D Angelo Barksdale

My club have pretty much advised us just to use the Club V1/Howdidido app to enter general play scores, it gets uploaded to Scottish Golf at midnight anyway and doesn’t rely on your GPS signal working ok. Aye, I'll probably just hand cards in and use the app to check any changes.

No rush.

Handicap is 10.8. Be nice to hit single figures this summer. I'll also add my name to the 'the Scottish golf app is a bit shit' list.

Rattled.

Not played it for a few years, nice course but tough for me, can't imagine what I would score off the back in those conditions. Designed by James Braid who rarely designed a bad course. I heard that last year some arsehole poured some sort of acid or paint stripper on some of the greens which has totally fucked them.

No, there's 3 Musselburgh courses. There's Royal Musselburgh GC just outside the town, Musselburgh GC at Monktonhall and The Musselburgh Old Course GC which is a 9 hole public links at the racecourse. Monktonhall is the better of the 3 imo, an Open qualifying venue.

Andy Goram once bought a 7 year old Henderson to deliver a can of coke at a function. He also did a weird thing where he folded his ear over, stuck his thumb in his mouth and blew and his ear popped back to amuse me and my pal. Please tell the other story because it'll be better than mine.

You do know that nazis and communists were on opposite sides right ? And this was all 70 years ago and that weirdo is dead now right ? But I mean, if that sort of stuff bothers you, crackpots giving support to authoritarian regimes, you should maybe check out what the royal family and the British government have been up to for the last few decades.

Can't stop laughing at 'supported the fascist Mussolini until he became right wing and also supported the Nazis and was a communist'

It's also worth mentioning Gorka's massive melon head.

Yeah, white played a terrible opening and eventually resigns after about 40 moves.

I've joined the old course at Musselburgh. Going to finally get a handicap after not having one for about 10 years.

Roaster alert on max then? Thought about having a quiet word with the pilot tbqh.

Similar to this, I was on a plane back from Menorca a few years ago. The plane was delayed so the pilot was allowing the kids a wee look at the cockpit. I'm queuing in the aisle with the wee man when I notice a guy a few rows ahead on p&b. Was about to engage with him until I get up there and noticed he was baw deep posting in the Junior's section.

Viking ton is probably the main proponent of this type of patter, but I don't know if it originated with him. Stuff like seething is now just part of the p&b lexicon, there's even a poster called Seething. Here's the full board.

Beginning to think it was rewritten by a p&b poster.

Putting the lads through a punishing pre season workout.

**Fantasy Golf Week 14** Midnight Bullet train to Georgia Hideki Matsuyama became the first Japanese man to win a major championship. A popular winner for sure, and an interesting Champions Dinner menu next year no doubt. Does big Sandy like sushi ? The expected challenge by the chasing pack never really materialised, Speith and Schauffele briefly threatened until the later took 6 at the par 3 16th. It was left to young Bernhard Langer/Happy Gilmore's caddy/Will Zalatoris to provide the challenge. He finished a stroke behind Hideki and marked himself out as one for the future round here. Bob did us all proud finishing T12, securing an invite next year and records the 3rd highest finish by a Scot at Augusta in only his 1st start. There were double points on offer here, so good news for those who had Matsuyama and bad news for those who transferred him out last week. Standings 811 @J_Stewart 754 @die hard doonhamer 721 @Mr Kane and the lemon cafe 702 @alta-pete 690 @Tartan Dave 649 @peasy23 649 @Ro Sham Bo 613 @lichtie23 582 @Henderson to deliver ..... 544 @Distant Doonhamer 443 @Honest_Man#1 The Race to Whistling Straits The Road to the Masters was of course won by @J_Stewart, unfortunately his selection of Tommy Fleetwood to be top European and the charity each way bet of Bob MacIntyre did not return anything. We now start the Race to Whistling Straits with another couple of free bets dished out to the top points scorer between the Masters and the KLM Dutch Open which is the last event before the Ryder Cup. Race to Whistling Straits 164 @peasy23 148 @Distant Doonhamer 140 @J_Stewart 120 @Ro Sham Bo 112 @die hard doonhamer 104 @Tartan Dave 72 @lichtie23 72 @alta-pete 56 @Mr Kane and the lemon cafe 40 @Honest_Man#1 24 @Henderson to deliver ..... The European tour is back (again) and we've finally made to continental Europe after 3 months in Africa and the Middle East. We're putting our lederhosen on and journeying to the Diamond Country Club just outside Vienna. This one is quite long by Euro Tour standards, clocking in at over 7500 yards and there's water in play on 9 of the 18 holes here. Should be fun. A decent field headed by world no.1 DJ, has assembled as the PGA tour stays in the Deep South with a short trip across the border from Georgia to South Carolina for the RBC Heritage at the wonderful Harbour Town Golf Links, our 4th Pete Dye design of the year so far. Built in 1969 and considered a turning point in American golf architecture, visually intimidating from the tee and requiring straight hitting drives and precise iron shots to small greens. Some lovely postcard par 3's here with the railway sleepers fronting the bunkers and 2 cracking finishing holes heading towards the 2nd most famous lighthouse in golf.

I don't mind, although maybe someone who just missed out on promotion or a play off from Division B should be offered it before me. As long as everyone else is ok with it.

I'm not trying to change your opinion here, just pointing out that you're wrong, something you get quite often on this subject by your own admission. This isn't how handicap's work m8. I don't think I'm the one getting worked up about this tbqhwy.

They were terrible shots, the first two especially which came up short of the hole. The fact that after that he twice continued to attempt such a high tariff shot is all on him. The correct play was to hit it in the middle of the green, take his medicine and walk off with a 6 or a 7. The shots weren't on target because the target wasn't the pin, it was either higher up the green in order to use the spin and slope, or it was in the middle of the green. You're using two isolated incidents of player's being out of position and not executing correctly to write off a course as clownish. Which is silly. What about all the players who walked off those holes with birdies or easy 2 putt pars ? Should we write off Carnoustie as nonsense because of Jean Van De Velde ? Sloping greens and firm and fast greens are part of a course's defences. The slopes can help as well as hinder the player. Shelves, tiers, run offs etc are all standard features of golf courses and could very well be classed as a 'hazard' like bunkers and water. This is all basic stuff. The idea that a hole or holes are a 'farce' or a 'shambles' because a couple of players make a c**t of it, while the majority walk off with birdies and pars is ridiculous.

They weren't 5 pretty decent pitches though were they ? The first was a terrible shot landing on the downslope well short of the hole, the 2nd and 3rd were barely hole high with an enormous amount of backspin taking them down the slope. It was only then he changed his angle of approach on the 4th attempt, which was a bit unlucky. Finally, he played the correct shot from a suitable angle and the spin left him a straight 12ft putt. The 15th hole still played the easiest on the course that year, despite Garcia's heads gone, Tin Cup nonsense.