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Nice course Howlong (aside from the odd locust plague which we copped several years ago) ……… although I do hear they relaxed their standards a few years ago, and allowed the odd degenerate a membership.
I was only there for 2 years…. promise…. but then they let Barenski in, so yeah it’s still the same
Update time of sorts.
Playing as two’s these days, under strict lock-down, no comps, and a lot of social distancing ……. so I’ve not really noticed much difference from my usual routine, aside from saving $8 a round these days.
Officially now, I don’t have to hand a scorecard in, which is a great thing I reckon. Perhaps I’m an environmentalist at heart, as scorecards have always seemed t be such a bloody chore in the past ……… as most would realise by now, I’d much rather just do without them, so its another step in the right direction I believe.
So its another midweek day off tomorrow, and it should be half decent conditions, so I’ll give my new electric buggy a run. I decided it was time try just walking the course and not pushing a cart through the slush, so I got myself a shiny new remote controlled MGI Navigator. Hopefully I can keep it from falling into bunkers or running off from me tomorrow, but it should be fun and something different. The heavy Wilson staff bag fits on it nicely, so its in for a good workout first up.
In more golfing news though, my game has been ticking along as usual. When I hit the shots I should do, I play okay and get close to par, and when I just hit the shots I want to try I don’t score anywhere near the same . so its good fun, with just the odd serious round thrown in at times.
For a while I’ve had no confidence on the greens as I’ve been rapidly falling out of love with the putter. With no decent left handed putters around for me to try, I was just getting frustrated, but the other day I was rummaging around in the golf cupboards and found an old Odyssey white ice blade jobby, and threw it into the bag.
It turned out the best I’ve putted in months with more than a few 10-15 footers dropping during my last social round . so its in the bag for a while now I think, joining my two Cobra wood clubs and my 11 Wilson irons / wedges.
So that’s about my update done and dusted. I’m still on the lookout for another club to join, as Beacy is getting a touch tiresome at times. I’ll need to give it more thought once these pasky restrictions are lifted and we can actually get out and about and play a few potential courses, but thats for the future ……
so I’ll give my new electric buggy a run. I decided it was time try just walking the course and not pushing a cart through the slush, so I got myself a shiny new remote controlled MGI Navigator. Hopefully I can keep it from falling into bunkers or running off from me tomorrow, but it should be fun and something different. The heavy Wilson staff bag fits on it nicely, so its in for a good workout first up.
Did you get a good price at Drummonds?
•Inaugural Victorian OOM Putting Champion - Long Island 2011
•Inaugural ... National champ
•Hole In One - 7th Hole Portsea GC - 9/10/2012
Best ever score off the stick - 74 (Gardiners Run 10/12/2020)
Masters Champion 11/4/20221 user liked this post.
MGI Navigator, you say.
I have two comments.
Great choice.
You old.
Winner Moonah Legends 2013 Nationals
Winner The National 2013 Nationals
Winner 4BBB 2013 Nationals
Winner Stink's 3 Club Challenge 2015
Winner C grade OOM The Sands 2016
Hole-in-one Growling Frog 14/1/17 5th hole 137m TM RBZ 5 hybrid, Srixon AD333 ball
Growling Frog GC Matchplay Champion 2017
Winner B grade OOM Curlewis 2018
Winner Yering Meadows Monthly Medal Dec 2020Low Handicap point 12.7 9/4/16
Finally...and most importantly...
Smoldy....when only the best will doso I’ll give my new electric buggy a run. I decided it was time try just walking the course and not pushing a cart through the slush, so I got myself a shiny new remote controlled MGI Navigator. Hopefully I can keep it from falling into bunkers or running off from me tomorrow, but it should be fun and something different. The heavy Wilson staff bag fits on it nicely, so its in for a good workout first up.
Did you get a good price at Drummonds?
I did yes Frank. I am after all a Drummond Club member.
And yes Goldy, they are a bloody good choice I reckon ….. so long as you can find them these days.
Buggy’s both electric and the push varieties are getting scarce these days as everyone wants one, and they take a good long while to get into the country, so stocks are very very low out there atm.
MGI Navigator, you say.
I have two comments.
Great choice.
You old.
I may be old ……. but I still have a 3 iron in my bag.
MGI Navigator, you say.
I have two comments.
Great choice.
You old.
I may be old ……. but I still have a 3 iron in my bag.
Even Rory and DJ carry hybrids mate…get with the programme.
Winner Moonah Legends 2013 Nationals
Winner The National 2013 Nationals
Winner 4BBB 2013 Nationals
Winner Stink's 3 Club Challenge 2015
Winner C grade OOM The Sands 2016
Hole-in-one Growling Frog 14/1/17 5th hole 137m TM RBZ 5 hybrid, Srixon AD333 ball
Growling Frog GC Matchplay Champion 2017
Winner B grade OOM Curlewis 2018
Winner Yering Meadows Monthly Medal Dec 2020Low Handicap point 12.7 9/4/16
Finally...and most importantly...
Smoldy....when only the best will doMGI Navigator, you say.
I have two comments.
Great choice.
You old.
I may be old ……. but I still have a 3 iron in my bag.
Even Rory and DJ carry hybrids mate…get with the programme.
Yeah but noone really wants to drive a Prius to save on fossil feuls when you can get the same milage out of a Turbo Diesel?
NAGA
A quick update, well not quick really, as it’s actually more like a year’s worth of waiting ……..
Having had to wait several months for my driver to arrive, then 8 months for my irons to be made, another 3 months for my wedges to be completed, I can now top that lot, with the wait I have just endured.
A good long while ago I asked our Wilson Rep about ordering in a putter for me. Now this isn’t any old putter, it is in fact the reincarnation of Wilson’s famous 8802 putter …… and extreme toe hang putter, used and designed originally by Arnold Palmer way back in the early 60’s.
Wilson re-released a modern version of this classic putter design 50 years later in 2014, and so after trying out a right handed version which we’d ordered for the shop, I was after one for myself.
So a little over a year and half ago now, I put in my request. Unfortunately, according to our Wilson Rep, they didn’t make it in left handed I was told.
Fast forward a few months later, and imagine my surprise when one day I spotted a left handed one on ebay that was up for sale in the US.
So, armed with a photo of said left handed putter I showed the Wilson Rep the next time he came in. He said he’d find out for me, and a month later he informed me that for me to get a lefty into the country we’d have to order in 50 of them from the U.S. .(so that wasn’t going to happen).
By then of course, the one on the bay of e had long since gone. Since my initial inquiry, I’d been using the right handed one in the shop to practice my putting with whenever the place was quiet, and I really loved the feel of it.
As soon as my “practice putter” sold, I would immediately order in another one, and I reckon I’ve sold half a dozen of them over the duration.
So ……. it wasn’t until June this year that another one appeared on the bay of e, over in the US of A …… and it was a putter that had only been used on the practice green and not in a round, so it was pretty much pristine.
The bidding was pretty keen over the next few days, but with a large bid at 6:15am one Sunday morning back in June ….. I did secure it.
Therein has followed yet another long wait, of a month and a half for it to actually turn up, (thanks covid19) but just the other day, there was finally ……….. a nice parcel leaning by the front door.
It is as described, in pristine condition, and the leftie version feels just as silky smooth as the right handed version on my putting carpet out in the garage.
Now all I need though is access to an actual golf course at some stage to give it a real test.
And as they say ……… good things come to those that wait ……..
That does look super fancy.
What are you going to do with that now though?
Will you just throw it in the bin or leave it at home? It’s not as though you can give it to anyone else…
It’s such a shame after all this time.1 user liked this post.
What are you going to do with that now though?
Will you just throw it in the bin or leave it at home? It’s not as though you can give it to anyone else…Watcha talkin’ about Willis??????????
I’m first in line when he “bins it” during his changable times.
NOICE by the way Gaz. 🙂
•Inaugural Victorian OOM Putting Champion - Long Island 2011
•Inaugural ... National champ
•Hole In One - 7th Hole Portsea GC - 9/10/2012
Best ever score off the stick - 74 (Gardiners Run 10/12/2020)
Masters Champion 11/4/20221 user liked this post.
So Gaz, you’ve sold half a dozen in one store during a no-golf lockdown and the Wilson rep won’t get 50 lefties in for all Australia?
Perhaps he needs a good talking to.People say that nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
No championships worth mentioning in recent years.
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.What are you going to do with that now though?
Will you just throw it in the bin or leave it at home? It’s not as though you can give it to anyone else…Watcha talkin’ about Willis??????????
I’m first in line when he “bins it” during his changable times.
NOICE by the way Gaz. 🙂
But surely he won’t be using the nice looking putter cover.
I wouldn’t imagine that he’s happy to use covers for his woods and a cover for his putter, but not the dearest things in his bag??
That just doesn’t make any sense to me…
I assumed he’ll just throw the putter cover away1 user liked this post.
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