BumpunRun wrote:

Back in maybe 2001 when I was still a mere child, I won a mid-week pro shop sponsored comp. The prize, a full size Dri-za-bone jacket.
A jacket I had zero interest in keeping so I was able to swap it for a set of Nike pants and rain jacket. The jacket has gone now but the pants still look and feel like new – in saying that I will have to check the elastic waist band to see that it hasn’t disintegrated.
I do also have a Nike vest that I have worn a few times that is still usable, the elastic around the waist on that has gone but it is works. It would have been a mid-2000’s purchase after thinking that the full arm jacket was too annoying to play in that time I used it.

I also have short sleeve fair-dinkum lined rain jacket. I think this is a Bonneville GC that I got from Boz maybe 7 or 8 years ago. I have’t worn this in anger yet.

I say all of this mostly to build my post count, because there is a chance that I might need one or more of them this weekend, well maybe just the vest anyway.

I also reckon that if someone took a photo of me in my rain pants because I don’t ever wear them I wouldn’t recognise them and swear that they are not my pants.

I am still going to look good and feel good and play good on the weekend

Like I mentioned previously – there’ll be no run.

Still waiting anxiously for the remaining instalments on course strategy, or has that all gone out of bounds?

As for dress, you and Weets both will be better presented than our usually poorly attired visitors. It seems our recent Boards and administrators haven’t the appetite for admonishing transgressors, as they apparently don’t want guests (snowflakes) to feel threatened or intimidated…..really!? Makes me wonder why we went to the expense of printing the four colour Dress Standards brochures.

Like everything nowadays, we are dumbing things down to the lowest common denominator.

I did get to wear my jacket this morning walking to the train 😀

and hoping to find some space on Up’s high horse, we are guests of the member and therefore representing him.
I know for 1000% that my actions will reflect on him and if I walk through the front gate in something that is not exceeding the dress code I am already disrespecting him.
Courses need to do their bit in telling punters that what they are doing is not ok. It won’t turn people off playing golf or playing at that course, but if it does – then good. That course doesn’t need that type of person there anyway.

I am not sure if anyone has heard me mention dress codes and their importance for golfing society, merely in passing, but seriously, when you’re going onto someone else’s course, just do the right thing. Golf fashion is a brilliant thing

and I will make some time later today to finish off the hole by hole breakdown plans!

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Upnin, Weetbix

we’ve already spoken about 16th, then there is 17,

17 is one of my all time favourite holes.
it paces out to exactly 100m from the front of the tee box to the front of the green, so it’s that plus the steps to the markers and then the distance on to the flag.
It’s generally a PW flick with the green being about 22m long.
Long is dead, it will roll down and away
short is in the full length tee to green wasteland/unraked bunker…
the back right of the green is the only flat section with everywhere else running off.

I have come oh so close to actually literally holing this tee shot twice, resulting in two pars after missing a tricky putt.

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Weetbix

Weetbix wrote:

We won’t let you down Upnin

We will get wet though by the looks of it

You fellas haven’t let me down in the past, so I can’t imagine anything has changed since. You’ll likely be overdressed compared to some of the riff and the raff.:)

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Weetbix

BumpunRun wrote:

skipping along…

the 12th is one I am keen on now that I have the 3 wood. It will a blasted tee shot straight down over the left hand bunkers and hope that it catches the downhill and runs to the front edge of the green. This is another gnarly green with anything right on the first half of the green will not be on the green.

13th can be reasonably simple with a well placed long drive, the line will be towards the right and bunker but not in it or sitting on the top lip with no stance like I was last time. The drive should leave a wedge in, that can’t be long right or that’s very delicate chip or run up the steep slope. For some reason, despite this being nice and wide and relatively easy, I haven’t put a good drive away on this hole yet so that is something I am keen to do. Keep the drive in play and don’t go long and right for the approach

I am not sure what the 14th is at the moment, Up, is it a par 4 or will it be a par 5 from the back markers?
Either way, the big tree on the right hand corner of the dog leg is something that has caught my ball a couple of times so I am wanting to be left middle here. The par may not change how I play the hole because it will be driver as long and left hand side as I can and I will be hoping to have a rip at running the ball up to the green in two. This is dead long which is where it will run to if you land the ball on the green and there is a false front that will stop any ball popping up on if you’re short. Good green this one.
This can be a reasonable chance for an easy 5, tough for a easy 4.

15th is a hole with some options off the tee, but I do think I have settled on the middle left hand side of the fairway, this can leave a 2H coming into this green. Provided you don’t go wet right or dead left off the tee, this hole is a solid par chance when you’ve missed the bunkers at the green.

Okay, your plan on 12 is good. Except the one place you don’t want to be is back green-side bunker, either from the tee shot or the approach, as you will have a downhill lie to a narrow runaway green. The bunker is too narrow and the sand profile means any ball entering will always roll up the back face and remain there. A 3 wood from the tee over left trap is good provided there is some run (unlikely), and therefore driver may well be a better option. Same line and you won’t have to thrash it – this is a risk reward hole and favours the brave. I think it, and the par threes, are the standout holes on the course.
On 13, lay up short of the right hand trap with 3 wood or hit driver left of it. Right provides a better angle of approach to a very narrow green which in essence only has a landing area 2m-3m wide. No greenside bunkers, and depending on the pin placement, short right is usually the better option.
14 will be a par 4. With the wind behind the big tonkers hit 3 wood when the fairways are running, not the case this Sunday, so it will be driver favouring the left. But in reality, you have to hit the fairway to be any hope of holding what is essentially a par five green, or a very bad par four green.
A new driving bunker on the right of 15 is there to trap you fellas. Anything left will leave a chance to get on in two…..but I reckon we will most likely have S-E winds which may alter things and make it a three shot hole, and still a pretty easy one.

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Weetbix

Oh, by then the match is over, and we have gone straight to the bar.

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BumpunRun, Weetbix

blindly doing my planning, I was sure that the right hand side of 15 used to be the play, but hitting into that bunker clearly isn’t….

it’s new!

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Upnin