Sidcup - Saturday 12 Oct

If anyone fancies sharing a few tips and having a firendly I'll be at Lost Island with Cricket and the Assassin on Saturday morning. The soon-to-be-announced news may change the ball we use of course......

AlienUK wrote:If anyone fancies sharing a few tips and having a firendly I'll be at Lost Island with Cricket and the Assassin on Saturday morning.  The soon-to-be-announced news may change the ball we use of course......

I may well join you - DT is working sat am and I could do with a bit of practice on the course (although prob use a golf ball - good practice getting dialled in to the cup / ball combo ahead of the wCGC's)

ok - might see you there. No doubt a prototype of the official ball will be in use but heavily disguised to avoid any espionage....  

We also thought of using a golf ball just to get used to the significant difference, so bit of a dual purpose.

AlienUK wrote:ok - might see you there.  No doubt a prototype of the official ball will be in use but heavily disguised to avoid any espionage....   

We also thought of using a golf ball just to get used to the significant difference, so bit of a dual purpose.

I may be able to give you an idea of what THE ball is like in terms of properties - I have a couple of similar balls that between them more or less have the properties of the KOB - unfortunately I don't have one ball that matches it (or comes close).

And yes golf ball practice well worth it - I'll be using my 2011 Kent Open ball

A very enjoyable morning over at Sidcup Explorers with Alien, The Assassin and Cricket. After a warm up round with the VTK ball (can't call it the Kent Open ball any more) we had a couple of rounds with the 2011 KMGC golf ball before finishing off with 2 games of skins (as a foursome).

A great way to practice... with myself and the Assassin tied after 18 holes in the first match... sudden death ensued with the Assassin unfortunately falling at the first hole.

A storming second match saw the Assassin streak ahead into a commanding lead with Cricket and myself a couple of points back going up to the 17th. The tension mounted with Ollie taking a 5 and showing British Open form, I aced it. A 2 by myself at the 18th saw Ollie need to ace or take a 2 to win the match by half a point. A heavy rebound left him with a 3 foot putt above the hole (and we've seen putts missed on the 18th before I recall). With a steady nerve, he sank the putt to win the 2nd match by half a point.

A rematch beckons at Hastings...

Great fun and good practice with the golf ball and metal rim combo.

Freebird wrote:golf ball and metal rim combo.

= evil  

FB, thanks for the games and the hints, thoroughly enjoyable and great weather, which was a surprise after last night. Can't believe my mental block on hole 5!