So our club championship is in mid-October.
Championship flight is seeded by qualifying. For that flight, the course plays 7400+ yards (mix of black and gold tees). Match play 16 seeds down to a winner.
Then first flight is based on hc, and played net, same match play 8 seeds down to a winner.
In case you've been living under a rock and haven't heard me bitch about my neck pain, that's really messed me up this year. I've been getting some treatments and not hitting as many balls, and the pain is much less severe.
My goal at the beginning of the year was to qualify for championship flight.
This year golf wise has been pretty shit.
If I'm 100% honest with myself, even if I qualify, I know my game isn't sharp enough to go very far. Our championship flight is replete with ex-tour guys and a few well-accomplished life long amateurs. I don't fear them, but I do respect their games. If I try to qualify, going to play the 790s, I need every yard I can get. Even though I play them weak and same loft as the 770s, I know how to really trap and squeeze out 5-8 more yards out of them when I need to.
If I play in the first flight, I'll be playing at 6700, that even with some pain, I'm much more comfortable playing at. At this yardage, it will be 770s all day.
But I've also spent the whole year gaining consistency with 5i - 3wd for long approach shots.
Putting wise, it's my home course, I've been a member there for 19 years, I know what I can do on the greens.
What would you do?
Say fuck it, try to qualify for champ flight? or go for a JV trophy in first flight.
EDIT: When I say JV, I'm not belittling the different flights, it's just not the big one that gets your name put on the wall.
I'm leaning towards fuck it go for broke, but I don't know, that might be a really short weekend that is pinned as the pinnacle of my golfing year lol. Thoughts?