Golf Thread

[crublue1]

Untwist your knickers, there's a good chap.
I've played with many players (hundreds of times) umpteen levels above my abilities, and likewise, below, and enjoyed them both. Snobbery comes nowhere near it. By all means, play competition golf with ALL levels of ability, each weekend, THAT'S how people learn off each other.

Untwist your knickers, there's a good chap.
I've played with many players (hundreds of times) umpteen levels above my abilities, and likewise, below, and enjoyed them both. Snobbery comes nowhere near it. By all means, play competition golf with ALL levels of ability, each weekend, THAT'S how people learn off each other. That's how I dropped from a 20 h/capper myself, to my lowest of 4.5

I've no idea of how Belfast Blue Boy's club operates it's CC, but, as I said before, IF its open to all, then he SHOULD play. If its heavily entered by low single figure h/clappers, then maybe just give this week a miss, and enjoy playing a sociable 4 ball, or, if his club is running one this weekend, an alternative competition.

To put it into context (again), I played in my club's Championship for about 20 years running. One year, playing off 7, I was DRAWN with a 1 h/cpr and a +2er. I probably shouldn't have played in it, as my form was poor, but I'm a competitive animal, so I played. Guess what!!! I played poorly. Hacked it, whilst my playing partners were "smoking it". I've never felt so embarrassed on a golf course. SHOULD Belfast Blue Boy's club offer a similar situation, I wouldn't want him to go through that. Golf's a hard enough game as it is.

My club's Championship is NOW only open to 9 and BELOW (over 36 holes in one day), where entrants go out in seeded order in the morning (highest first) , and then highest score downwards in the afternoon.

I guess we view the game differantly then, that's all.
I can honestly say i've never been embarrsssed on a golf course, despite having some horrendous rounds. I lost 13 balls one day, at that course in spain thats built on a mountainside. Cant remember the name of it now. Did I give a fuck? No, I was too busy having a laugh, getting a tan and having the craic with mates. The bad rounds just make the good rounds feel even sweeter.
He shouldn't cancel just because he thinks having a bad round may affect someone elses, life is too short for that shit.
Play as much as you can, when you can, because one day you wont be able to. X

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

don't get the emotional reaction to this.

If he's got the balls, he'll enter. If he finishes last, he'll either wimp out or man up and learn from it.

Up to him. Depends what kind of guy he is.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

My first club championship I was playing off 13 and drawn with a +2 and a 2 players. On the first tee before we teed off the 2 handicapper turned to me and said "if you go in the long stuff I ain't helping you look for it I ain't here for that shit" at that point I found myself getting really nervous and topped my tee shot about 60 yards, +2 handicapper comes over puts his arm around me and said "I'm here for the company, nice to meet you" made me relax no end. By the 10th I was having a decent round but the 2 handicapper had been in the long stuff 2 or 3 times and both the +2 and I had helped him look for his ball. On the 10th tee I sliced the hell out of it and put it right in the long stuff. Took a provisional and nailed it straight down the middle, the 2 handicapper says to me "no point in trying to find that" the +2 says "yes there is" and marched off into the long stuff with me following, I said to him "we ain't finding this" to which he replies "I know but the 5 mins we will take will really piss him off and I want to see him chuck his toys out of the pram"' we had been ambling about in the rough for a bit when the 2 handicapper shouts "You ain't finding it give up" to which the +2 shouts back "I am timing this are you?" "no" came the reply. We never found the ball and returned to the fairway where I proceeded to put my second shot to 6" from the hole. "for fucks sake" came out of the 2 handicappers mouth. he the proceeded to put his approach into the front bunker and raged "that's because I've cooled down from the waiting about". I putted out for a 5 the 2 handicapper left one in the bunker, the 3 putted and scored a 6. The biggest smile was on the face of the +2. At the end of the round I had shot an 80, 2 handicapper an 77 and +2 a 65. I shook hands with the +2 handicapper and went to shake hands with the 2 handicapper who did so begrudgingly saying to me "you ruined my round" to which the +2 handicapper responded "nope you never had a good round in you because your a ****". The +2 handicapper came 2nd in the championship and I apologised to him if I distracted him "no you didn't, playing with you made me relax and I've won it three times before anyway". I still tee off with the +2 handicapper now and again and the 2 handicapper has left the club.
What I took out of that experience was, club golfers with nothing to prove will help you out and relax you, and cunts will always be cunts.
I say tee off in your club champs and treat it like a day out with your mates and enjoy it, and hopefully you might find new playing partner or 2.

Exactly. If a guy playing shit puts you off your game then it says more about your mental fragility than anything else, a confident guy will keep enjoying his game and focus on him and a guy with a top level mentality will quietly go about taking advantage of it and using it as motivation.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

BUT THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.
The Club Championship IS the "fucking academy"
The other 51 weeks of the year, it isn't.

I've no idea of your footballing prowess, but would you enter a free kick competition with KDB, Yaya, Tevez, Ronaldo, Ward Prowse, etc....

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.

 

[BELFAST_BLUE_BOY]

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!

 

[crublue1]

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!

Good man.
Hope you play well, but more importantly, enjoy it.
Good luck fella

 

[sky tot]

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!

Good luck fella , let us know how you get on

 

[lefty goldblatt]

That’s entirely what the handicap system is for.

I’m very sad to say that it’s statements and feelings like the ones you’ve just espoused that make people think golf is a game for arseholes.*

*not saying you’re an arsehole. I’m sure you’re not. But it’s the petty elitism that I hate. I play every week with a couple of scratch golfers and one guy (QA Exec pilot) who’s off +3 and very luckily for me, they’re the exact opposite of that mindset. They couldn’t be more welcoming.

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

 

[toolah1511]

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.

At my club it is drawn in handicap order and a start sheet placed on the board with a reserve list. When people withdraw the first reserve (the lowest handicap on the reserve list) gets the withdrawn persons place. That is how you can end up with high(ish) handicappers being paired with low handicappers.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

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!

I'm playing at the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, tomorrow, in a 4bb open.
Enjoy your mate. Let us know how you get on.