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The Ryder Jug 2019 - Tulfarris Golf Club 26th Oct

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  • #52
    spacecoyote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    RoadRunner wrote: »
    I was a captain's pick. While I have good track record in fourball matchplay, was playing good stuff and had been playing more golf then ever before, you do still look around the putting green before tee off and see 20 other players who made their way there legitimately and due to great play over the course of a full year, rather then rely on a captains pick!

    Myself and bigchap went out in first group.

    I play regularly with bigchap. We have a long time understanding of each others' game. We both know where the other is strong and where the other can be weak. Among the times we've played fourball in the past we've ended up beating entire fields with perhaps 40-50 teams. Any gaps in our game are covered well by the other person -I knew we'd be a formidable team. Our opponents were a low hc (6) and a high hc (23). The high guy normally takes a buggy, but due to the soft conditions wasn't permitted to take one out on the day, so right off the bat they would have their work cut out for them.

    First tee. Pulled drive short into bunker left. Yikes. Bad start, started worrying a bit for a few seconds. BOOM! (the sound of a 10.5° ping g400max hit out of the middle) Bigchap sent his drive right down centre fairway (kind of normal for him) I hit out of the bunker, and then sent in a very solid 50 wedge with a 15 footer chance for birdy. Turned this into a tap in par which was enough to win the hole.

    Made an up and down for par on 2nd to give bigchap a free putt for birdy which came close. Their high guy had a shot on 17 holes. This makes par three dangerous. He holed a slippery downhill-er from 5 feet for a half. This would be one of only two halves the entire day.

    3rd hole I carried the bunker leaving about what I thought was 9i distance in. After bigchap hit I could see his ball flight into the green seem to fight the wind a bit. I punched in an 8i low instead. Leading to a 10footer birdy attempt. Just shaved the edge for another tap in par and a win. The soft greens left options for playing the hole in different ways and knowledge the ball would stop quickly on the other side. We would end up halving the par threes on the front nine and winning all other 9 holes up until the 11th for a very early handshake.

    I can't go through each hole in detail while at work. But our opponents never got the pace of the greens. They were also very distant in handicapping that they weren't able to learn from each other on a new course. Something that I though myself and bigchap were able to do very well.

    I gotta mention I found a number of my own golf balls in positions that could have easily been lost balls and was able to convert them into either pars or bogey which in all cases which would lead to win holes. Also our opponents had a more then a few putts hit the other side of the hole and defy gravity somehow staying out. So we had a lot of luck. Still, it was great to be on the shiny side of a 9 & 7 win and get the very first point for the boards team on the day!

    Practically no weakness as a pairing for yourself & BigChap, except when you come up against a pairing like Space & Paulos ;):D

    Was chatting with your competition afterwards, and he was a bit taken aback. He's used to being the big hitter in whatever group he plays in, but didn't know what to do with himself when he was giving you both a couple of shots & finding himself shorter than both off the tee


  • #53
    RoadRunner
    Registered Users Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭RoadRunner


    spacecoyote wrote: »
    Practically no weakness as a pairing for yourself & BigChap, except when you come up against a pairing like Space & Paulos ;):D

    Ah here, you'd swear yis had never seen a fiver before the way yis started peppering the flags that time :rolleyes:
    spacecoyote wrote: »
    Was chatting with your competition afterwards, and he was a bit taken aback.

    Great player, consistent striker, just left a lot behind on the greens on the day.


  • #54
    pakman
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭pakman


    SEORG wrote: »
    I played with Pakman on Saturday in what turned out to be a very close match but played in the right spirit. Pakman played off 10 with their lads Edward & Brian off 10 & 15. The two lads were very nice fellas and got off to a fast start. We were 2 down through 2 before halving the third and winning the 4th giving shots. 2 down again playing the par 3 6th when Pakman holed a beautiful birdie putt from the front edge to give us some momentum. We turned all square with only one hole halved on the front 9.

    The back nine was less to and fro with the Reps lads going 1 up on the 11th when they holed a 20 footer. With their high man playing the better golf of the two we still had 3 holes left where he was getting shots but we won one against the head on 15 only to lose 16 to another long putt.

    So 1 down with 2 to play we were keeping an eye on the Whatsapp group . We won 17 and were in control in the last with both of them finding the water. They had an 12 footer left for a half when we saw that Benny & AlanM had wrapped up their match and the Jug was won. We conceeded the putt as our match was played in good spirit with good golf and it would have been harsh to lose on the 18th.

    Thanks to Pakman for the great company and guiding me around as I had never played Tulfarris before. I thought the course held up quite well considering the weather over the last week and especially the rain on Friday. Yes it was a bit sloppy in places but they were the places we were probably not supposed to be.

    Thanks to everyone I played with in the outings. Really enjoyed my first year in the society.

    I really enjoyed the round and the company was great throughout. Happy to have played alongside someone with the matchplay knowledge to know to give that last putt as it was very good natured game even though a win in my first ever matchplay would have been nice :p

    Joining the Boards was one of the highlights of the golfing year. Only pity I held off on it for so long.


  • #55
    gypsy79
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    pakman wrote: »
    I really enjoyed the round and the company was great throughout. Happy to have played alongside someone with the matchplay knowledge to know to give that last putt as it was very good natured game even though a win in my first ever matchplay would have been nice :p

    Joining the Boards was one of the highlights of the golfing year. Only pity I held off on it for so long.

    How many shots have you dropped this year to be off 10??


  • #56
    spacecoyote
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    gypsy79 wrote: »
    How many shots have you dropped this year to be off 10??

    Lowest player in each group dropped to 0 handicap & everyone else played off the difference.


  • #57
    pakman
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭pakman


    gypsy79 wrote: »
    How many shots have you dropped this year to be off 10??

    Yeah I am off 15 dropped to 10 because SEORG is off 5. So their team were actually 15 and 20 but they dropped 5 shots too to leave them on 10 and 15.


  • #58
    gypsy79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭gypsy79


    pakman wrote: »
    Yeah I am off 15 dropped to 10 because SEORG is off 5. So their team were actually 15 and 20 but they dropped 5 shots too to leave them on 10 and 15.

    You were off 19 when we played earlier in the year I think??


  • #59
    pakman
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭pakman


    gypsy79 wrote: »
    You were off 19 when we played earlier in the year I think??

    started the year at 21 ish and down 6 shots since May this year. All gone to pot again though. :(


  • #60
    SEORG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 813 ✭✭✭SEORG


    pakman wrote: »
    started the year at 21 ish and down 6 shots since May this year. All gone to pot again though. :(

    You played well on Saturday


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  • #61
    pakman
    Registered Users Posts: 300 ✭✭pakman


    SEORG wrote: »
    You played well on Saturday

    The Jug brought it out in me :)


  • #62
    HighLine
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    Golfgraffix wrote: »
    ....

    Lastly I hate to bring the mood down but we need to look at our pace of play. It took us 3 hours to play the front nine. I play a lot of golf and the only time I’ve ever seen anything close to this pace is in the boards events. I’m not pointing any fingers but there must be something we can do to speed it up a fraction.

    J

    I remember playing in a club competition back in 2017 at Wicklow GC immediately after the Boards.ie Society outing. The whole course was backed up for the day and resulted in many members walking in after 9, complaints, letters about societies out in front of members competitions etc.
    It turned out to be one of the longest rounds I have ever played at WGC.

    There is obviously a problem with pace of play but evidently it hasn't been addressed unfortunately.


  • #63
    spacecoyote
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    HighLine wrote: »
    I remember playing in a club competition back in 2017 at Wicklow GC immediately after the Boards.ie Society outing. The whole course was backed up for the day and resulted in many members walking in after 9, complaints, letters about societies out in front of members competitions etc.
    It turned out to be one of the longest rounds I have ever played at WGC.

    There is obviously a problem with pace of play but evidently it hasn't been addressed unfortunately.

    Without sounding like I'm repeating myself on this one, I'm pretty sure that day in Wicklow was again a 4-ball matchplay event, which is definitely going to be slower than standard 3-ball stableford comp.


  • #64
    HighLine
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    spacecoyote wrote: »
    Without sounding like I'm repeating myself on this one. That day in Wicklow was again a 4-ball matchplay event, which is definitely going to be slower than standard 3-ball stableford comp.

    All of our competitions are 4-balls. Anyway.. not sure looking for excuses is going to help fix the problem. Just my opinion of course.


  • #65
    Seve OB
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    In my recollection that day was frost delayed & we stood around for the best part of an hour before we were let out on the course. then when we were let out, we had to tee off the 5th or 6th hole (the one beside the clubhouse playing down toward the sea).

    TBH, I don't think that was a slow round compared to what it has been on occasion. And in fairness, the round last week was slow, but in general, boards outings are not as slow as they once were. sure most are slightly longer that you might expect a round should be on whatever courses we are playing, but people must realise that most of us are probably playing the course for the first time which will always result in slightly slower rounds.


  • #66
    Miley Byrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭Miley Byrne


    spacecoyote wrote: »
    Without sounding like I'm repeating myself on this one, I'm pretty sure that day in Wicklow was again a 4-ball matchplay event, which is definitely going to be slower than standard 3-ball stableford comp.

    I'm not sure why 4-ball matchplay should be any slower than a regular 4-ball in stableford comp. If anything it should be quicker. I've always found matchplay quicker anyway because all players won't always be holing out at every hole.


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  • #67
    gypsy79
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    But 5 hour rounds on Boards outings are commonplace

    I have been unlucky to be 5.5 hours which is insane

    I enjoy playing the new courses etc but it only takes one group to ruin pace of play


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