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Farewell to the man with the largest bladder in golf:
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McGinley rabbiting on about how good Rory's tee shot at 17th was.
Radar: "This is like putting down a cliff face"...
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Just now, peasy23 said:
Scheffler tears.
I can't believe that's not available in meme form yet...
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Just now, printer said:
Where did you play? I was at Schawpark.
Tulliallan - been a member there since 1979.
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Just now, printer said:
I only got one other game.
There wasn't exactly a deep pool of talent when I was eligible...
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I got beat 9&8 on my debut for Clackmannanshire Boys vs Stirlingshire Boys at Dunblane, but I reckon I played far better than Brooks did there.
Expecting the call from LIV imminently...
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Back to back birdies from Syme to repair some of the damage, and with some others dropping away, if he can get to maybe -15 or -16 by the end of the day he'll still pocket a very tasty cheque and pretty much confirm his place in the Race To Dubai finals.
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51 minutes ago, Distant Doonhamer said:
Aye Syme on a very good run of form. Out in the final group with Aberg and Fitzpatrick for round 4.
Tommy's coming round your house to turn your lawn into divots for mixing him up with either of the Fitzy boys...
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I'm clearly going to have to eat some serious humble pie over Connor Syme's "difficulties" with Moving Saturday - another cracking round today, just a wee bit of a shame he's a combined +1 for the week on 17 & 18.
Aberg really looks the real deal. I'm trying to work out how many shots he could hit while the likes of Bryan Harmon freezes over the ball - I reckon at least 5.
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15 hours ago, pozbaird said:
Turned around the trees to approach Deer Park’s Par 3 4th hole and their were 11 guys on the tee. A fourball teeing off, the fourball in front of us waiting, and our threeball who putted out on the 3rd and walked over to join them. One of our fourball hadn’t racked up at all so we got sent out amongst all the fourballs as a three. Eleven guys on one tee. Thing is, I never knew it was fourball strokeplay. My mate is a member at Deer Park and phoned me two nights before it to say there was a cancellation at his 10.36 tee time and I could jump online and get it. I wasn’t meant to be playing, it was a last minute thing. I rolled up not knowing.
I've played club golf for the best part of 45 years, and I've never even heard of singles strokeplay competitions being played in fourballs before this.
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23 minutes ago, Florentine_Pogen said:
Since he split with Bo ?
Pretty much.
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32 minutes ago, doulikefish said:
Lowry has been off the pace for months
Lowry will probably get a pick, but I'd agree with that. He hasn't really looked interested for a while, either.
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On 15/07/2023 at 09:47, funky_nomad said:
Connor Syme hates Saturdays. Every time he's remotely in contention for a good weekend following the cut, he plummets down the leaderboard.
I take it all back.
Solid performance today, and he's out in the final group with Fitzpatrick (M) tomorrow. A similar number tomorrow also helps Boab's chances for an automatic Ryder Cup slot.
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Been home a couple of days recovering after my HIPEC/hot chemo op in Basingstoke earlier this month.
Surgeons are happy with the op - they didn't find any more cancer while they were rummaging around, and they whipped out my appendix while they were in there.
Thank f*ck for the epidural, though - I can't begin to imagine what the pain would have been like without it, and coming off it onto paracetamol/morphine was a nightmare couple of days...
Signed off work until the end of September, can't wait to show my colleagues my lovely 10-inch abdominal scar...
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11 hours ago, Disco Duck said:
I seem to have developed a bad case of…erm…”hozel-adjacent” shots, particularly mid- or short-irons off the fairway. It’s bloody irritating and is really starting to mess with my head.
Help!
I get that from time to time.
Most doses of the shanks for club players come from dropping the hands at address which changes the swing plane so that the neck of the club gets to the ball a fraction ahead of the face. Try lifting your hands at address and chances are the swing plane will correct itself pretty much right away - you might want to over-exaggerate the lifting movement the first few times to train your brain, though!
(My record is 5 consecutive shanks on the same hole - I started on the left of the fairway, wedge in hand, eyeing up birdie and slowly worked my way around the green anti-clockwise. A solid 8 in the end! Thankfully it was winter so I could blame playing off mats...
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Good luck!
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3 hours ago, keyser_soze said:
Sorely tempted to upgrade my irons, currently using a 3-PW set of Lynx #BB tour but have had them for 4 years now so grips are getting towards the end of their life. Saw a Set of Callaway Rouge ST Pro (3-PW) but slightly put off by the 2nd hand price of £630, also playing really well with my current irons so seems daft to splash the cash, especially at the tail end of the season.
Heart says buy them, you never know when another set like this will be available, head says I'll get at least 1 more year from my current set
New set of grips, new lease of life. No brainer when the current clubs are getting the job done.
PS, always enjoy Balbirnie, seems to suit my eye (apart from the last, which gets me every feckin' time...
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Played my last medal of the season this morning. Full of good thoughts on the first tee, smacked a 3 wood straight down the middle - then promptly shanked a 7-iron into trees en route to a tap-in triple bogey.
Four more doubles followed, easiest nett 79 I've had in a while. Finished the season with a nice birdie though, so it's all good...
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On 31/07/2023 at 13:02, Burnside91 said:
Thanks, thats some great info. I am looking forward to it as i just dont get to play enough links golf.
issue being the natural shape for me is a cut. could be some 3 woods and 3 irons off the tee. Thanks again
Good news!
I was playing on a team match tonight and my opponent had played Leven a couple of weeks ago and said it was in great condition - he had also played it last year when it was looking quite sorry, but reckoned it was now back to its best. Enjoy!
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I seem to have lost the ability to recover from a bad shot to limit the damage to making bogey at worst of late - 2 counting rounds Saturday with a total of 4 doubles, 3 triples and a horrendous 9 on a par 4 (with no penalty shots and a meltdown on the green).
From a position of relative strength a couple of weeks ago with several free hits and what seemed a realistic proposition of getting down to 4 for the first time in about 35 years, I've burned through 5 rounds and now have only 2 free hits left. I think my tenure playing off 5 may be pretty short-lived...
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4 hours ago, Burnside91 said:
Got a time for the leven links open comp on the 12/08- never played it before, anyone been round it ? heard good things
Some excellent holes (the 18th in particular is a cracking finishing hole, and a potential score-wrecker) but over the past couple of years it has started to look a bit rough around the edges - they had some significant issues with a load of bunker faces collapsing and there are loads of patches where the edge of the first cut goes from zero grass to hairy with nothing in between, leading to some very poor lies. I heard that the irrigation system hadn't worked properly for some time, and this was backed up with seeing a greenkeeper out with a bowser and a length of hose to water some greens at 9pm one evening last summer. The recent patch of damp weather will probably have helped reduce the impact of the patchy fairways, tbh.
Top tip: most of the major trouble is right off the tee, and there's generally LOADS of space left (the odd patch of gorse aside), so get the draw working and you should be okay - I've even seen some members aiming 2 fairways left off the 1st tee to get a better look at the green.
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1 hour ago, bobbydazzler said:
Problem with Wellsgreen is I personally find Donald a bit arsey
Is Scott Rose still at Wellsgreen? He fitted me for the full bag there a couple of years ago and was really good. It's a nice set-up there.
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Blew a golden opportunity to get down to 4 this evening - was on a free hit and sitting +4 after 14 holes, hitting it nicely and needing +2 at worst for the last 5 holes for a cut.
Then my arse collapsed out of nowhere and I dropped 7 shots in 3 holes. Just about held on to shoot +13. What a fud...
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2 hours ago, lichtie23 said:
Iv never knowingly cheated at golf. Iv no doubt broke a few rules without realising regarding tapping down spike marks, playing out of turn or grounding my club accidentally in the sand. Even something as trivial as not announcing your ball is provisional even though you both seen it fly 50 yards OB
Not one of those supposed infarctions is a breach of the current rules of golf, btw. Carry on!
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1 hour ago, VictorOnopko said:
This might have been done to death before but isn't one of the problems that back in the day matchplay ties were 80% of the handicap difference then that got changed to full difference? That really skewed things in favour of 18-20+ handicappers. Pretty sure scramble team limits used to be lower too (although that's maybe not the biggest issue with winning scramble scores!)
The changes to the handicapping system (both the move to automatic 0.1 increases outside buffer zone and the implementation of WHS) were in part designed to make handicaps more realistic and do away with the need for adjustments for singles matchplay competitions (the first for local competition, and the WHS to eradicate degrees of difficulty between courses).
I'd also suggest that, while the odd game may be skewed to those with higher handicaps, over the piece lower handicaps still come out of it pretty well - I'd reckon that the majority of singles matchplay comps are mainly won by those in the 5-12 handicap bracket as there's a level of consistency there and scratch golfers prefer to play off bare feet and don't enter matchplay comps with stroke allowances as much as the rest of us (possibly due to things like scratch leagues, etc, taking up their non-Medal time).
It's not a perfect system, but if I play (approximately) to my handicap and lose, then fair f*cks and good luck to my opponent in the next round.
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Having Full Member status is a bit of a catch-all phrase, though, as there are umpteen "Exemption Categories" that players fit into.
It'll all depend on where the new "PGA failure" category gets placed - if it's above the current Category 10 (previous year's DP Tour Top 115 or whatever) there will undoubtedly be a bit of a stramash, but if it gets slotted in somewhere behind Category 14 (previous year's Top 20 on Challenge Tour), I can't see much of an issue.
As it happens, there's currently no Category 15, so that might be the solution right there...
https://www.europeantour.com/dpworld-tour/players/exemption-categories/