Breaking 100 would be a good start;)
It has been a good few weeks with plenty of golf. My game is improving, but it’s getting clear that I need to apply some kind of strategy if I want to break 80 in a year. Some days I play quite well, but then there are days like yesterday.
I played Evje Golfpark with my friend Håvard, who is seriously hooked on golf. Evje is his home course and he was the perfect guide. When he suggested we should play for money I was more than willing as I was convinced my game would be super hot after a good warm-up on the range and practice green.
We started on the back-nine and and with a triple bogey on the first hole was I wasn’t off to the start I was hoping for. It took me a good five holes until I shot a par. The start was not the best but the worst was yet to come. On the 18th I actually managed to score 10! I don’t know if there is a name for such a score, but it was painful. I shot three balls out of bounds before hitting the fairway. Final score: 103! Merde! (Click for Scorecard).
Most people say one should practice the short game the most, but I don’t know. If you can’t make it off the tee, the short game won’t save the day. I guess I should spend my money on lessons rather than giving it away to friends. Needless to say Håvard had the most cash in his pockets by the end of the round. Read more…
The Season Begins
Finally! The snow is gone and the fairways are starting to turn green. It has been a good while since my last up-date, but in all honesty there hasn’t been all that much to report. Today, however, was the first day of golf in Norway for my part.
Last weekend I played in Sweden with my my mother. It was a great start to the season and even if my game was rusty, I had a great time. We played at Dynekilen, where I did the last round of 2009. I played better then.
It seems my short game has improved with all the indoors practise over the winter, and I am hitting the woods fairly well. Yet for some reason I cannot hit the irons straight at all any more. I either pull or slice. Every now and then I think I know how to fix it, but most of the time it ends up anywhere but where I aim.
The only sensible thing to do is to take some lessons. Today I would have a hard time breaking 100, but September is a long way away. It is just fantastic that the snow is gone:)
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Not the real deal
It has been a few days and that alone calls for an update. While I’m still working on the layout of my blog I’ve spent more time hacking at the indoor driving range. And yesterday: Pebble Beach Links Resort. On a simulator…
Simulator golf is not real golf and hence the score should not be compared to a real score… if you ask me. Some say the simulator is easier than the real deal; I say it is not so. However: should I be wrong I have a difficult task ahead of me. I didn’t pay that much attention to the final score but it was closer to 120 than the sub 80 score I’m working my way to.
When I returned from Spain I thought I had it all figured out and now it’s quite obvious I haven’t got a clue. These things happen. All though in a way it didn’t happen at all. It’s more like a pilot crashing his plane in the flight simulator. That doesn’t suck nearly as much as if it was for real.
That said: the new simulators at Innesvingen are really quite impressive and well worth a visit.
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