A strange reversal of roles. It's usually me who slicing it like a bastard off the tee. Only the fourth time I've broken 100. Thought I'd got 100, but found I'd got the magic 99 after a recount when I got home.
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| Author: | Ramsea [ Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:55 ] |
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ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: Ramsea wrote: ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: Green fees next door are a whopping £12/£15. Driving range is £4/50 balls. I'm totally doing this. That seems cheap to me, last week it cost me £25 for a game! That was my point, given its in London too. Should point out that's a nine holer though. However our council runs a good few other courses too - indeed Bromley runs a disproportionately high number of leisure facilities for this day and age, and well by all accounts. I'll get your sarcasm one day. ;-) I've not played for about 10 years either but definitely getting the bug to play again. Such a good way to spend a Saturday or Sunday morning. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
I shall be liberating my clubs next weekend. At which point it will then most likely proceed to rain for the rest of the year. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Cras wrote: I shall be liberating my clubs next weekend. At which point it will then most likely proceed to rain for the rest of the year. Certainly what the long range forecast shows. Boys birthday party at our house is next Saturday and will be a BBQ. Forecast - rain. |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Had a nice game at Duxbury Park in Chorley with Mr Burrrrt last night, lovely course. He played consistently well to card a thoroughly respectable 99. I on the other hand started off really well but no sooner had I begun contemplating my impending career change, having basically solved golf, than my tee shots began to swerve right. Then all my other shots followed, after losing six shots in one bunker I began to despair, finally scoring a horrible 121. To the driving range I think. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 14:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
121 is about what I score normally. |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 14:50 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
I seem to be alternating between that and about 100, never really anything in between. I might actually get some lessons soon. |
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| Author: | Mr Burrrrt [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 18:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
A strange reversal of roles. It's usually me who slicing it like a bastard off the tee. Only the fourth time I've broken 100. Thought I'd got 100, but found I'd got the magic 99 after a recount when I got home. !!
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 18:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Yeah, I just went on the field and it took me a full hour of practice to get my swing back in shape. Pretty sure it was my timing that had gone off, I was starting the downswing with my hands and arms instead of my hips, getting all crossed over myself. So much easier to puzzle these things out when you aren't also trying to contend with playing a game. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 19:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Just so I can set expectations, Riles! Curio! We're going to get drunk then hit balls around for a bit, right? |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 19:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Cras wrote: Just so I can set expectations, Riles! Curio! We're going to get drunk then hit balls around for a bit, right? Yes. We just need to arrange a time. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 20:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Cras wrote: Just so I can set expectations, Riles! Curio! We're going to get drunk then hit balls around for a bit, right? Yes. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 20:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Good oh. There was talk of scores and the like - it was making me nervous. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 20:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
HAHAHAHA I could use a driving range visit or two first as its been half my life since I last hit a ball in anger. Annnnnnndyyyyyy. Can I borrow your least good ball sticks? |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 21:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
All driving ranges will have bats you can borrow. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 21:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
We should go to the driving range and then play a round, as I haven't played in a couple of years either. But we are keeping score, if only because I might actually win. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 21:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Curiosity wrote: We should go to the driving range and then play a round, as I haven't played in a couple of years either. But we are keeping score, if only because I might actually win. Let's do it Saturday afternoon. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Thu Jul 25, 2013 21:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: Curiosity wrote: We should go to the driving range and then play a round, as I haven't played in a couple of years either. But we are keeping score, if only because I might actually win. Let's do it Saturday afternoon. Hahahahhaha. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 9:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Had a golf lesson last night. It was dead interesting. Some slight changes to the grip and backswing arc all explained really well. However it's going to make things worse before they get better. When I got all the pointers to come together the ball was indeed flying further than I have ever hit with that club however I'm going to need to practice like fuck in order to commit this new approach to muscle memory. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
I can't believe how much golfs Craster, Curiosity and I have done did recently. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 10:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Sunday. |
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 11:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Cras wrote: Sunday. Enjoy yourselves |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Wed Aug 07, 2013 11:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Cras wrote: Sunday. I just need someone to persuade my wife that I can be allowed to go off and have fun* for several hours. * Not that golf is particularly fun how I play it. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Went to play at Darwen golf course yesterday with Baz and Mr Burrrt. I had a shocker of a round but man, what a course. Brutally difficult and incredibly picturesque with some really memorable holes. Postage Stamp is a par 3 down a mahoosive hill with nothing but impenetrable rough surrounding the target. This one in fact: http://www.bubblews.com/news/921132-dar ... tage-stamp Although I think that chap seems to have been aiming at the wrong green. The green is out of shot there below the one he's go the arrow pointing at. I think I lost two balls on there. Another one called Over The Trees sees you teeing up facing a massive line of very, very tall trees but still some good distance to the green making club selection tricky. I thought I had nailed it but in the end my six iron was a bit too much and it ran over the green. Can't wait to revisit when I'm playing a bit better. |
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| Author: | Mr Burrrrt [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Aye, it's proper gnarly. I don't think I'll be rushing back to play it again, I've never been so knackered after a round. I was reasonably happy with scoring 111 and getting a couple of pars as my driving wasn't great. A nice flat course next time I think. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
I don't want to talk about my score. I was happy simply get to the end before I ran out of golf balls. It was a close run thing. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Silverdale next Friday, which looks like an altogether flatter, open and more forgiving course. No, wait 
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Had a lesson last night after playing so many horrible tee shots. Booked a course of six lessons in fact. Really excellent stuff and given me lots to work on. By the end of the session he had me hitting a few good shots with the driver which is a club that I never really bother to take out of the car, let alone the bag. Mostly it's a case of slowing my backswing right down and trying to time the release correctly. 
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Had a great time at Silverdale last Friday. It was a bit drizzly but that meant it was quiet. It always makes me feel edgy over the ball when I feel as though the group behind are waiting. But we had the whole beautiful course to ourselves. And what a course it is, not unlike Darwen it's set quite high up with views out over the surrounding countryside. Some properly memorable holes too, plenty of blind drives and plateau greens. A real challenge, especially for the moderately shit golfer. I eventually shot 120 but to be honest it felt like a good score on that course and in those conditions. My mate got round in 100 and he's normally in the low-mid 80s, so meh. I was just happy to be using my driver and not feeling like every tee shot was likely to just go scuttling along the floor. Stanley Park this afternoon with Mr Burrrrt. Looking like it's going to be a bit rainy again but hopefully this will mean it's quiet on there too. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Sep 11, 2013 14:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Jesus, it's properly pissing it down. But like they say there's no such thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothes. I have the wrong clothes. 
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Sep 11, 2013 14:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: I can't believe how much golfs Craster, Curiosity and I have done did recently.
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| Author: | ApplePieOfDestiny [ Wed Sep 11, 2013 17:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Cras wrote: ApplePieOfDestiny wrote: I can't believe how much golfs Craster, Curiosity and I have done did recently. Lets do this! Weekends aren't far easiest, but can't do this weekend (brother 2), the weekend after (brother one), the following weekend(Majorca), or the two weekends (Majorca then parents) after that. Can also rule out the following four weekends from memory, but only one of those is due to purnells. Could possibly do Mondays but they are funeral, client dinner, Majorca, just back from holiday and conference respectively. I'll get back to you on Tuesdays in due course. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Wed Sep 11, 2013 17:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
My friend played at The Wisden today. He seemed to have enjoyed it. |
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| Author: | markg [ Wed Sep 11, 2013 22:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Great game today. I shot 100 to Mr. Burrrrt's 101. It was equal to my best ever score but easily the best game I've ever played, a much harder course than where I last got 100. Frustrating to be one shot away from double figures yet again but it's surely only a matter of time. I'm blaming the rain this time. |
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| Author: | Mr Burrrrt [ Thu Sep 12, 2013 11:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Yeah, I think we both could have scored a bit lower if it had been drier. Putting on some partially sodden greens didn't help much. Besides us both getting 8 on the first, we didn't score more than triple bogey on any hole. |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Yeah you seemed to get especially unlucky with the puddles on the greens. I think my head went towards the end when I started thinking that I might get round in under a hundred, as soon as that happened I just began trying to not fuck up instead of actually play well. All in all a good game though, some nice pars and I only lost three balls I think. |
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| Author: | markg [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Yay! Finally got under a hundred yesterday. A 97 at Stanley Park. I was actually surprised because Baz was having a horrible round so I wasn't feeling very stoked about the whole thing. But looking back at the card it was just a really steady round with only a couple of triple bogies, the rest were all singles and a couple of pars. Breaking 90 will be tough I reckon. |
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| Author: | romanista [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 19:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
yeah! luyten wins the dutch open! |
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| Author: | Mr Burrrrt [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 20:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
markg wrote: Yay! Finally got under a hundred yesterday. A 97 at Stanley Park. Excellent! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 24, 2013 9:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Cheap golf in Woking, maybe. I don't know how much golf costs. http://local.amazon.co.uk/Central-Londo ... 1_40010921 18 holes + "refreshments" for two people for £29. |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
That's an excellent price, especially near That London I guess. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Sep 24, 2013 10:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
In that case, yay me! |
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| Author: | markg [ Tue Nov 12, 2013 9:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Played for the first time in ages yesterday with Mr Burrrt. It was pissing it down but still really enjoyable, it did take me nine holes to remember how to play it again though. |
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
First game of the year on Saturday, round the local muni course with Mr Burrrt. Most enjoyable, played the whole course without losing a ball, no penalty strokes at all. I watched the golf on the telly last night and many of the so-called "professionals" couldn't even do that. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
I love The Masters. Such a beautiful course. |
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| Author: | Pundabaya [ Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
yeah, but what do they do with the squirrels, man?! |
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| Author: | Cras [ Mon Apr 14, 2014 12:38 ] |
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| Author: | markg [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 13:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Can't wait to get this: http://thegolfclubgame.com/ A proper golf game for the PS4, PC and Xbone. It's got an in depth course designer so you can recreate all your favourite real life courses then share and download them from others. Having seen the trailer for the new EA thing (no doubt riddled with microtransactions and other such bullshit) I couldn't be happier that this exists. |
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| Author: | Trooper [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 14:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Interesting. I spent hours and hours as a kid, copying out real life courses from a book I got from my grandad and recreating those courses in Jack Nicklaus Golf on the PC. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 14:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Golf |
Trooper wrote: Interesting. I spent hours and hours as a kid, copying out real life courses from a book I got from my grandad and recreating those courses in Jack Nicklaus Golf on the PC.
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| Author: | Trooper [ Mon Jul 21, 2014 15:01 ] |
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Hey, it paid off, as my international golf course design career is testament to. |
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