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How should a Matchplay draw be made?
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Savage stuff Seve, Congrats! Try give some of the rest of us a chance to get a few points on Saturday now will ya please!
Odds on to get about 25 points next Saturday! I did ok today, all week obviously. Never shot the lights out, no real poor rounds all into the 30's and the few good scores, 37, 38 would have included a lot of decent gimmes! So solid stuff all round, inside the buffer but there will be no cuts.
In fairness, this is not the main club matchplay, that's only for full embers. It's a new thing to get the 5day members involved alongside the full members, and is a tough week long event. Being run over a week, playing every day and winning through is great, and was bloody tough, but I am well aware there were plenty of the clubs best golfers not able to commit to such a week.
I am still the Champion though
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7 games in 9 days. I'm knackered, but quite obviously delighted, not that it shows, but I am
Fair play Seve, delighted you won!! Don't sell yourself short, by the sounds of things there was a very high calibre in it and you won it out... Lovely silverware to have with your name on it. You'll be surprised too might open other opportunities for inter club comps next year. Again fair play, delighted you won it out! How much Jaegermeister does it hold?? You can put the red bull in the lid of it!0 -
won't get it for a few months! have to wait till a presentation night
couldn't play interclub matches, i'm only a 5 day and it's not my main club. i am going to get into it though with Greystones next year where I am a full member. (Paul Dunne will be proud of me
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Didn't want to start a new thread so i'll just ask it here.
Is it tradition in all clubs that the losing matchplay player writes the name of the winner on the sheet for the next round?
I thought that was the tradition always. if I lose a match, I'd always write the name and if it's a mate of mine that beat me, I'd write something amusing beside it
If I won the match, I'd give the losing player the opportunity to write it up, but if they hadn't written it up or made a commitment to me that they were going to write it up, I'd write it up myself before leaving the club0 -
Didn't renew my membership last year in Castleknock so I wasn't in the comp but I'm back this year to give it another go. Qualifier for this was on Sunday gone and the club are making a big deal out of it this year bringing in MSL as a main sponsor so plenty of nice new shiny cars around the place on show.
I played really well on Sunday for the front 9 but fell off the boil after that, but still managed a solid 36 points to get me a bye through the first round and straight into Wednesday and the last 16. Then my opposition pulls out late Tusday so I get a walkover and into the quarter finals tonight. Tee off is 5pm and I'm up against the fella I beat in the final 2 years ago.... I think!!! weird because at first I was up against the other fella and then the names were changed this morning so I'm not sure what happened there (I'll find out later on)
I played 9 holes last night, was pretty poor, shot 15 points and will need better than that tonight I'm sure.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to putting up a defense of sorts and trying to get the trophy back, but I would have rathered not getting a free pass through the first 2 rounds
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fred funk }{ wrote: »Great stuff Seve. Where's the synopsis?
Will report tomorrow man..... I'm in the middle of getting drunk now 0 -
Well I started by skuttering a ball off the 1st, it barely went 100 yards, followed by a ball in the water, a drop then over the back so I had to chip in for a 5. He had a 20 footer for a par 4. I hit the pin but it stayed up, so 1 down. I got fortunate on the 2nd as he lost a ball off the tee so I won with a 6 to his 8. A nice up and down from the sand on the 3rd saw me go 1 up and quickly followed by a nice regulation par on the 4th as he had sand trouble, 2 up. A pair of pars halve the 5th.
He finds water with his tee shot on the 6th, but safe play gets me nowhere and I find sand with my second 80 yards out but I take it to clean and go over the back. He duffs a chip shot so I'm looking good.........till I can't find my ball, there is water over the back but also a lot of poxy rough and I can't say for sure my ball went in the drink so I have to go back to the sand which costs me the hole and I loose out to his 7 as I get an 8. Of course standing on the next tee.......I spot my ball just sitting in the rough beside tee box, I was sick. It must have taken a deflection off either the path or there is a big man hole where I figured it landed. Anyway, I hit an ok tee shot on the par 3 7th but a great chip to 12 inches. He is in water off the tee again and despite his best efforts can't get down for 5! 
Holes 8,9&10 are halved as he finds his game and he kicks on to win 11th so only 1 in it now. On the 12th the match is ignited as he belts one down the middle and a snap hook from me is a lost ball. My Provo is a good one, safe line out on the other fairway, he goes in the greenside bunker and I hit a cracker to about 18 foot. His bunker shot it to big and goes through the green which he follows up with a poor chip to about 15 foot short. So we are both going for 5 and I drain it, he misses and is not happy about it and he lets the green know:mad:. A safe iron off the tee for me on the short 13th leaves me with a wedge in and I nail it. He finds sand and again goes over the back chips it to about 3 foot. I normally would have given it, but this guy has made me putt everything all day so I say nothing. I roll up to about 10 inches and mark up as he drains his 5. I don't miss.
The 14th is index 1 and the only shot between us and its for me. A pretty good feeling strike is trouble though as with a low rising sun I see none of it. He reckons I'm heading for the bunker on the right and he hits a safe one down just short of it. I hit a sweet Provo down the centre in case I can't find my ball. No sign of it down the right, but what is that way over there on the left, oh it's my ball:eek: a layup and a nice chip to 15 foot. He is on the back of the green in 3 and I can't remember if he putts or chips, but he gets it to about 4 foot with a good shot. I just roll past sniffing the edge but it was downhill and it keeps rolling..... firm and hard at the back of the cup gets me my 5 and we are dormie. So I've 4 holes to get a half, so play sensible and hit 3 wood down centre of the 15th and a good shot in to about 20 foot. His drive is 50 yards closer and a great approach shot looks all over it till we get up close and realise his ball kept rolling and he is away. A great putt nearly goes in and I concede the tap in from 18 inches. I roll one up and he shakes my hand.
It was nowhere near as competitive this year as it was first time around and not enough people in it, I think only 24 in it. I played a qualifier and 3 matches. Last time it was a qualifier and 5 matches. The final was possibly the toughest game I faced as he was a good golfer who hit it a long way. His bunker play let him down and it was probably the only difference between us, in fact when I think of it, poor bunker shots cost him 4 maybe 5 holes. Still, I had to beat what was put in front of me and I did
Champion again0 -
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