Photo taken while staying at the wonderful Sausage Tree Camp, Zambia. Here we are fishing on the banks of the Zambezi, one eye on the River on the lookout for Alligators, another on the lookout for Hippos, another on the lookout for Lions, another on the lookout for Elephants :)
Adding another member to my #goodpeople twitter list.
Ben Southall became the “Caretaker for the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef” a couple of years ago through the Best Job in the World campaign. Ben loves @queensland and the Great Barrier Reef &
is one of the most energetic people I’ve ever met.
Ben tweets regularly about being in some wonderful part of Queensland…
Monthly Medal competition = off the stick scoring.
Why the heck is it that Monthly Medal is the comp I seem to have a couple of blow out holes on?! Very frustrating…
Summary of the round:
Date played: 4th February, 2012
Score: 92 off the stick
Highlight: Definitely the par 5 6th hole which measures 439 metres (480 yards). After a cracking drive and a beautiful 3 wood approach, I had a downhill putt of around 2.5 metres for an eagle. Only my second ever eagle putt. I left the putt short, but made the birdie with a very easy tap in.
Lowlight: A tough call. Two shocking holes today. The par 3 tenth hole (the first hole played in the round) where I put the tee shot out of bounds (by around 30 cm’s) and I ended up with a 6. Or, the par 4 12th hole. After a great tee shot, my wedge into the green flew a little left of the green (not far!) and I couldn’t find the ball. I had to go back down to the location of the approach shot, dropped a penalty and then put my approach wedge left and into the greenside trees, duffed my chip and ended up with an eight on the hole. Those two holes were two of the first three played, thank heavens I corrected the round and got things back on track. I’d end up going with the effort on the 12th, my average on that hole is 5.5 and I ended up with an eight.
An interesting looking scorecard this weekend which included five pars and a birdie went with four bogeys. The round also included four penalties, FOUR! Two lost balls, one out of bounds and one in the water. #lesigh
The scorecard can be found http://golfshot.com/Rounds/Detail/34-8671929-8671977
Putting continued to improve this round. I had four one putts, but also had 2 x three putts. A total of 34 putts for the round. Putting continues to improve from the 40 plus putts in a round about a month ago. I can definitely continue to improve this phase of my game and aim to get down to the 30′ish putts per round consistently by the end of this year.
Pre-round handicap was 22 exactly. This round was a new entry into my best 8 rounds for handicapping purposes. It knocked out a 95 off the stick and my handicap drops to 21.6, so I still play off a 22 in next weeks comp.
I’ll try and get a couple of photos during future rounds. I know these reviews are a little droll without imagery… (maybe even with imagery they’re drool)
My turn!
My bet for the weekend was a five leg multi of victory by the NBA’s Thunder and Magic, into the English Super League Leeds Rhino’s, into the NBL Gold Coast Blaze and PGA 3-ball victory by Webb Simpson over Keegan Bradley and Aussie Jarod Lyle.
A good result for the team with all five legs saluting.
Updated visual of results for each punter so far:
I am out in front by a ways, but, my style of punting can easily be run down by Mick. Mick backs 15-1 / 20-1 horses, so one win by him would put him in front. I need consistent collects to keep winning.