Another season round-up. 2021. Ben’s coming of age rekindles my love for the game.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "I played OK to be honest. I did a lot of range work with Ben, at three local driving ranges.... and tried to lengthen and quieten my iron swing. This year I really felt at times I was hitting my irons as well as I ever have - and that's a lovely feeling - considering I've felt for some time that I go through patches each season where I feel like I can't hit irons at all."

Another round round-up. Another 4 club challenge but running out of steam.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "...a 220+ yard 3W tee shot to the middle of the fairway on the hardest hole on the course will very often be SOTD - and so it was on Saturday."

Another round round-up. The annual (triennial?!) 4 club challenge.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "...whilst I THOUGHT I did this exercise every year... I think it's been THREE years since I took part in a four club challenge - the last time I did this was in July 2018. Strangely enough (I think) then I scored almost the same score as I did on Saturday gone. 38 this time, as opposed to 37 last time."

Another round round-up. Ben’s first sub 40 at Billingbear Park (New).

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full):"My ball burned the hole on ALL 9 holes... my longest putt holed yesterday was less than a foot - it became ridiculous in the end!"

Another round round-up. My THIRD 2 birdie round of the season!

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "That will be that for my play at The Downshire this season. The course has already moved to temporary tees and you get the feeling that temporary greens won't be long in coming. I also get the feeling that the course doesn't do well over the winter if it's already pretty sodden in early October."

Three weeks to go I think. NEWS time.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "My traditional season runs from April to October (inclusive) each year - so I have, what, three weeks left to go now, of my 2021 season. I expect I'll play on during the autumn and winter as I sometimes do anyway - but even more so this year, as my eldest boy, Ben, has just started at golf academy and I think I may be invited to play a father and son competition over the "close season". Perhaps. That all said, I will not be adding any rounds to my shot scope account after the end of October (I never do) even if I play twenty more rounds before the turn of the year. I will, of course, as is usual, write a "season round-up" sometime in November. Been a bit of a strange season this year as a lot of my golf has been on par 3 courses with Ben and I don't include par 3 courses in my season's round-up. Well... we'll see eh?"

Another round round-up. The highlight of my 2021 season, I’d say.

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "The Downshire marshal is an obese turd to be frank, who I'd got speaking to a week earlier at the starter's hut as I waited for my eldest boy Ben to finish his lesson. I black-marked him then to be honest and was proven correct when I (and the group behind) complained about the foursome ahead holding up the whole course. The marshal just fatly smirked and said "they won't let you through as they're playing a competition". So I lazer-eyed the foetid bag of blancmange and said "your old boy friends are holding up an EIGHT YEAR OLD on his first round on a full course - that's just embarrassing! I suggest you go do what you're paid to do and go tell your friends that they're holding their little pissy competition on a public pay and play course so if they're not prepared to let people through behind them, then they might like to consider joining a private members' club (members being the key word) or have the groups behind start to hit balls over their heads. I'm ready to do that right now. Am I clear enough for you"? The boys let us through a hole later. Jeeeez."

Another round round-up. We shall fight them on the beaches. Again.

Excerpt (Please click blog title to read post in full): "For the 2nd round on the trot, I've put my 55 degree SW wedge (a 1987 beryllium copper Lynx Parallax) into the drink. Well... not really into the drink as such, but short and watch it bounce off the fringe onto the rocky beach of the greenside lake."

Thirty-four and a half years

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "In fact I've altered my entire bag back to primarily lynx clubs, after gaming the BeCu parallax irons. My current bag can be seen below (I've added my Lynx CoNi wedges and my Lynx LP9 putter to the 5-SW Parallax irons. I've even (temporarily) removed my beloved 60 degree Cleveland BRZ lob wedge - something that I thought I might never do!"

Another round round-up – MUCH better! And Ben’s SOTY?

Excerpt (Please click blog post title to read post in full): "A delightful wedge, high into the sky, over the lake and to TWO FEET from the pin, in front of an appreciative clubhouse watching him. AND he holed the putt for his birdie – the ONLY birdie that either of us have scored over the past 3 rounds."