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SA’s turn… Comps canceled and only social golf.
for Now.Fingers crossed you stamp down on it quickly and doesn’t turn into another Melbourne.
Looks good – I head down that way a bit so will try and get a game there and report back. I see the second 9 is scheduled to open in Dec.
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Got out of Melbourne yesterday and headed down to Portarlington for a game. Course is in great condition my game not so good. Had a major case of the pull hooks. I reckon I missed the first two par 3’s by 20-30m left of the green. Anyway something that I don’t get to say often is that my putting saved me, only one 3 putt (for par) and numerous 8-10 feet putts holed.
7 over 43 on the front, 6 over 42 on the back. Gave me 85 OTS 74 nett could have been a hell of a lot worse given how I hit the ball.
well done, a respectable score indeed on a different course.
Dont forget the object of the game. its not to hit pretty shots, its to score the lowest number you can write in score box that counts.Loved the fact that I was out playing given that there has been so many weeks missed. It’s funny though – I actually get more satisfaction from hitting the ball well rather than scoring well. But maybe that is just me.
Got out of Melbourne yesterday and headed down to Portarlington for a game. Course is in great condition my game not so good. Had a major case of the pull hooks. I reckon I missed the first two par 3’s by 20-30m left of the green. Anyway something that I don’t get to say often is that my putting saved me, only one 3 putt (for par) and numerous 8-10 feet putts holed.
7 over 43 on the front, 6 over 42 on the back. Gave me 85 OTS 74 nett could have been a hell of a lot worse given how I hit the ball.
First hit back post hard lockdown. 9 Holes around Northcote Public Picnic Grounds/Golf Course. Golf was pretty putrid especially given I was starting to strike it really well before lockdown but it was just great to be out making the most of it.
One birdie, 3 pars and +7 on the other 5 holes.
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Contracts are in place for next year so nothing they can do until then. Most of us understand that it is public land and are happy for some sort of shared arrangement, would love to see music events hosted on the practice fairway hill, we just want to be able to play our golf and don’t want the golf course turned into a snake and mosquito breeding zone that doesn’t get used by the public post pandemic.
To be honest we want golfers represented at the table when the decisions are made, currently that is not the case and the PR machine from the reclaim NGC has got a lot of traction due to some prominent Age writers pushing their agenda.
I should point out I’m keen to save the course as I live near it and have had half of my hole in ones on the course (1 on the 6th).
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Feel like I want to replace my clicgear 3.0… anything other than the new clicgear models worth considering??
I’ve had my Smoothy for about 15 years without an issue easy pushing folds up well. Never saw a need to spend a lot on bags and buggies but maybe that is just me. I don’t get out as much as I would like so can’t justify spending on golf and what I do goes to the gear that hits the ball.
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Out of interest I looked up the course slope etc. the Standard Scratch was 69 (par 72) and the slope from the Red tees was 122 so might alter the h’cap a bit for the day.
I’ve played Shep a couple of times – great little course not overally long and always played it in good condition.
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Fair round at Shepparton I just saw on my Twitter feed.
The guy shot 58 OTS and still didn’t win.
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So Melbourne metro golfers missed out again. I didn’t expect to be able to go play my home course as it is in Regional Victoria while I live in Melbourne but would have been good to be able to get out somewhere. I went through the exercise of where I could play within a 5km radius.
Not surprisingly I could play Northcote (less than 1km away), although I would have to dodge all the Greenies infesting the fairways at the moment. Lets face it if Darebin council have their way we will be losing another inner Melbourne public course next year. My radius just included Royal Park GC (and interestingly half of the zoo could see the big cats but not the monkeys). The other place I could play is the 3 most South Easterly holes on Northern GC after that I would be screwed.
So if my math is right in the 78.54 square kms around my home there is 21 holes of golf servicing approximately 250000 people and yet they want to close down Northcote.
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Council owned golf courses – One thing I don’t understand is that Northcote Public course has been opened to the public during the pandemic. I went for a run past it and there were people everywhere having picnics, walking dogs etc. I don’t understand how we can have masses of people mingling on the golf course doing whatever they want but we don’t allow golf to be played under tight enforced regulations.
Just was checking in the midst of my Covid hiatus from golf and realised I hadn’t updated after my last round. My last 6 rounds are all flags so huge opportunity to do some damage to my H’cap when golf starts again. Unfortunately my last 6 rounds takes me back to December last year. 🙁
CURRENT / 31-12-20 / Goal
Aligolfing 10.1 / 9 / 8.5
Barenski 16.1 / 15.0 / 13.5
Benno_r 7.7 / 7.4 / 7.0
Birdie B 10.3 / 9.9 / 8.5
Can Break 80 10.3 / 8.5 / 7.3
Commish 16.0 / 15.5
DavidM 22.3 / 18
Deege 16.7 / 14.0 / 13.0
Dellavedova 14.2 / 12.0 / 11.0
Francie 9.4 / 7.5 / 6.0
Goldy 17.1 / 15.0
Hack 14.8 / 14.5 / 14.0
Halfer 5 4.5 / 4.3 / 3.2
Ink 19.4 / 14.9/ 11
iRoNmIcK 21.0 / 18 / under ink – not necessarily golf related
jrg 14.8 / 14.2 / 12.8
KEG 6.5 / 6.8 / 5.5
koiom 3.6 / 3.8 / 3.0
Madam 5.5 / 4.0 / 3.0
OldBOgey 15 / 16.5 / 17
Peaksy 7.6 / 8 / 6
Pyl. 4.8 / 4.6 / 3.5
Schmuck. 13.8 / 13.2 / 11.0
Snorkelguru 12.3 / 11.6 / 8.7
The Butler 6.9/5.5/4.7
The Great Egg. 4.2 / 4.0 /3.0
Tochakka 7.9 /7.0 / 6.0
Turfers 17.9 / 16.9 / 15.9
Upnin 8.2 /10.5 / 12.5
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