Taking a week break and that lesson can't come quick enough.
This is my little corner of the internet to mostly detail my progress with my golf game. But Expect to see some other ramblings that I might feel like writing. :)
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Need to see a pro for a lesson
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Such a promising start...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Handicap blowout
And if I shoot another bad round it will be up at 17.
It's crappy but at least it will give me a good chance of placing well in future comps. :)
Monday, October 18, 2010
Club Open Competition
I can't blame the weather for my result. A combination of nerves, slick unreceptive greens, weather and truly terrible golf contributed.
I think the greens were just unfair and they received a lot of criticism from the players after Saturday. I hit one if my better 5-irons into a green and the ball pitched at the front before rolling (uphill) past the hole and into a bunker. The results spoke for themselves with just one person breaking par that day. The greens got plenty of water on the Sunday morning and they were much fairer then.
There were a host of new faces around with a lot of guns from other clubs competing. It was a bit intimidating on the range with most people striping baby draws into a stiff wind. One guy was in a bright blue outfit with a thick white belt - to wear a getup like that, you better have some serious game to back it up. I even saw guys on the Sunday walking around with their own caddies. Next time I'll ask if my brother would like to lug my bag around. :)
Back to back stroke games are tough and I'm mentally and physically spent. Looking forward to taking a few weeks off from the game to spend time with the family.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Club Open Competition
I've got a morning tee off on saturday and an afternoon tee time on Sunday. Looking at the fixtures there are quite a few players from other clubs who have entered too.
My game last week was a shocker where I only hit 2 fairways. I was fighting a massive hook all day. Hopefully some time on the range Saturday morning will sort that out. :)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Yay for long weekends.
35 stableford points and a decrease of my handicap to 14 made for a decent outing. I was pretty happy with the way I finished. Needing extra points to finish the 9 on handicap I closed with three 3's.
I'm looking at entering the Hartfield Open. A two day stroke event and hopefully my game is starting to come together.
Highlight of the day: pull hooking my drive on the 17th 20meters off target into thick bush. Finding my ball! Then punching out and making an up and down from 100m for par.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Shooting under my hc
Anyway from the screenshot below, you can see that I'm starting to run out of good rounds to use in hc calculation (they take your ten best from your last twenty rounds).
The last round I played was decent enough. My play with the woods was great but it was the iron play that stopped me having a great round. I finished the front 9 with 20 points but only managed 17 on the back.
Oh well, another week and another opportunity to have a good round.
Monday, September 06, 2010
A good score at last.
For some reason I was hitting my tee shots with too much of an "uppercut". I'll have to try and shallow out my swing for next week.
Laugh of the day goes to my dad who grinded down his SW to make it lighter. Thus removed the bounce from it and caused a few fluffs from the bunkers.
Also made my one birdie on a par 5 where my ball didn't get to touch the fairway. This is a bizarre game sometimes.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Untested tweaks?
So I'm coming back this week in the middle of the club championships where it's a stroke play event and the course is probably playing harder than usual... and after two weeks off. Can you say big numbers?
And to add a spanner in the works, I'm thinking of trying out a slight tweak to my takeaway with an earlier wrist cock to try and get more clubhead speed.
Aim for this weekend - shoot under 100 :)
Monday, June 21, 2010
Barnbougle Dunes
http://top100golf.blogspot.com/2010/05/barnbougle-dunes-golf-links.html
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Friday, June 18, 2010
US Open
on watching it. Apparently my wife has informed me that I will be
doing the graveyard shift with our 5 week old bub tonight. So with the
golf and the World Cup on tonight - is there any need to sleep tonight?
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Driving Range Beefcake
across a range of characters. One guy I came across yesterday I will
call "The Driving Range Beefcake". This is the guy that knows he can
hit the ball a long way and likes to 'flex' for others to see.
I don't try to listen to other people talk on the range but Beefcake
was talking loud enough for the people around to hear. Telling his
friend that he doesn't practice with his driver until he gets it right
(not sure how he will ever get it right if he doesn't practice with
it) and that he is happy to hit 2-iron off the tee all the time.
Friend then states that it'll be easier to hit driver and short irons
into the tee. Beefcake says that's not an issue because he hits 2-iron
250m and proceeds to tee it up. I'm not looking but I hear the swish
of a club and an ugly clunk sound, followed by laughter and his friend
saying "that was a pure shank dude".
As I pack up to leave I take another look and this guy is built like
some underworld hard man. He's swinging so hard that my back hurts
just looking at him. I have to say that he was making good contact
with the ball and that they were probably travelling about 200m. Who
knows if they were going straight.
I salute you Beefcake and your awesomeness. :)
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Another shocker
been struggling for the last couple of weeks with my game. Well it hit
a new low on Saturday with me shooting 9 points on the front. To add
insult to injury, I also put a ball in the lake and broke my 5-iron on
the front.
It's not often that I've felt like packing up and going home after 9
holes but that's how I've felt for the last two weeks. I have no idea
what's going to happen with each shot. I hit several worm burners and
I also hit several fat pork chop divots. High slices and duck hooks
with the driver also thrown in for good measure. My swing feels very
tired and weak.
Not knowing why you're playing badly can be really fustrating. So I
headed out to the range on Monday to try and get in the groove again,
and apart from a few bad shots most of them were ok. I hope that my
game holds up this weekend.
The 5-iron is currently being repaired. It must have rusted slightly
inside the handle (or maybe I've just abused it too much) but it broke
on my downswing. Lucky it happened inside the grip which held it
together and didn't result in a flying rod.
I did flirt with the idea of getting a new set of Mizunos or Titleist
irons but it's probably not a good idea with a baby due in the next
week. :)
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Monday, April 12, 2010
FIGJAM
was awesome. The sound of club and ball was like a whip being cracked.
Why can't I get a sound like that?
It's probably why I hit 6-iron 140m and Phil hits it 190m.
Great tournament overall an it's too bad KJ Choi couldn't make more of
a charge. I've got his signature on a hat of mine and was looking
forward to it's value going up. :)
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Monday, March 29, 2010
So close...
Stableford was the game of the day and I had a pretty average start
with bogey, bogey, par, bogey. I thought it was going to be a bad day
out on the course but I then birdied the next hole and finished the
front nine at 2 over and 23 points.
The back nine was more of a struggle as I failed to keep up the
momentum and was forced to scramble a lot to score some points. I was
pretty happy at not wiping any holes and finished with 17 points.
40 points only got me tied for second place with five other guys and
that went down to fourth place on countback. It still got me a $30
voucher which is better than nothing.
I've also been hitting my long irons pretty sweet and have been able
to hit the 170m par 3 green two weeks in a row now.
Handicap took a dive and I'm now off 12.7. It's probably a good time
to peak before the birth of our first baby as I might be away from
golf for awhile. :(
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Found my swing again
Not sure what was wrong but I felt very disconnected from my swing. Made a few tweaks on the back 9 and I then started to hit them straight (and long) again. Managed to make 4 pars in 5 holes and things were looking good.
I was tied with my dad on the last hole (a par 5) and only had 100m to hit the green on my third shot. I proceed to hit the fattest shot ever which didn't make the green and I finished that hole with a 7. Call me Greg.
Highlight: Making birdie on the 200m par 3
Lowlight: Driving my ball OB on the next hole
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Alex Miceli Rips into Tiger
Alex Miceli Calls Tiger Gutless from Stephanie Wei on Vimeo.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Bandit?
who played two over off the stick. Who knows if this bloke is a bandit
or just a guy who had a really good day.
I should really give him the benefit of the doubt, but having recently
played with a genuine low handicapper who was initially given a high
handicap makes me a bit sus.
Perhaps the club handicapper has changed to the bloke who started me
off on 11.
Grrrrr!
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Sunday, February 07, 2010
Driver troubles and early starts
lunch. I finished 18 by 11:00 and was home 20 mins after that. I do
love being a member at Hartfield - online bookings for tee times and
course marshals to keep up the pace of play is awesome.
As for my actual game, it was terrible. My handicap recently went down
to 13 despite some patchy play. I think my scrambling is what kept me
from blowing out. But yesterday couldn't be saved. Started off pretty
well with a front 41 off the stick. I then 3 putted the 10th and
scored a triple on the 11th. It was hard to get the momentum back (I
think I'm a streaky player) and I finished with 88 / 75 net.
With birthdays and birth classes for the rest of this month stopping
me from playing comps, i've got plenty of time to work at the range.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Go Geoff!
notches up a win to start off the season with his new Titleist sticks.
One behind sabatini who is currently 10 under for the day... Crazy!
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
One of those days ...
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Stroke play stress.
of comp. It can get quite stressful when every single shot counts.
Normally it doesn't bother me too much but I was especially nervous
today. I had just gone down a shot in my handicap to 13 and was
feeling like I had to play one shot better than last week to contend
again.
It went fairly well for the first 5 holes but then I shot a triple
bogey. And that just did my head in for the front nine. Another triple
on the back and my energy was gone. I felt tired and couldn't wait to
finish the round.
Oh well, my handicap should go up by one so that gives me an extra
buffer for next week. :)
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