3 Sticks What????

The club game of the day was 3 Sticks Golf. We can carry 3 clubs plus a putter and get to tee off from the forward tees. It was something different and I was looking forward to it. The clubs I decided to carry were:

• 3 Wood - Decent distance off the tees, and I get to use it on the par 5's. Also good for punching balls out of the rough


• 6 iron - Gives me better results than my 5 iron and I can always de-loft it for extra distance


• 8 iron - Probably too strong as my last club, but I felt more comfortable with this than a 9 or PW

I had a lackluster front 9 with a stableford score of 16. I thought the back 9 would be a struggle, but I turned my game around with 7 pars for a 21 on the back 9. My total was only good enough for 5th, but my score of 37 was the best I've ever shot in stableford.... and only with 4 clubs. Maybe I should leave the driver and half the set at home the next time I play.

It was great having to improvise on each hole and it has given me new confidence in playing different types of shots with my clubs.

I'm looking forward to my summer of golf. :)

Breezy!!!

It was the golf clubs annual Country Cup today and the game was stableford at Secret Harbour. It's a links style course next to the beach and littered with pot bunkers.

I've had a pretty crappy time with stableford games this year, not once have I shot over 30 points. But today was a nice change :)

I had a pretty solid game for most of the day, with a 17 on the front and a 16 on the back. The back 9 didn't end too well with me scratching the 16th and 17th holes. I think I would have finished 3rd for the day had I at least got a point on each of those holes. Once again my driving was pretty good. I only missed 2 fairways all day (not by much) and managed to unleash a (wind assisted) 300m drive.

A 33 point game isn't too impressive.... but we were playing in a 2 to 3 club wind. Strong enough to drown out someone talking to you.

On a side note... if you think driving into a tight fairway littered with pot bunkers and a strong crosswind is scary. Just take a whizz in snake infested bushland. Every shot after that will seem like a piece of cake. :)

An Extra 15 - 20 Meters!!

Nothing adds more distance to your drives, than a 4 putt on the previous hole.

On a related note... my usual golf club is having a demo day on the 15th. Very exciting stuff, but unfortunately I just found out that a buddy from my home group is having his bucks day then. :(
Hopefully there will be time during the day for me to hit the range for an hour or so to hit some new drivers.