Daily Golf - Where you are playing and how you go

[carey]

With a handful of Pale Ales I assume?

[Booney]

With a handful of Pale Ales I assume?

You assume right.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Times for McCracken sent out for the weekend
Nice early 7.20 start both days.
Chance to be top of the leaderboard.... if only just for a brief moment in time
Forecast also looks ok.

[Corona Man]

With a esky of Pale Ales I assume?

EFA

[Corona Man]

I made the move to "Malbin" near on 9 years ago now. During those 9 years I have probably averaged 6-10 rounds a year. Just playing here & there really. I believed I would hold off joining a golf club over here until I retired, to be certain I could play enough to justify the membership fees.

I had kept myself busy in the summer months with old fools cricket. At 59 now, and the only thing keeping me interested in cricket, was the thought of pulling on the Big V, in the over 60's carnival, made me realise, I was playing cricket for the wrong reasons. With the summer upon us, I have no enthusiasm at all to pull on the whites.

I have a number of golf clubs within a reasonable distance of my home to choose from, so I started the research in earnest over the past month or so.

A couple of private clubs (Northern, Rosanna & Heidelberg) all around the $2.5 to $3.5k per annum, and most with around the same in a joining fee to boot. All very nice clubs, with some great facilities (clubhouse, practice ranges etc). I played Rosanna a few years back, and it's a good track, they stuck the membership forms in front of me. I was very tempted!

Then there is a number of Semi Private clubs (Growling Frog, Club Mandalay & Hidden Valley). All around the $1,200 - $1,500K per annum, no joining fee (that I am aware of) and pretty good facilities. The practice area's at Growling Frog are particularly good. My knock on the "Frog"..... it's always blowing a ******* gale. It's a Links setup, but stuff me it's always insane the wind there. Mandaly can be much the same, but it has bugger all, in the way of a practice range.

So I have settled on Hidden Valley. It's a 35-minute drive up the Hume, heading North. 3 speed cameras to be aware of, so careful on the speed.

I have played the course probably 5-6 times now, & I bloody love it. The clubhouse is super impressive, and membership includes access to the gym (although I am a member of a Gym 500 meters from home) and to the indoor heated pool. Also included is bowls, tennis & pickle ball..... Not ready just yet (4 more years) is the opportunity to buy a home, that backs onto the actual course. Oh my glory filled days..... imagine driving your golf cart out the back gate, playing 18, then a few hours negotiating the 19th hole. Just drive the golf cart (hic) back home, through the course, and do it all again the next day!

So bugger it, Im not waiting to retire then join a club, I am doing it this bloody weekend.

www.hiddenvalleyresort.com.au

[heater31]

West Lakes tonight

4 of us looking to join there.

Gary Stweart a long-time member looking to get us a deal.

4 single figure golfers (1,3,4 and 8 join and wave the joining fee, sounds fair to me........

Very nice track.

******* hell letting anyone join these days! [emoji6]

Need players for the pennant team! Might eventually win a final!

*membership on hold.....

[Keefy]

didnt score particularly well, but as scores dont count towards handicaps its all practice rounds at the minute.

the Driver off the yellow castle tee is going high and getting good distance. really happy with that.
3w off the tee and off the deck also is behaving itself nicely.
4i cleveland just works a treat out of the trees
irons are a little inconsistent at the minute.
putting - still horrible, but late in the round, when i didnt think too much about it, they rolled a whole lot better.

Where are you playing nowadays? Still at the Vines?

Flaggy

How much is a membership there now?

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[mighty_tiger_79]

didnt score particularly well, but as scores dont count towards handicaps its all practice rounds at the minute.

the Driver off the yellow castle tee is going high and getting good distance. really happy with that.
3w off the tee and off the deck also is behaving itself nicely.
4i cleveland just works a treat out of the trees
irons are a little inconsistent at the minute.
putting - still horrible, but late in the round, when i didnt think too much about it, they rolled a whole lot better.

Where are you playing nowadays? Still at the Vines?

Flaggy

How much is a membership there now?

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$2600

[mighty_tiger_79]

Twilight

My God I just wish I knew how to &#&$*@*$&÷÷&#&@,,$&÷<#&÷, putt

[carey]

Twilight

My God I just wish I knew how to &#&$*@*$&÷÷&#&@,,$&÷<#&÷, putt

Get your chips and approaches better and you don't need to be a great putter!

Sounds so easy.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Twilight

My God I just wish I knew how to &#&$*@*$&÷÷&#&@,,$&÷<#&÷, putt

Get your chips and approaches better and you don't need to be a great putter!

Sounds so easy.

My chipping game is very very solid.
But even a simple tap in is knee rattling stuff

[Corona Man]

Twilight

My God I just wish I knew how to &#&$*@*$&÷÷&#&@,,$&÷<#&÷, putt

Get your chips and approaches better and you don't need to be a great putter!

Sounds so easy.

My chipping game is very very solid.
But even a simple tap in is knee rattling stuff

Have you tried cross handing them?

I find it takes the wrist break out. I am using on short putts now. Seems to work.

[Dutchy]

Twilight last night, have now played the first at the Vines hundreds of times but with a bit of wind assistance I hit the best drive Ive ever hit there, about 40m past the dip and even cut the corner a bit, then even more surprisingly I flushed by 3 wood to be 2m off the front of the green, 2 putts from there and a birdie and 4 points to start the round

Bogey golf from 2-6 then a double on 7, par on 8 and standing on the 9th tee with 19 points, then 8 shots later and a scrub that was my final score. but it was still the best golf Ive played for a couple of months so Ill take it

[mighty_tiger_79]

friday - was just a quick walk, got around in 2.5hrs.

McCracken this morning.

The wind was up. Light Precipitation joined us about 4 holes in.

Driver, was a little pully, but sorted that out. slowed down the swing and made sure to hit up on the ball
the 7w did its job beautifully today.
some of the pin locations were just ridiculously tough. greens were weird, super quick down grain but ultra slow against it.

found the fairway on 18 to get my name down for longest drive, but i suspect that will already be gone. downbreeze and got it 236m. just a nice swing to put it up in the slipstream.

finished 39pts

[Dutchy]

nice MT, what did you hit off the stick, thats a nice round there

[mighty_tiger_79]

nice MT, what did you hit off the stick, thats a nice round there

front 41
back 43
84. the main thing was only the one double and no lost balls. last time there i lost 4 balls

[mighty_tiger_79]

Twilight

My God I just wish I knew how to &#&$*@*$&÷÷&#&@,,$&÷<#&÷, putt

Get your chips and approaches better and you don't need to be a great putter!

Sounds so easy.

My chipping game is very very solid.
But even a simple tap in is knee rattling stuff

Have you tried cross handing them?

I find it takes the wrist break out. I am using on short putts now. Seems to work.

i have, but just dont feel right, left handed on short 3ft putts works.
i saw the Odyssey jailbird 380 in drummond the other week and i actually didnt mind it. you just rock the shoulders, the grip is large so you cant get wristy.

[mighty_tiger_79]

With a handful of Pale Ales I assume?

You assume right.

summary?

is the course still shortened?
thinking of dropping in there next week as flaggy getting cored

[mighty_tiger_79]

39pts again.
1 scrub on 17

Lose the weekend B grade by 1 pt I think

[carey]

Scratched my way to 30 points on Saturday and I mean scratched!

Scrubbed 2 of the par 3's

Nothing really of note to talk about all.

14- 2 Pointers
2- 1 Points (OB on par 5 i get a shot on and in the hazard on the other)
2 Scrubs

Very much a non-eventful round.