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You used to be mildly amusing once. Now it’s like trying to find a gold speck amongst the piles of mullock. Sort of like a diamond among trash. (You’d have to be a Dallas Cowboy fan to understand, Colin). ___, o | / . "Someone likes every shot" bk
8 years ago I watched the Az Cardinals play. Last NFL game I ever saw. Last Sunday they had 24.000 fans there. At half time there were 12,000 fans there. The Q-back needs to whisper now when he call his plays.
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Jesus, how lonely do you have to be, to post every minute of a road trip? And how deluded are you to think anyone cares?
You still read it. You used to be mildly amusing once. Now it’s like trying to find a gold speck amongst the piles of mullock. — Cheers Colin Wilson RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=wilsonc Trentham Golf Club: http://www.trenthamgolf.com
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Jesus, how lonely do you have to be, to post every minute of a road trip? And how deluded are you to think anyone cares? You still read it. You used to be mildly amusing once. Now it’s like trying to find a gold speck amongst the piles of mullock.
Sort of like a diamond among trash. (You’d have to be a Dallas Cowboy fan to understand, Colin). ___, o | / . "Someone likes every shot" bk
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The course itself is a very scenic. Not many hills, since it occupies the flat river country, but quite a few hazards to negotiate. The fairways are quality Santa Ana couch and the holes are all challenging. There are some good bunkered par-3s, some long par-5s, up to 521m (570y), and some very tricky but not overly long par-4s. The driving must be accurate, and the approaches are often over deep bunkers. I was happy with an 84 (par 72), despite a couple of blowouts. The good thing was that it was the first day for months where I could play in a short-sleeved polo shirt, sans windbreaker and vest. — Cheers Colin Wilson RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=wilsonc Trentham Golf Club: http://www.trenthamgolf.com
I had my best ever round on the Murray Course, 80, with an 8 on the 9th, tricky hole if you don’t get your tee shot off. Adrian
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I had my best ever round on the Murray Course, 80, with an 8 on the 9th, tricky hole if you don’t get your tee shot off.
I had a 7 on that hole. I took driver and pushed it right, then didn’t chip out fgar enough over the mounds. After another pitch out, I finally put a well-hit 3-wood on the green in four. From there I three-putted from way over on the left side of the green. 
If I had my time over again, I’d hit a 5-wood short of the fairway narrowing, then a 3-wood through the gap. That would leave me about 130m to the green … an 8-iron roughly. I also had an 8 on the 358-metre par-4 12th. Not a tremendous drive, but I was only 150m out. My slightly fat 6-iron approach missed the green by a metre and rolled back into the front bunker. Then it was over the green, back over the green and finally on for six! Those bunkers with a couple of centimetres of sand on a rock-hard base are hard to play. I think the right method is to play a square lob wedge, rather than trying to open a sand wedge and have it bounce into the ball off the hard stuff. I found that out the hard way. I did birdie the 470m par-5 5th (the one that goes along the Murray) and the short uphill par-3 17th. In fact I was only 1-over for the five par-3s. — Cheers Colin Wilson RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=wilsonc Trentham Golf Club: http://www.trenthamgolf.com
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Jesus, how lonely do you have to be, to post every minute of a road trip? And how deluded are you to think anyone cares?
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However, golf was not over for me yet. My wife was helping to organise the Victorian Rogaining Championships, at Eldorado, an old gold mining town in north eastern Victoria. (Rogaining is a cross-country navigational sport where competitors have to see how many checkpoints, of various points value, in a set time limit. The Victorian Championships are a 24-hour event, from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. Sunday, meaning competitors are out all night.) I had organised to go up that way Saturday night, and had also booked in to play at Yarrawonga and Border GC, teeing at 8.20 a.m. Sunday. So on leaving Trentham, I got home, packed a few things and set off at 6.20 p.m. for the 300km drive to Eldorado. After gold letters, it was off to gold nuggets! I left Eldorado again at 7 a.m. to drive the 70km to Yarrawonga. Yarrawonga and Border GC is a large complex, with a three-storey accommodation, 45 holes of golf (including a 9-hole "Executive" course), lawn bowling rinks, gaming rooms, restaurant I must say the Murray Course at Yarrawonga was a pleasant surprise. It meanders its way through the red-gum bushland and billabongs of the Murray River, and the holes are all challenging. So exactly 24-hours later, at 6.20 p.m. Sunday, I pulled back into the driveway at home, having travelled 740km. I was stuffed, but it was a good weekend. 
— Cheers Colin Wilson RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=wilsonc Trentham Golf Club: http://www.trenthamgolf.com
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After playing in the matchplay final at Trentham on Saturday, I had organised to go north on Saturday night, and to play at Yarrawonga and Border GC, teeing at 8.20 a.m. Sunday. Call me a snowbirder, escaping the cold down south! My wife was helping to organise the Victorian Rogaining Championships, out of Eldorado, an old gold mining town in north eastern Victoria. (Rogaining is a cross-country navigational sport. The Victorian Championships are a 24-hour event, from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. Sunday, meaning competitors are out all night.) My wife and other organisers had booked a cabin at a tourist farm on the Chiltern-Beechworth Road. So I had free accommodation, all I had to do was find the place! So on leaving Trentham GC, I got home, packed a few things and set off at 6.20 p.m. for the 300km drive to Eldorado. After gold letters, it was off to gold nuggets! The driving was easy after hitting the Hume Freeway, so I set the CDs on the car stereo and the kilos clicked away. With a meal stop, I reached Chiltern at 9.30, and pulled into the Mt Pilot Tourist Farm at 10 p.m. Despite the noise of peacocks on the roof and roosters crowing at 3.30 in the light of the full moon, I got an OK night’s sleep. I left again at 7 a.m. to drive the 70km to Yarrawonga. This takes you through wine country at Rutherglen, then past head-high crops of wheat, canola, barley and oats (the season sure looks better after the severe drought of 2002) to Yarrawonga, on the shores of Lake Mulwala. Cross the Murray on the old raisable bridge and the golf club is just into New South Wales. Yarrawonga and Border GC is a large complex, with a three-storey accommodation building, 45 holes of golf (including a 9-hole "Executive" course), several lawn bowling rinks, gaming rooms, restaurant, conference facilities and a quite large pro shop. There is plenty of staff, and the green fees were A$28 (reduced from a normal A$33 because the greens were still recovering from coring two weeks ago … they were OK, but still slow. I must say the Murray Course at Yarrawonga (highly ranked in public-access course rankings) was a pleasant surprise. It meanders its way through the red-gum bushland and billabongs of the Murray River. From tee to green is often a walk past a quiet billabong, the par-5 5th follows the north bank of the river (smash an old ball from the tee here and you can drive into another State!). On one such walk is a large gnarled river red gum, and about three metres up the tree is a mark saying "1993 flood level". It would have inundated most of the course. The bird life is quite extraordinary … waterfowl, kingfishers, cockatoos, brightly coloured rosella parrots and pelicans. I reckon Bill the Newbie would have his checkbook out, but he’d need a good overdraft! (There was a thousand dollars gone in one hit when a suicidal galah impaled itself on my windscreen with a huge thud on the way home.) Much too far south for crocodiles, and no snakes seen, although it’s good snake country. Steve Irwin would love it. The course itself is a very scenic. Not many hills, since it occupies the flat river country, but quite a few hazards to negotiate. The fairways are quality Santa Ana couch and the holes are all challenging. There are some good bunkered par-3s, some long par-5s, up to 521m (570y), and some very tricky but not overly long par-4s. The driving must be accurate, and the approaches are often over deep bunkers. I was happy with an 84 (par 72), despite a couple of blowouts. The good thing was that it was the first day for months where I could play in a short-sleeved polo shirt, sans windbreaker and vest. The round took a reasonable 4 hours, and after quick refreshments I left. By 2.00 p.m. I was back close to Eldorado. To get to the rogaining event required a 15 kilometre drive up a narrow winding forest road, and it was weird to suddenly come across a paddock full of cars, "hash house" tents and a crowd of a few hundred applauding the winners … all out in the middle of nowhere! They all looked pretty stuffed, btw, some having covered well over 60km on foot. We got away at 3.00 p.m., and at 6.20, exactly 24-hours later, I pulled back into the driveway at home, having travelled a total of 740km. I was also stuffed, but it was a great weekend. — Cheers Colin Wilson RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=wilsonc Trentham Golf Club: http://www.trenthamgolf.com