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Darren Ramowski

........  I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.

Bruce Lansky 

In all seriousness though, similar to the scoring the first eagle thread, can you remember the round you broke 90 ?

Stewart Whittaker

Chris Perry

Completely.  Was a cool late september/early October morning last year.  We we're playing four-ball better ball matchplay so I was writing down my score but not really following it.  We won 3 & 2 and went double or quits on the last two holes and halved them so won the pound.  

I got back to the car and put my stuff in the boot and almost as an afterthought added up the card.  It came to 89.  I thought I'd miscounted so added it up again.  Then I asked my playing partner to add it up.  As a 7 handicapper he didn't register the importance of the round until I told him.  He made me buy him his apple crumble and custard to celebrate!

Matthew Wabe

90?! I am trying to conistently break 100 here. Hit 99 once, and hit 100...but thats it. It's anoying as I am hitting better shots....i just take too many recovery shots (punching out of trees) or undercook a chip shot to the green, so have to take another.

Soon though...soon...

Jamie C

I remember the first time i broke under 90 but i broke it with a margin that my opponents reported me to the secretary lol. Was playing the final matchplay match in our league, we had to win it in order to be top 2. Was 4th before the match, i ended up winning 7/6 and scoring 87 with 45 stableford points. We managed to win our match to go 2nd in the league :D

What a day! 

Lewis Gladstone-buchanan

Dave ley

Dave Patrick

I agree with Lewis and sort of said at the end of my 1st sub 90. OH! ive broke 90. I remember my breaking 100 as it took me about 6 months to do. Ive yet to break 80 and I will certainly remember it if I do it.

Dave CAC handed Geordie.

Tony Dunn

Tim Hawkins

Steve Cowle

Nope, but I remember when I broke par. As a junior you come down so fast that before you know it you are off single figures. I remember playing a junior medal with a pal of mine, we both played off 5 and had always had a bet on who would shoot under par first. This particular day we were paired together and coming down the last he was 1 under and I was level. He made bogie and I made birdie - Come On!!

John Spencer

Chris Brannon

Don't remember breaking 90 - but do remember breaking 80 as it was quite recent. Event 3 of the CGL summer league at Ramsdale Park (main course). Conditions were very wet (although the course drained superbly) and I shot 79 (par was 71). A real bag of allsorts...

Hadn't realised until the end and I had finnished bogey, double too. Scored 39pts but still wasn't enough to beat Hawkins, Laws or Spencer!

James Illsley

John, it was the game that Kev Mason and I played our strokeplay match.

Chris, whatever you shoot is usually not enough to beat Hawkins, Laws or Spencer, unless you can get to their horses before they do!

John Flood

Don't remember breaking 100 or 90 but deffo remember breaking 80.

It was a really hot sunny day & I knew I was playing well so I didn't add my score up until we were all sitting on the patio having a beer. My partners knew I'd won the sweep as I'd scored 40+ points.

A cold beer never tasted so good

Tim Hawkins

Yes, it was that game John.

And just for the cotton-picking record I got the same number of points as Chris and Stu at Ramsdale, it was just countback that decided it.  AND I was playing my strokeplay game so obviously held my concentration for the complete round... 

John Spencer

oh yes i remember Ramsdale i had been praying to Jack Nicklaus all night before and he gave me his blessing. I do recall Tim coming to the 18th green and i knew he was checking out the scores to see if he had won, my reply was i've got this putt for 42 points but missed it and got 41 points, still enough to win though, happy days :-)

Nathan Ratcliffe

Colin Northmore

Absolutely no recollection of when I broke 90, but 6th July this year shot 10 over par (best round to par by 3 shots) for an 80 at Tyneside (Ryton) with 8 pars, a birdie and eagle, then 4 days later (in my TGA debut - found via Golfshake) at Sharpley shot 9 over for 81, and to be honest if my putting hadn't been so mediocre, it could well have been around 5 over (but will wait for that day, and the course was not over testing length wise). Then the next day at Ponteland (much more demanding course), in a freebie, shot another 9 over for 81, with a record 10 pars (for me!)

So that week will be very memorable for me, and have failed to live up to it in the 7 rounds since (maybe trying too hard?). I have plenty of rounds arranged for the next 2 months (all different courses!) so hope to do the business in one or more of those.

This is a bit like therapy, isn't it? (not that i've been )

Andrew Guyton

I can't rember the first time I broke 90 (or 100 for that matter, and there was a time when I couldn't do that) but I remember breaking 80 for the first time, not the date but the round.  10 odd years ago now.

I can also remember every shot on the back 9 of the second time I broke 80 (the day after the first time).  It was the monthly medal and off a 14 I followed a 7 over front 9 with an even par back 9 (inc a double to finish with!!)

John Pettet