TSF Golf Club
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Bought a new Ping driver & 3 rescue hybrid.
Shot 87 yesterday, with 7 pars. Previous records were 92 and 4 pars.
New tools, new man!
Although the old rage is still there ... I played Hoebridge whcih is near my house - it's not the most difficult course, but has it's good and bad holes. Toughest one for me as always been the number 1 stroke hole, a 442 yard (yesterday length) dead straight par 4. Anyway, new driver and one of the best shots of my life got me about 5 yards out for the birdie putt.
I of course, walked off with a 5.
Par 5th 9th, 535 yard dog log. Sweet drive, sweet rescue, sweet pitch - maybe 3 yard out birdie putt. I walked off with a FUCKING SEVEN. 4 putted the bastard. AND .. was playing with my old man who played utter dogshit and hacked his way down the hole. Halved the hole.
I fucking HATE golf. I mean LOVE golf!!!
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@taniwharugby Major Rage's game will be a shambles for at least two years now, because he has "expectations" of his superb new driver!
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The course i played in China last week was quite frankly fucking ridiculous.
Championship level course, rated in the top 10 in the Country apparently. Designed by Greg Norman (and his branding was everywhere). So of course fucking hard and fucking long.
Nearly every hole had an elevated tee box. And those that didn't had an elevated green (dropping one on the green on a par 3 that was long and uphill was one of my proudest moments in golf). Most tee boxes had an expanse of garden in front of them, probably water as well. The only benefit was i didn't hit it long enough to bring the fairway bunkers in to it.
Fairways were narrow, and none were next to another, so you either hit it or you lost your ball. Add in how uneven the fucking thing was, so that even if you hit said fairway, it was a pretty decent bet your ball was above or below your feet. Just utterly unfair for a player of my calibre.
Don't get me wrong, it was amazing, but also soul destroying. Throw in rental clubs that were waaay too short, and the results were predictable. I hit 105, and lost 9 balls. My partner plays every week, and usually scores in the 70s hit 97, and was waaay more frustrated than me.
Best hole you teed off from the top of what felt like a mountain. Clear 150m of garden and land on a narrow fairway. Fall had to be 50m. 2nd shot was a long iron uphill to an elevated green, around to the right. Hit it left? lost ball in a forest. Hit it right? down the hill to the clubhouse. Also lost ball. I was happy to take my 6.
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@mariner4life Which course was it?
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this fucking joint
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looks like there is a 2nd course that is easier! So why the fuck did we play the hard one?
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Don't think I've played that. Zhuhai courses on the whole are bloody awful. They've all contracted a big name to design them and they are unforgiving, and on the whole, not a a lot of fun. The worst one is Orient golf. I think it was about the 12th where my playing partner said to me
"let me guess ... right in the water, left in the shit .... again"
As much as I loved the caddies, carts, and cans approach to golf in China, I much prefer playing it pretty much so everywhere else in the world.
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My caddie was awesome. She couldn't speak a word of English, but she had a laugh, and read every putt. If i put the ball where she told me, it was always on line, then it was all about me fucking up the speed....