After a month break I played a round of golf in the weekend, that was though for the body. I did a bad score but it was nice to get out and play again.

The golf season is entering the fall stage very soon, therefore enjoy what is left, the course in AAGC is in a perfect shape right now.

What a great comeback year it has been for you Thomas.

Hvis du søger en video omkring short game, så gå efter Phil’s short game dvd.

I’ll have to go visit the practice area at the golf club to improve my swing, I hope you don’t mind me copying a few things from the great game of yours

After a great visit to the museum and stuffed with brunch we went home by foot through the city which was coming to life again. People was sitting along the creek and in the parks enjoying the sunny weather. We rushed out to play golf in a four ball with my brother and uncle and made it just in time for the teetime with a heart rate about 120, maybe that is to exaggerate but that is how the start felt like.

Although that we were four persons we could easily keep up with the three ball in front of us and played the first 9 holes in two hours and fifteen minutes. After the first 9 I had made a quite good score but I didn’t know how good yet because I had only noted the shots used by the four of us, not the stableford points. Mette played 9 holes and made 13 points which could have been better if she had made some points on the four holes where she scored no points. Her tee shots where perfect, but the putting didn’t work as great as when she beat me in our putting round Friday.

My brother and uncle both played a good round. My uncle played the course for the first time and scored 33 stableford points which is quite acceptable when you don’t know the course. He had some problems with the driver which sliced and sometimes didn’t slice which makes it had to predict where the ball is going when you take the stance. If he takes the time to practice the driver shots I’m sure that he will get it going more straight. My brother got a new handicap Thursday but decided  to play another fabulous round of golf making 39 stableford points. Congrats on the new handicap

The back 9 I played almost as good as the first 9 holes, I was about to loose the momentum a the start of the back 9 but got the putts rolling again scoring more pars and birdies. The round is the best round I have ever played and I doubt that I will make 44 stableford points again this year but if I do I certainly hope that it will be in a tournament This means a new handicap which is calculated this way:  13.8 – ( 0.3 * 8 ) => 11.4

Here is the scorecard of my great round where the putter was good, the driver at its best and the shortgame almost as good as Phil’s

Here is my great round in numbers:

• Stableford points: 44
• Total number of strokes: 79 (brutto) 64 (netto)
• Double boogies: 2
• Boogies: 7
• Pars: 5
• Birdies: 4
• Putts (front 9): 2 + 2 + 1(sandsave) + 2 + 1(sandsave) + 1(gir) + 1(gir) + 2(gir) + 3(gir) = 15
• Putts (back 9): 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 2(gir) + 1 + 2(gir) + 1(gir) = 16
• Putts: 15 + 16 = 31

“Sandsave” means that I hit the greenbunker but was able to get it on green and putt it in the hole using one putt.

“Gir” means that I hit the “green in regulation” which is the par of the hole minus 2 putts.

One of my favourite players on the tour, Phil Mickelson, won the Shell Houston Open. Congrats Phil! I hope that he can tweak the short game and win the Masters next weekend.

On the second hole I did a good shot which landed a few meters from the flag – always a good feeling.

Good shot on the 2nd green on the practise course AAGC

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I’m looking forward to be playing on the 18 hole golf course again. Hopefully the sun will break through again and the wind should blow somewhere else.

The bars, one for each year, shows the handicap ultimo (blue) plus the drop (red) which in total shows the handicap primo for the year. For 2006 the numbers are handicap 54 primo with a drop of 17 handicap-points (31%) down to the ultimo handicap 37. The two years 2007 and 2009 has the smallest drops which could either mean that I haven’t played that much or I have been struggling with the game. For both years it looks to be the first, based on the number of tournaments I have played each year, but I also think that more practice has been a factor.

The conclusion regarding handicap lowering is that it gets harder to drop the lower you go – it requires a lot of practice and some good tips from the Club Pro.

Link to the Apps page.

Clubhouse area of Banyan Golf Club

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We stayed in the town called hua hin, three hours south west of Bangkok. The hotel named Wora Bura was great to stay at. The hotel was located by the seaside with an infinity pool. The garden and hotel was beautiful made with respect to the thai nature. The hotel is located a few kilometers outside huahin center, but you can easily get there by a cheap tuk tuk og cab.

We had booked four golf courses, the first one called Banyan. A great and beautifull course located in a mountain area. Everything was perfect, except for the rusty golf skills which could have been better, but not a disaster. We had a buggy and a caddy each, that’s the way to play golf in Thailand. As we played the holes my game got better and better. Especially the three wood became good, yes it also had to adjust to the climate, and the scores became better. Some of the drives from the tee box where difficult to read how to do but the caddy gave you a club and said “aim for the tree” or “aim for the car in from” and when she said go you just go ahead and shoot. Most of the times it was a success but a few times we had to search for the ball in the rough or find it in the bunkers.

The second course we tried was black mountian, one of the best ones in pacific Asia. A really difficult course which has to be played with course management in mind. Try it out if you dare to, it is great. Again my game became better and better – it really helps playing golf multiple days in a row. Putting was difficult on those greens but I think I managed to keep the number of puts under 36 for the round. I remember a par 3 hole which would terrify most golfers because of the green being a half island surrounded by water. I can’t say that I wasn’t scared of throwing the ball in the water but I was more focused on landing it close to the pin. About 140 meters to the pin a great shot with the 7 iron landed just behind the pin and spun towards the pin. But when we got to the green the ball was pin low with about a 3 meter put. I spoiled both the birdie and par chance and got a boogie. Darn!! Great shot to the green but bad putting, that is what golf is all about, the small victories and the nightmares such as three putting.

The third course we played was Imperial Lake View Golf Club which is located among farmers and pineapple fields. The fairways are narrow and difficult to play. Again it was good to have a caddy to guide you through the green. It was not the best of the courses we tried but very good after all.

The fourth course we tackled was Palm Hills Golf Club. We got accompanied by a golf player named Heinz. It was a great day and a good course. I scored around 30 stableford points and that was good for a difficult course and also a total unknown and new course. I hope that I can get a good start when the season in Denmark starts around May. I would like to get under 11 in handicap this year which should be possible if I take the time to improve my short game.

It was great to explore the city and the nature surrounding it. We did that by tuk tuk or by motorcycle. It was really a good vacation my girlfriend and I had in Thailand. The food is one of the things you have to try out in various places, it is so tasteful, cheap and good that you would not believe it.

I want to go there again