Saturday 31 May 2008

Saturdays alright for golfing


Done ten miles on slow but comfy Raleigh Incognito this morning which take total mileage for week up to a few miles short of fity which I'll probably finish off tonight. Went up golf course and did 9 holes last night in 3-over which was very good I reckon. June medal today so it'll probably all go wrong in about an hour and a half!!! Could also do a couple of miles running and tip running total over to twenty miles plus (think am on 18/19 at the moment).
Evening update: All went wrong on the course but it was more the course doing me wrong than otherwise. Don't know whether it's been the recent wet weather or what but for whatever reason Ashbourne Golf Course has developed stupid rough again. There's foot high grass that just eats balls. I took 47 for the front nine which included a 7 on the par three ninth, I hit first ball and pulled it left a bi t couldn't find it after a few minutes so went back played another, same thing only this time it landed somewhere near playing partner John. Even then he didn't see it and we couldn't find it, so went back and hit a third tee shot (this is 200 yards to a raised green, stroke index 2 - second hardest hole on the course and there's a bl**dy jungle if you pull it or hook it! - where's the sense in that?)
So that knackered the front nine. Back nine and pulled my drive, this time I found it but it was sat down in a foot of grass agai and took four hacks to get it out anywhere near the fairway. So racked up 9 on the tenth. Two holes, 19 strokes, card gone to hell. Am going to give the golf club some feedback I reckon.
For the remaining holes I went bogey, bogey, birdie, bogey, bogey, par, par, bogey so that would have been pretty much handicap but for the stupid rough. Shot 92 overall for a 77 or 6 over handicap round which considering those two holes doesn't seem so bad. Hey-ho that's life.
Been bad on the food front but then again, Saturday is always fish and chips night so am going to be doing some work tomorrow to pull it back!!! In fact for rest of week am going to Food Optimise 100%, just see what the result is come Friday!

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