A shank, a wiff, a top and a mystery lost ball.

[IrishGolfer]

So to my weekly round-up at Portstewart. It was our penultimate competition Saturday past. Despite hitting the ball fairly well, I manged to throw in some "exhibition shots" , just to take the boredom out of the round.

Having hit into a bush on 4, I made the "positive decision" to play out. One wiff later I then decided to take a penalty drop. I also managed to lose my drive on 7, despite all of us seeing exactly where it pitched, on the side of a hill, 2 yards off the fairway. 99 times out of 100 the ball will kick left back onto the fairway. I guess I managed to hit a shot in a hundred. I think it burried itself down a rabbit hole. Little furry bastards!

So I'm still there, despite the set-backs. A few birdies and pars got me back into contention, and then bang on cue, I had an unexplicable top into gorse bushes 40 yards off the tee on 11. "Goodbye, Fairwell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu!" (Remember the Sound of Music?)

Anyway, I managed to round it off a few holes later with the "piece de resistance", Following my drive of the day I had 95 yards from the centre of the fairlway. I was thinking birdie. My wedge wasn't and "it" decided to hit a power shank. Precisely 45 degrees and great trajectory.

Who says golf is boring?

 

[DaveE]

Lol, thanks for taking the sting out of not playing this weekend. My back's still bothering me but I wouldn't have gone out anyway. It was 107F yesterday and that's too hot even for me. According to the weatherman it something to do with hurricane and the side of it we were on.

If you ever make your way to Texas please save of few of "those shots" for when we play.

 

[obagain]

Anyone can hit it to the middle on the fairway, only a real golfer tests his ability to recover with shots as you described.

Way to seperate yourself from the pretenders.

 

[Kilted Arab]

Anyone can hit it to the middle on the fairway, only a real golfer tests his ability to recover with shots as you described.

Way to seperate yourself from the pretenders.

See previous threads re. Headfort. IG's ability to recover from bad shots is awesome.

 

[GregInOz]

I'm loving the idea of the "power shank". Pure gold.

 

[Loop]

Sweet talking to "it" works wonderfully.

 

[IrishGolfer]

Sweet talking to "it" works wonderfully.

I'm not on sepaking terms with "it" at the moment. We share a love/hate relationship (I love to hate it!).

Actually it is a "cool club" but I am in the process of swapping it out - 52 degree RTG Cleveland for a 52 degree CG10. I got the 56 CG10 on Dave E's advice and it's pretty cool. It's not a life or death situation so I'll probably leave it until 2006. It's the Ho in me!

 

[Copperas]

Go ahead, cough it up, what did you end up shooting?

 

[Big Brother Dunk]

:biglol: The title of this thread is hilarous...





...even though your story is quite tragic.

 

[Loop]

IG, you need this hacker's club...

:biglol:

 

[IrishGolfer]

IG, you need this hacker's club...

:biglol:

The thing is that I am fine for a few rounds. I can take out the pin with my wedges most of the time. Then Gazzam! Outa nowhere, Mr./ Shank comes to town.

I'll bet I could still hit a "trick shot" with that sucka!! Does it come in a CG10 model?