CS Golfers Thread - post your scores here, good or bad

[lurker172602]

me, tazz, youcan, richo(?) Who else?

First up, home club and handicap.

Narooma, 13.3 GA, 16 playing.

[lurker172602]

That's a nice handicap you had there shuveee. You must have been very handy. Sorry to hear your back is keeping you off the course. My lowest has been 11, and I mean to get back there - maybe next year 😀

How good caddying for Rita Hayworth must have been. Where was that?

[lurker172602]

Sometimes I feel like I should just be watching too richo LOL

I actually don't watch much golf on TV. I find it a bit boring, as they tend to just focus on one or two players and then only on drives and putts. The Australian coverage is ok but anything from the rest of the world leaves me a bit cold really.

You're right playing the game can be VERY frustrating, but it beats staying at home and doing the housework any day 😃

[serendipityricho]

Hi Lurker--my handicap is----------------im just plain ..lazy.

See if this thread brings out other cs golfers.

My mate Webby travels over to Yarram and plays on Saturdays-loves it.

A good mix of blokes-locals and folk trom the city with holiday houses in the area.

Has lots of stories when i catch up with him on Sundays............................................Richo.

[go-tazz]

Yarrawonga 9.5 GA currently playing of 11 for 18 holes,(lowest was 6 just over a year ago) and play off 2 for

9 holes.

I've been playing for 23 years,(mostly in Portland but moved back here a year and a half ago).

Winter time meant not much golf there,(as the course gets soaked and is unplayable) but it's totally different

here,(I can play lots of golf here and total membership fees are under $300),

You're right playing the game can be VERY frustrating, but it beats staying at home and doing the housework any day 😃

It can be a very frustrating game as you seem to "have" it sorted and then BANG it's gone again,

Or like my current problem which for the last few months has been the back nines,(shooting 37/38's on the

front and blowing out on the back,(38/47 on Saturday).

Played with one of our young guns on Tuesday and he shot a 67 off the stick for 35 Stableford points,(he

plays off +6).

[shuveee]

Thank you lurker. I really do miss playing an awful lot.
An 11 is quite respectable, I think. How often are you able to play/practice?

actually don't watch much golf on TV. I find it a bit boring, as they tend to just focus on one or two players and then only on drives and putts

Good point. It would be good to see more action between the tee and green.

go tazz wrote: It can be a very frustrating game as you seem to "have" it sorted and then BANG it's gone againI

Exactly!   

How good caddying for Rita Hayworth must have been. Where was that?

It was at The Riivera Country Club in Los Angeles - home of the PGA's annual L.A. Open tournanment (which is now called the Northern Trust Open). One of the very few places Tiger Woods has never won lol The course is nicknamed "Hogan's Alley" in honor of Ben Hogan's achievements there.
From its inception it was always rather a haven for celebrities. Humphry Bogart, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Howard Hughes and Charlie Chaplin were early members there. Walt Disney was a member, and Jack Warner of Warner Brothers. 
It had that same flavor during my time there. Dean Martin, for instance, practically lived at the place lol
In later years O.J. Simpson would turn out to be the club's most notorious member!

The golf course has a feature that, as I undertand it, many Australian courses do as well: apart from its greens its turf is almost entirely made up of  kikuyu grass (scientific name Pennisetum clandestinum). 
I loved playing on that stuff. The ball sits up so nicely on it 🙂

[shuveee]

The golf course has a feature that, as I undertand it, many Australian courses do as well: apart from its greens its turf is almost entirely made up of  kikuyu grass (scientific name Pennisetum clandestinum). 

Since 2001, Australian golfers Robert Allenby, Adam Scott and Aaron Badderly have all won the tournament there

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@shuveee wrote:

LOL youcan 😉

No golf cart 🙂 She enjoyed the walking for exercise. And interestingly, she never played with others. Always alone. And only very late in the day on weekdays, when the course was the quietest and least busy. For her golf was a pleasant way to get away from it all. She was always impeccably dressed, and often self depricating about her game in a charming, humorous way. A great lady, to be sure 🙂

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Im imagining Ms Hayworth played late in the day because the light was so beautiful and shadowy- not too bright...softer..lol..

Its funny, reading your description of her- shes sounds exactly as Ive always imagined- and very intelligent. As my father would have said 'they broke the mold after her'...maybe lurker is a little like her, I might have my work cut out for me, caddying from a different state!!haha

[shuveee]

Yes youcan. Very intelligent as well. Also kind and genuine. Not the least affected.

As my father would have said 'they broke the mold after her'...
 

Cheers to your father. Well said.
My father was too busy drooling to form a coherent sentence lol

maybe lurker is a little like her, I might have my work cut out for me, caddying from a different state!!haha

yes...lol

[go-tazz]

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@shuveee wrote:

The golf course has a feature that, as I undertand it, many Australian courses do as well: apart from its greens its turf is almost entirely made up of  kikuyu grass (scientific name Pennisetum clandestinum). 

Since 2001, Australian golfers Robert Allenby, Adam Scott and Aaron Badderly have all won the tournament there

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Our courses were changed over to Santa Anna Couch about 10 years ago,(it forms a nice carpet type fairway

if it's not cut to short,but has to be de-thatched on a regular basis).

Kikuyu can be very tiring to walk on as it can become like walking on a sponge,(Portland had a couple of

Kikuyu patches and they tended to get out of hand in early Spring).

[lurker172602]

That's interesting your course being nicknamed Hogans Alley.  We have a hole called a Hogans Hole - for a completely different reason.  Have you heard of Paul Hogan (aka Crocodile Dundee)?

from our website:

the 3rd – Hogan’s Hole

“Famous internationally Narooma’s 3rd hole is one that must be played at least once in a golfer’s lifetime”

Melville Proud – Executive Officer NSW PGA

Often referred to as Hogan’s Hole (after television personality Paul Hogan shot an advertisement featuring it’s unique setting) the 3rd hole at Narooma is widely regarded as one of the most spectacular holes in golf with players hitting over the ocean to a cliff top green.

Narooma’s 3rd hole is listed in Most Spectacular Holes – from Australia’s Finest Golf Courses by Darius Oliver