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06 August 2010, 09:23 AM
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I think it's been about 5 years now since we talked of a SN golf day!
My club is awesome, not the best course in the world but the members are great and always have a good laugh in the bar afterwards! I played fookin awful last night and just couldn't feel a golf swing, managed to grind it out in four over par though
My club is awesome, not the best course in the world but the members are great and always have a good laugh in the bar afterwards! I played fookin awful last night and just couldn't feel a golf swing, managed to grind it out in four over par though
06 August 2010, 09:33 AM
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I often like to give that latter "old skool snooty nosed" golfers a good whooping when I play at my club, that seems to put them firmly in their place!!! Especially as I do it while strictly adhering to the rules & etiquettes of the game. 
You'l always get them, some clubs are far worse than others but if you play the game properly with good decorum & know the rules, you have nothing to worry about.
You'l always get them, some clubs are far worse than others but if you play the game properly with good decorum & know the rules, you have nothing to worry about.
06 August 2010, 01:49 PM
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Iv always thought it sounded a nice game for folk who can no longer / never could be arsed to move very quickly
i guess potentailly theres more snobbery involved than yachting too
i guess potentailly theres more snobbery involved than yachting too
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it's utterly soul destroying if i'm being serious
06 August 2010, 02:33 PM
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How bad is it and how often are you hitting cows and horses in the fields next to the tee boxes?!
06 August 2010, 02:53 PM
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bad? yes. i suppose 1 in every 5 iron shots, not restricted to short irons either. i put a 5 iron into the bushes last time out. on a pitch and putt i'd be fooked.
swing is too flat and too fast, i'm getting it back but i've got into a bad habit so the correct swing just doesn't feel right. i've never lost so many golf *****
06 August 2010, 07:04 PM
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the S word, i can almost hear a few golfers heartrate going up at the very mention of it
bad? yes. i suppose 1 in every 5 iron shots, not restricted to short irons either. i put a 5 iron into the bushes last time out. on a pitch and putt i'd be fooked.
swing is too flat and too fast, i'm getting it back but i've got into a bad habit so the correct swing just doesn't feel right. i've never lost so many golf *****
bad? yes. i suppose 1 in every 5 iron shots, not restricted to short irons either. i put a 5 iron into the bushes last time out. on a pitch and putt i'd be fooked.
swing is too flat and too fast, i'm getting it back but i've got into a bad habit so the correct swing just doesn't feel right. i've never lost so many golf *****
06 August 2010, 07:16 PM
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buy your way out of trouble, always works
nah, the clubs are less than a year old anyway (TM Burner 09) nothing wrong with them, i just need to stop swinging like a ****
i've been playing for about 20 years now and have been between 9 and 11 for 6 years and i've never hit a ball so badly as i am now
golf....90% mental, 10% mental
nah, the clubs are less than a year old anyway (TM Burner 09) nothing wrong with them, i just need to stop swinging like a ****
i've been playing for about 20 years now and have been between 9 and 11 for 6 years and i've never hit a ball so badly as i am now
golf....90% mental, 10% mental
06 August 2010, 08:00 PM
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buy your way out of trouble, always works
nah, the clubs are less than a year old anyway (TM Burner 09) nothing wrong with them, i just need to stop swinging like a ****
i've been playing for about 20 years now and have been between 9 and 11 for 6 years and i've never hit a ball so badly as i am now
golf....90% mental, 10% mental
nah, the clubs are less than a year old anyway (TM Burner 09) nothing wrong with them, i just need to stop swinging like a ****
i've been playing for about 20 years now and have been between 9 and 11 for 6 years and i've never hit a ball so badly as i am now
golf....90% mental, 10% mental
The bottom bit is very right though - maybe you should try reading books by Dr Bob Rotella, which contain no technical information whatsoever
"Putting out of your mind" is a pretty good and easy read.
06 August 2010, 10:55 PM
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Just had a quick knock about on a 6 hole par 3 course attached to where I live, and bugger me with a sand wedge if I didn't just get a hole in one - what a feeling fo self-congratulation. Typically, no one there to witness the miracle. It was just after watching the above link too. Cheers salsa-king.
07 August 2010, 06:13 PM
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07 August 2010, 07:52 PM
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then again that makes it about 1/2" away from missing it all together
the practice gets tried out tommorow at the very joyfull time of 7.40 AM (i wasn't aware there was time before about 9 AM on a sunday, but there you go) really looking forward to the first iron shot, with O.O.B to right
07 August 2010, 08:25 PM
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I should really give golf a go, there are a stupid number of clubs in our town, two of them being very close indeed. Tempted to try Glenn abbey as it is whre the national is aparently played, but I suspect it will be **** central, Kensington fords all over the car park
I have played one full round before and it wasn't too bad. Took quite a while, but we let those behind us play through so as not to hold them up too much. 19th hole was by far the best though
I too would have serious issues with snobs thinking they are better than myself because they have money. Methinks a lesson about class might educate them that the trully wealthty tend not to be so vulgar and might even wish to aid a player who is just starting out
I have played one full round before and it wasn't too bad. Took quite a while, but we let those behind us play through so as not to hold them up too much. 19th hole was by far the best though
I too would have serious issues with snobs thinking they are better than myself because they have money. Methinks a lesson about class might educate them that the trully wealthty tend not to be so vulgar and might even wish to aid a player who is just starting out
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