I’ve been playing quite a lot of golf recently but most of it has been pretty poor and I’d seemed to have lost interest in trying to document the good from the bad.
Today I played for the fourth time this week in a practice for a better ball competition that takes place next week. We overall scored quite OK and personally took a few strokes over my handicap that were mostly down to poor execution: especially around the greens – perhaps unsurprisingly.
After a scramble in the rain yesterday in the rain from the “ladies” tees we were back on yellows on Forest.
| Date | 19th June 2022 |
| Course | Forest, Pickala Golf Club |
| Tees | Yellow: 5 900 meters |
| Gross Score | 81 |
| Playing HCP | 7 |
| Net Score | 74 |
The highlights overall were better driving and reasonable iron play but if you pick three then the putt on the 9th for a birdie was the first memory. I hit pin high about 5 meters to the right and drained the putt. This was even sweeter as I double-bogeyed the previous hole.
Although this was not the longest shot ever with my 3-iron hybrid it does cement the case that it was a good investment and I hit it pretty consistently.
The final highlight kind of summed up my round. Not a great drive, but on the fairway, I good lay-up (it was blowing a gale at this point) and then a really good 7-iron to under the hole to around 3 meters. I narrowly missed the putt.
Overall, this yet again could have been a round to my handicap but my short game is absolutely killing me.
Practice and lessons beckoning.