Well I was garbage. Whole round was good shot followed by a bad one. First tee shot yesterday.. Picture the scene if you will. We had to start on the 10th. Right Infront of the balcony of the bar of the club house. We were going off on artificial tee boxes which were on the white tees. So had to hit over an ornate pond with Cotswold stone brickwork. On the opposite side of the pond. Stood there felt confident hit a low driller hit the Cotswold stone wall round the pond my ball ricochet off the wall and nearly hit a bloke putting on the 18th green. The rest of the round went much the same way.
Did it get past the womens tee or was it a cock out scenario? I played ok yesterday all things considered. We just got beaten by a better pair. The first set the scene, all of us on in regulation with me closest, pin high ten feet from the hole. One of their lads sinks a twenty foot birdie putt and mine missed so we're one down straight off. Their best player was off 4 and the other off ten, my mate who's off nine and meant to be the steady one didn't play well and I played like someone who hadn't swung a club in three weeks, hot and cold. Drove well, just hit three really fat bread and butter approaches which came up short of the green and ultimately cost us winning the hole. They were too good to allow that sort of stuff to happen. We only won one hole, the 12th, and I put my tee shot out of bounds on 13 to give it straight back.
In total distance toward from the tee it was probably 20 yards. As was on the 18th green. The shame of walking to the 18th to pick up your ball was horrible. Set the tone. I'm going to the driving range tonight. One of the local pro's runs a clinic on Monday. Group lesson for an hour, unlimited balls and he works on whatever you want all for £5. I'd spend that on balls so may as well have him have a butchers. I think my issue at the moment is there is no consistency to my stance and set up position. As I am still topping balls one min from being too far away. Then next shot I counter it then hit them fat. Fed up. Just want to get some consistency back. Which is difficult when not playing regularly.
This is the problem, and you certainly won't over winter. Use winter as practice and then start to take it seriously again when Spring comes. Especially given we're meant to have a really ****e winter. I've already resigned myself to it.
Will have to see re Celtic manor on the 11th. I don't mind it being cold. But cold wet and windy I don't like. Problem being if we play there we could do with booking soon ish as the tee times get taken quite far in advance.
I've got my county card in the car, we could try somewhere else that doesn't need to be booked. I'll borrow another and then wherever will be be cheap anyway. Thinking Rolls of Monmouth or the Monmouthsire, both near Abergavenny which is closer than Celtic manor for you ayway.
Yeah Monmouth would be good. Was going to play today but can't be arsed. Feel a bit achey after last night on the range.
Well there's Monmouth GC, which prides itself on being 'pretty' (!), or there's the Monmouthshire. The Rolls doesn't take county cards.
I can get county cards, it would be half whatever the mid week price is. The Monmouthshire is very nice. Monmouth is a bit tin pot.
I am happy playing anywhere really. Will have to keep our eye on the weather 5 days in advance if it looks good we play Celtic if we can't get the tee time we want we play elsewhere.
Went to my group lesson last night. The guy really annoyed me. He showed putting and bunker shots last night. In itself not a bad thing. As he changed my grip for putting which felt weird but good. Called the reverse overlap. Then he did a demonstration of a bunker shot. Again fine. No issue discussing and having a demo. What I took issue with was he then said to and practice. We were on a driving range ffs. As to the bunker shots well that was pure ridiculous as how can you practice on a range trying to hit 1 inch behind the ball on a ****ing mat. Bearing in mind hitting ground before ball is exactly the reason that causes my bad shot. So by the time I came to hit some normal shots I couldn't hit the ****ing ball. Anyway, got myself sorted in the end, he says my back swing is coming back to the right position now, and what's causing my bad shot is I'm all arms on the downswing and it should be the hips turning away pulling the arms through the swing. I felt like smashing my clubs round someone's head last night.
Got an opportunity for a bit of practice this week. Am doing a night shift of sorts tomorrow but am hoping to be done by about one am so will spend a bit of range time the following afternoon all being well. Am seething at the lack of golf opportunities so the ball is rolling on joining Pennard. Need to clarify a few things and my membership where I am doesn't expire till July so plenty time. May yet plump for Clyne but Pennard is favourite. Experience tells me that after an Armageddon style three day deluge the course is playable within an hour or so of it stopping and that's what I'm after, not the yearly shambles I currently have. Great course for nine months of the year, partially waterlogged for the other three and I wouldn't mind if I saw some effort to do something about it but they do **** all. I've got a two day pass this coming weekend but as rain is forecast on Friday I know there will be some closed holes, I can't be having that. You'll get to play them all in May, possibly Langland too, so you'll see what the options are. Annoying though, I just can't get any semblance of a run together to sort my form out.
Yeah that would piss me off. Main reason I'm joining my course is that it's a bit like a Heath land course. The soil is very peaty. It's high up so Drains really well. Never closes. Though assume if it's under snow it might well do. I really liked Clyne. The course is great, the club house was funny and all the members were friendly. Pennard and Langland look really good. Only thing I can imagine being annoying about pennard would be all the tourist traffic in the summer.
