He does seem to be a bit of a dick. Looking forward to seeing Fleetwood, who's a fabulous player with a great temperament. The big names like Rose, McIlroy and Poulter will have to have massive weeks for the Euros to have any chance.

the only chance Europe has is if a missed fairway basically guarantees you lose the hole

0710 Justin Rose and Jon Rahm vs Brooks Koepka and Tony Finau Europe

0725 Rory McIlroy and Thorbjorn Olesen vs Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler halved

0740 Paul Casey and Tyrrell Hatton vs Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas USA

0755 Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood vs Patrick Reed and Tiger Woods USA


getting Hatton out the way early doors!#Good move
PS Casey is a complete plum according to my spies at IMG

Probably put Hatton and Casey together cos no one else would play with either of them.

Tour to Woburn this weekend

Which courses?

The Marquess is long but much more open than the other two.

The Duchess is short but tight as a nuns chuff, don't even bother with the driver bar the par 5s.

Dukes more of an old fashioned test.

we played them all
Marquess - I played great 35 points
Duchess in pissing rain - 16 points including 7 blobs on the trot
Dukes - 26 points

comfortable mid table mediocrity

Did you try and risk the driver on the Duchess?

As I end up spraying my drive about quite a bit I find the Marquess the easiest course despite the length, love trying to go for the big carry on the split fairway par 5. It's not even that long a second just a huge risk if you hit it offline.

I could have used an axe to better effect on the Duchess.
It is narrow ,but the rain made it impossible for most of us

I had 8 points after 14 holes - managed to get 8 more on the last 4 though !


Marquess is great
The double fairway hole fooled me as I topped my drive and then hit a great 3 wood over the hill . only to find the abyss at the end !

One of those holes that you play differently next time !

British Masters

http://www.europeantour.com/europeantou ... index.html

Walton Heath Golf Club
Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Purse: £ 3.0 million

Notable players:

o- British & Irish: Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Eddie Pepperell, Matt Wallace, Ross Fisher, Chris Wood, Shane Lowry, Paul Dunne, Lee Westwood, Padraig Harrington.
o- Continental Europeans:, Francesco Molinari, Thorbjørn Olesen, Lucas Bjerregaard, Adrian Otaegui, Alexander Björk, Alexander Levy, Mike Lorenzo-vera, Mikko Korhonen, Andrea Pavan, Marcus Kinhult, Martin Kaymer, Nicolas Colsaerts.
o- North Americans: Julian Suri, Harold Varner Iii, David Lipsky, Chase Koepka, Daniel Im, Austin Connelly.
o- Aus & NZ: Scott Hend, Jason Scrivener, Ryan Fox, Lucas Herbert, Andrew Dodt, Marcus Fraser, Brett Rumford, Sam Brazel, Jason Norris.
o- South Africans: Charl Schwartzel, Brandon Stone, Erik Van Rooyen, Dean Burmester, Darren Fichardt, George Coetzee, Haydn Porteous, Richard Sterne, Thomas Aiken, Zander Lombard, Trevor Immelman, Jaco Van Zyl.
o- Asians: Hideto Tanihara, Haotong Li, Gavin Green, Jeunghun Wang, Phachara Khongwatmai, Thongchai Jaidee, Soomin Lee.

Am going to the masters on Saturday a mate bought a hospitality package for 4 charity day 😁

if you see Ryan Fox tell him the penalty his Dad kicked to beat the Lions in 1993 was a travesty !

But not as bad as the penalty Owen Farrell kicked in 2017 to beat the All Blacks.

Didn't take long for you to leap onto the hook!!!

I remember both clearly. One was was a travesty, the other perfectly legit.

Had my best round ever yesterday. 77 off the stick and went 1 under for the front nine (par 72). Makes the back nine sound bad but I did have on line putts stop 10 cm or so from the hole on 4 holes in a row on that nine!! Not a remarkable round for a single figure handicapper but I was playing off 16 and so had 47 stableford points.

Congrats man nice round. First time breaking 80?

First time I broke 80 was quite similar. I was having a good front nine until I tripled the ninth and made the turn six over.

But then I shot 1 under for the back nine for 77.

41 points and then 40 points!!

enough to secure our team second place in the Summer long " Grand Prix "

from 6th to second in a week

£4200 to be shared by 4 of us for a £150 per head auction cost


Downhill 10 footer on the last made all the difference !

Was that your drive?

3 wood

A rare sight last Friday

Ex Irish Rugby International throwing up the best part of 5 pints of Guinness that he had tried to down in one from a very large " yard of ale" glass!
In front of 170 charity guests.

On his return from the bogs someone thoughtfully gave him a pint of Guinness

I play regularly with a member at my club who must be fairly unique in rugby terms.
Was a Lion without ever representing his country 🧐

I play regularly with a member at my club who must be fairly unique in rugby terms.
Was a Lion without ever representing his country 🧐[/quote]


initials AL ?

Very good Gareth correct!

Meanwhile in our club winter 4somes I am taking on the Richmond halfback pairing from the 1970s

I love it when old teammates play together: not globbying ; Wasps halfback pairing from 1954 still have a game every week at ours isn’t that great?

initials AL ?[/quote]

There's a webpage for everything! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_uncapped_British_and_Irish_Lions_rugby_union_players

He must be the only living example and surely the last of his kind?

Blimey certainly not unique!!! As you say only one or two can be still alive sadly.

TBF it’s hard to diffentiate between a Gareth drive and and a putt.

Downhill 10 footer on the last made all the difference ! [/quote]

Was that your drive?[/quote]
TBF it’s hard to diffentiate between a Gareth drive and and a putt.[/quote]



recently more of the drives have gone in the hole !!!

You were fine when you weren't relying on the chief-choker, Henry, to miss a tiddler which is where it normally all went downhill on the greens...

you cant say "choke" anymore
Jonny Miller has retired and Paul Azinger says its innappropiate

Pups V Hounds tomorrow morning

Under 35s against over 35s

loser buys lunch wine which is generally us - followed by massive piss up whilst watching rugby

Any dog related jokes gratefully received?

And ....

for the first time ever the hounds beat the pups !!
[ we lot our game though]

we then proceeded to get absolutely cxnted and I was home in bed by 9.30 pm

4 weeks of golf and then rugby now completed
Back to normal this weekend.


Who has one of those thick grips on their putter
?
Im considering it


what is the theory behind it?

I have thicker grips than standard but there are even thicker models available. Supposed to help take the wrists out of the stroke. I like them but not sure I'm putting any better.

I have a medium grip on my Odyssey 2Ball putter, and the idea is that it stops you breaking your wrists when putting. I find it more effective on slower greens for some reason, but on quicker greens in the middle of summer I rely on my venerable Ping Anser. I should point out that when I say more effective I actually mean less bad.

I have stumped up for a set of PXG Irons to try and reinvigorate my interest in Golf!! They really are a thing of beauty

Did you mortgage the house? Which model?

I got a blinding deal as a guy at the golf club had just been fitted for them but after one round decided he didn’t like the look of them and wanted the brand new pro model, so I had them fitted and loft & lie sorted new shafts (115g) and grips slightly thickened for £1115 😁😁