Another 18 holes at Bright today. It as busy with lots of social golfers ( slow) . The course is fairly forgiving off the tees with wide well grassed fairways and few trees that over hang the fairways. I still struggled with the faster and concave greens. I three putted a few times, when the first putt rolled up to the hole, slowed, but then kept rolling down the slope. The scenery is stunning. It got a bit warm again for me at 27 degrees. After 6 months of gloom and wind this still warm weather takes a bit of adjusting to.

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Yep I did. Concave would be easier though. Just hit it hard enough to make it circle the hole until it dropped like in mini -golf.

I am thinkin gof going out for another dose of 9 holes. Brilliant weather her today. A gentle breeze and sunshine.

I did go for another 9 holes on Monday afternoon. My wife was hobbling after climbing Mt. Feathertop and needed to rest her knee ( old skiing injury) . I waited until the later afternoon to avoid the heat. I was disappointed that the club had not mentioned that they were sanding the greens, but it did slow them down. What I had never seen before was the almost 90 degree turn the ball took as it slowed down. it was like playing on a dewy morning, with the tracer lines on the green. I still managed to miss a few within 2 metres.

I think you would enjoy the Myrtleford course too Geoff. We stayed at a park next to the river ( East end of Myrtleford) last time ( good) and this time we stayed at the River View CVP ( staggering distance from the Brewery)

I played 18 holes in the competition this morning. I t was cool to start with but the sun came out around 10 a.m. The 40-50 kph wind was blustery from the SE. When exposed to the ocean side of the course it was cold!

We started on the back nine. I played bogey golf for the first four holes. My tee shots were slightly off target on the first three holes, but I got back into play and finished with a bogey.On 13 I hit the centre of the fairway with a nice draw, then hit a good 7W to the apex of the dogleg. The wind caught my iron shots a bit on the next few holes. Then my chipping went a bit off on distance control. Then I lost control of my tee shots for a few holes. This resulted in three doubles on the back nine / 47 OTS.
On the front nine I got my game under better control ( only one double) 45 OTS.

Two Steps forward
1) In the wind I manged to hit 10/14 fairways
2) My approach shots were fairly good, except the last one that went into the dam! I did better with the LW today when short sided.

One Step backward
1) pitch shots from 25-45 m were not good enough/ inconsistent. I missed two very short putts ( did not square the putter face)

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We played 9 holes at the Marion golf park on the top of ” cement hill” / top of Brighton road.
The best part of the course , other than it is cheap, is the great view of city and beaches.
It is a hilly course making you play side hill lies and up and downhill lies. The weather was pleasant with little wind.
Either I am hitting the ball further or the fairways are giving more run, but I am having to drop a club. The greens were a little grainy and undulating ( needed a haircut) which made putting a bit of a lottery.
I managed to hit the fairways quite well with Driver. I hit a few fairway finder shots with the 11.5 / 3 Wood mini driver ( small head/ 30 year old design) and the 5 W drawer biased fairway performed well on second shots into par 5 holes.
The hybrid -irons still need me aim right, but I am getting better with them. Putter is still a bit weird feeling.

The last two days I played like a chump, not a champ!
I put in a really bad round ( 97) yesterday. I could not find the fairway off the tee and I could not judge the speed of my putts. I had 14/14 points, so at least I was consistent. Before today’s game I went out early to the range to work on my tee shots. They got less worse, then slowly I got the feel back and put them into play.

I managed to hit a double bogey on the first hole. My tee shot was good, the 8 iron shot fell 10 short, so I had to chip on. I 3 putted! The first one was short and I just missed the second putt. The recently sanded greens are slow. I thought that I was in for a repeat of yesterday’s performance, but the tee shot on hole #2 went 214m and where I aimed it( left edge of the fairway) . I hit a 6 hybrid shot at the green, but it was way off target and hit a tree. I had a LW shot over the bunker to the green. Rather than fall short into the bunker I landed it pin high and had to chip back on with my single length 3 hybrid. I managed to sink the putt.

I hit a series of bogeys, usually having to recover from wayward second shots. I was wayward with the 4W ( a bit of the hooks) and 6 hybrid ( pushes) .By about the 6th hole my iron shots started to hit the greens, or be near misses. Using the SL hybrid I managed to get close to the pin a few times when chipping close to the greens. I managed to hit several putts just short and missed two sitters by trying to die them into the hole ( mistake)

I scored 85 ( 1 birdie, 6 pars, 9 bogeys, 2 doubles) . Had my putting been any better I possibly could have dropped about 4 strokes.

Now the admission. Today’s game was a Gentsome, where we all teed off and chose the best tee shot. Andy is a longer hitter than I am, so when we used his Driver shots I was approaching from unfamiliar distances on the hole. But the best part was my tee shots stayed in play!

Two steps
1) Putting improved a bit; still room for improvement though
2) Tee shots in play was way better

One Step Backward
4W is still tending to hook and 6 Hybrid shots tended to push / Needs work or maybe just use my 7W until I get those clubs in control.