Okay WHS adjustment

Start: 15.3 – was 15.4, adjust to 16.7 – so a 1.3 adjustment for the new handicap. Makes my job just a little bit harder.

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Hack2489, Commish

Practice

So I had a full practice before the round but also took some time afterwards to do some more intentional practice. I have purchased a short game practice plan which includes 10-11 levels of drills for both putting and chipping. It is designed that if you do one level of each it will take about 2 hours. I had about 40 minutes and managed to complete 3.5 sets out of 5 from the putting drill. The deal is that you have to get a certain number of outcomes (eg hole the putt, leave it within 3 feet etc) from each set of drills, which are between 20-50 shots per set. You need to pass each of the sets in the level before you can move on to the next level, which is a new 1 hour session of drills. If you don’t pass, you do the same level next time.

I have completed 3.5 of the sets but have good enough results in the 4th set that I have already passed it. Which means that when I finish the level, I only have to pass the last set to advance to the next level. Which is causing me some angst. Never having done intentional tracked practice like this I don’t actually know whether I am going to manage to get 14 out of 20 lag putts from range within the target area. So I think I will be introducing some pressure into my practice on some of these exercises.

Next week if I have time I will start on the first level of the chipping drills. They seem very intimidating as they are all built around outcomes requiring you to put the ball in an area one foot square. And, never having done planned practice, I have no idea how consistently I would be able to do that.

Anyway, so far very impressed with the practice plan, which should keep me busy all year even if I do both levels in full every week, which is unlikely given that I will likely have some other practice priorities at different times.

All in all a good first week of the challenge, albeit on that has seen the handicap go in the wrong direction.

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Hack2489, Goldy

So had a decent if not spectacular round at Rosebud on Saturday. It was a gorgeous day and I started decently well on the first, but quickly fell in a bit of a hole. Hit a cracker approach to the second which went through the green, was too tentative on the chip and ended up with a double. Complete clanger with the driver into the trees that I didn’t even look for. Almost scrambled a point, but just missed the putt. On the third I don’t get a shot and clubbed down seeing as I was hitting the ball well – just caught the bunker and couldn’t get up and down but saved the bogey. Lost another drive right on the 4th which is the number 1 rated hole and couldn’t get it back in play for another wipe. So just like that after feeling like I was playing okay, I had just 4 points after 5 holes.

Steadied the ship a little for there, going bogey, par, double, par (with a lovely sand save) to have 9 points from the last 4 holes of the 9 to turn in 13. Better than I was heading, but definitely up against it. Started the back with 2 pars and a couple of bogeys and I was looking okay. Stood on the tee of the 14th and thought to myself that I just needed 2 pointers on the way in and I would be in good shape. Didn’t manage that, but ended up with a hard fought 17 to bring me to 30 to the day, which felt like I had rescued the round a little after the start.

So that flagged for me, but I lost a better flag, so the handicap crept out. Have one more flag to lose next week and have two rounds on the cards for the weekend including the OOM.