It has been a long time
since my last entry, as I remember I had entered a long blog about
some team matches and then for some reason everything I had typed was
lost. I was rather annoyed and didn't have the patience to retype
everything, and as the season was coming to an end I gave up on the
blog,
however the new season
approaches and so I am starting the blog again. This time I will be
typing it in a text document first so that I can save it and
hopefully not have the same problem again.
A lot has happened over the winter, I have had more lessons, bought new irons that I was custom fitted for and played a lot of golf.
The lessons have been mostly around my short game, chipping, pitching, bunker play and putting, the areas where lose most strokes and I do feel more confident in those areas even when the results do actually show it.
The new irons are Orka G5 Cti's these came out best after me trying various other manufacturers club. The odd thing about Orka is that you cannot buy them off the shelf and they aren't widely advertised so very few people have heard of them so I do get puzzled looks when I say that's what I have. They are heavier than my old irons so I am taking a while to get used to them but I trust that they will help my game.
Golf wise I have played almost as much during the albeit mild winter as I did during the summer. I played in my first pro am after bumping into a couple of local pros at Ellesmere which resulted in one of them asking me to play in a mixed event which I really enjoyed even though my game went off over the closing holes. We did finish 4th so that wasn't too bad.
The Northwest forum players had a winter links competition, and I played at St Annes Old Links, Caldy, Silloth on Solway and Southerness. I had some decent rounds particularly at Caldy and Silloth, I finished 4th overall, so not a bad showing.
Silloth and Southerness were played last weekend and we were joined by a number of golfers from Scotland and the North East and there was a competition for the weekend, again I came 4th, this seems to be a pattern.
The weekend was very enjoyable, Silloth is one of the best courses I have played, particularly the first 9, Which is mostly played close to the sea, the 2nd 9 being a little more sheltered, it was dry but quite windy and I scored 36 points, which while a decent score was a bit disappointing as I struggled on the greens and also failed to score on the last. Southerness was very challenging, a lot windier than the day before and also a bt of ran n the air, I only scored 28 points but did get a very nice birdie on a par 5 which I reached in 2 shots something I rarely do.
So the season is just a week away, although we do have our first match in the Archie Preston on Sunday at home to Wilpshire, we reached the semi finals last year so I hope we have a good run this year too.
Some photos from Silloth
and Southerness
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