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Boards Golf Society 2023 (Round 5) Lucan (30th June @2:30pm)
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Congrats to Slave1 on a great score. Followed in 2nd are 3rd place by VW1 and bakerboy. Only 2 2's were recorded on the day and the par three were playing difficult. Nearest the pin was taken by fix and longest drive was taken by token56. Lowest gross (78) was recorded by alanm.
Really enjoyed lucan. I had heard the greens were superb before (Macker has long sung them praises!) but wow they rolled incredibly. Funny enough, spectating on the first teebox, I found myself with a putter in my hand and hit a putt on the teebox and found it rolled close to the speed of my regular greens on my home course! Lucan was a stunningly conditioned course. It looks like a great members course. My chicken curry and pints in the clubhouse afterwards went down very well too. I'm calling Lucan a hidden Gem! Pints afterwards in Lucan town was great craic too. I was very wayward with the driver on the day but I did a good job of reducing three putts which kept the score from being too bad for me. My highlight of the day was a 10 foot eagle putt on the par 5 downwind 13th. I missed the putt but had a tap in birdy with a shot on that hole too.
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It's easy to sit around a clubhouse after a round and say great course etc and then whisper under your breath what the place was really like, but for Lucan it was the real deal, on the tee boxes you could find a teeing spot no bother, the fairways were firm throughout (but not hard) so you could really strike down on the ball and the greens were just top notch, very receptive to approaches and mid-fast speed with true lines to the hole. Only negative I could see was the bunkers (fine in themselves) were poorly attended by previous visitors to sand and some dodgy foot print lies. It's been on my list for quite a few years so delighted to finally make it.
Small bit of rain but very windy on the day, high drives off line were taken into trees (of which too many leylandii) and even past the trees onto other fairways if sliced or pulled.
Playing partners on the day were Pakman and Tiger, Tiger was very rusty and it was a punishing track if shaking off the rust, Pakman still hits it an absolute mile but aforementioned strong winds took him to pastures new on too many occasions, there's a low round hiding there for someone like Pakman where GIR is not an issue with that length.
I'm not playing as much as I'd like, had a lot going on with work and around the house this past year or so and Covid prior to that so I probably have played the same number of rounds in the past 3 years as I would normally play in a year (less actually), I didn't golf from MJ last year until Arklow so have been very rusty with poor logged rounds where I never seem to warm up until the back 9. I played two rounds during the week, two tough courses in Fermoy and Cobh and it was windy that day, unfortunately I knocked a lot of shots so my aim in Lucan was to get off the first tee and then take nothing long on and just try and not force any swing.
I was very relieved with my opening tee shot, okay I hit the rough but it was high and went a good distance, I was 180y out in the rough and immediately put the plan (if you can call it that) into action and just hit a 9 lay up, feeling the firm fairway beneath me gave me a lift as I love highly conditioned courses so I hit the smoothest 9 iron approach in ages to around 10ft and sunk the putt for an unexpected and welcomed par. The speed of the greens was bang on for me and as I rarely use the putting green I was not caught out on the speed differential. The second, third and fourth were similar, decent tee shot, underestimate of wind and all short of GIR, wedge on, two putt and kept out of trouble for bogies (apart from a double on 2 after a bunker visit).
Then the long walk to the fifth, my best drive with GIR in sight so I duly 3 putted for a bogey, same with the next, a GIR 3 putt for bogey, fair enough the first putts were long but I hate 3 putting. Index 1 seventh was never within reach but a good chip on and one putt and I got away with a bogey. Parred the first of the par 3's and then my first bad drive of the day pulled me into the left trees on a shortish par 4, fuk I thought, but was in a lovely lie with a view through the trees right to the flag and only a 9 iron, left it to makeable birdie putt and walked off with a par, parring the last two of the front 9 was good. I had not taken a full swing all day and was quite relaxed in good company on a course I was really enjoying.
Parred the next two, the par on the par 3 was after the best par 3 tee shot I've taken in years, not near enough to take NTP but felt good. Then a silly long hole into the wind (for me) but a good punch on to a one putt and bogey. I messed up the tee shot on the wind assisted par 5. It was 186y to clear one bunker and 230y to clear the other, I aimed for the 186 bunker as I know my carry very well but pulled it towards the 230 bunker and thought the worst, thankfully as I'd teed it high it just cleared the bunker for a 278y drive which is my longest in years, yes wind assisted and yes a firm fairway but I'm taking it! Was left with 232y to the pin which is never reachable for me but it was very open and I thought even if I knocked it down it would still travel far enough to leave me close enough to the green, hit my best ever longest hybrid shot to leave it just off the green and the putt tracked all the way to the pin but somehow veered at the last foot to do a 180degree cup and leave a tap in birdie, delighted with that.
Really messed the next hole (stupid internal hole lined with with leylandii both sides) after pulling drive to left hand rough, tried to force onto the green and knocked it 20y, silly me not sticking to the plan. Then fluffed the next high into the sky and was heading for the water encircling the front of the green but being one of those days I landed this side and hopped over to leave a long two putt and I got away with murder on that one.
Shortish dog leg left next and my drives were starting to wander so pushed it to the right, was in a good lie and exactly my 9iron distance over the trees so was delighted to hit to birdie distance and sink it.
At this stage I had a proper look at my score and realised what was happening, said to myself to just scramble in (my drives were missing fairways) with bogies and that's essentially what I did by finishing with 3 bogies.
My best round in years and although I had to leg it I stayed out of respect for Captain and Committee as I know all the hard work that goes on and it's a bummer when main prize winners are not there. VW1 also had a strong round so will be interesting to see how GOTY table updates to. Greeted with a 2.4cut the next day so overall a great and unexpected round. It's a mad game considering how bad I was mid-week.
Onto Glasson, on my doorstep so the shortest drive possible for me to golf, hopefully we get great weather, I'll post a guide when the Thread gets started.
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The only thing I thing that I didn't like on the day was the blind tee shot when you rejoin across the road. We had a long wait down in the hollow which probably didn't help, also I flared my drive right, which again is probably another reason I didn't like the hole on the day.
The first red line denotes the limit of my vision when standing at the second red line. Quite unusual on a parkland.
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