And we were off !!! The events have officially started and we have had a wet and muddy first round at Crediton Golf Club. The results have been … well less than stellar as expected but we are in this to have fun and play Golf, as time progresses I am sure better scores will come. In the meantime here is the scorecard and some picture to illustrate how much fun we had.
2026 has been so far very wet and cold providing us with very little time for golf. Nonetheless today was the first day of bright sun in a while, allowing for some pitching around the Honiton golf club practice area. I also did a 9 hole training run but the less we talk about that the better! It’s not been great out there weather wise … that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it! It was in any case a chance to play the regular course layout instead of the reduced 9 holes with temporary greens that we have been playing during winter. It was also a good practice for me to get hole number 2 out of my head …. God knows how many balls I have lost to those hedges so far! The results were far from brilliant but hey it’s been only 9 months since I first held a golf club so I don’t think I can ask for much in terms of scoring.
In any case you can see bellow some examples of me trying to practice chipping and pitching, as I feel the short game is still something that needs a lot of work. This is not something we can practice at the driving range either so developing this important skill is vital now as better weather hopefully approaches.
We hope to have more interesting posts soon with details of our adventures playing golf out there. In the meanwhile some practice will do us all some good.
Greetings and welcome to the “Golfists Cup”, we are a group of friends that have started playing Golf together and are very keen on doing some challenges and documenting our adventures. We are starting by playing the courses closest to us and try to play different clubs as we go, not only to play golf for the joy of playing but to ensure we get exposed to a variety of conditions and perhaps improve our game as we go.
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