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4 person team in Milltown

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Played Milltown this evening in fantastic weather.  The weather and the course were set up for us – but no one had the A game with them – nor the B game either.  Course in great condition – although bunkers a little inconsitent (the professionals have it easy).  Goes to show, with the right attitude and the right company, you can still have a great golfing experience without playing particularly well.  Hospitality and catering up to Milltown’s usual high standard.

Milltown – looks realtively straightforward – until the wayward links player begins to sample the delights of the mature trees.  And what a challenging finish: dog leg P4, long P3, dog leg P4, dog leg P4!  When you have a score going you certainly have to work to see it over the line in Milltown.

Corporate golf at The Castle

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Played in the Mercury (www.mercury.ie) Golf Outing at the Castle last Friday.  Format was a three person team, two to count.  A most enjoyable afternoon, great company, on a thinking person’s golf course.  Seems to me the trees on the course encroach more each year – presenting more challenges or problems to the golfer. 

As a regular links golfer I have often thought that inland courses produce straighter drivers of the ball – being used to having to hit the ball between tunnels of trees, as against links players who may benefit from playing from the adjoining fairway.  And then in the summer time, with significant run on the ball, the links player may hit irons from many tees – there being a very real premium on hitting the fairway and benefiting from up to 100m of run, depending on specific conditions.

Any keen golfer visiting Dublin should try to play The Castle – beautiful mature golf course, lots of decisions to be made, rewards good shot making.  And the catering has always be excellent whenever I’ve played there.

What a great format – fourball

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Without doubt golf is primarily an individual game – leaving the player with memories of something fleeting which may have had some temporary importance to the player himself/herself – and most often provided the basis for boring dialogue with those not involved.  Played a most enjoyabel fourball at the weekend – neither of us played particularly well but it made the ‘dovetailing’ all the more important and all the more enjoyable.

Wind and links golf

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Played 18 at St. Ann’es on 20th.  Great news – all new greens and tee complexes open.  New greens very playable but it will probably be some time before thay begin to blend in with the older greens.  All changes are for the best.  Different challenge posed with wind blowing in your face on the first – pretty much direct opposite of the ‘prevailing wind’ for most of the season. 

Golf does not have to be a slow game

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Teed off at 7am in St. Anne’s this morning.  Course in great nick.  Temperatures and wind much more manageable than a week previously.  Completed our round in three hours – if only amateurs would leave the slow golf to the professionals playing tournaments and get on with it.  What a pleasure to complete 18 holes, have breakfast and leave the club by 11.