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Boards Golf Society Athy Golf Club March 16th 10.45am
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First outing back in a few years - work , life, lack of balance - etc.
And I'm loving Benny's positive perspective on things. Wet is a state of mind , someone else claims "humans are waterproof":D
Fair play to Benny79, as you arrived, he had the black book , the cards, the money , the handicaps, memberships all sorted. There is so much work going on behind the scenes in the outings. So fair play to all involved.
When we started it was fairly miserable and on the first green it looked on the edges of unplayable, as the ball swam to the hole.
But slowly things improved with each hole and by 7 there was a hope of dry weather and "sun"
Played with SEORG and Doublecross , two excellent ball strikers with superb short game and solid putting. We all had good, bad and horrible golf at times. But you could see excellent golfers in there.
The great thing about the boards' golf society is you are playing with lads that love their golf. All want to play more golf if they could and know the game well. The 3 balls worked a treat and the pace of play was excellent considering the very poor conditions at times.
I think we seen the course in a poor state, but you could see it is a nice layout and in summer it would be a real treat. There is a great shape to the back nine with lovely changes in direction and strategy. One hole we were not overly impressed with was the sort of unfair index 1. Green touching on Augusta National or Corballis. But there were excellent holes from the turn before and after this.
As we came in there was great action in the impressive clubhouse , good food , the rugby match, old faces and new, old usernames and new. Personalities in the real world can be totally different to the perception.
Benny in last - Long Drive notice in hand, nearest the pin in hand, the black book in hand . Again - being captain is a tough number. But lads had cards sorted for him.
It was funny to hear him calling out the usernames in a public forum , sounding them off as the names were totally natural - anyone listening in would think we were mental patients out for the weekend. "Spacecoyote",
Some impressive scores in - and 1 over 40 is remarkably good in the conditions.
Besides the banter, the one thing I missed from the Boards outings were the crazy drives (car type) , down roads you have never been. Seeing parts of Ireland you never see (Nurney, The Curragh) . It has been some journey that the society has been on. The distance traveled to hit a little white ball (with strangers) is remarkable.
Hopefully I catch a few more this year. Well done to Benny and the society / committee for a great event.
After 8 hours on the road you hit home , at times you think that seems crazy for a game of golf. But there is just some X factor in the society. It is hard to put your finger on it.
Thanks again. Great day out.0 -
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Glad you enjoyed it Fix! 16 is one of the hardest index 1's I've ever played.. but I parred it today!
one of us should have pared it easy - 3 great drives into dip.
We didn't get the dip and it is a green you need to have played.
In summer can you get to the top level above dip (after dip)0 -
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Good day out today again with Boards. Played with Roadrunner & Golfhead, 2 solid golfers.
Put their games together and you'd probably have a perfect golfer. Roadrunner a fantastic driver & iron player, Golfhead with a fantastic short game & a serious putter.
Had a mixed bag myself. Had 2 birds in a row, par 5 5th, followed by the par 3 6th & had a great shout at a bird on the index 1 too, hitting a perfect 2nd from a tricky downhill lie.
Mixed that up with a few fat irons. Short game was way off, but putted fairly solidly.
Finished with 33 points off 10 on the day. Left a fair few points out there.
Great to see a few new faces & catch up again with a few old ones too (though if I see any more of Fix I think he'll start haunting my dreams)
See you all at the European, where I'm guessing 41 won't be the winning score
Great work again Captain.0 -
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spacecoyote wrote: »
Great to see a few new faces & catch up again with a few old ones too (though if I see any more of Fix I think he'll start haunting my dreams)
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Not sure how to take this :P:D0 -
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Lots of rain fell the night before. Greens were very soft. Pitchmarks were very deep, plugging on the green in some cases. Most courses in the country would have been closed.
Had some issues with the flagpoles in the wind. The flags were laying over on their side. This cost me a chip-in on the first, grumble grumble...
Layout of the course was lovely, it's a special piece of land, and you never feel squashed.
Company was super with spacecoyote and golfhead. As it happens, I had traveled to st andrews recently with space (got stuck beside him and fixed for 5 hours on the runway before the plane took off!) and played some golf with him over there, so after this additional round space is now starting to feel like a good buddy
Golfhead has something I don't. An excellent memory of events, things, stories and people. He strikes up a conversation with everyone, and always make a connection, knows their mother/brother/sister or dog! I really enjoyed my round with both.
In the rain we started solidly. I felt I was doing okay. I suppose Golfhead probably took a few holes to get going.
I've recently been getting serious sh**ks though, these struck early in the round and upset me thereafter.
I had a bad day on the greens, particularly short putts. They were extremely soft with the overnight rain and some were damaged by the flags blowing over they kind of moved the ball their own way. I'd come back to athy again as I know we were even lucky to get out in those conditions.
My partners played some good golf in the middle of the round when I started fading. Space hit two birdies in a row but Golfhead was able to continue playing well right up until the end which ensure he had the best score out of us. He's got a great shortgame and is bang on with his driving iron. With a fighting spirit he Will be a real asset to boards when he gets on the Ryder jug team at the end of the year.
Quick shout out to the captain who was all over this one. He was right about the weather too, it turned nice in the end for our last 12/13 holes after the initial rain. The turnout on the day for such conditions was excellent, well done everyone for making it a good outing. Looking forward to next one.0 -
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