Golf Thread

BELFAST_BLUE_BOY said:
good advice, cheers ..... I am playing tomorrow, fuck it. Played today and won our 4 ball and was hitting it 30 yards further and even drawing it on a few holes....putting is still shite mind you......when I tee up on 1st tomorrow at Club Championship I will say I am playing with a Dunlop 65 with blue dots.....just to see the the reaction!
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Good luck to you, Blue.
Play your best. Hope you shoot low.
 
lefty goldblatt said:
But again, Club Championships tend to be off scratch, i.e. no handicaps involved (unless the club involved is offering a nett prize, but that is just a low value... in my club's case.... thanks for your efforts, prize).

I'd like to think I'm far from an arsehole, worse even, a golf club arsehole, but, elitism should be for ONE COMPETITION per club's year, and one competition only. It's my club's Championship, this weekend. I CAN enter. I'M GOING NOWHERE NEAR IT.

Looking at a few entries ago, I'm horrified, particularly at the story of the low man literally snubbing his playing partner, by saying don't expect me to look for your ball. That's despicable. You have a duty as a golfer to assist your playing partner/opponent.

Re the incident I mentioned in my post at 7:36 pm, and my playing partners that day. I know them both very well. The +2er is THE club legend (of it's 120 year history, CC at least 15 times) and the 1 h/cpr is in my group of golfing friends (a rag, but let's not hold that against him), and the LAST thing they'd ever say, would be something as crass as what was previously mentioned. In fact, you'd get in the bar, and they'd give you a few hints as to where faults were.
I've been a member of my club for 40 years, and the only snobs I've encountered, are the social climbing ones. Let THE BEST have a competition, unhindered. Like I say, I CAN play in it. I WON'T, though
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They shouldn't let leftys in anyway, cack handed cunts ;-)
 
Gaylord du Bois said:
Bullshit.
If a club doesn't draw it HC order, then that's to the detriment of its own membership and it's blue ribbon event.
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Woooooosh
It IS a blue ribbon event. That's the whole point.
It's OUR Club Championship on Sunday, that's the way MY club championship is run. Maybe Belfast's is run differently. I think you'll find that most CC's are scratch events, that are (99.999% of the time) , won by low single figure h/cappers.
Let the elite have their own day. As a single figure h/capper myself, I'll not hinder them.

Again, good luck, Belfast.
 
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I always thought the mens club championship could only be played by men not kids !

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Dane Court student youngest ever winner of North Foreland Club championship

Teenage sensation Jack Swift wrote himself into the North Foreland record books as he stormed to the Club Championship title – at the age of just 13. Jack, who captains his county at under-14 level…
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Played Day 1 of club championship, had 20 people watching me tee off as start delayed - had a crap start duffed tee shot! But improved and a better second 9 - 82 net.....so middle of table at minute (like Everton). The two seasoned members who played me were top men, encouraged me and as I was driving ball as long as them or further said I would be off 10 or 12 very soon.....(short game let me done today!! ) .....I enjoyed my 2nd ever comp and playing day 2 tomorrow, I will improve....Had a few beers after and feedback from other players all very positive. Glad I played today as course set up very hard.
 
BELFAST_BLUE_BOY said:
Played Day 1 of club championship, had 20 people watching me tee off as start delayed - had a crap start duffed tee shot! But improved and a better second 9 - 82 net.....so middle of table at minute (like Everton). The two seasoned members who played me were top men, encouraged me and as I was driving ball as long as them or further said I would be off 10 or 12 very soon.....(short game let me done today!! ) .....I enjoyed my 2nd ever comp and playing day 2 tomorrow, I will improve....Had a few beers after and feedback from other players all very positive. Glad I played today as course set up very hard.
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There you go. You’ve had a great day. Up The Blues
 
BELFAST_BLUE_BOY said:
Played Day 1 of club championship, had 20 people watching me tee off as start delayed - had a crap start duffed tee shot! But improved and a better second 9 - 82 net.....so middle of table at minute (like Everton). The two seasoned members who played me were top men, encouraged me and as I was driving ball as long as them or further said I would be off 10 or 12 very soon.....(short game let me done today!! ) .....I enjoyed my 2nd ever comp and playing day 2 tomorrow, I will improve....Had a few beers after and feedback from other players all very positive. Glad I played today as course set up very hard.
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Everyone duffs a tee shot in front of a crowd at some point, even the pros. Its a rite of passage, dont worry about it.
Glad you rallied and had a good day.
Good luck tomorrow
 
SWP's back said:
Exactly, some of the best 7 irons I’ve ever hit have been from behind the ladies having hit my drive 25 yards off the men’s tee.
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Although I’m some way off the handicap of the better players on here I am getting more consistency in my game and confidence which means I’m less worried if I top a tee shot a short distance as I know I’ve got a decent recovery shot to follow if needed.

I was fitted for a ping G425 max driver a while ago and the weight was set to adjust for my slice. Stupidly I told myself that if I had it set this way then I’d never learn to drive straight and so I played several rounds with the weight central, driving pretty terribly including frequent shanks. I bit the bullet last week and shifted the weight back to how it had been suggested for me. Instant and very gratifying results. Don’t know now why I couldn’t have left it as it was in the first place
 
journolud said:
Although I’m some way off the handicap of the better players on here I am getting more consistency in my game and confidence which means I’m less worried if I top a tee shot a short distance as I know I’ve got a decent recovery shot to follow if needed.

I was fitted for a ping G425 max driver a while ago and the weight was set to adjust for my slice. Stupidly I told myself that if I had it set this way then I’d never learn to drive straight and so I played several rounds with the weight central, driving pretty terribly including frequent shanks. I bit the bullet last week and shifted the weight back to how it had been suggested for me. Instant and very gratifying results. Don’t know now why I couldn’t have left it as it was in the first place
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ha I’ve done the same thing a few times with my previous driver but I bought the Sim2 Max just over a month ago and there’s no movable weight so it’s been taken out of my hands.

Best advice I was given that helped me rid myself of my slice was to imagine the driver being like a hammer throw and that “at the moment of impact, if you let go of the handle, your club should fly off into the air slightly to 10 o’clock (12 being directly in front and 9 being down the target line) as opposed to being thrown into the floor at 8 o’clock.”

This swing thought really helped me visualise hitting up on the ball with a slight in to out (rather than down on the ball out to in) and helped cure my slice. I’m now more inclined to hit a slight draw.

But you can’t beat practice, I make about 150-200 drives per week on the range in addition to 14 per round.

The other great piece of advice I use is to “play the swing you brought on to the course that day”. So if, for whatever reason, I end up hitting a functional fade with driver in any given round, I don’t try and correct things during the round, I just aim left edge of the fairway (as opposed to my usual right edge). If you try and start correcting things during a round then all sorts of shit can start happening.
 
hammocity said:
Are you a member of Doha GC? If so do you know Steve Kyi?
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I am a member yeah (for the next ten days) and just searched that surname in the member database (as it brings up pictures) but it didn’t come up with anything. Can’t say the name rings a bell mate.
 
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