Saturday morning and already ticking over!

Got up at 6:00, have become a bit programmed to wake up early these days and it's no bad thing. Phil and his mate were supposed to be camping out in the super tent in the garden but got a bit scared at half past eleven last night and came inside and slept on the sofas in the front room! So had to be dead quiet and sneak out with no breakfast. No big deal. Had a can of Diet Red Thunder and then got ten more miles on the clock. Got papers on the way but when got back to home kids were still asleep so went across to playing field to hit a few pitching wedges for golf practice, noticed plenty of blackberries on the edge of the field so nipped back home for an ice cream tub and filled it up in about half an hour - good free, syn-free food eh!


The tent sans kids at 8:30, Saturday morning!


Am hoping to nip up town and have a poke round the charity shops at 9:30 and then at 12:30 I've a round booked at Ashbourne Golf Club. Am taking the edge again to see if practice this week has improved distance (not mentioned that - have been swinging a weighted club for ten minutes on a number of days when had time).

Evening update -

Played really well on t'golf course - parred seven out of the first nine holes, had a further 3 pars and a birdie on the back nine, overall a shot a pretty solid 81 (although as it was a team game I didn't put out on two holes but one was a two footer and I allowed myself 3 shots to get up and down on the 16th that I made a bit of a mess of!) . Driving distance a little bit up at 212.91 yards (used EasyGPS again - bloomin brilliant piece of software - pulls the waypoints straight out of the Garmin and allows you to see the distance in yards between two waypoints - can't be beat.). As mentioned above have been practicing a bit with a weighted club and at present I can't say for sure it's made the difference as have realised that when the pro's are measured for average distance they only count the drives where the ball ends up in the fairway i.e. gets the roll that a good drive gets. Have also put in a column for driver accuracy whereby if it ends up in the fairway it's supposed to be then it gets a 1 and if it don't it gets a zero - the sum of the 1s over the sum of the holes that have a driver involved gives me driving accuracy which currently stands at 66.66% - 8 out of 12 fairways hit - which isn't bad!






Someone returned one of the XXXL Baseball Caps I sell, can't sell a used one so have had it for meself!!


Links: EasyGPS GPS Data manipulation software. http://www.easygps.com/