Rob Potter Golf

14/12/2024

A great afternoon for my first Captains Drive-In
Lady Captain had the honour off the tee and under enormous pressure delivered the goods with a low draw down the left. It went a good distance as well. Well done.

Up stepped Mr Captain - Richard Ward. After a bit of teasing with the crowd, of which there was a handsome crowd, he stood up, and with a smooth swing hit the best tee shot I’ve seen any incoming Captain make, at any of the 4 clubs I’ve now been a member of!

Very much looking forward to the coming season, having Lesley and Richard as my respective captains.
I sincerely hope to get a few rounds with them both.

15/11/2024

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31/10/2024

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13/10/2024

🚨FINAL STABLEFORD & MY FINAL COMP AT SALE🚨

21st around with 34pts wasn’t too bad, on a day where scoring was tough with windy and cool conditions with greens that hadn’t heeled from the recent weeks Greens Priority.

I had zero expectation coming into this because of the greens, and I was proved right with mystery and exaggerated deviations on the greens, due to open aeration holes. Same for us all but with a counting score dropping off, it put me behind the 8 ball to try and drop the hcp from 7.3 to 6.8 to finish where I stayed the year.

Sadly a blob two blobs hampered me getting near to 38pts which was the winning score.
That, and those said mystery deviations, where the ball either looked great in the air hitting the aeration holes or exited stage left or stage right as the pace of the ball died.

Some have said it was unfair to hold a qualifier whilst the greens played how they did, and I do agree; others have questioned why do this last priority knowing we still had a qualifier, where flexibility from Head Greenkeeper & Greens Committee could be used; but I also understand the club have to finish off their schedule before the winter comps come in due to daylight saving.
A tough call!

So all in all, an incredibly frustrating way to end a poor season. But I can’t just blame this last round.

N.B - you’ll see I’ve put my stats up twice. The first is to compare against my own hcp of 7 and the second is to compare what I am against a 4hcp which is the target.

Now the REAL hard work starts!
(1) the hunt for a new club - if indeed I decide to join one again for this winter and next season

(2) Continue to work on the swing and really grind in the changes made with plus build on those changes with him

(3) time to get fitter and get the exercise programme in place with

(4) work on my mental game

(5) work on increasing my swing speed with

06/10/2024

Well that’s a wrap for me this season on the .tour

What a blast it’s been and to finish it off was a blast.

If I could have putted, I’d have been a golfer 😂😂😂

Swing felt good though, for the most part, with only a few blips in there. Deffo two courses I wanna come back to play again.

Great couple of days, on a great tour, with the best staff and great Pro’s and Am’s who play on it.

Bring on 2025

05/10/2024

The swing felt the best it has, almost all year, the last two days for the season finale on the .tour .

The top of the back swing still isn’t right with how the face of the club is at, and the transition is still an abomination going steep and OTT.

The battle to improve continues, and much work is needed in the off season to kick on with the challenge I have set myself (more on that to come).

Thanks to (great caddy) for the photos on this post and video of this swing in my story.

Stats to come….

26/09/2024

2nd place finish on .tour in a card play off. But that really doesn’t tell the story!

I had to win that event to leave a showdown this coming Monday for the OOM title. But alas that’s gone now.
Congrats to Mark Brookes for the season he’s had. Some exceptional playing out, of the blocks, early doors to take I firm grip on the OOM.

Despite the stats not looking great, I played REALLY well, with only a marginal misses for fairways and greens for the most part.

The putter however was cold. Just couldn’t get used to the pace of the greens which was affecting line. Sometimes they too break, other times they didn’t. And when you compensated the opposite happened. But the greens rolled pretty smooth for this time of year, and I loved the layout.

To blob two holes on the front and still have 18pts I was happy with how I stuck at it. Especially with a 3 putt in the 1st.

But 17 & 18 are haunting me!
Pushed driver OB on 17 (the first pushed drive of the day) hit me like a train. And then I double crossed myself on 18 with a straight pull.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda’s aren’t gonna change the result though.

Thanks to Wheatley GC for their hospitality and a great course and as always the team on 2020ProTour for putting on a great event on a great course!

Next year Rodders….I’ll be an OOM champion 😂

23/09/2024

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15/09/2024

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15/09/2024

28/08/2024

🚨2020ProTour - Tour Experience Result 🚨

Well yesterday was a tough one at the magnificent

With blustering winds and a rainy front 9 it was certainly a battle.

I mustered 33pts which at best could have been maybe 4pts better, based on two easy putts missed and a blob on the 7th.

The plan was to vlog the round for a new series, thanks to Manchester GC giving me permission to film, but due to the weather I couldn’t take the risk getting the camera equipment wet.

Typically the weather improved on the back 9 dried up. But I made the right call I feel.
The series will start soon.

Thanks as ever, to an incredibly well run event by .tour and to Manchester Golf Club for hosting us and producing a great course that played tough but fair.

18/08/2024

🚨August Medal Result🚨

Well I’ll take 10th spot, 0.6 reduction in hcp (back to 7.2), one of my best F.I.R to G.I.R ration of the year, with no double bogeys and no 3 putts!

And that’s only the second round after seeing at

I played so free on the front 9, but my head got in my way, thinking too much on technique on the back 9 after a HORRENDOUS fat on the 11th Par 3.

However, I may have had no 3 putts but I left so many short of the hole from between 6-25ft. Personally I think it was just tension in not wanting to 3 putt due to a decent round and with me getting fused to using the Backstryke D.A.R.T again, as the incert is so soft.

What pleases me, is I know there’s more in the tank, and once I feel a little more comfortable with the changes I’ve made with grip and in starting the transition, if the putting holds up, it could be an exciting end to the season.

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30/07/2024

🚨ATSG Showdown🚨

Not the result I’d hoped for in the .tour .golf Showdown, after a great practice round on Thursday.

Despite playing fairly well tee to green, with only a few mishaps due to zero confidence in my swing currently, my putting was absent - in fact it had gone AWOL.

30pts with 3 blobs is disappointing! The first of which, which typified how the round would pan out on the greens, came at the 2nd hole whereby I managed to 4 putt from 17ft.
I just couldn’t get to grips with the speed of the greens all day, or in fact the breaks which appeared to be massive in some circumstances. Greens looked faster than they were, and that’s not to say they were slow. Just a really poor day with the flat stick.

The course from the tee to the green played firm and fast, and with my ball flight and lack of distance, I had to pitch most things short, allow the land to take the ball. Sadly this resulted in much more missed greens than I wanted.

With just 30pts, the three blobs proved really costly as I was hoping for 36pts around there, which was achievable I felt.
This also means I’m still behind Marc Brookes in the OOM with events running out. Still, I’ve always been one to do things ‘last minute’ minute, so all to play for.

thank you so much for presenting a stunning course. Until I played Thursday I didn’t know Meltham GC existed and rest assured I’ll be here more often now.

I love how the course isn’t for bombers and you gotta play strategically; especially off the tee. 12,13, 14 are just a delight to play!

Folks, if you’re reading this far, put Meltham GC in your list.

Thanks to my playing partners , and of course my good pal for their company and competition!

Next up on .tour is for me the best testing golf course in the Manchester region - the simply stunning on 27 Aug

For those who are 1-28hcp, places are still available for the Tour Experience section (Male & Female all okay together) and at just £55 it’s great value to play such a good course.
Check their page out on Instagram for entry details.

23/07/2024

2020protour The Lakes Pro/Am Day 2 - Windermere Golf Club

Second place over all, for the combined event with Nick McCarthy - WHAT A PLAYER!!!!!!

Elated, gutted and embarrassed all at the same time!
That’s the best way I can sum yesterday and the event as a whole from a personal playing perspective.

Windermere was presented beautifully, and with gorgeous views from the high points. But it just didn’t find my eye.

Sadly my game remained where it finished off on Sunday - AWOL!!!! Literally only one shot all day that felt good and that’s the once confirmed by Arccos Golf which you can see.
I opened my last dozen “Rob Potter Golf” Vice Golf Pro Plus golf balls prior to the round and lost 6!!!!
That’s four and a half dozen golf balls lost since my knock with The Fore Right Boys over in Ireland in March!

I couldn’t find my swing at all! With straight pulls or pushes off the tee with driver; fats off the tee with fairway woods and my hybrid; irons were an amalgamation of the driver, fairways woods and hybrids 😂😂😂 not to mention an inability to putt once again.

I got on the card just 4 times yesterday! So this 2nd place is more down to Nick rather than me, as I only really attended for 12 holes of the 36 played this week.

His patience with me was exceptional based on how poorly I played.

Great to get out Jack Brooks 10yr after our last knock and his dad! What a pairing they are, with his dad still off 3hcp well into his 60’s.

Lets put it this way - I was that gutted with my performance I drive to HUKD GOLF on my way back, to confirm what I believed the problem was and see if I could put a plaster over it, based on the videos I’ve took with Joanne over previous lessons. Seemed to feel a bit better but she’s gonna take a look prior to the Meltham GC event next up on the tour.

01/07/2024

🚨Captains 4th Qualifier🚨

What could have been sort of a round!

A stupid clubbing decision on the 6th because, I didn’t wanna go through back, resulting in me under clubbing, going at the shot harder and coz I didn’t trust it, fatting it into the pond short, resulting in a double.
Made up with the bounce back birdie on 7 though.

And then, inexplicably, on the 15th, the easiest hole for me personally on the course, I make a triple as I pulled my 3rd shot left of the green (had to chip out coz of a blocked drive) and then a skulled chip and a half hearted return chip stopped all momentum!

I was cruising as well and felt pretty comfortable with my game all day, and scrambled well based on my Arccos Golf stats, even if the flat-stick wasn’t as well behaved as it had been.

Ah well, no foul regarding the hcp as it was a free round Saturday. However the next to hcp qualifiers see two counting rounds drop. So I need to try be a little more in point this week.

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27/06/2024

Feels good to have a Top 5 - it’s been a while 😂

Yesterday actually felt like I played the golf I know I can, and that’s with a birdie putt on the 1st, which a cricket umpire would declare a wide, a silly double on the 2nd after a tentative first putt and a poor first chip on the 12th.

But I have to remember I’m the hcp I am for a reason and technical blips will slip in. I kept my cool, regrouped and scrambled well all things considered.

Second round Knock Out match tonight in the 4balls and then Captains Qualifier on Saturday. So I’m looking forward to those after feeling more comfortable knowing the greens.

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22/06/2024

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07/06/2024

🚨ATTENTION GOLFERS🚨

There are still spots available for this fantastic charity event on Sat 15th June.

Currently in last group out at 13:00 and there’s 3 spots at that tee time still available.

£40 to play with food and then entertainment by “The Usual Suspects” is a genuine bargain. And the charity we are playing for is such a worthy cause, to help provide trained dogs for children with Autism.

Premier Inn nearby so if you wanna stay over and have drinks to really enjoy the entertainment and auction, then there’s that option as well.

I’d love 3 more people to join me so I’d have a team to enter that side of the event also, as well as competing individually.

Individual stableford and Team of 4 event if you have a 4ball

Nearest the pin
Longest drive
Beat The Bro challenge
Raffle
Auction memorabilia from some of the world’s best golfers. Followed by entertainment from The Usual Suspects

£30 members
£40 per person including food

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