Another poor round today off 13 at Pacific Harbour. 26 points so 95 off the stick

1 birdie 4 pars 5 bodies and equivalent of 5 doubles and 3 triples – a few were picked up

7/14 fairways but driver was slicey – except for 1 pull – and cost me 4 shots and a couple of lost balls. Also dropped 2 shots from a topped 4h into the water.

3 GIR – dropped 7 shots here, 1 hybrid 4 irons 1 iron punch I topped and 1 wedge.

6/17 up and downs – dropped 8 shots, 4 from 0/4 with SW from bunkers, 1 from 0/1 LW from the bunker, 1 from 2/3 LW chips, 1 from 2/3 PW chips, 1 from 0/1 8 iron chips

29 putts – 2 dropped from a 3 putt and 1 miss from 5ft

Dropped another shot from a PW approach into a bunker and disappeared so wiped the hole

Apart from the bunkers my short game was pretty good so happy with that

Long game was very right pretty much all day

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Yeah – just gotta get that face square – coming through just a bit open and with a slightly out to in path through the ball it is too much

I want to get the path back inside out but just a little not as much as it was

Bloody golf!

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Hahaha!

Stuff insult

xrman wrote:

That’s a bit stuff , isn’t it! ( in Kiwi)

What about trying a bit of pre- closure on the club face ( like at 11 o’clock) before swinging at a fade. Mike Melaska has a good video on how to power fade on You Tube. I don’t have the link sorry. He instructed a golfer on how to get full release with the Driver and still get a fade, rather than the hold the heel of the club back method.

I do think that is pretty close to what I need to do – because I tend to set up shoulders closed so a square looking face is actually open and then I cut across it a bit

Gotta get the face aligned right

Off 12 at Hills in initially warm and then a bit wet conditions – but we fonsohed before the rain really came down so that was lucky

8 pars 5 bodies 3 doubles 2 triples
Both triples involved topped 3h shots that cost me 2 shots on 2 and 1 on 10

4/14 fairways – 2 dropped shots and some more work to do at the range this week

6 GIR – along with the 3 hybrid losses already mentioned dropped 2 with irons and 2 punching out of trees badly so 7 shots all up which is way bad

5/13 up and down – 6 dropped shots but overall short game was fairly decent apart from a thin SW bunker shot on 16 that flew the green. 5 down and only 1 of those was a Texas

33 putts – 2 3 putts but also dropped some good ones on the slow bouncy greens. But no complaints for a $25 round – it’s a bargain

Played at Royal Pines championship course off 13 today in a game organised by Mads. Played with Panda Sandy and Dinner Box. Had 18 and 14 for 32 and 89 off the stick.

1 birdie 4 pars 9 bogies 3 doubles 1 wipe

8/14 fairways – apart from a pull OOB on 15 I drove pretty well today. A couple of bunkers found but otherwise all good. 2 dropped from the OOB.

8 GIR – plus 3 close enough to Texas – many of these were quite a way from the flag which led to a poor putting performance. But apart from a thinned wedge from a divot in 6 and a very weak 4i on 14 I hit the ball decently. Should have had a few more GIR and many closer but that’s golf.

1/11 up and down, plus another to 4ft I didn’t make – apart from a fat pitch and a shifted chip on 14 my short game was ok. The greens are tough though. 8 dropped.

40 putts – 7 dropped. 6 3 putts and the 4ft miss. Most of the 3 putts started outside 30ft – often across different tiers. Putts were hard to make today with my playing partners have 38 and 37 and something similar as well.

My 32 was good for 2nd of 8 today behind a rampaging 39 point Mads.

Playing Redcliffe tomorrow so hopefully will hit it at least as well and be a bit better with the short game I’m dropping a 9.9 so need at least 37 points off 11.

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Madam