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I've always wondered how Trump was so good at golf, he's using your eclectic scoring, oh that and just plain cheating.

I'm going to take up golf again when I retire, after a sabbatical of nearly 40 years (barring one Top Golf adventure in Vegas, but that doesn't count, surely?)

I'm aiming to turn pro within 12 months using this method.

Ha, don't think that Vegas Top Golf affair counts, unless we are measuring it by the fun we had. I'm very socially uncomfortable in "alcohol-fuelled" environments, despite which I really enjoyed that night.

You take up golf again? Let me know when you do, I'd love to come down & have a round or two with you for old times sake.

PS - it suddenly occurs to me - you could build a golf course in the grounds of Tune Hall, your Sussex Estate. Water hazards & all sorts.

Thanks for that always wondered what an eclectic was when I see it on our HOWDIDO app. If you need a hand keeping it Tony I'm a plus handicap with excel just send me your card everyday and I'll send you a monthly automated update

Been getting out at least once or twice a week during all this depressing weather and playing a load of winter greens at times as it's raining so much up here. Been playing ok, Had a remarkable round couple of weeks ago. 13 normal greens 5 winters just in front of normal greens. Tees are up to the  front of yellows and a couple of the longer ones on the reds. Turns what is par 71 of white, 69 0f yellow to a fairly easy 68. Shot 70.

Lovely, thanks James, I may just take you up on that.

"Shot 70".

Blimey, proper golfer. The limit of my ambitions - realistically - is to shoot mid to high 80's. The most Pars I've ever had in a round is 6, & I'm at the age where I'm highly unlikely to improve much. Having said that, the Golf Handicap is a thing of beauty, & even high handicappers can compete with proper players like you. Just need to remember when having a chirp that I'm getting double figures shots off most of my golf partners/opponents.

It's a beaut Tom. What are you going to do with it? Leave it where it is or re plant it?

Amazing to think it could live to 800 years+

It's funny you should ask that Kev, I've been wondering about it myself.

Of course I'll never get the pleasure of sitting beneath it, but it would be nice to think that in a couple of hundred years, someone will.

When we first came here 25 years ago, the loss of our son was still raw, and I thought about planting a tree in his memory. For various reasons, it didn't happen.

Perhaps serendipity has taken a hand.

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It's a beaut Tom. What are you going to do with it? Leave it where it is or re plant it?

Amazing to think it could live to 800 years+

It's funny you should ask that Kev, I've been wondering about it myself.

Of course I'll never get the pleasure of sitting beneath it, but it would be nice to think that in a couple of hundred years, someone will.

When we first came here 25 years ago, the loss of our son was still raw, and I thought about planting a tree in his memory. For various reasons, it didn't happen.

Perhaps serendipity has taken a hand.

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Oak galls, sometimes known as oak apples, are caused by specialist, "Gall" wasps, which lay an egg on some part of the tree and when the larvae hatches it secretes a chemical that causes the oak to produce these growths. The larvae lives and feeds inside the Gall until it is an adult, then it eats its way out.

Incredible eh?

On close inspection, it turns out that the tree that sneaked up on me is an oak.

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At first I wasn't 100% sure, I'm not that good with leaf ID, it still looked a bit copper beechy to me, but then I saw these....
(Pauses for dramatic effect)

It's a beaut Tom. What are you going to do with it? Leave it where it is or re plant it?

Amazing to think it could live to 800 years+

Teenage flicks?

Too good.

[by Eck]

As a Yorkshire man, new posts from this person always jump out at me.


 Re: The blonde Golf thred... by Eck

On close inspection, it turns out that the tree that sneaked up on me is an oak.

Click to see full-size image.

At first I wasn't 100% sure, I'm not that good with leaf ID, it still looked a bit copper beechy to me, but then I saw these....
(Pauses for dramatic effect)

Hi Shaz, glad to hear you're going forward, albeit slowly. Små steg, as they say.

Don't overdo the döstädning. I inherited a lot of my dad's tools when he passed and I think of his hands on them every time I use them.