Greetings. Have been a bit busy over the last week but I have some fantastic news. After 3 long years of hard work, setbacks and successes I am very excited to announce that I have completed my PGA training course. It was a huge relief and a big source of celebrations during my trip to Cardiff last weekend (the Stereophonics were awesome by the way).
That's the big news at the moment. I don't know what it will mean in terms of my career in the long term as I am committed to my dispensing job right now, but it does mean that I can focus purely on playing and practising over the winter. I am going to save money as much as possible over so I can play plenty of tournaments over the winter. I also need to finish my dispensing NVQ soon!! I want to finish this by the end of the year if I can and i am nearly half way through.
That's about all I have to report right now. Life is good, I'm now a fully qualified pro golfer and and can breathe easy. I'll write again soon when I have something more to report....
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Here comes the winter...
Morning all. Well, suffice to say the winter weather is drawing in. It's cold, overcast and a bit windy which is a shame as we had a beautiful weekend. Hopefully we still have some nice sunshine to come. Speaking of the weekend, I went to the races at Ascot! It was amazing! What a cracking way to spend a day, and to spend A LOT of money.
Unfortunately I came home £50 lighter having not won a single race! I was gutted. I have a friend in Brighton who gambles full-time and for the most part successfully. He picked my horses for me and I didn't get one result! Even he said the results were crazy, all the outsiders were winning. Oh well, gambling is great when you win but how often does this really happen.
With the exception of last weekend, I have kept up my gym visits and healthier eating and have weighed in this morning. I have now lost 7lbs in 4 weeks and am sitting on 12stone exactly. This is the lightest i've been for a good 3-4 years so I am excited. Just 1 stone to go and I'm there! I have stepped up my swimming and am now doing 40 lengths every session. The first time I did this last week it took me 28 minutes and last night I did it in 20 minutes. I always find that lengths 10-15 are the hardest. Maybe this is the 'wall' that people talk about as my arms always really hurt. However, as I approach 20 lengths I find that this goes and I can swim confidently. I absolutely love to swim so for me this is an easy way to do cardio work. I am doing 100 sit ups every night. I can only do 10 at a time presently which is a bit frustrating as it takes me a while to get the 100 done but I just stay patient and do them.
I played golf at Hollingbury as usual on wednesday and had another astonishing round. After a woeful start and being +7 through 5 holes I had it back to +4 through 16 and then 3 putted and finished with a 78 (+6). I just had a look on my last 3 rounds. How's this for a stat: for the first 6 holes of the last 3 rounds I am a combined +16 and for the remaining 12 holes I am a combined -7! That is crazy and something I definitely need to get my head arounf. I am -10 for my last 3 back nines and +19 for the front nines!
This shows that I am playing phenomenally well and phenomenally terribly. I am fully committed to my 1-plane method now and my understanding improves every day. My ball striking is generally very solid its just the accuracy, particularly with my driver. I think a goal over the winter will be to suss out my tendencies when I play bad so I have more of an idea of how to correct them. I have been to my new club Holtye a couple of times now and am loving it there so I have definitely found a good place to work on these things.
Anyways, I am off to Cardiff tomorrow to see the Stereophonics. I cannot put into words how excited I am about this. I love this band and always have. I had an amazing night last year when I saw them at the O2 so tomorrow should be amazing!!
Anyways, thats about it for now. I'll write again next week...
Unfortunately I came home £50 lighter having not won a single race! I was gutted. I have a friend in Brighton who gambles full-time and for the most part successfully. He picked my horses for me and I didn't get one result! Even he said the results were crazy, all the outsiders were winning. Oh well, gambling is great when you win but how often does this really happen.
With the exception of last weekend, I have kept up my gym visits and healthier eating and have weighed in this morning. I have now lost 7lbs in 4 weeks and am sitting on 12stone exactly. This is the lightest i've been for a good 3-4 years so I am excited. Just 1 stone to go and I'm there! I have stepped up my swimming and am now doing 40 lengths every session. The first time I did this last week it took me 28 minutes and last night I did it in 20 minutes. I always find that lengths 10-15 are the hardest. Maybe this is the 'wall' that people talk about as my arms always really hurt. However, as I approach 20 lengths I find that this goes and I can swim confidently. I absolutely love to swim so for me this is an easy way to do cardio work. I am doing 100 sit ups every night. I can only do 10 at a time presently which is a bit frustrating as it takes me a while to get the 100 done but I just stay patient and do them.
I played golf at Hollingbury as usual on wednesday and had another astonishing round. After a woeful start and being +7 through 5 holes I had it back to +4 through 16 and then 3 putted and finished with a 78 (+6). I just had a look on my last 3 rounds. How's this for a stat: for the first 6 holes of the last 3 rounds I am a combined +16 and for the remaining 12 holes I am a combined -7! That is crazy and something I definitely need to get my head arounf. I am -10 for my last 3 back nines and +19 for the front nines!
This shows that I am playing phenomenally well and phenomenally terribly. I am fully committed to my 1-plane method now and my understanding improves every day. My ball striking is generally very solid its just the accuracy, particularly with my driver. I think a goal over the winter will be to suss out my tendencies when I play bad so I have more of an idea of how to correct them. I have been to my new club Holtye a couple of times now and am loving it there so I have definitely found a good place to work on these things.
Anyways, I am off to Cardiff tomorrow to see the Stereophonics. I cannot put into words how excited I am about this. I love this band and always have. I had an amazing night last year when I saw them at the O2 so tomorrow should be amazing!!
Anyways, thats about it for now. I'll write again next week...
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