One shot!!! Oh man, I feel your pain, that is tough one to swallow. The same happened last year our Captain's Day (Biggest competition of the year) - I qualified for the day with a great score, I was 5th overall, and then hit three drives out of bounds on the second round, including a 10 on the par5 16th. I missed the afternoon 9 holes (top 27) by a stroke. I was gutted, as it was a great chance for me to have competed for the win. The rest of my game was spot on those days, except on the 10th and two other drives, but hey that's the way it goes.

We have a lot of pro golfers (e.g., Justin Harding if you heard of him) who are members of the club so they cater to these guys and not the members who play there week after week.

Ya I have heard of him, he's been in the top 100 in the world a few times, very good golfer. It is frustrating that the course is taylored for these guys, the putts must become impossible for the mere mortals when they set the place up like that with tough pins and tightly mowed greens.

If you can chip and put more consistently you'll easily get to single figures.

The putting kills me, I played 12 holes yesterday with my brother and godson and had 5 birdie putts, missed them all and 3 putted 3 of them for bogey! I really have to practice... I even went back to an old putter to see if that would help, but that was only 2 rounds ago, so will give it a chance.