{"id":733546,"date":"2026-08-10T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733546\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:12:10","slug":"has-my-summer-of-golf-come-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/733546\/","title":{"rendered":"Has my summer of golf come to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\tA bit of a strange one from me this week – as going forward over the next few weeks a personal project I have recently undertaken may spell the end of golf for a while, so these weekly columns may be a little less frequent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tI have at least played some golf, after the holiday, then a week with my youngest son, I finally managed to step out onto the very yellow looking turf at Felixstowe<\/a> on Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tIt was interesting to see where my game would be given that I haven\u2019t played for what seemed like forever and what practice I have done hasn\u2019t been a lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tRocking up at 6:30am fresh out the car onto the first tee didn\u2019t seem to phase me as I bashed one straight down the middle about 300 yards – the thinned wedge from there led to a bogey, though. Love golf.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tBut all things considered, I managed to knock it round in about seven over and win my friendly match against my buddy 3&2 and it was made even sweeter for the tenner I took off him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tI was then back at Felixstowe on Sunday for the 2026 Coronation Cup, which is a 36 hole black tee medal. Although my body was there in spirit, it wasn\u2019t there physically as I had spent 10 hours on Saturday (after 18 holes of golf) ripping up carpets, underlay and other various parts of flooring. I don\u2019t want pity. I brought it on myself…<\/p>\n

\tStarted really well, solid par – with a great up and down – on the first then a lovely two-putt birdie on the par 5 second. Unfortunately, I got into some bunker trouble on the third hole – these are two new bunkers that I hadn\u2019t played out of previously and found out the hard way that there was a LOT of sand in them, the first attempt didn\u2019t go very far and ended up back in my rather deep footprint, two more whacks at it later and at least I had a putt for a double, which I missed.<\/p>\n

\t\"Felixstowe\"<\/p>\n

\tIt was steady golf from there though and I stood on the 11th tee only four over with the triple but a lost tee shot there, and a few other loose shots all added up to an 82 (+10). I wasn\u2019t looking forward to the second round of the day, mainly because when I sat down for lunch, getting back up again was way harder than I had wanted it to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tEven after a double on the first, I only dropped a shot on two other holes on the front nine, but a double on 10 followed by a double on 11 (that 11th hole can get in the bin, by the way!) meant that when I added it up at the end, the three doubles and three bogeys totalled an 81 (+9) and +19 for the two rounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tGiven I had zero expectations, little practice, and a body that just didn\u2019t want to be there at all, the fact I managed to get round 36 holes should be celebrated and there was, in spells, some really good golf, so it was actually a nice way to finish for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

\tSo, that might be me for a couple of weeks, we will see, unless anything seismic happens that I feel the need to find 20 minutes to sit down and throw up my opinion on.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\tI hope everyone is enjoying their golf if you are getting it in. Go low folks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bit of a strange one from me this week – as going forward over the next few…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-733546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}