Tell us about your game today...

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.. or yesterday or whenever your last game happened.

I played this morning - just a bounce game with one of my regular partners.

There had been a big competition yesterday at the club so the course was a bit quieter today than one might expect for a Sunday. 11:20 tee off as a two-ball and lots of other two balls out there with a couple of quick 4-balls so pace of play was brisk.

Those who have read my posts recently will know that I've been suffering with a nasty foot/ankle injury for a few months and it's just great to be out there at all at the moment. Thankfully the foot came through with flying colours though I think I've been favouring it for the last couple of weeks still and after the game today my knee was playing up but with luck that will just be a temporary setback.

A glorious day though in the Thames Valley with above average temperatures and the course was in remarkable nick for mid March.

The match itself was close for a long way. I felt I was playing reasonably well after not playing much of the winter and after losing the 2nd I levelled it on the 3rd and was one up after nine. Though I felt I was playing better than my opponent I couldn't shake him and he hung in there until I went 2 up on 15. Closed it out on 16 but was made to work for it.

Although it was matchplay I kept an estimated Stableford score and came in with 32 (estimated) points which I wasn't too disappointed with given lack of recent regular play. One NR and a couple of holes where a 3 pointer was well withing my grasp and ended with 1 point (short game was actually pretty good apart from those two nightmares)

Now looking forward to next weekend and a Stableford competition where I've been drawn with last year's captain and next year's!

NST... I hate to say it but I wasn't really on my game that day.

Question for the group; Is it still sharting if you have a stomach flu bug?

NST - I think so. I have just this minute pencilled it onto the calendar, so it should soon be set in stone.

I know what you are saying about LJ's pitching, it comes from learning on a course where only one hole was unprotected at the front of the green. Good though he is, he still has a long way to go to beat 'El Ringo's' putting.

Society day at Hintlesham today. I scored 37 points off 7, won one nearest the pin and was part of the winning scramble team. Yet I'm a little disappointed as one poor swing on the last caused a drop shot on the 432 yrd par 5 (don't ask me!) where a 5 would have tied the winning score and a 4 would have won it. Still, given that my club hcp is 12, I can't be too down on myself, I suppose.

It sounds like you had a succesfull day SJ. Are you thinking of bringing that success to North Weald on the 21st?

oldshanker wrote:It sounds like you had a succesfull day SJ. Are you thinking of bringing that success to North Weald on the 21st?

Must admit I'm more inclined to do so now. Will check the diary tomorrow and so long as there's nothing booked will give them a bell.

Smithers...by coincidence I have got a society day at Hintlesham on Monday. That par 5 at the last seems a bit generous!...how was the rest of the course?

BlueCoverman wrote:Smithers...by coincidence I have got a society day at Hintlesham on Monday. That par 5 at the last seems a bit generous!...how was the rest of the course?

I really enjoyed it. It is a fairly easy layout, to be fair, with all the par 5s under 500 yards and only one or two of the 4s over 400. The sss is 69 off the yellows but 72 off whites, and you can see why, quite a few holes much longer (14, si1 is a good 80 yards longer). Although we got caught in a fairly major downpour early in the round, the course wasn't badly affected and played very fair. The rough was long but not dense, so no lost balls but not necessarily easy to get out of. Signature hole is the 4th, great looking par 3 of around 190 yards with water short left, and the green built into the side of a hill. Our winning scramble team could only manage a 4 there, yet we all made 3s in the afternoon! Main criticism of the course was the speed of the greens. They were really slow before it rained, and slower still when wet. They seemed to roll pretty true though, always assuming you could hit it hard enough and still get it rolling. One final tip; the Peroni looks nice but at £4.10 a pint probably best to just admire the pump and drink something else!

Thanks for that Smithers...a score similar to your 37 points will do me nicely!

I am looking for a bit more consistantcy and to cut out the soul destroying sevens and eights.
Started 55555255 so good and bad, 5 at a short hole with a 3 putt with the new putter.
Round in 82 for 36 points so played to my handicap two games in a trot.

bounce game of two halves for me today.
7 over after 8, but only dropped one shot thereafter and with birdies at 9, 15 and a tasty eagle on 17, the money was in my back pocket despite being 6 points behind at the turn!

Played with JAS and 'The Deerhunter' today round my course. As I was starting my backswing on the 6th tee, there was a loud shout of 'fore' from the 5th tee quickly followed by a loud 'AARRGGHHHHHH' from the Deerhunter. Needless to say, I hit a skank shot which then resulted in the 3 of us getting the giggles. It got worse and ended up with the 3 of us literally rolling on the floor laughing and JAS having to wipe tears off his face so that he could see clearly enough to hit his shot.

The golf was Poopie but we certainly had a laugh out there today

Decent game on saturday 36 points off the back tees so played to handicap with acouple of long putts.
However did something I have never done before.4 ft putt for par on 10 and just touched the ball as I was setting up for the putt Moved about 25mm.penalty shot and partner pointed out it had to be replaced before the next shot holed out for 5 .Silly mistake not to be repeated

2 rounds with redrage on gullane #2 and #3. couldn't drive for toffee with the driver, the 3 or the hybrid. driver going right, other 2 going left but we had a laugh at our own incompetence with a golf stick, so it was a thoroughly enjoyable day oot.

stand out holes were all on #2 -

4th - long par 4 into a left-to-right cross/head wind. elevated tee position encourages you to have a go but the 4-5 club wind didn't! very well/ nastily positioned set of 4 or 5 pot bunkers strung diagonally across the fairway 20-50 yds short of the green really made you think (and made me duff it!).

11th - 197yd par 3 downhill into the 4-5 club wind. well bunkered but it was the stunning backdrop of the lothian coast back towards edinburgh and up to the bridges that caught the eye. pulled the hybrid well left nearly killing the group in front. redrage hit a peach to the left half of the green and walked off with a deserved par.

13th - 380-ish yds quite seriously back uphill with the wind. still didn't help with the rubbish driving. well positioned fairway bunkers and then a tricky approach to judge with the green still well above you but with a tail wind... ho hum, would like to play that one a few times to get it right. i think redrage's comment of "bu&&er it" on me asking him if he wanted to look for both the original ball and the provisional summed it up. tough hole.

14th - off the forward tees was down to about 300yds. a dogleg left hugging the side of the hill. given that we were both weeeell over par we decided to go for it. redrage was pulling all wood-shaped clubs and i was pulling my 3 and hybrid. so he spanked a great driver (only slightly pulled) into the greenside bunker and i really pulled my 3 into the uphill rough about 40yds short. chipped on and 2 putted, niiice. great short par 4 epsecially with the prevailing wind.

16th - 490-odd par 5 uphill and absolutely littered with bunkers. one to really think about and a very good looking hole. redrage found one of the fairway bunkers with his drive, got it out and 30yds forward and then spanked a hybrid to 4 or 5 feet beyond the pin. deservedly sunk the putt and walked off with a sandy birdie. given some of our play it was one of those holes that reaffirmed the belief that golf's not all bad!

really good day out and perhaps we can recruit a few more for "scottish golf day oot II" in september.

graeme

was there only 2 of you in the end? I thought you had 4 or 5 people signed up?

and how they fell... naybother couldn't make it due to a stag party, the dazzler has knacked his medial ligament and mac has simply disappeared...

we had a laugh though. well, we had to or we'd have been in tears by the end of the front nine in the afternoon. it was properly windy and i even got a tad sunburnt as my wife pointed out when i got home!

hopefully we'll recruit a few more for the next one and it would be good to get it to coincide with your trip to carnoustie for the tassie.

There are 4 of us coming up for the Tassie and depending how we get on, we might be looking for a game towards the end of the week. 3 of us will definitely be driving back on the Saturday as it's my club's scratch open on the Sunday and we'll all be playing in it. But Friday 9th could be a good day for us. Anywhere around Fife would be perfect for us as we are in the hotel at Carnasty until the Saturday morning.

graeme wrote:mac has simply disappeared...

didn't they just arrest the head of the scotland branch of the sopranos family?

LJ

good to see you survived the weekend

drive4show wrote:LJ

good to see you survived the weekend

Friday night was a shambles! The Ringer was running around like a lunatic trying to break into the V club. Had to 'escort' him away before it all ended in bail being required.

Hey all

As the title of this thread kindly asks, I shall take great delight in describing my hole in one last Saturday to you.....

138 yards, wedge over the top of the pin, spinned back 15 feet and in! My first one! Expensive things these HIO's! Still didn't manage a win though, came 3rd with a level par 70. Hey ho, got a decent h/c reduction.

How's everyone doing?

congrats goldwolf!

Goldie

congrats and a quality way to do it as well, spinning it back into the cup

I'm very envious, still waiting for my first one!

Mine's a Guinness

ps... Goldie, have you seen the thread from LJ about the North Weald open next month? Not too far away for you, 5 or 6 of us already signed up for it!

graeme wrote:2 rounds with redrage on gullane #2 and #3. couldn't drive for toffee with the driver, the 3 or the hybrid. driver going right, other 2 going left but we had a laugh at our own incompetence with a golf stick, so it was a thoroughly enjoyable day oot.

stand out holes were all on #2 -

4th - long par 4 into a left-to-right cross/head wind. elevated tee position encourages you to have a go but the 4-5 club wind didn't! very well/ nastily positioned set of 4 or 5 pot bunkers strung diagonally across the fairway 20-50 yds short of the green really made you think (and made me duff it!).

11th - 197yd par 3 downhill into the 4-5 club wind. well bunkered but it was the stunning backdrop of the lothian coast back towards edinburgh and up to the bridges that caught the eye. pulled the hybrid well left nearly killing the group in front. redrage hit a peach to the left half of the green and walked off with a deserved par.

13th - 380-ish yds quite seriously back uphill with the wind. still didn't help with the rubbish driving. well positioned fairway bunkers and then a tricky approach to judge with the green still well above you but with a tail wind... ho hum, would like to play that one a few times to get it right. i think redrage's comment of "bu&&er it" on me asking him if he wanted to look for both the original ball and the provisional summed it up. tough hole.

14th - off the forward tees was down to about 300yds. a dogleg left hugging the side of the hill. given that we were both weeeell over par we decided to go for it. redrage was pulling all wood-shaped clubs and i was pulling my 3 and hybrid. so he spanked a great driver (only slightly pulled) into the greenside bunker and i really pulled my 3 into the uphill rough about 40yds short. chipped on and 2 putted, niiice. great short par 4 epsecially with the prevailing wind.

16th - 490-odd par 5 uphill and absolutely littered with bunkers. one to really think about and a very good looking hole. redrage found one of the fairway bunkers with his drive, got it out and 30yds forward and then spanked a hybrid to 4 or 5 feet beyond the pin. deservedly sunk the putt and walked off with a sandy birdie. given some of our play it was one of those holes that reaffirmed the belief that golf's not all bad!

really good day out and perhaps we can recruit a few more for "scottish golf day oot II" in september.

A nice an thorough account, but you left out your 360 yard drive on the 17th to pin high and just right of the green. Typical of this game to leave you with just enough confidence/encouragement to keep on trying.

goldwolf wrote:Hey all

As the title of this thread kindly asks, I shall take great delight in describing my hole in one last Saturday to you.....

138 yards, wedge over the top of the pin, spinned back 15 feet and in! My first one! Expensive things these HIO's! Still didn't manage a win though, came 3rd with a level par 70. Hey ho, got a decent h/c reduction.

How's everyone doing?

Congrats, my golf insurance covers a HOI... but the reason I have it is so that I am covered when one of my wayward drives goes through somebody's teeth or a window!

Played on Saturday morning, at Pine Ridge in Surrey, que at the first even at 7.17am. So went off 15 minutes after booked time and had a 4hr 20 min round! Usually try and get the silly early saturday times so i can be done and home at a decent time. Anyway im a hacker (21hc) and similar with my playing partners. Anyway a friend of mine playing off 19 had a +1 back nine 37. Including 3 birdies, one a chip in from off the green. We had never seen anything like it. Me, i shot a 91 and was one shot of being cut on my todays golfer tracker. but scored 38 points. So couldnt really complain.

Pine Ridge is ALWAYS a slow course. First 5 or 6 holes all real bottlenecks. First 6 often takes over 90 minutes but then things get a little better.

couldnt hole a put all day on saturday. Not normal for me as a good putter. Might need to take a new putter out of the 17 i have in reserve and see if it behaves this week.

Big weekend - our club championship on Sat/Sun then scratch knockout on last night....

Came 6th in club champ after 3 putting twice on Sat & 5 times on Sun --- very frustrating (I did get a prize for 3rd in Handicap... so small compensation).

Onto last night in the scratch knockout - I was against the clubs best player (he was +2 but now scratch, still plays the same tho'). I was level par for front 9 and 3 down. Went 4 down on 15th tee, having 3 putted the 14th from nowhere (b****y putter) then I went par, birdie - still in the game..... but he parred the 17th and I didn't birdie it, so that was it (I was 1 over, so played well)

Still I enjoyed the game - and we went round in 3h 10mins

Looking on the bright side - There's always next year

Should have been playing the first round of the club singles tonight, but my opponent scratched because of a bad back. So another Tuesday bounce game has come and gone, and once again I am hitting the ball really nicely.

Couple of silly errors in the out 9 gave me two trebles (tree trouble - just hit out sideways you plonker), but the rest was good and solid. Out in 46 back in 39 for 2 under my new handicap, things are looking quite good (famous last words)!

Even managed to draw a couple of drives on demand, not too bad when my natural shot is a high fade. The putting was surprisingly solid tonight as well and because we are all in a few comps over the next few months, we cut our gimmies down to just 12 inches.

NR - C>R>A>P!

Goldwolf~ well done.
I'm a skinflint as I have had three and they have cost me very little, empty clubhouses every time.

Today
Awayday doon the water at Girvan, easy wee course in splendid condition, weather great.

Started at 9th hole on the parkland side. Missed a tiddler for par at the first and three putted the 2nd.
Oh no three over par without a bad shot, it's going to be one of those rounds.
But no, played the next 8 holes in one over with some nice touches, the down the grip Rory Mac style was worling well and the new putter was starting to feel very good.
Stood on the first tee with a trial BB 3 wood borrowed from Deadly D. Nice shot with a wee draw that became a bigger draw and finished in the Firth of Clyde. Reload, same shot.
Played remaining holes steady for 36 points so apart form one disaster hole Ok

beninho wrote:Played on Saturday morning, at Pine Ridge in Surrey, que at the first even at 7.17am. So went off 15 minutes after booked time and had a 4hr 20 min round! Usually try and get the silly early saturday times so i can be done and home at a decent time. Anyway im a hacker (21hc) and similar with my playing partners. Anyway a friend of mine playing off 19 had a +1 back nine 37. Including 3 birdies, one a chip in from off the green. We had never seen anything like it. Me, i shot a 91 and was one shot of being cut on my todays golfer tracker. but scored 38 points. So couldnt really complain.

Pine Ridge is probably the best public course i have played, apart from the jubilee at st andrews (yet to play TOC). Always slow, always seem to be about 3 fourballs on the 2nd tee, but speeds up. I remember shooting level par on the back nine a few years ago when I was playing off 15... so can't be that hard!

Raycastle - you pretty much confirmed what I said earlier - though if you are in the Camberley area and know Pine Ridge then I'd suggest Downshire in Bracknell is possible a better public course

my first counting round of the year yesterday (as i discovered when filling in HowDidIDo a minute ago). Definitely a round of missed opportunities, most with the effing putter. all bogies, with 4 pars and one triple B.

however, i had a lot of fun with hell's hole! (name of the 5th on balcomie, 460yds par 4 dogleg right over the north sea, as described in another thread about very difficult holes). so, playing into about a 3 club wind i faded a well struck drive and didn't see it bounce, so assumed that it was on the beach. reloaded and did exactly the same. bah! reloaded with the rescue and as redrage will be able to predict, i pulled that one way up the hill but nowhere near the beach.

as i trudged towards my 3rd ball, i noticed a small white dot on the fairway where my first 2 would have been if i'd cleared the north sea. could it be??

well, i thought i'd play my provisional anyway and then go and take a look. so i proceeded to push the provisional... you got it, onto the beach. oh ffs!

i'm now hoping that the dot is one of my balls as i'm stuffed if i'm reloading.

IT IS! and it's my first. still playing pretty much into the wind and with getting on for 200 to the pin, i elect for the hybrid to try and keep it under said wind. hey, redrage, can you guess what i did? yup, pulled it, with one bounce on the 6th tee, into waist high rough on a steep bank. reload and do exactly, i mean exactly the same.

that's it!!! if i don't find them, it's an NR (that's twice i've said that on this hole). so i find the 2nd ball and hack it out in 2 onto the 6th tee. 2 yards away, there's the first ball. great! a mighty, stiff-wristed swipe sees it clear the 6th tee and roll to about 5 yards off the green.

a deft chip (mustered up from somewhere) and i'm 2ft from the hole and looking at a 5 if i sink it! which i do!

so despite actually taking about twifty swings, i walk off with a 5 and what is now my lucky ball :-)

shank it off the 6th tee up the bank, about 30 yards into the waist-high cabbage. goodbye lucky ball!!

everything just slightly off yesterday. nothing disasterous by i struggled to an 8 over, 80. off to work on my ball-striking this morning on the range. i need to rediscover the timing i had through april and may before the medal on sunday. feels like my season has arrived at a cross-roads. its time to either put june behind me and kick on from the early season form, or continue the june slump into july...

graeme wrote:well, i thought i'd play my provisional anyway and then go and take a look. so i proceeded to push the provisional... you got it, onto the beach. oh ffs!

i'm now hoping that the dot is one of my balls as i'm stuffed if i'm reloading.

IT IS! and it's my first. still playing pretty much into the wind and with getting on for 200 to the pin, i elect for the hybrid to try and keep it under said wind. hey, redrage, can you guess what i did? yup, pulled it, with one bounce on the 6th tee, into waist high rough on a steep bank. reload and do exactly, i mean exactly the same.

Hello all. Raising this as during Wednesday's medal, on the second I hit a decent strike with a slight cut off the tee into some first-cut rough. Never thought that it would be a lost ball and checked with my partners and they also advised that there was no need to play a provisional. Predictably, we couldn't find the ball, so off I went back to the tee. Also predictably, by the time I had returned after hitting my third off the tee, the original ball was found.

Now, my understanding is that the ball off the tee counts. Although, could I have declared that my third off the tee was a provisional, in case the original was found whilst I was re-playing, or by returning to the tee does this automatically mean that my third off the tee is the ball in play?

Graham, I suspect that having played a second shot with your provisional ball this would become the ball in play, but I'm not as strong on the rules as I should be.

In any case, suffice to say that the hole wrecked my card. I did feel a bit aggrieved.

as long as it is declared a provisional ball before being struck, you may still play the original if it is found (as i understand it).

the tee shot in question has a minumum 200 yd carry which gets longer, the more of the corner you cut off and with the fade, i was right at the limit. due to marram grass etc on the OB line, you never can tell visibly at that distance, if you've cleared it or not if you don't hit it flush, so always call provisional - a common occurence!

it was an overused word on that hole!

So I could have declared my third off the tee as provisional (five minute rule notwithstanding) and played the original which was found as I was walking back up the fairway?

Every day's a school day I guess.

yes. unless you know for sure it's gone, ie definitely seen landing and staying OB, just declare it a provisional. as was proven on that hole, despite hitting half a round's worth of shots, i still walked off with a miraculous 5. the next tee shot, however, i just hit a second without declaring. there was no chance i was going to find it and i really couldn't be bothered hiking up a steep slope through waist-high grass!

Today can only be described as a monumental c0ck up!

Club championships this weekend, start sheet came out and at the bottom it clearly stated 'Blue tees' which are the championship tees. So, first tee and the starter gives us our instructions then watches the 3 of us tee off from the blues. 18 holes later after a good round and lying in 4th position, go into the bar. Someone mentions something about the tees and we tell everyone that we played from the blues. It comes to light that everyone else had been instructed by the starter to play from the whites but he didn't tell anyone in my group!!!!

End result is I have been DQ'd. To say I am pi55ed off right now would be a bit of an understatement!

DFS
Surely you three are the only ones to have played the course correctly as per start sheet. If you were not given any instruction to play off the whites you are clearly in the right. Threaten them with the lawyers and watch what happens.

DTW

I really can't be bothered getting into a bitter argument with them. I've pulled out of all remaining scratch team matches for the remainder of the season.

Mav's finally back with the land of the living and off the crutches officially from friday just past, celebrated this with a trip to Hamberg(courtesy of Mrs Mav treating me for being injured) and some pretty good seats at the HAYE v KLITSCHKO fight and just arrived home now in what can only be described as a pretty tired state (just wish she'd got me a hotel too instead of early flight home) but now im back for the foreseable i'm going to commence regulare posting starting with this update, personally hoping to play again late september knees coming on nicely and doctor has said can start building it up now from next monday. More importantly Mavette update.

She got to play in the ladies club championship by virtue of her qualifing round in previous ladies medal. Ladies is a knockout event after and initial strokeplay day(36holes) top 16 qualify for the knockout and final is 36 hole knockout this is a renewed format from their previous straight seeded knockout apparently the ladies wanted a fairer chance at the title and seems fair. I was not there yesterday for the 36 hole strokeplay as I was in Hamberg. But had my updates throughout the day from a happy mrs Mav. Brief update first Mavette is now playing off 13, par for the course off ladies tess is 73. Her first round score was an 82, +9gross -4 net and put her in 2nd place with a net 69 after 18 holes (also her best ever gross score). Then in the afternoon she went out in slightly more windy conditions and played her little socks off so Mrs Mav was told by her playing partners and shot an unbelievable round of 80, +7 gross for a net score of 67 and won the strokeplay by 2 clear shots and nearly broke 80 for the first time. Not bad for an 11 year old lass who only been playing properly for less than 6months.

She is now boucing around house already this morning with excitement that they have seeded her number 1 for the knockout so se plays number 16 and so on. It's also her first official win and as a result she is off to county coaching sessions next week and has a new handicap exact of 11.2 so she has beaten her goal of playing of 12 at aged 12. So proud dad sitting her writing this with eyes opened on matchsticks. Whilst she has a hart breakfast of coco pops and is readying herself for junior match away at my old junior stomping ground

D4S

Sounds like you've been treated like the outcast poor relation, I think i would do a combination of both what DTW is suggesting and what you have done as a result, firstly I would instruct my club that i'm not playing any further competitions and considering reviewing my membership due to the starts error and the clubs own lack of understanding and inability to let people know prior to event what the tees are to be used as they clearly stated BLUE tees. Then I would seek some form of recompense from them in that people tend to talk about DQ's especially if they see a whole group has been done and that in has not only soured your taste for the game at the club but infringed on your character after all you did was play to exactly what it said on th staring sheet and the starter having seen previous groups go out and informing them has failed in his duties and failed you to

Brilliant news about Mavette, and good on her Ladies section for getting her involved at that young age.
She should improve on an upward spiral now for a couple of years. When she is around the 13 year old mark and playing Championships/ county matches she may blip a bit as she starts to realise that there are better players around and her confidence may take a dip..
That's the testing ground and it comes when the attitudes of 13/ 14 year old girls change, as all fathers of teenagers know!
Sounds like you have a real star on board there Mav

That is disgraceful D4S! How can they get away with it?

Mav - thank you for the latest instalment in my net neices onward march to South East domination of the courses of Kent. Next stop the UK and finally the WORLD!!

Perhaps a bit of inspiration involved from Yani Tseng's latest record-breaking addition to major haul?

Best of luck to Mavette for the rest of the comp anyway.

Played a regular sunday game. Pretty poor really. Although I've got the driver working I was very steep with the irons leading to a lot of fats. But sorted it on the back 9 and shot a half decent number. Hopefully it will keep getting better.

Played a social game today after the Captain's day yesterday. Captain's day was a fun event and though I thought I played OK for large parts of the round, too many careless shots (and FAR too many bunkers that I struggled with) spoiled what could have been an OK round. Today was a different story and scored 39 points - but that was helped by immaculate conditions, and some bad shots that weren't punished as badly as should have been (a chunked 5 iron to one green that landed about 30 yards short of the green, but with a front pin that in my head would turn into a "good" bad shot. As it was it ran 50ft through the green!) Putting improved hugely though which explains most of the big difference

drive that sucks. not sure what to suggest. certainly the least you deserve is an apology from the club.

mav, good stuff from mavette once again. good luck to her in the knockouts.

medal round this afternoon. striking the ball much better. just started standing a couple of inches further away and seemed to sort it. shot a level hcp round of +5. very dissapointing return of +6 on the four par 3s. actually only hit one really poor shot, but ended up in a couple unplayable lies in bunkers (one of my pet hates). slightly dissapointed with level par for the four par 5s, but didn't really challenge on the birdie front. delighted with -1 for the ten par 4s. made a couple of decent birdies and the only dropped shot came after a missed green followed by a missed 6 ft putt which i left hanging over the lip. pretty happy in all, as i've had a bit of a drop in form over the last month or so, good to put in a respectable score again.