[archie_struthers]

 


lost  7&6  this year in the President s Cup match at my home club Greate Bay....

had to give my opponent 26 shots and he shot 41 on the front nine ...nuff said ...he proceeded to hit every fairway with a 195 yard slice and putted pretty good ....I was lucky it wasn't worse !!!

when I shook his hand and congratulated him he was shocked as he had no idea how he stood ....funny how golf is a couple weeks later my sister in law told me that she had no idea how good one of her co-workers was as he had beaten my so bad   LOL !  they are both nurses at the local hospital

[John Moore II]

Here's a trick question and if somebody doesn't get it in the first five posts, I'll be shocked but the question is---how bad can you technically lose a match?

Here's another trick question---how can you win a match from the tee?

OK, I will revisit this one, after my conversation over drinks an dinner with John VB at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst. There really is no limit to how bad you can lose. If you break 18 rules on the first hole of the match (and they all require loss of hole penalties) and lose the hole, you would lose the match 19-17. Can lose the match on the first tee? Sure, wear shoes with metal spikes when conditions of competition say must have spikeless shoes, DQ penalty. I suppose there could be other ways to lose as well.

[JESII]

2 up with 3 to go in the round of 16 at the British Amateur at Royal County Down. Tee shot on the green on the (old) 16th and lost on the 20th hole...worse than any 7&6 deal ever, I guarantee it...

[Bill_McBride]

2 up with 3 to go in the round of 16 at the British Amateur at Royal County Down. Tee shot on the green on the (old) 16th and lost on the 20th hole...worse than any 7&6 deal ever, I guarantee it...

There's obviously a story there - #16 was (and is) a par 4, right?  So you're putting for eagle.......

[JESII]

2 up with 3 to go in the round of 16 at the British Amateur at Royal County Down. Tee shot on the green on the (old) 16th and lost on the 20th hole...worse than any 7&6 deal ever, I guarantee it...

There's obviously a story there - #16 was (and is) a par 4, right?  So you're putting for eagle.......

...and he hits an equally good tee shot (better actually, since he loses the match if he doesn't make birdie) about the same 20 feet from the hole as I. We both two putt.

I hook it on 17 and make a bogey while he had about 5 feet for birdie...1 up 1 to go.

I bogey 18 when par would have won the match, he played the hole fine, but didn't threaten birdie and I missed the green left and couldn't get up and down.

He hooks it on #1 and I hit it perfect. I miss the 4 iron second to the par five and let him off the hook by not making 4 and then, after a perfect drive on two I dead thin it over the green which is dead...bogey and done.

No discredit to the unnamed winner, but I was sick for a week after that loss...

[Bill_McBride]

2 up with 3 to go in the round of 16 at the British Amateur at Royal County Down. Tee shot on the green on the (old) 16th and lost on the 20th hole...worse than any 7&6 deal ever, I guarantee it...

There's obviously a story there - #16 was (and is) a par 4, right?  So you're putting for eagle.......

...and he hits an equally good tee shot (better actually, since he loses the match if he doesn't make birdie) about the same 20 feet from the hole as I. We both two putt.

I hook it on 17 and make a bogey while he had about 5 feet for birdie...1 up 1 to go.

I bogey 18 when par would have won the match, he played the hole fine, but didn't threaten birdie and I missed the green left and couldn't get up and down.

He hooks it on #1 and I hit it perfect. I miss the 4 iron second to the par five and let him off the hook by not making 4 and then, after a perfect drive on two I dead thin it over the green which is dead...bogey and done.

No discredit to the unnamed winner, but I was sick for a week after that loss...

Brutal indeed - but congratulations on getting that far in the British Amateur at a great course!

I think I would focus on the qualifying and the earlier matches! 

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