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Played a few round recently, tried using my old mans old driver. It has a shorter shaft (despite him being 6ft6 thought would be longer than mine), and feels like it has a bit more weight in the head. I seem to be squaring the face up quicker with it and finding a lot more fair ways. Still have the odd one where I get a bit loose and the hands open right up goes flying right, but probably finding 2/3 fairways the last 2 rounds with it, as opposed to basically none.
Yesterdays round started horrifically, couldn’t find a fairway to start and the irons were cutting a fair bit. Started with 55 on the front, couldn’t get much worse and then had a 44 on the back. Difference was finding more fairways, the long irons were still off but at least they were up there and i could chip on and 2 putt for a bogey. Was like 2 different golfers.
Got the first handicap and I got to say I am a little confused. It’s 16.1 when my best round I put in was a 97. So i expect I’ll blow that right out and will be a little bit until I have a hc I can play too.
Not sure if this is exactly right Special, but I think for the purpose of handicap they only allow for double bogey on any given hole, so even though you may have had a 97 as your best, take off any triples and above and you may have only had a 90. Same goes for the other h’cap cards. Have you been given your handicap off 3 cards or 5? If three, then yeah it will go out a bit.
That sounds about right, I had a few holes triple or above in my last 2 rounds, outside of that quite a few pars and a couple birdies.
I expect I won’t have a hc I’ll be able to play to for quite a few rounds but that’s ok it’s all progressing nicely anyway.
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A high slice is due to the club face being open in relation to the direction the club head is travelling at impact. The most likely reason is a cupped lead wrist (left wrist for RH golfers). The reason for cupping is because you want to hit the ball up so your subconcious helps you out by opening the club. You need to swing with a flat left wrist.
Hold your left arm out horizontally, palm facing the ground, flat left wrist. Tilt your hand up, as indicating ‘stop’, your wrist is now cupped. Tilt your hand down so your palm faces your knees, that is now bowed.
Now take your normal stance with your driver with a square club face (at right angles to the target line). Deliberately cup your left wrist and see what happens to the club face angle. If you do that through impact, you’ll get a high slice right. So do your best to always swing with a flat left wrist.
A shorter driver is easier to control and a heavier club head provides better feel.
Pretty much exactly what my coach has been working with me on. I’ve been getting it but then slightly change it without realising it. Just have to keep focusing on it!
The change in driver has definitely made a difference.
Played a few round recently, tried using my old mans old driver. It has a shorter shaft (despite him being 6ft6 thought would be longer than mine), and feels like it has a bit more weight in the head. I seem to be squaring the face up quicker with it and finding a lot more fair ways. Still have the odd one where I get a bit loose and the hands open right up goes flying right, but probably finding 2/3 fairways the last 2 rounds with it, as opposed to basically none.
Yesterdays round started horrifically, couldn’t find a fairway to start and the irons were cutting a fair bit. Started with 55 on the front, couldn’t get much worse and then had a 44 on the back. Difference was finding more fairways, the long irons were still off but at least they were up there and i could chip on and 2 putt for a bogey. Was like 2 different golfers.
Got the first handicap and I got to say I am a little confused. It’s 16.1 when my best round I put in was a 97. So i expect I’ll blow that right out and will be a little bit until I have a hc I can play too.
Not sure if this is exactly right Special, but I think for the purpose of handicap they only allow for double bogey on any given hole, so even though you may have had a 97 as your best, take off any triples and above and you may have only had a 90. Same goes for the other h’cap cards. Have you been given your handicap off 3 cards or 5? If three, then yeah it will go out a bit.
That sounds about right, I had a few holes triple or above in my last 2 rounds, outside of that quite a few pars and a couple birdies.
I expect I won’t have a hc I’ll be able to play to for quite a few rounds but that’s ok it’s all progressing nicely anyway.
You arent supposed to play to your handicap everytime,
Back to Basics: Handicapping 101 – Playing to Your Handicap
What does âplaying to your handicapâ mean, and how often are you going to actually do it? Having a good understanding of what your chances are will not only help you make sense of the Handicap System, you wonât feel so badly those times when you donât hit your number!The first thing to know is how important USGA Course Rating is, and exactly how it plays into the equation.
Ever heard the term âTarget Scoreâ? Letâs say youâve entered a tournament at Stone Creek GC, and youâre going to play the Blue tees, which has a Course Rating of 71.4 and a Slope Rating of 127. Whatâs the best score you could probably hope to shoot that day? Your Handicap Index is a 15.2, so it converts to 17 (using Course Handicap Tables or âConversion Chartsâ). Now add the 17 to 71.4 for a total of 88 (rounded). This means youâve played to your handicap for the tournament, which is a good showing!
This little bit of math illustrates that playing to your handicap is not about how well you think you played or the number of putts you had, but a measurable number. Notice that par has not been mentioned? Thatâs because playing to your handicap is not how your net score relates to par (forget about par â it just doesnât give you enough information about a golf courseâs difficulty in order to relate it to handicapping).
How often should you play to your handicap? Taking each component of the Handicap System formula into consideration, at the end of the day, playing to your handicap actually happens only once out of four to five rounds. But donât get discouraged â thereâs a good reason the USGA came up with this probability.
Even though all scores must be posted (the system needs lots of data to work correctly) the formula bases your Handicap Index on the better half of them. If, however, all of them were used, players with higher handicaps would see significant increases while those with lower handicaps would not increase as much. This would tip the balance of the system heavily toward higher handicap players.
So keep setting your target to play to your handicap â itâs good to have a goal! â but donât feel badly if you only play to it 20-25% of the time.
Played a few round recently, tried using my old mans old driver. It has a shorter shaft (despite him being 6ft6 thought would be longer than mine), and feels like it has a bit more weight in the head. I seem to be squaring the face up quicker with it and finding a lot more fair ways. Still have the odd one where I get a bit loose and the hands open right up goes flying right, but probably finding 2/3 fairways the last 2 rounds with it, as opposed to basically none.
Yesterdays round started horrifically, couldn’t find a fairway to start and the irons were cutting a fair bit. Started with 55 on the front, couldn’t get much worse and then had a 44 on the back. Difference was finding more fairways, the long irons were still off but at least they were up there and i could chip on and 2 putt for a bogey. Was like 2 different golfers.
Got the first handicap and I got to say I am a little confused. It’s 16.1 when my best round I put in was a 97. So i expect I’ll blow that right out and will be a little bit until I have a hc I can play too.
Not sure if this is exactly right Special, but I think for the purpose of handicap they only allow for double bogey on any given hole, so even though you may have had a 97 as your best, take off any triples and above and you may have only had a 90. Same goes for the other h’cap cards. Have you been given your handicap off 3 cards or 5? If three, then yeah it will go out a bit.
That sounds about right, I had a few holes triple or above in my last 2 rounds, outside of that quite a few pars and a couple birdies.
I expect I won’t have a hc I’ll be able to play to for quite a few rounds but that’s ok it’s all progressing nicely anyway.
You arent supposed to play to your handicap everytime,
Back to Basics: Handicapping 101 – Playing to Your Handicap
What does âplaying to your handicapâ mean, and how often are you going to actually do it? Having a good understanding of what your chances are will not only help you make sense of the Handicap System, you wonât feel so badly those times when you donât hit your number!The first thing to know is how important USGA Course Rating is, and exactly how it plays into the equation.
Ever heard the term âTarget Scoreâ? Letâs say youâve entered a tournament at Stone Creek GC, and youâre going to play the Blue tees, which has a Course Rating of 71.4 and a Slope Rating of 127. Whatâs the best score you could probably hope to shoot that day? Your Handicap Index is a 15.2, so it converts to 17 (using Course Handicap Tables or âConversion Chartsâ). Now add the 17 to 71.4 for a total of 88 (rounded). This means youâve played to your handicap for the tournament, which is a good showing!
This little bit of math illustrates that playing to your handicap is not about how well you think you played or the number of putts you had, but a measurable number. Notice that par has not been mentioned? Thatâs because playing to your handicap is not how your net score relates to par (forget about par â it just doesnât give you enough information about a golf courseâs difficulty in order to relate it to handicapping).
How often should you play to your handicap? Taking each component of the Handicap System formula into consideration, at the end of the day, playing to your handicap actually happens only once out of four to five rounds. But donât get discouraged â thereâs a good reason the USGA came up with this probability.
Even though all scores must be posted (the system needs lots of data to work correctly) the formula bases your Handicap Index on the better half of them. If, however, all of them were used, players with higher handicaps would see significant increases while those with lower handicaps would not increase as much. This would tip the balance of the system heavily toward higher handicap players.
So keep setting your target to play to your handicap â itâs good to have a goal! â but donât feel badly if you only play to it 20-25% of the time.
Thanks for that, makes perfect sense! and I know most only play to the HC a small percentage of times. I suppose it is just difficult to get my head around when the title of this thread is ‘can I break 90’, 16 seems awfully low, but I know that will come out to a more even number. The 44 on the back yesterday gives me hope it’s not far off though!
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Played a few round recently, tried using my old mans old driver. It has a shorter shaft (despite him being 6ft6 thought would be longer than mine), and feels like it has a bit more weight in the head. I seem to be squaring the face up quicker with it and finding a lot more fair ways. Still have the odd one where I get a bit loose and the hands open right up goes flying right, but probably finding 2/3 fairways the last 2 rounds with it, as opposed to basically none.
Yesterdays round started horrifically, couldn’t find a fairway to start and the irons were cutting a fair bit. Started with 55 on the front, couldn’t get much worse and then had a 44 on the back. Difference was finding more fairways, the long irons were still off but at least they were up there and i could chip on and 2 putt for a bogey. Was like 2 different golfers.
Got the first handicap and I got to say I am a little confused. It’s 16.1 when my best round I put in was a 97. So i expect I’ll blow that right out and will be a little bit until I have a hc I can play too.
Not sure if this is exactly right Special, but I think for the purpose of handicap they only allow for double bogey on any given hole, so even though you may have had a 97 as your best, take off any triples and above and you may have only had a 90. Same goes for the other h’cap cards. Have you been given your handicap off 3 cards or 5? If three, then yeah it will go out a bit.
That sounds about right, I had a few holes triple or above in my last 2 rounds, outside of that quite a few pars and a couple birdies.
I expect I won’t have a hc I’ll be able to play to for quite a few rounds but that’s ok it’s all progressing nicely anyway.
You arent supposed to play to your handicap everytime,
Back to Basics: Handicapping 101 – Playing to Your Handicap
What does âplaying to your handicapâ mean, and how often are you going to actually do it? Having a good understanding of what your chances are will not only help you make sense of the Handicap System, you wonât feel so badly those times when you donât hit your number!The first thing to know is how important USGA Course Rating is, and exactly how it plays into the equation.
Ever heard the term âTarget Scoreâ? Letâs say youâve entered a tournament at Stone Creek GC, and youâre going to play the Blue tees, which has a Course Rating of 71.4 and a Slope Rating of 127. Whatâs the best score you could probably hope to shoot that day? Your Handicap Index is a 15.2, so it converts to 17 (using Course Handicap Tables or âConversion Chartsâ). Now add the 17 to 71.4 for a total of 88 (rounded). This means youâve played to your handicap for the tournament, which is a good showing!
This little bit of math illustrates that playing to your handicap is not about how well you think you played or the number of putts you had, but a measurable number. Notice that par has not been mentioned? Thatâs because playing to your handicap is not how your net score relates to par (forget about par â it just doesnât give you enough information about a golf courseâs difficulty in order to relate it to handicapping).
How often should you play to your handicap? Taking each component of the Handicap System formula into consideration, at the end of the day, playing to your handicap actually happens only once out of four to five rounds. But donât get discouraged â thereâs a good reason the USGA came up with this probability.
Even though all scores must be posted (the system needs lots of data to work correctly) the formula bases your Handicap Index on the better half of them. If, however, all of them were used, players with higher handicaps would see significant increases while those with lower handicaps would not increase as much. This would tip the balance of the system heavily toward higher handicap players.
So keep setting your target to play to your handicap â itâs good to have a goal! â but donât feel badly if you only play to it 20-25% of the time.
Thanks for that, makes perfect sense! and I know most only play to the HC a small percentage of times. I suppose it is just difficult to get my head around when the title of this thread is ‘can I break 90’, 16 seems awfully low, but I know that will come out to a more even number. The 44 on the back yesterday gives me hope it’s not far off though!
hope is what keeps us playing this silly game! đ
Played a few round recently, tried using my old mans old driver. It has a shorter shaft (despite him being 6ft6 thought would be longer than mine), and feels like it has a bit more weight in the head. I seem to be squaring the face up quicker with it and finding a lot more fair ways. Still have the odd one where I get a bit loose and the hands open right up goes flying right, but probably finding 2/3 fairways the last 2 rounds with it, as opposed to basically none.
Yesterdays round started horrifically, couldn’t find a fairway to start and the irons were cutting a fair bit. Started with 55 on the front, couldn’t get much worse and then had a 44 on the back. Difference was finding more fairways, the long irons were still off but at least they were up there and i could chip on and 2 putt for a bogey. Was like 2 different golfers.
Got the first handicap and I got to say I am a little confused. It’s 16.1 when my best round I put in was a 97. So i expect I’ll blow that right out and will be a little bit until I have a hc I can play too.
Not sure if this is exactly right Special, but I think for the purpose of handicap they only allow for double bogey on any given hole, so even though you may have had a 97 as your best, take off any triples and above and you may have only had a 90. Same goes for the other h’cap cards. Have you been given your handicap off 3 cards or 5? If three, then yeah it will go out a bit.
That sounds about right, I had a few holes triple or above in my last 2 rounds, outside of that quite a few pars and a couple birdies.
I expect I won’t have a hc I’ll be able to play to for quite a few rounds but that’s ok it’s all progressing nicely anyway.
You arent supposed to play to your handicap everytime,
Back to Basics: Handicapping 101 – Playing to Your Handicap
What does âplaying to your handicapâ mean, and how often are you going to actually do it? Having a good understanding of what your chances are will not only help you make sense of the Handicap System, you wonât feel so badly those times when you donât hit your number!The first thing to know is how important USGA Course Rating is, and exactly how it plays into the equation.
Ever heard the term âTarget Scoreâ? Letâs say youâve entered a tournament at Stone Creek GC, and youâre going to play the Blue tees, which has a Course Rating of 71.4 and a Slope Rating of 127. Whatâs the best score you could probably hope to shoot that day? Your Handicap Index is a 15.2, so it converts to 17 (using Course Handicap Tables or âConversion Chartsâ). Now add the 17 to 71.4 for a total of 88 (rounded). This means youâve played to your handicap for the tournament, which is a good showing!
This little bit of math illustrates that playing to your handicap is not about how well you think you played or the number of putts you had, but a measurable number. Notice that par has not been mentioned? Thatâs because playing to your handicap is not how your net score relates to par (forget about par â it just doesnât give you enough information about a golf courseâs difficulty in order to relate it to handicapping).
How often should you play to your handicap? Taking each component of the Handicap System formula into consideration, at the end of the day, playing to your handicap actually happens only once out of four to five rounds. But donât get discouraged â thereâs a good reason the USGA came up with this probability.
Even though all scores must be posted (the system needs lots of data to work correctly) the formula bases your Handicap Index on the better half of them. If, however, all of them were used, players with higher handicaps would see significant increases while those with lower handicaps would not increase as much. This would tip the balance of the system heavily toward higher handicap players.
So keep setting your target to play to your handicap â itâs good to have a goal! â but donât feel badly if you only play to it 20-25% of the time.
Thanks for that, makes perfect sense! and I know most only play to the HC a small percentage of times. I suppose it is just difficult to get my head around when the title of this thread is ‘can I break 90’, 16 seems awfully low, but I know that will come out to a more even number. The 44 on the back yesterday gives me hope it’s not far off though!
hope is what keeps us playing this silly game! đ
And resilience is what brings us back when hope is dimming!
20-25% ???
Only one in my last 20 has come close to my handicap.People say that nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
No championships worth mentioning in recent years.
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.20-25% ???
Only one in my last 20 has come close to my handicap.wouldn’t that depend on whether your handicap trend is going down or up?
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20-25% ???
Only one in my last 20 has come close to my handicap.wouldn’t that depend on whether your handicap trend is going down or up?
Yes
People say that nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
No championships worth mentioning in recent years.
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.Slow game movement got in my head today. I was 0 through 6 in par and my mate was -1. But around the 4th hole we started getting really agitated at some of the things the group in front of us were doing.
They’d stand and wait for the group in front to leave the green, then only once they’d left the green would they measure the distance, pick a club, have about 4 practice swings then hit. While the partner would stand and watch, then walk over to his ball which he could have got to while his partner was hitting, then do the same thing. One time they were on there second shot on a par 5, and waited until the group in front were off the green to hit. They were not great golfers so no chance in hell were they making it from 250+ out.
They’d mark their balls each time, wait for the mate to putt and second putt, when they could quite easily putt in between. Then once mate was finished would put ball down, read the putt from about 3 different angles, practice putt then finally hit it.
By the 14th or 15th one of the guys would start playing a practice ball every time he didn’t like a shot he hit.. did it about 3-4 times.
Each time they did one of these things we’d just have to stand and wait and watch it all happen. We understand it’s busy and its going to be slow, but was infuriating that they weren’t ready to hit each time it was clear. If you’re waiting, be ready to hit you know?
Our golf was shit but it definitely got our noses out of joint big time it was a talking point for us every hole. I went -10 my mate went -11. Fair to say we made a complaint.
Slow play happens, don’t stress yourself over it.
If you are in the metro lockdown area, there are additional restrictions about not getting anywhere near the group in front, only two pairs on each hole, etc.People say that nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
No championships worth mentioning in recent years.
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.Slow game movement got in my head today. I was 0 through 6 in par and my mate was -1. But around the 4th hole we started getting really agitated at some of the things the group in front of us were doing.
They’d stand and wait for the group in front to leave the green, then only once they’d left the green would they measure the distance, pick a club, have about 4 practice swings then hit. While the partner would stand and watch, then walk over to his ball which he could have got to while his partner was hitting, then do the same thing. One time they were on there second shot on a par 5, and waited until the group in front were off the green to hit. They were not great golfers so no chance in hell were they making it from 250+ out.
They’d mark their balls each time, wait for the mate to putt and second putt, when they could quite easily putt in between. Then once mate was finished would put ball down, read the putt from about 3 different angles, practice putt then finally hit it.
By the 14th or 15th one of the guys would start playing a practice ball every time he didn’t like a shot he hit.. did it about 3-4 times.
Each time they did one of these things we’d just have to stand and wait and watch it all happen. We understand it’s busy and its going to be slow, but was infuriating that they weren’t ready to hit each time it was clear. If you’re waiting, be ready to hit you know?
Our golf was shit but it definitely got our noses out of joint big time it was a talking point for us every hole. I went -10 my mate went -11. Fair to say we made a complaint.
welcome to your new club. That is what its like in club golf.
control the things you can control , not the things you cannot.
the speed of play of group in front falls in the second part.
you let the situation effect your score.and the actions of those muppets aside, the flip side of that is how you react to the feeling of being pressured and rushed from the group behind too.
There will be times that stuff simply happens and for reasons that aren’t specifically your doing – like a couple of the group hits some OB and then some of your group taking your allocated time for a lost ball, all of a sudden it can add up if the group behind has had a good run and they are standing behind you looking like the royal tea-pots they are.for next time you’re stuck behind some silly punters with their pants tucked into their socks playing slow golf, what can you do?
could you take the sandwedge out of your bag that you threw back in quickly the hole before to keep on moving and give that a clean? Get the mud off it, get a tee into the grooves, just shit like that to take your mind off the inevitable wait and make use of this time?
The answer to that is be anything other than a tea-pot.and the actions of those muppets aside, the flip side of that is how you react to the feeling of being pressured and rushed from the group behind too.
There will be times that stuff simply happens and for reasons that aren’t specifically your doing – like a couple of the group hits some OB and then some of your group taking your allocated time for a lost ball, all of a sudden it can add up if the group behind has had a good run and they are standing behind you looking like the royal tea-pots they are.for next time you’re stuck behind some silly punters with their pants tucked into their socks playing slow golf, what can you do?
could you take the sandwedge out of your bag that you threw back in quickly the hole before to keep on moving and give that a clean? Get the mud off it, get a tee into the grooves, just shit like that to take your mind off the inevitable wait and make use of this time?
The answer to that is be anything other than a tea-pot.The last suggestion is good advice. Will take that on next time.
As I said we understand slow game play will be a thing but it was hard to accept it when we were just standing there for 5 minutes at a time watching some of those things that they were doing it was genuinely ridiculous.
My mate who was playing with me works in a pro shop and plays a lot of golf and said it was the worst behaviour for slow play he’d ever witnessed, but we both definitely let it get to us.
Point taken find other ways to not let it throw you off!
In saying that it’s certainly not the only reason I completely shit the bed and played horrifically after the first 6 holes.
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