For many club golfers, competitions are for weekends. With most people off work, it gives the majority of members the opportunity to turn their small entry fee into a pro shop voucher. Stableford, Medal, Stableford, Medal, sometimes a Texas Scramble… this is the weekend diet for a lot of club players. It’s great if your weekends are your own, of course, but what if they’re not?
A lack of weekend golf, or golf in general for that matter, is something that has been troubling me for some time – about ten years, in fact. There are a number of reasons why my handicap has gone up over the years – an aggressive hook, bunker fear, fatting wedges – but the biggest influence has been having children. I estimate having played, at the very most, half a dozen weekend rounds a year, on average, over the last decade. I know, sad, right?
