Played my first round of golf today

mongooz said:
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i'm playing what it says on the scorecard, not a handicap number.
that's only when i'm playing on leagues, and they ASSIGN me one.
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It's part of the guys strategy to break 100. Mindset and all that.

His gig is that uf you're always focussed on par you're on a hiding to nothing trying to play scratch when you're actually playing to break 100 as it'll crush your confidence.

If you add 1 to stroke index 10-18 and 2 to 1-9 (ergo this par 5 becomes a 7) then you can break 100 with bogey / double bogey aiming for these "pars"


Obviously it means nothing if you're playing against people for real but that opening par 5 usually flattens me but hitting the green on 4 then scoring a 7 felt like a real achievement today.
 
I'll be hitting the course again on Sunday. I'm just playing one hole at a time at this point. My overall score is way over 100 (more like 120). I need to learn to back off my swing a bit, and stop trying to kill the ball. That's what get's me into trouble.
 
TomcatMF said:
I'll be hitting the course again on Sunday. I'm just playing one hole at a time at this point. My overall score is way over 100 (more like 120). I need to learn to back off my swing a bit, and stop trying to kill the ball. That's what get's me into trouble.
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That has always been my problem, trying to smash it every time.
If I hit it normally and ended up needing one more shot to hit the green I'd probably still score better than hitting out of the rough all the time.
 
MonkeyZero said:
That has always been my problem, trying to smash it every time.
If I hit it normally and ended up needing one more shot to hit the green I'd probably still score better than hitting out of the rough all the time.
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You should check out this Golf Sidekicks videos, he's got stuff addressing this and about leaving the ego and PGA shots at home.

I know it was only a quick 9 yesterday but it's easily the most accomplished I've played trying to work with his pointers. Of course the times I tuned out and tried to smash the ball to the green like a hero were disasters :grin:
 
I have 3 rounds booked this weekend starting on Friday. I'm looking forward to it, my swing has been feeling a lot better lately. For a few months there it was kind of a mess.

And yeah, trying to overswing is a universal problem. I often get paired with guys who swing out of their shoes, and are always "long & wrong." :grin:
 
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Last time out started well, but 3 holes blew it. I did chip out of the sand with way too much velocity and hit the pole and landed by the hole. Some may remember I hit the flag last month. I did hit an insanely long putt which felt good as I have been really close on a lot of my putts lately and get the spinaroo and out a lot.
 
i got on line last evening and looked up adjusting the Mavrik driver. and made the adjustment to put some draw into the setting.
went to the range today and had A LOT more mostly straight drives. :100:
and maybe gained a few yards too.
going to play friday, and maybe sunday.....we'll see.
 
I hit the course today. Shot a 131, but I'm still working on a more consistent swing. I had a couple really good drives off the tee, and some excellent approach shots, but it was hard to string together a complete hole in regulation. Golf is hard.
 
I brought my PW down to this holiday lodge and have been knocking it about around the digs.

Definitely feel I'm swinging more consistently but I need to work on my range and angle of attack.

This golf sidekick dude thinks you can break 100 in 6 rounds with his program so as of Friday that's my mission
 
mnewb1 said:
Good lord the short game needs work…it’s killin me!
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i practice with my lob wedge in the living room.....with ping pong balls. they don't break stuff and they don't carry with much energy. put a 12" plastic bowl across the room and practice putting the ball in the bowl.
oh, yea....put dish towel in the bowl so the balls don't bounce right out.
just take a quarter/half swing, it's what you need to do when you're around 20 or so feet from the green anyway.
(or you can do the same thing in the yard, if you have one)

:idea:
 
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Played 9 with my buddy today.

3 went to shit but 6 were pretty good. Hit the edge of the hole to just miss my first ever par 4. Managed to bogey it.

Bogeyed the last hole too with a gorgeous chip over a ditch to get on the green. I really hope people were watching in the clubhouse.

The 3 holes I made an arse of are the ones I tried to pull off hero shots so on Monday I'm going to be sensible all the way round because the last hole turned out good because I played it safe up to the ditch rather than trying to bomb an iron onto the green from 100+ yards out.

Really enjoying playing with a handful of clubs, I didn't even bother with my driver today and played off my new hybrid. What I lost in distance I more than made up for by hitting fairways off the tee. Carried my bag around too instead of using the cart so good for my cardiom
 
played 9 today. not terrible, but not good either. shot a 49 (actual), which is about 7-8 more than i should .
made some dumb choices on clubs/alignment of shot. it's really all concentration and paying attention that i'm just not getting right.
going again on sunday. we'll see.
 
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well, a little worse than friday. but partnered up with 2 other guys on the 5th hole, that played about the same as me, so it didn't seem as annoying. shot a 50 (no handicap) for 9 holes.
only had 2 decent drives. i think i was setting up about an inch to far from the ball with the driver.
had some nice 5 wood hits, which saved some of my not so good drives.
wedges were ok. putter was ok. greens were F.A.S.T. very easy to go 4-5 feet by from 20+ feet away :facepalm:

i'll try again next weekend.
 
Out for another 9 this morning. My usual buddy has called off, I think his golfing days are pretty much over due to mobility issues tbh but I'm going out with another guy.

He's going for his handicap and playing off the tournament tees, I'm going to stick with the yellows and try my best to play safe and avoid going for big hero shots I'm unlikely to pull off
 
Well that sucked. I started off well but the last 4 I could barely get the ball off the deck. My putting was horrible too so I'm going to put more work into it while I'm off for the summer.

Even 10 minutes on the practice green after we finished had me feeling a bit more confident.

We go again :baimun:
 
Man my full-swing shots are really coming around, best I’ve hit the ball in over a year.

OTOH - my short game cost me like 10 strokes per round this weekend, I kid you not. Today I wasn’t fatting or skulling anything, but I couldn’t chip close to the hole to save my life. :flamemad:
 
tiger roach said:
Man my full-swing shots are really coming around, best I’ve hit the ball in over a year.

OTOH - my short game cost me like 10 strokes per round this weekend, I kid you not. Today I wasn’t fatting or skulling anything, but I couldn’t chip close to the hole to save my life. :flamemad:
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how far, more or less, from the green were you, mostly......and what wedge were you using?
i generally only use my lob if i'm trying to get the ball up in the air, and if i'm only 20 feet or less off the green, then the lob it out.
i'll grab the pitch and swing it like a stiff putter swing, that way it'll hop up onto the green and run another 10 feet or so towards the hole.
if i'm 30+ feet off the green, i'll take the 8 and do the same.

edit: most weekend golfers do not hit down on the ball enough to produce the back spin needed to stop the ball on the green, like the pros do. most people who swing their wedges like they've seen the pros do it, will run the ball right off the green or shoot over it.
use a longer club and bump & run it on to the green. much more control than a 3/4 swing with a short wedge. :idea:
 
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