Morning round at Tali

Helsingin Golfklubi (aka. Tali) is Finland's oldest golf club located in the western part of the city. It is a nice park course surrounded by apparent and office buildings. Yet there is very calm atmosphere and with quick transit from home.


Tali was the golf course of the week with Bägilätkä. For 35 € it did not matter, that the game today really sucked.

I hit almost every single drive to the right. The course was wet and divots were flying to left and right after the shots. No cheering with puts or chips either.

My drive on the 15th went like an arrow to the creek on the left side of the fairway. No reason to even look for it. After a few selective words I hit a new ball.

All in all the round was catastrophic. I felt like a beginner as nothing went well.




Number of lost balls: 1

In total 104 shots.
Season best in Tali: 95 shots

It was a foggy morning at the Park

I was driving towards Pickala and this was the view just after Kirkkonummi. Well you could see 100 meters. That should be OK on a golf course you have played before several times. The photo was taken around 08:00 on Thursday. I was met by a lot of traffic on the way to the offices. I just my morning for a nice round of golf. 

The morning round was played on the Park course. The course was in excellent conditions and I joined a retired couple for the round. Nice couple and we enjoyed the discussions during the game.

Taken on 1st hole after tee shot.

The lady played only 9 holes in order to take care their new puppy. So me and the gentleman in question went for the full round. 

The fog was an element during the first 7-8 holes. In the beginning on could not see the green, nor the flag from 150 meters! As the morning continued the visibility got better. The second half of the round was played in wind-still and beautiful sunshine.
 
Somehow I managed shoot my self quite well towards the greens in the beginning. I had some advantages of playing the on several times.

It was an average round, when it comes to the play. A few really good shots and almost the same amount of missed shots as well.

I lost one ball on the 12th hole. My drive has a tendency to go right and this time it truly did so! From the tee-box into the water hazard / pond on the right hand side. That was the lost ball number 1!

The sun is so close, but yet so far away!

Number of lost balls: 1

In total 100 shots.
Season best on Park: 91 shots

Time to start something new

I got the whole idea behind this blog, while plying golf. What else would I have been doing? I have been collecting stats on all played rounds on Golfarena since 2011 and I am also using Gamebook while playing.

None of these do collect the number of lost balls per round. There might be a few of those... This year I have only managed to play a three-four rounds without loosing any.

I try to post a short story about the round feelings, maybe add some nice photos and the reason to why balls got lost. All my balls are marked with red tripple-V and should you find one, please let me know.