Right then, here goes!
First club medal today. It's absolutely sluicing down. I'm a little bit notorius in my club for playing in the rain in shorts and a T shirt, but as it's medal day, have had to buy a waterproof jacket and an umbrella!
Not sure who I'm playing with yet but it has been suggested by one of the guys I bump into a lot that I'll be playing with the group affectionately known in the club as 'The Sh1t-heads'. Man, how I laughed! Slow rounds beckon because of the amount of time spent searching hedges
The most important thing is not to let it rattle me, particularly in the pace of play which is going to be wildly different.
Going to play to The Plan, and see what happens. The Plan didn't cope last night with taking three shots to get out of a bunker twice, and three-putting 7 greens, but hey-ho...
On another note, further to my 'No Woods' policy, yesterday, I bought a square driver clone - A Slazenger Blockbuster, I believe. Whilst I didn't use it in my last practice round last night to play holes with, I took the chance to belt a few balls off all the long tees I could, and actually I was really pleased
It's still going to take some getting used to, but I guess I was probably hitting something like 40% of fairways, with 30% ok-ish, and the last 30% wild.
I'm still not going to play it today, I think. It's strokeplay, I have The Plan, and I think in this medal, at least, I should stick to what I know. It was interesting, though, and I was very pleased with it. Will have to see how it transpires.
To all others playing in the mad weather today, good luck and enjoy.
Here goes!