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[ShanksRFC 3,870]

2 minutes ago, bigsasasfloopyhair said:

One of the courses at murrayshall is longer. I’ve played it few times and in recent years they have always hosted the Scottish Schools Finals too. 

Ask to speak directly with ban events manager etc. When you sell it to them of an event, rooms, food, drink, golf you can get some decent deals if you barter 👍

Cheers mate, will price up both and see where it goes.

[They Gnu 11,553]

Anyone done Pedrena near Santander, trying to sort out a three course tour there for next May but not getting any joy from the golf tour companies.  Done the Algarve and Costa Del Sol to death and fancy somewhere new.

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

3 minutes ago, Blueray said:

Good suggestion. I was there for a round and a meal last week. Beautiful place.

Yeah it’s nice. The west course is bit shorter but not bad. The east course is stunning. 

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

10 hours ago, They Gnu said:

Anyone done Pedrena near Santander, trying to sort out a three course tour there for next May but not getting any joy from the golf tour companies.  Done the Algarve and Costa Del Sol to death and fancy somewhere new.

Sorry mate not been out that way before. 

[dummiesoot 16,119]

17 hours ago, ShanksRFC said:

Anycunt know any good courses with a hotel nearby in Scotland?

I need to arrange the annual outing next year for about 30+ folk but no idea where to go. Went to Cardrona this year and Drumoig the year before.

Kinross is supposed to be excellent

Carnoustie do some good deals as well

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

New bats have arrived 🤗🏌️‍♂️😍

[ShanksRFC 3,870]

22 hours ago, bigsasasfloopyhair said:

New bats have arrived 🤗🏌️‍♂️😍

I changed from a set of old Mizunos to Srixon two years ago but thinking about changing back tbh.

 

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

Just now, ShanksRFC said:

I changed from a set of old Mizunos to Srixon two years ago but thinking about changing back tbh.

 

I played with mizuno for years mate and regretting changing. 

Delighted to have gone back. 

[ShanksRFC 3,870]

Just now, bigsasasfloopyhair said:

I played with mizuno for years mate and regretting changing. 

Delighted to have gone back. 

You had a hit with them yet?

I took the easy route and went Srixon because the pro at Carnwath does them. Where did you get fitted?

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

10 minutes ago, ShanksRFC said:

You had a hit with them yet?

I took the easy route and went Srixon because the pro at Carnwath does them. Where did you get fitted?

Hit them last night at the range, really nice. 
Got fitted at range at Hamilton for the specs, lifts and lies and then got a mizuno specialist to make them. Pro just outside Newcastle. 

Heard great things about your pro at Carnwath. 👍

[ShanksRFC 3,870]

1 minute ago, bigsasasfloopyhair said:

Hit them last night at the range, really nice. 
Got fitted at range at Hamilton for the specs, lifts and lies and then got a mizuno specialist to make them. Pro just outside Newcastle. 

Heard great things about your pro at Carnwath. 👍

Aye he's good mate and sound as a pound.

Am needing a few lessons more than clubs a think. You know if they boys at Strathclyde are any good? Am limited cause of daylight hours now, brutal.

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

9 minutes ago, ShanksRFC said:

Aye he's good mate and sound as a pound.

Am needing a few lessons more than clubs a think. You know if they boys at Strathclyde are any good? Am limited cause of daylight hours now, brutal.

Yes they are good. Ask for Euan. He’s excellent. 👍

[kplfishtank 4,668]

Heading to Florida for a weeks golfing on Saturday. Cramming in 6 rounds in the week.  Can’t wait. 27 degrees and sun , might even leave my waterproofs at home 😂😂

[They Gnu 11,553]

1 hour ago, kplfishtank said:

Heading to Florida for a weeks golfing on Saturday. Cramming in 6 rounds in the week.  Can’t wait. 27 degrees and sun , might even leave my waterproofs at home 😂😂

Where you staying where you playing.

[kplfishtank 4,668]

13 hours ago, They Gnu said:

Where you staying where you playing.

Staying on IDrive 

shingle creek 

southern dunes 

Mission innn Los Colinas course 

Disney palms 

royal St. Cloud 

grand cypress new course  

couple I’ve played before and a few new ones  wanted to play Waldorf Astoria but they are ripping piss with prices 

 

[dummiesoot 16,119]

1 hour ago, kplfishtank said:

Staying on IDrive 

shingle creek 

southern dunes 

Mission innn Los Colinas course 

Disney palms 

royal St. Cloud 

grand cypress new course  

couple I’ve played before and a few new ones  wanted to play Waldorf Astoria but they are ripping piss with prices 

 

Love Southern dunes, not played any of the others

[dummiesoot 16,119]

Elderslie has a golf lounge now, played last Friday night, blootered playing a par 3 course, great night. 

[kplfishtank 4,668]

7 hours ago, dummiesoot said:

Love Southern dunes, not played any of the others

It’s one I’ve not played. 

Mission inn 2 courses are amazing.  Wee bit out of town but well worth the visit. 

[TEFTONG 60,508]

Good luck to Chris Kirk. 

For Chris Kirk, everything felt so much worse when he'd not had a drink.

"My anxiety about my golf. My anxiety about money. My anxiety about my relationships," says the former world number 16.

The American explains most people who drink to excess and have a legitimate reason to stop "find their mental clarity gets better. Their health gets better. All these things get better".

In April came a moment of clarity amid a hung-over haze brought on by the previous evening's session - the father of three had to stop drinking and needed to quit golf to focus on recovering from his alcohol and anxiety problems.

Kirk felt like his cravings for a drink would be "something I was going to have to fight every 15 minutes for the rest of my life", but since stepping away from the sport he has worked with a psychiatrist and sports psychologist, as well as implementing a 12-step plan.

Next week, after his self-imposed absence, Kirk will return to the PGA Tour for the first time in more than six months at the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Mexico.

Chris Kirk✔@Chris_Kirk_

Tomorrow I will celebrate my 34th birthday but I have already begun a new and better chapter in my life. Thank you to my friends and family for being there for me.

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Kirk had tried to quit in the past, but those attempts resulted in him returning to alcohol inside a couple of months.

In an interview with the PGA Tour, Kirk says: "For an alcoholic, if you just stop drinking on your own and do not really do anything else and just fight it every day, then everything gets worse. That was definitely the case for me," adds Kirk.

"Everything spikes after that. I was in a really bad place, a much worse place mentally than when I was drinking."

Kirk says part of the problem stemmed from leaving the "perfect scenario I had always dreamed of" - wife, kids and a nice house - to spending "close to 30 weeks a year on the road by myself".

"I think my drinking was accelerated by that and maybe my fitness level and my mental capacity were probably brought down as my drinking went up," he adds.

"I still was playing reasonably well, but not to the level I was a few years before that."

Kirk would drink at restaurants with friends and then continue in hotel rooms or at home on his own, admitting: "There is no trigger, the trigger is me."

He stopped drinking beer when it began affecting his weight, instead moving on to wine and spirits which he says "accelerated things".

The four-time winner on the PGA Tour would not drink while competing and did not want to turn up to play "really hung over", but would feel "weird" if he had not had anything the previous night.

"I was just fighting it and fighting it," he adds. "Finally, after a couple of relapses, if that is what you want to call it, in April it was just like, 'OK, I can't do this anymore. I have got to change something because I am going to end up with nothing'.

"It was when I realised I just really, truly do not have control over this, because I really wanted to not be doing it and I still was."

'I am not even upset I am an alcoholic'

Kirk spent time coaching his son's baseball team during his absence from golf

Now, as he prepares to return in Mexico next week as the world number 303, Kirk says it feels "awesome" to be starting a "new and better chapter in my life".

"To have gone from this overwhelming fear and anxiety of the future to now just pure excitement and embracing that I do not know what is going to happen because nobody knows what is going to happen," he says.

"You spend all this time trying to control things and control what is going to happen next and the more that I have let go of that and the more that I have embraced that uncertainty, the happier I can be every day.

"I do not know what I am going to do tomorrow. I do not know what I am going to do the day after that, but it is all good. I know that I am going to come back and play some golf and if I enjoy it and I am successful at it, then great. If not, then that is all right too."

Kirk has also been touched by the support he has received.

"I think that the shame of all of this has gone as well," he says. "That is why I am so comfortable talking about it. It is all right. I am not even upset that I am an alcoholic. It is fine.

"It is just something different that I have to deal with, but everybody has stuff they have to deal with. Everybody has issues. Everybody has stuff that is bothering them that they need to work on. This just happens to be my thing.

"It does not make me a bad person. Over the last few months it has made me a much better person that I have realised and have taken action to do something about it.

"Now it is my hope that someone out there will read this story and see that there is a way out."

[dummiesoot 16,119]

Good luck to the boy, facing demons like that

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

6 man play off in Turkey 

Exciting finish 👍🏌️‍♂️

[ShanksRFC 3,870]

Played Lanark the day before the football, it was absolute solid.

Swing was fucking pish, should have just went to pub.

[Bigsasasfloppyhair 13,310]

4 minutes ago, ShanksRFC said:

Played Lanark the day before the football, it was absolute solid.

Swing was fucking pish, should have just went to pub.

I cancelled my time today. Heard it was pretty firm. 

Course didn’t open until 10am because of the frost. 

[ShanksRFC 3,870]

6 minutes ago, bigsasasfloopyhair said:

I cancelled my time today. Heard it was pretty firm. 

Course didn’t open until 10am because of the frost. 

Aye it was fucking solid, we teed off at 11.15. 

[kplfishtank 4,668]

Cracking  week away. 

Southern dunes was fantastic track thanks dummiesout and skelf for recommendations 

shingle creek again very good. 

Disney the palm was in poor condition with work being done all round course. Didn’t reflect on price 

royal St. Cloud, great value at 42 dollars. 

Los colinas was on cart path so we played the big course el campeon which is again great. 

Saving the best till last. 

Grand Cypress New course , loosely based on old course with wee burns running all the way round it. First and 18th are replicas 

all in a good week in decent weather. 

Roll on Australia in late February for some more warm weather golfing