Pairs events

This last week has seen two pairs competitions, the first a mixed greensome and then a foursomes. The two events are quite similar, involving both players taking alternate shots, However in greensomes, both players tee shot on each hole and then choose the ball to play the rest of the hole with, whereas in foursomes each player plays the tee shot on alternate holes.

In the mixed event I played with same guy I won last season closing mixed with, so we went out optimistically, and too be fair we didnt play too badly, we were let down however by our inabilty to get down in 2 shots from around the green. On most holes we were on or close to the green in regulation shots, but weak chips or weak putting let us down most of the time. We finished with a reasonable total of 33 points and in fairness we would never have won as the winning score was a quite remarkable 47 points.

I played  a couple of practice rounds during the week before thursdays competition and and played pretty well, so again I was full of optimism going into the foursome competition. Again I was partnering someone who I had won with last season.

Sadly our round started poorly with us finding unplayable lies and also several ditches and culminated in a fresh air shot by myself and after 8 holes we had only managed 7 points. We did play a lot better for the remaining 10 holes and scored a further 20 points, which was a good return, but the first 8 holes let us down badly. We finished 6 points behind the winners. The competition was a qualifier for a Lancashire Ladies competition and fortunately due to players who beat us being unable to play on the day of the final, myself and my partner found that we would be playing in the final.

The good thing about this last week is that I seem to have refound my ability to hit irons and so am now a lot more confident in using them as I was a couple of weeks ago.

I have the first of our major board event competitions this afternoon, so I am hoping my game stands up and I can score well, I really need to reverse my handicap trend and get it dropping instead of going up.