MY GOLF REHAB POSTS

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Is it really REHAB?

Well, I guess not REALLY rehab as such, although I AM planning a MENTAL comeback to golf this year after an un-enjoyable  and unenthusiastic year of golf last year .

I'm currently in holiday in Bahrain, Middle East where I lived for 20 years, in fact I learned to play golf here in 1998 on the new grass course at Rifaa Golf Club, now The Royal Golf Club.  In fact it was the ONLY grass golf course on the island, the other one was a sand course, Awali Golf Club, where you need to carry a small piece of astro-turf with you to hit your ball from. The greens are not greens they are oiled sand, 'browns'.

Socially, Awali Golf Club it's a great place, they have lots of active members and  it's a fun place to play golf but it does get unbelievably hot in the summer months when the heat of the sun bounces off the ground.

So, back to The Royal Golf Club.  It's new course designed by Colin Motgomery and replaced the perfectly good course that was there before that I learned to play on.

It's probably the most unforgiving course I've ever played, I'm sorry Monty, as much as I respect your golfing prowess, I don't like your course. You can play the best shot , land it EXACTLY where you want it and it rolls, and rolls, and rolls away, into water, or a bunker. It is iuncredibly hard to keep the ball on sloping fairways that are rock hard and nothing to stop it.

To cut a long story short, I played quite well, enjoyed the weather, enjoyed playing in the sunshine and 'dealt with' the course OK.  The mission was to enjoy playing golf, and that's what I did.

I'm going home again soon, my home course is just outside London, UK and THAT's where my golfing 'rehab' will begin, back on home territory.

I'm looking forward to getting going  with the golf mental training course and I'll record how it goes on the blog section of my website.

You can follow my progress here.