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Mini Winter Matchplay Event
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Golfgraffix wrote: »If you had of knocked me out it wouldn't have been the Island
Should have beaten Fix then.
No, that wouldn't have worked either:(
I always enjoyed the Island any time i played it, even when I kicked it around. Which as you can guess is most of the time:)
As luck would have it I appear to have crocked my back so I won't be swinging a club for a bit.
Enjoy the day.
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FixdePitchmark wrote: »Very enjoyable day out in The Island. My favourite course on the east coast.
In hindsight - the two lads The Big and Ryaner had a major disadvantage not having played the course before.
Many holes require experience and the pace of greens and off runs is a totally new experience.
I love course - finding it a bit easier every time - but today was as easy as it comes there - rough still down - wind down. I plan to play the course once a year every year.
So Golfgraffix in final - a lad who is a better player - better ball flight - better short game - a better putter - a better mental game - better equipment , but after all that, a higher handicap. So an impossible task.
I'm happy enough with my run - and will enjoy our day out in The European Club.
I've at least won a free round.
Ah here Fix, this everyone is better than me shtick is getting harder to justify these days
Wish I'd had the time/flexibility to have gotten involved in this, sounds like a great bit of craic was had.0 -
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When are yous thinking for the final?, think its only right me and Parlance should be the referees down at the euro club. 2 northsiders going head to head, could spell trouble, will take a southsider and a mayo man to sort it out:pac: 0
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When are yous thinking for the final?, think its only right me and Parlance should be the referees down at the euro club. 2 northsiders going head to head, could spell trouble, will take a southsider and a mayo man to sort it out:pac:
Dar - date is not set yet - I'll work on it Tuesday.
We were thinking Easter week - Holy Thursday/Good Friday , maybe.
But some may be on holiday - I'll send pm.0 -
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FixdePitchmark wrote: »Friday 17th Booked at The European Club.
1016 hrs
1024 hrs
Full lines are booked - once we see who is going over next few days from mini league we will solid up exact numbers next week.
A few others have expressed an interest in playing.
50 Euro - GUI card required.
Great to get it at that rate - in spring condition. Course fully in play.
Hopefully we finish off a great few months of links in 1/2 decent weather.
Thank post if going - or serious interest in going.
I would love to mate but I am working.
I look forward to having another chance at getting there when you organise next year's competition.
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Sorry lads, been off the grid the last couple of weeks.
Best of luck tomorrow to Fix and Graffix for the inaugural boards Winter Matchplay Event
It's a little too sunny to be playing the final of a winter event though :P
Enjoy it lads; sorry I can't be there with you
Should be a cracking day on a cracking course; very jealous! 0 -
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Golfgraffix wrote: »Sorry my fault, was sick this week and wasn't up to playing.
J
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get better for your interclub match next week dude
Actually the match is tomorrow, metro cup against the local rivals Portmarnock GC. We took down the other locals Malahide GC in Barton Cup, so this would be a great double if we could beat them.
Not a chance with me playing two weekends in a row, that's why I had to pull out of Tullamore.
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Ass m'a remis sur un plateau
Well - Golfgraffix and I - at last, got our diaries synchronised and played the final in Corballis today. The Euro was a case of sick leave , I'm now, the sick one.
With both of us playing our best, should have been a close match - but sadly for me, I didn't turn up, and along with the code of our first ever "Links" Matchplay Event - "the loser writes the write up". I'm blinded by the tears as I write this.
It ended 6 and 4 - Yes 6 and 4 , I never got going and Golfgraffix is a new golfer these days - he was always a strong Links player - but this a new level , composure, swing, ball flight , course management, solid short game - As Queen sang "I want it all".
I never got going , and graffix got solid 1/2s on 1, 2, 3, - From poor enough positions - I won 4 , but from then on, it was one way traffic. I hit poor shots at the wrong time and graffix, hit great ones at the right time - It all combines to a good lashing.
The irony that, I kept him in competition in round 1 - is only sinking in now.
Pcasso and Parlance - also kept him in it too. Lads, next time ye have Golfgraffix on the ropes - take him
But that is the sign of a great matchplay player.
Most of us were new enough to matchplay , and if we take one thing from this competition - it is important how you are in adversity as well as strong positions.
SO congratulations Golfgraffix.
Was a fun winter - we had a hard time , with the wind , cold days of trepidation and car problems, but, for all the cold and wind , you sometimes get a day, when it is still and memorable when you play 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 there (stunning).
You also, never forget when you beat the 3rd hole out there - so rare.
I seen some great golf and great shots over the winter - I seen smiles and frustration , victory and defeat , friendship and slight fights
. It is a type of golf you get to know someone a little better , your inners and your mind exposed a little more.
But after all that - it was fun. It was important to keep the game moving . You know what! - I think it worked. I see many, if not all of the players that played, getting cuts this year.
That is what golf is about - getting as good as you can , in the time you have, as an amateur and worker and father and student and an unemployed genius and surrealist artist and pseudo socialist
So it takes all sorts - But Golf in a way , is one of the few things most of us had in common . But the true commonality, is a love of this game - a game at times, that whilst we pretend it is just a game - it isn't behind it all. We haven't found out what it is about yet.
So - as The match came to an End - I told golfgraffix, that I was at Paul Brady on Saturday - He told me he sings "The Island as a party piece" :eek::D
I smiled and said, that is very romantic.
His reply was another cracking 8 iron to 10 feet for game over.
Golfgraffix - I don't want to take you to an Island and I don't want to trace your footprints in the sand. ***er.:D:D:D:D
But The Island will do again,.0 -
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Golfgraffix wrote: »It was a great game today, I think Fix is being hard on himself, he was not at his best today but not too far off. The hard part was he was giving me 5 shots and 4 of them were on the front 9. All I had to do was try and match him for the holes were I did not have a shot and then play it safe on the ones i did. I think i was 3 up for those 4 holes, after that Fix had to push hard to get back. Matchplay can be a cruel fecker sometimes.
I really enjoyed the competition, great to play some competitive golf with new faces. Hoefully we can do it again next year.
J
When the disappointment subsides. I do admit - I liked the format.
Perhaps starting it in Dec/January is a bit early. But we were a bit unlucky this winter.
Well done all who finished games - was a serious commitment.
Perhaps - straight knock out would have been the easier way - but not a better event.
Thanks to PARlance for the idea - and the most excellent macro management.
J - You better get a big cut soon after all this.
I'm off, for a well earned rest.
Thanks again lads was a great laugh.
I'll never say never - A bit like number 17 in Corballis - Does anybody really know what is going to happen in the future.
Watching Interstellar here - and totally lost. But easier than 17. 0 -
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charlieIRL wrote: »How about a summer one?!!!
Jaysus - between , clubs - boards Soc - interclub - and many of us are in our own societies. This comes to mind.
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beat on your own course and all Fix
Now that is poetry in motion
Well done J hard to beat MR Corbellis Good entertainment of the cold winter months actually jealous I wasn't involved!
was the final not meant to be held in the European? but good to have it were it all began!
Well done again J! The new king of Corbellis all hail the king!!! (sorry Fix couldn't resist) 0 -
was the final not meant to be held in the European? but good to have it were it all began!
Well done again J! The new king of Corbellis all hail the king!!! (sorry Fix couldn't resist)
TY
Yes we were meant to play the European but I was sick that week so we rescheduled for Corballis.
J0
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