- Sep 1, 2004
- 6,542
- 4,976
...on Saturday. Yes folks, 30mph winds with 40mph gusts on a links course off the tips. Brutal!
I hit a hybrid 270 yards on hole 7 and 150 yards on the very next hole. Both were equally well hit with a low draw!! I hit a 4 iron on a downhill 160 yard par 3. But to me those shots were fun to try and hit. Moving the ball to the back of the stance, Keeping the follow through short and low. Using my lower body top drive these shots under the win.
I managed to get round the front nine in +3. But the wheels came off on the back nine, limping home in +10. The biggest factor to me was the putting. I had 40 putts, 22 on the back nine!!! The wind was blowing the ball all over the greens. It was hard to get a solid stance over the ball. Putting is my Achilles Heel and it was like an open wound, with the wind prodding a thorn into it at every chance.
Turns out the competition was (unsurprisingly) a non counting event. The SSS was 75! I had the 3rd best gross with an 84!
So hats off to the Best in the World. To play as well as they did in that sort of wind was nothing short of extraordinary.
I hit a hybrid 270 yards on hole 7 and 150 yards on the very next hole. Both were equally well hit with a low draw!! I hit a 4 iron on a downhill 160 yard par 3. But to me those shots were fun to try and hit. Moving the ball to the back of the stance, Keeping the follow through short and low. Using my lower body top drive these shots under the win.
I managed to get round the front nine in +3. But the wheels came off on the back nine, limping home in +10. The biggest factor to me was the putting. I had 40 putts, 22 on the back nine!!! The wind was blowing the ball all over the greens. It was hard to get a solid stance over the ball. Putting is my Achilles Heel and it was like an open wound, with the wind prodding a thorn into it at every chance.
Turns out the competition was (unsurprisingly) a non counting event. The SSS was 75! I had the 3rd best gross with an 84!
So hats off to the Best in the World. To play as well as they did in that sort of wind was nothing short of extraordinary.