A good round of golf in Grenaa
Yesterday I went out to have brunch at my parents which was nice and gave us some good energy for a round of golf. After the good brunch I went out to Grenaa Golf Course with my uncle. It started out with a par on the first hole which is a par four for my uncle. I threw my first ball away but managed to get it in the cup and score one point – not the best start for me.
The course is quite good at the back nine holes, several of the first nine is not exiting especially not when the fairway hasn’t been cut for several days. I mean if you have fairway grass where the ball can hide in between the straws then the green keeper hasn’t done the job well enough. The semi rough is even worse – cut down the grass so that we can play some golf! 🙂
As I wrote earlier the back nice is quite nice both as a challenging golf hole but also when you look at the nature surrounding it. Hole 13 and 14 is placed in a good spot where you have trees, water and some animal life to spice it up, it is quite nice to play those two holes but also challenging. My uncle did not manage to make any points on the 14th hole, but I did a birdie. The hole is a 395 meter par 4. I placed my drive at around 250 meters, just short of the water that you have to shot over. Next I played a 7 iron about 135 meter towards the green, but came a few meters short of it. Finally i did a hinge and hold chip with the sand wedge, landed it on the green and the ball rolled the 1,5 meters towards the cup and in – whoohooo nice birdie! 🙂
I played a solid round, the best ever so far, and scored 42 stable-ford points which means a new handicap. The new handicap is 16.8 – 1.8 (6* 0.3) = 15. This also means that I have to play the easiest hole at AAGC in par – sad but true 🙂 My uncle did not play his best round of golf and ended up with 22 stable-ford points, he will do better in the weekend I’m sure.
Some stats from the round:
- Stableford points = 42 (19 out, 23 in)
- Total strokes = 85 (44 out, 41 in)
- Total puts = 29 (16 out, 13 in)
- Birdie = 1
- Par = 7
- Bogey = 5
- 2x bogey + = 5
