FAO Golfists

Played Bingley in a comp years back. You're right, it's very nice.

 

I started golfing aged 8 at Barnsley golf club. At 16 I had my first sub par round and played in the junior team along with Sean who has been the pro there for years.

Didn’t play a lot in my 20’s or 30’s but got back in to it when I moved up to Scotland around 16 years ago. I’ve had the pleasure playing some great courses with some top golfers and meeting great folk.

Possibly the most frustrating yet enjoyable game to play.

 

Not sure how the logistics would work but is there a BBS Society day at Staincross idea here??

 

Glad im not playing in this heat!

 

I put it down to having an old rusty right handed 7 iron as kids, 1 club, lucky to have that between 100 of us and a ball we’d found… whacking if around ings lane field wasn’t the best grounding to be a future devs ballesteros!!

mind i bat right handed at cricket too but then bowl left handed… all very strange!

 

It was intense. So muggy.
Couple of pars including a four at the last.
Other 16 holes were frustrating. My driving was OK but too often followed up by poor fairway shots.
Greens were so fast I thought I was at Augusta.

 

Top idea

 

My Howson irons. Hippo rescue wood. Donnay woods, trolley and pro action golf bag still in spare room. Dusty though. Haven't played since 2014.

 

Just gonna have to drop this in even though it's unashamed bragging. As a perennial average golfer peaking at 13 handicap and only shooting single figures over par on about four occasions.....
I did par the 17th at Sawgrass.
Best moment on a golf course.

Edit. I could list, on the other side of the coin, hundreds and hundreds of total f*** ups on courses near and far.
Always loved my time golfing though.

 

I went round the 9 hole municipal at Pontefract in 44.

 

You're older than I thought.

BTW my golf started at Ponty Racecourse, with a half set from an MFI warehouse.

Me and a mate spent a couple of summers doing 27 holes every week there during the summer. 1973/4. Got there on a bus from Hemsworth.

And me and the same mate have just come back from South Wales after doing 3 chronically bad rounds on the coast.

He plays every week and always beats me - the git. I play 3 or 4 times a year. Not that we're still competitive....

p.s. when you're playing Ponty municipal you get to see the private course through the bushes (after the third?) Played that a few times but the memories from the municipal are better.
The 9th - that's a corking drive.

 

I went to college there. Used to play the course a lot. Now just grass.

 

Yes. Very sad. Had some happy memories with my school, college and work mates there. @Gegenpresser. I've lost many a ball in those trees to the left on the ninth and shouted four quite a bit too to those teeing off at the first.

 

Well at least your "fore" at the first must have meant sufficiently airborne activity to threaten someone.

We got threatened at the first after my mate landed a practice swing divot in the gob of a bloke lacking an understanding of how novice we were.