Topic: Golf Equipment / Perth - Bridgestone Ball Fitting Challenge

Thanks for reminding me of that one fellas! I told Jon i saw it disappear at the base of the tree and how right i was..!

Was a good 9 holes, some reasonable scores as well. Wembley was in far better condition than what i remember.

Topic: Golf Equipment / Perth - Bridgestone Ball Fitting Challenge

I’ll be down there around 4:30 to hit a bucket of balls beforehand

Topic: Golf Talk / Are Private courses harder than public???

I can relate to my own experience moving from playing public tracks like Burswood, Wembley etc to a private club at WAGC.

WAGC is a par 70 which some people automatically think must be ‘easy’. Two features make it particularly difficult in my opinion -

1. Length, even for a ‘short’ course. An example is the 1st hole, a 220m par 3 with water on the left and OOB on the right. Also a number of the par 4’s are over 400m long which mean hitting driver, long iron into a green if you can even make it in 2.

2. Green complexes – every green is raised and surrounded by bunkers. Greens normally play hard and very fast so stopping your ball from certain lies/sides of the green is almost impossible. Short side yourself and watch the strokes rack up quickly.

Both of these aspects i reckon combine for quite a few strokes different. Also somewhere such as Joondalup is a totally different course playing it off the public tees versus the member’s tees. A lot more bunkers come into play and you are having a lot longer approaches into greens adding to difficulty.

Topic: Golf Talk / Private or Public ??

So whilst you have an accurate handicap it’s not recognised outside of the WAGL

Interesting to hear how other’s handicaps have faired when they have moved from a social club to an AGU handicap? I’ve played with a couple of guys recently who are moving between the two and they reckon their AGU handicap will be at least 6 or so shots higher than the social one? (one of the guys plays of a social handicap of 6 or so and will probably end up about a 15).

Topic: Golf Equipment / Perth - Bridgestone Ball Fitting Challenge

Found out that you need to book a timeslot for this – just ring up Wembley if you are going and book in a time. I’m in for 5:30pm

Topic: Golf Equipment / Perth - Bridgestone Ball Fitting Challenge

There is a Bridgestone ball fitting challenge scheduled for Tuesday 25h November at Wembley if any of the Perth iseeker’s are interested. 12 – 6pm

Topic: Golf Talk / The Links Kennedy Bay to reopen November

Amazing what banning golfers from the course can do ! ;)

Topic: Golf Talk / The Links Kennedy Bay to reopen November

That would be great… “golf course residential areas

Topic: Golf Talk / The Links Kennedy Bay to reopen November

re the comment in the article

“Mirvac also have plans to develop the adjoining Kennedy Bay property into a fully integrated residential and tourism development, incorporating coastal and golf course residential areas”

It would be really sad to see Kennedy Bay go the way of Secret Harbour and have heaps of residential adjoining the fairways…. hopefully they can find a happy medium as it would otherwise ruin the course

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / My first experience of TGM..

Guru and Dart have given you some pretty good advice there, but as someone prone to hooks and snap hooks myself maybe just check that the right hand hasn’t drifted a tad too far under the grip into a too strong position.

You can even fade it with a full roll swivel as long as you get your alignments right!

Topic: Golf Architecture / Turf?

My home course has Kikuyu fairways and other than less roll on drives (a part of the course’s defence) doesn’t really bother me anywhere else.

The course super does have it cut extremely low however so you are pretty much guaranteed a good lie on the fairway. We also stopped using sand to fill in divots about 18 months ago and chop in the sides instead.

Topic: Golf Talk / Sand Buckets

We used to have sand buckets at our club.

Given that i also carry my bag it used to be annoying, however i found a small kidney shaped sand holder that they sold at another pro-shop nearby. Not sure of the brand but it basically clips to your bag and swings freely so that even when carrying your clubs the sand doesn’t come out everywhere. Excellent idea and cost about $20.

About 18 months ago the club canned the practice of filling in divots with sand as apparently it was shown that the turf repaired better and was easier on the mowers etc not having to deal with it. Now we just chop in the sides of the divot and as long as people remember to do it, gives you a far better lie i think.

Topic: Golf Talk / Western Australian Golf Club Tips.

1st hole 200M par 3??? man thats gonna be fun at 7.45am :P
Cheers Bud!
chris

So Chris how did you go?

Topic: Golf Talk / Western Australian Golf Club Tips.

get warmed up before you go – they dont really have a driving there. There is a stretch of land that you could hit a few 8 irons, but nothing more than that.

You’re right, sort of. The driving range is only about 170m long so you are limited to irons (7 iron max i think the sign says but really just to ensure you aren’t hitting balls onto the road behind).

There is a large practice net next to the chipping area that you can hit driver etc into which is good to use if the intention is to just loosen up.

Topic: Golf Talk / Western Australian Golf Club Tips.

Glad my tips to idgolfguy came of some use. Been a member at WAGC for about 4 years.

I’m sure you will enjoy the course it is in sensational nick as per normal with the greens pretty quick at the moment.

Given that you are having a hit on the Friday the tees will probably be at the front of the tee boxes as they try and preseve the back blocks for the weekend competitions.

For instance the 1st hole par 3 will likely play 190-200m from the tee instead of the usual 220m on competition days.

Beware of the elevation changes as most holes play signficantly uphill or downhill so you need to make some allowances in terms of club selection.

Have fun !

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / The Biggest Cut

end 2006 23.9

end 2007 23.4

goal for end 2008 14

Hit a record number of fairways (70%) and greens (40%) for me on the weekend. Sadly the putter was off so ended up still shooting around my current hcp (21).

The strange thing is that for the first time in probably the last 6 months i had a couple of practice putts before the game (actually got to the course early enough). Putted them well on the practice green then went out and had the worst putting round in the last 6 months (36 putts). Most of those missed (usually just shaving the hole) were around the 6 foot mark where previously i was nailing them the majority of the time (had been averaging around 29-30 putts in the previous rounds).

Very strange

Topic: Golf Talk / US PGA - Telecast

How can people have a choice. If they don,t have Fox they don,t have the Golf.

A bad day on the golf course is better than no golf at all. :(

No one who ever had a lesson would have a swing like mine

Lee Trevino

You have a choice to get Fox if you want to watch the golf live. When the free to air channels have it you are at the mercy of their programmers and whether they decide to show it delayed, on HD channels only or not at all.

Perhaps not a problem for those on the east coast as for example with the british open Fox showed the coverage live up until the point that channel 9 took over. For those in WA channel 9 delayed the coverage so there was a 2 hour gap between when fox coverage finished and free to air kicked off. Under those circumstances i think that Fox should be free to continue showing it.

Topic: Golf Talk / US PGA - Telecast

YAAY!! At least for us poor saps in WA channel 9 doesn’t get to delay the ‘live’ coverage leaving a 2 hour gap between when fox finishes and ch9 picks it up (as in the recent british open coverage). Or worse still when ch10 gets it and shows it on their HD channel only.

Stuff golf on free to air i say – move it all to live on fox so at least people have a choice !!

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Which Statistics Are More Important

Aeonflux,

It is all about what you do about the stats. that count, not which stat. Your flat line show you are in danger of getting worse. Get help or fix it your self.

Simply do not start your back swing until you are 80% sure you are playing a shot that will succeed.

I see a lot of players hack drivers into the crap until I suggest we play for $50 the back nine. Then their attitude changes form playing shots they wish they could play to shot they know they can.

They don’t miss ANY fairways and neither should you.

Change your swing or attitude I reckon.

Interesting as I find if i think ‘safety’ off the tee and hit an iron for example then 9/10 will still go in the crap, only leaving a longer shot to the green!. Perhaps those thoughts can prompt a too negative attitude?

Topic: Golf Equipment / titleist pro-v1, where to buy?

5 Doz from TGW.com works out to $229.75 US + $49.35 shipping.

Once exchange rate is factored in that’s $58 a box AU delivered

Topic: Golf Talk / Got a suprise in the mail yesterday

The Sunday comp i regularly play in is mixed (i.e. Male and Female members) and there are just prizes awarded for nett 1st, 2nd place etc rather than grouped on handicap or gender.

This seems to make sense to me in terms of equality as i have no problems with ladies in the field. The bit which seems strange though is that they still play off their own tees (particularly when the course is setup for an important event and playing off the tips).

Why shouldn’t women play off the same tees as men if they are going to be in the same comp but then have a higher handicap if required to not disadvantage them?

Topic: Golf Talk / Prizes at your clubs?

WAGC -

Normally $100 1st Place (proshop voucher), $50 second (proshop voucher), $3 vouchers thereafter to those that break their hcp

$5 entry fee for ‘normal’ comps (sometimes higher if major events etc)

Topic: Golf Talk / The Cut, in trouble?

I’m a member at the WA Golf Club and we have some fairly simple rules when it comes to guests.

- I can bring a guest along for social play outside of competition times and they pay a guest fee (around $35 for 18 holes which equates to what you would pay on a normal public track). Each guest is restricted to 6 rounds? per year max (although this would need to work on the honour system as i’m sure it is not formally tracked by anyone)

- You can’t bring a guest on peak comp days e.g. Saturdays. You can bring one on a Sunday to play in the comp as long as they have an official handicap and it is approved in advance by the club captain (this avoids guests taking up member’s comp tee times)

So basically if you aren’t stopping another member from getting access to the course then you are welcome to bring visitors along which also results in more money for the club. I brought along some business colleagues recently who hadn’t played for a while and purchased balls, tees, gear etc from the pro shop all valuable income

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Strong vs Weak Grip

Wishbone,

I have to teach players from the hook side if they are going to break 70.They can break 80 with any swing.

But hey! that’s just me. I can afford to be fussy.

I’ve recently gone back to a ‘slightly stronger’ than neutral grip recently after playing with something reasonably weak for a while.

Results have been significantly better especially mid to short iron contact and compression. For whatever reason have found a bit of the opposite though with the longer clubs if it is a tad strong i.e. a bit hook prone and not as much distance

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / The Biggest Cut

end 2006 – 23.9

end 2007 – 23.4

goal for end 2008 – 14

Have had a couple of weeks off and won the comp yesterday (Par) with a +4 in windy conditions. Handicap down 1.6 as a result so now sitting on 21.2

27 Putts helped as well !

Back out on the weekend after a week off. Played to the new handicap which was good – off the tips as well as penants were on in the afternoon.

30 putts today which i was still pretty happy with, drained a few monsters and the greens were very fast.

Wasted a lot of shots chipping as the distance control was pretty ordinary given the fast greens and tight pin positions.. if i got up and down everytime would have shot mid 70’s!