3rd, which was grand, as I'd hit a poor drive.
It all went swiftly downhill from there. 4th is their index one. I hit a sensible hybrid off the tee & found a decent spot. Hitting driver/3w brings the water into play, so it was the right lay-up club. Left me with 200 yards to the pin. bit uphill & into a fair breeze, so took the same hybrid. Caught it perfect & hit it through the green & into trees at the back. Guys I was playing with thought I'd find it easily enough, so said was no need for a provo. Unfortunately, the ball never showed up, so an annoying scratch.
More poor driving ensued from that point forwards, so ended up hitting a lot of 3w & hybrids off the tee.
Got as far as the par 5 8th. Similar to the first, I played sensible golf rather than go for the green in 2, as there is a drain short of the green. hit it comfortably in 3 & raked in about a 30ft putt for another par 5 birdie.
The rest of the round was generally a blur of bad golf, except the par 5s, on the back 9 I parred the 14th & then bogeyed the last, missing a short downhill par putt.
So, I scored, 13 points on the 4 par 5s, but 24 points in total
so 11 points for the other 14 holes
Not sure what was going on to be honest.
Putted fairly well, but drove poorly & found a lot of bunkers.
The course was quite nice. They're going through a 5 year plan to change the grass on their greens, and about half way through. As a result, they don't look great, as they're a bit patchy in places, but they ran true & relatively quickly, so can't complain about their condition really.
A 0.1 back, but a nice day out with 2 members, one of whom shot a 1-over par round playing off 6, so at least one of us played some good golf the whole way round!0 -
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Played our monthly medal last sunday in Beaverstown and had my best medal performance for a Net 76. Most annoying part was the 2 lost drives on the 4th hole and a couple of poor shots which got me a 12 on the hole. Normally a hole where id be guaranteed a bogey at worst which would have put me on Net 69 and got 2nd place. Still happy though that i seem to be shaking my mental fear of playing strokes.
HAd 3rd round of club fourball matchplay last night. 4up after 7, all square after 13 (awful playing at the start of the back 9). We pulled it together to get to Dormie 2, and then i blew putts on the 17th and 18th to let them back in it. Ended up winning it on the 22nd hole at almost 10pm. Delighted to make it to the QF and play is really starting to look up at the moment 0 -
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34 points...again. Same old same old, just bit more consistent between the 9s.
how's the course holding up? I played the weekend before last, I loved the contrast of the brown fairways to the greens. the greens were playing lovely... out in the morning... here's hoping for a decent round 0
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