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It was in good condition – fairways were good and greens were slowish but in good nick.
Dams are getting very low now though.
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It was in good condition – fairways were good and greens were slowish but in good nick.
Dams are getting very low now though.
They have had some financial strife earlier this year so its good they are still ticking along. Yes on water levels throughout SEQ hopefully the past couple days have topped a few dams up
Yes – I actually watched the announcement when they reached their goal
As you say good on them
Other clubs may have mixed feelings as it’s a tough market
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First round of 2019 Nationals yesterday at Curlewis. Lovely course – thanks peak_sy for organising it and the prizes.
I hit the ball ok with the worst bit being some serious tops.
Short game was terrible. No up and downs and 44 putts. Think I was setting the putter aimed open – I will keep an eye on that today at Barwon Heads.
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2nd round of Nationals today at 13th Beach Creek today. Started with a slice OOB and wipe. Then improved for most of the round, but doubles on two long par 4s into the wind on 16 and 18 cost me a good score. Finished 18 17 for 35, 86 off the stick.
8 pars 7 bogies 2 doubles 1 triple
9/14 fairways – sliced driver on 1 into thick grass lost, and a hook on 18 into a bunker 200m out cost me shots today.
9 GIR + 1 7i onto the green after getting out of the bunker on 182 – pushed a SW into a short sided bunker and a hooked 5i into the edge of a bunker leaving me precariously balanced both cost me a shot (maybe JD could have got them up and down but I had no chance). I had a run of 4 bunkers in a row which made scoring difficult mid round.
2/10 up and downs – 6 shots dropped, 3 LW bunker shots (had 5 and got 1 down and 1 was 3rd shot on a par 5), 1 SW bunker shot, 1 AW chip, 1 8i chip
37 putts – dropped 3 from 3 putts – better performance and saved a couple of mid range 2nd putts
Overall better but still a long way from singles and waaaay off par
But doesn’t matter that much because the company was again excellent today – my 4BBB champ partner Commish, Goldy and Koiom
Doubling up on Commish and Koiom tomorrow at Portsea
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Forgot to post Friday’s and Saturday’s rounds
Friday was really bad 23 points at Barwon Heads. Beautiful course but the wind was vicious. Nothing much else to say but very ugly.Better performance yesterday at 13th Beach Beach course in round 1 of the Nats
First – what a course! It’s stunning. Totally loved it. Spent so much time arriving at tee boxes and just going gaga, or coming around a dogleg and wowing out. It was in excellent condition, noting that some fairways had been cored recently so were a bit thin in covering. Greens were much slower than yesterday – rolled out ok but weren’t fast.
I finished with 14 and 19 for 33 points which turned out to be towards the top of today’s scores.
8 pars 4 bogies 4 doubles 1 triple 1 wipe picked up from the bunker
6/14 fairways – driver was pretty solid today. I got lucky on 6 when my huge slice landed on the 8th tee box – almost wiping out Inkosi and Benno_R – leaving me on a path with a shot back to the fairway. Hit some very good drives though. 1 dropped shot from a low hook under a tree.
7 GIR – bit more of a mixed bag in the windy conditions with a few shockers costing shots. But quite a bit of solid shotmaking too. Thin 7i into a tree, plugged 9i and a shanked SW cost me 3 shots.
3/12 up and downs – 2 very good 8i chip and run downs, plus a texas to a foot were the positives. Dropped 8 shots here:
4 LW bunker shots, 1 I almost made. On 12 though I took 4 goes and didn’t get out so picked up; first soft bunker I have been in this trip and needed SW instead of lob.
2 AW chips to 10 long and 35 long
1 LW pitch fat
1 Texas too long35 putts – 2 4 putts, 2 missed from inside 3ft so 6 dropped shots
Much better today but plenty of scope to improve still
Well the ball striking wasn’t quite as good today but it wasn’t too bad at Moonah Open. The course was in excellent condition although the greens were surprisingly slow even though they looked schmick.
Finished with 3 over 39 front for 19 and 8 over 43 back for 19 as well so 10 over and 38 points
9 pars 8 bogies 1 double
8/14 fairways – driver wasn’t too bad today but cost me from a low hook into a bunker on 8 requiring a SW escape
8 GIR – a few poor shots but mostly hit the ball ok. Had a few hooks that made pars difficult but overall not too bad. Dropped 2 shots from a hooked 7i into a bunker left on 13 which left no realistic up and down as the ball rolled way down the hill, a thin PW from the heavy rough on 14 requiring an AW wedge from the same rough next shot. Thin 7i on 15 and hooked 9i on 16 and 17 left extremely difficult pars but I gave the drops to my short game below.
2/8 up and downs – technically 1 bit again 1 was from a bad putt inside 3ft. Dropped 5 shots – 4 from Texas wedges, 1 8i chip on 15 which was a good chip as I was in a difficult position.
36 putts + 4 Texas – dropped 2 shots from a 3 putt (from 60ft at least so the 9i before shares a lot of the blame), and a short miss on 10. Putted much better and made some good second putts after short first putts on the slow greens.
Very happy with the 10 over on a challenging course and got me down to 10.0 handicap.
My return to Queensland golf wasn’t too good yesterday. 17 over 88 at Surfers Paradise. Driver was off which wasn’t good on such a tight course – but it wasn’t on its lonesome by a long way.
Got some unlucky breaks too which definitely cost me on the scorecard.
Onwards and upwards though
Or downwards rather
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My return to Queensland golf wasn’t too good yesterday. 17 over 88 at Surfers Paradise. Driver was off which wasn’t good on such a tight course – but it wasn’t on its lonesome by a long way.
Got some unlucky breaks too which definitely cost me on the scorecard.
Onwards and upwards though
Or downwards rather
You need to have a round somewhere like The Flats where you can hit sideways and still be in play. I get claustrophobic when I have to play virtually any other course.
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That’s the one!
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Were you on your side when you took the selfie mate?
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Were you on your side when you took the selfie mate?
For some reason that’s how they load after I shrink them
So I’ve just gone with it
Were you on your side when you took the selfie mate?
For some reason that’s how they load after I shrink them
So I’ve just gone with it
Thanks. Well add to list but wonder why only yours?
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