Boards Golf Society (Round 5) Greystones Golf Club (17th June 1330 hrs -1500 hrs)(GOLF AND SOCIAL)

The first iteration of the Boards Social was a great success, so great job on innovating Captain Fix.

Had only played the front 9 in Greystones before, during the winter with Seve, so I knew that it was going to be a thinkers round and that the course isn't one you can overpower, or really need to.

Was running a little late getting to the course, so only had time to hit maybe 10-12 putts before going out, and then onto the first tee.

Have been playing steady golf recently, so didnt go out with crazy expectations, but figured I could put a solid round together as it's not overly long and I'd be hitting plenty of shortish irons into par 4s.

Had the company of Alanm and Big Easy for the round, so knew the company would be super and the standard of golf would be great.

The course was set up to maximise its length with every pin tucked in the back corners of greens. It probably made some of the approaches a little easier as it took some of the front trouble out of play on a number of the greens.

Usually I can remember my rounds in great detail, but I played in one of those kind of blur zones where everything just flowed by. I knew I was playing solid, and was up on where I should be on the front 9, started with 3 bogeys, including a poor 3-putt bogey on the index 1, but then had 5 pars on the bounce and a birdie on the 9th to finish the front 9 2 over gross.

Back 9 continued steadily, made some great up & downs, and took my medicine where I needed to. Another bad 3-putt on 17, where the lads rightly said, I'd gone a bit defensive, gave me the only double of the day, but had a stroke so picked up a point.

18 points back and 6 over for the round with no scratches. Logged the round too, so, alongside picking up the win, also now down to my lowest ever index at 7.1.

Great prizes too, thanks Fix.

@Kevinmarkham , great to meet you and have a quick chat, hooked was a great guide for me in my year as Captain, so nice to now have a signed copy. The photography was also spectacular, some beautiful pieces (love that 14th at Glasson image), and added a beautiful pic of Carne to my collection, thanks!

Alarm didn't have his best day, which from him is still great golf, by anyone else's standard. His short game is superb, making a super, unorthodox par on the first fairway finder hole. Drive into the heavy stuff, hack out, approach through the green, and then hole out the chip from the back. His strike is getting better and better, hit some really crisp irons in to a number of holes, but the putter just wasn't hot enough for him so the birdie chances wouldn't drop.

Big Easy has all the elements to drop significantly, distance off the tee and hits his irons really high. Had a great read on line on his putts, just the pace hurt him a couple of times. Had a handful of loose tee shots, and unfortunely got badly punished whenever he hit one. He did comfortably have the shot of the day on the second fairway finder. Pulled his tee shot into the rough. Hitting blind to a back left pin, over the top of the hill and the tree, landed his approach just short of the pin and let a 6ft putt for bird which he despatched for a class 4 point birdie.

A great night afterwards too. Started with beating Fix in the putting comp final, and then on into Greystones for some pints and craic, and a tasty batter sausage and chips after!

Think the biggest revelation of the night is that Seve's Dad is a lot sounder than Seve is 😁

Should get a nice bump up the leaderboard from the win, and put me in the jug team.

Cheers lads, see ye all soon

Another highlight from Big Easy, on the 7th hole his approach hit the top of the rocky outcrop, and stayed on top of it.

He found the ball and hit a nice chip down off the top. Think Alanm might have gotten the phone out in time to capture the action?

Evening golfers, finally back in cider town after an a great day and night of golf and social. It was my first outing on a night out and what a laugh, and night out. Getting to know this bunch an awful lot more and it feels like I have been a member for more than 3 years. The pints were mighty at both the golf course and at Mrs. Robinson's, here's to you. I heard before about a certain putting competition that ran in a hotel corridor at 4 am, I thought it was an urban legend, but nope the comp ran under the lights in the walled amphitheatre, I am sorry I didn't partake, but it's a deffo to do on the next event. Hope the revellers that ventured to Bray saw out the rest of the night and done so safely. I must say a massive thank you to @LinoRichie who offered the other bed in the b&b, perfect location and so handy. I must also thank the chef for the extra onions when I asked for none 🤦🤦. Now on to the golf, oooooooooh oh my Buddha. I had the pleasure of playing again with linorichie and it was my first time playing with @gypsy79. I think our scorecards looked more like bingo cards with so many X's, so many 1 pointers, I was waiting to shout check!!!!! On number 9, and that was how many points I had on the front 9. A total of 24 points after my 18. Poor gypsy needed a boost after 9 holes, it did some trick as you had a great back 9 and you are getting more used to your new clubs, watch out on the next outings 🙂. The putter again for me was my big let down, a lot of issues with my lag putting and yes the pin positions were difficult also, but it was one of those should have, would have, could have rounds. The fairway finder was a great concept, I was happy to find 2 🤣🤣🤣, talk about margins, captain met us on the first fairway finder hole and told us the difference between first cut and fairway, to me there must have been a gee-hair in the difference. I should also have given myself some time before tee off, to have a few swings, chips, and putts, my game has taken a wobble. Back to the range. Congrats to Spacecoyote on his win, he put manners on the course, the course put manners on me and a few others. A lovely venue and huge kudos also to Seve for recommending this and his work involved in getting this outing ready. Thanks also to captain Fix for the shirt, love it. A great event and great craic was had, I'm unfortunately missing Dundrum as I will be on a stag, no not my own 🤣🤣🤣, and will not have to make a phonecall to ask permission, but will hopefully see you all at Tullamore. Horsebox signing off 😋 

Is this allowed here?

well where to begin with the round in Greystones on Friday. I suppose first a thank you to all involved with getting us down there. I'd heard people talk about it being a really nice, tough course, and they weren't mistaken. Coming into the round i was hoping to use a bit of my experience in playing tight narrow courses (like Beaverstown my home course). But this was a very different challenge and i was not ready for it all. I think all the hiking around the Front 9 took it out of me and the stamina was just gone for the day.

At least the course was great because the golf was most certainly not. I won't go into too much detail because no one really needs my tale of misery on a Sunday 😪 The only good thing to come from the golf was the Fairway Finder challenge. Somehow i managed to go 3 for 3 on the front 9 (albeit very lucky). Hit drive up the left on the 4th which clipped the trees and kicked out to middle of the fairway. on the 6th i decided to try take the shot over the gorse on the left, but hit a dreadful shot straight into the rock face on the left side. But somehow the rocks kicked the ball out right onto the fairway 😂 hit the 9th fairway legitimately so was happy enough. starting the back 9 with 10 points under my belt i was seriously considering just taking 8 irons from every tee for the fairway finder, and scrap whatever scoring i might get. but my integrity got the better of me as i thought of the potential for GOY points and making the Jug team. Well the back 9 came and went with 13 points and not a single fairway hit 🤣 should have just taken the 8 iron

A big shout out to Kieran and Pakman for making the round a lot more enjoyable. As Pakman said on the way around "good playing partners can make a 5 hour round feel like a 3 hour round" and that was certainly the situation. Always easier to enjoy a round of poor golf when you're having a good laugh on the way around. Kieran has a lovely ball flight and great consistency with his scoring (think it was 9 one-pointers in a row yesterday 😂). Pakman hit some absolutely gorgeous shots, including an absolutely monster drive on one of the holes (can't remember which one but it must have been close to 300yds uphill). 2 great guys and really enjoyed the round with them.

Again a big thanks to Fix and the team for all the organising going into the whole day. Looks like things only kicked on after I left - from the late night putting comp, and i can only imagine how the pints down in Greystones went. Onwards and upwards to Dundrum, still hoping to rack up a few more good performances to stay in the top 10 come end of the season

Jesus Snackbox , you could as least shaded in my bald patch😏

Putting contest in full flow at about 10pm on Friday night

Well done on what seems to of been a great day and evening out.

Sorry to not of been able to be there but life gets in the way Monday to Friday and it wasn't an option for me.

Great photos and liked the idea of the evening putting comp, when the pints start flowing and banter gets louder I am sure it was great craic.

Will be making an effort to make the final 3 outing....any word on captains prize location yet?

Great craic from start to finish and one of my fav outings yet. Though I'd be curious to know what the greens look like with a flag in the middle 🤣

I played poorly overall and never got the speed of the greens. I pitched a few inches short of the cup on 14 and hit the flag. The spin on the ball rolled it back a little bit though so it was more then a tap-in in the end, which hid how close I had come to making ace. Thankfully I made the putt.

Thanks to playing partners burger27 and slave1. Slave1 played well, finishing with 32 pts, and a few errors due to lack of course knowledge. There could have been a win in it for him. The less said about burger27's round the better 😏, but the company was great as always. And the clubhouse, craic, putting comp, and jaunt out to mrs robinsons afterwards was great.

As may have been mentioned earlier, Greystones feels like more than just a good course. It's a club.

Just putting pen to paper now so to speak.

Greystones shot to the top of my favourite courses list.

The variety of holes was brilliant.Each one a new adventure.Love the greens.

Clubhouse..practice area..atmosphere..the people.All contributed to a fantastic day.

Well done all involved.

Fairway finder added a new angle.Some laugh.

Played ok front 9 fell back on back 9 due to slight loss of rhythm on drives.

Really enjoyed the company of break80 and doublecross.

Great day great course great company grear society.

Fantastic.

Liam from Greystones can't win a polo can he?!

Great outing and nice to read through all the posts as usual.

So Stinger Golf post of the outing goes to our gracious host Seve OB for his class drone pictures overlooking the beautiful Greystones course and some late-night revelling.

Congratulations @Seve OB , your post round epics didn't quite get it done, but sometimes a picture paints a thousand words!

You must be out to your last winning mark by now 😉

Apologies for my tardiness gents. (I forgot, thought I had already done it)

I just updated competition purses with 2's winnings from last round in Greystones