Time for a change
When you win a golf competition or indeed at my club, if you finish in the top ten, you win a prize. Typically that prize is a voucher for the Pro Shop where you can buy balls, clothes, clubs, shoes and everything in between.
There's also a twos club, where you pay €2 before every round and if you get a 2 on a par 3 you win the pot or as is almost always the case, a portion of the pot.
Over the years, I've had my fair share of wins and twos, and here are some of the things I've bought with these winnings:
- Ping G410 Driver
- Scotty Cameron Futura
- Bushnell Range Finder
That's around €1200 of equipment that I've effectively won and last week I added 2 x Titliest Vokey wedges to the collection, as I got rid of my old ones.
When you are hitting your wedges well, there are few more pleasing clubs to hit and of the 14 clubs that I'm allowed to carry, I carry 5 wedges - Pitching wedge, Gap wedge, 54° wedge, 56° wedge and 60° wedge.
Here are some photos I took of the old and new clubs together as I am trying to offload my old ones for a few Bob.
Practice and finding a few balls
There is a par 5 hole on my local golf course, where I play every Sunday and regularly players including myself get in trouble and lose golf balls. There is a big dogleg where the sensible play is a long iron or even a 3 wood up the middle, but many players opt for the big dog Driver and and slight pull left will leave you in the trees. Most rounds you'll see folks hitting at least one ball in there.
So when time allows on a practice round, I'll spend five minutes having a quick spy for some errant balls. It's not unusual for that dive minutes to turn up twenty golf balls and if I'm extra lucky there will be a few Titliest Pro V1 balls amongst them, those are the balls I like to play with but they cost €50 to €60 for a dozen, so finding them is far more pleasing!
Just over that wall in the photos is where I spend that five minutes.
This early morning round turned up a whopping 39 balls, not too shabby at all!! There were 7 Pro V1s too, which was even better news and only 8 "shite balls" for chipping around the garden.
I don't play my Titliest Pro V1s durinf the mucky and unpredictable Winter months, and instead I leave them aside for Spring, Summer and Autumn golf. Here is my current haul of recent finds of Prov1 from this Winter, not too shabby at all!
I can't wait to see what faith awaits these golf balls this year, I wonder how many pars and birdies they will lead and will there be any eagles? I had two last year in successive weeks in our Tuesday Open golf competitions.
Irish Golfer Competitions
I've played at a few Irish Golfer events before and they are a great day out I must say. It's as close to Professional golf as I'll get I reckon. The courses below are all very good and I've played around half of them before.
My friend and I just booked the K Club for April 28th, which I'm really looking forward to. That's where they played the 2006 Ryder Cup, so it's a fantastic golf estate with two magnificent 18 holes courses. Bring it on! One of my trustee Pro V1 balls will be used that day and hopefully just the one!
This is what they have to say about it.
The Irish Golfer Experience
Irish Golfer Events give you the full Tour experience. The events are run to a full professional standard and include all the extras! Each player is announced on the first tee and receives a welcome gift on arrival (baseball cap & 2 ball sleeve of TaylorMade Tour Response balls) plus fruit, drinks, nutrition snacks, tees, pencils and accessories are all free for players. Add in the prizes and you’ve got a great day out!
Sláinte and Peace out.