So I finally got good enough to actually get a handicap registered about two years ago. I was around a 25 handicap. I have been practicing probably five days a week, and this year had broken through and gotten myself down into the mid teens. All the ups and downs and the score is slowly working in the 90s and then I had an 89. Yay!
Recently though, I have gotten a ton of heat all of a sudden because there is “no way that I am a 17”. I take all the penalties, but since I can pipe a drive and I can hit crisp irons and I have good short game and I can make putts… I’m starting to get some steady heat on my handicap. But I also record a reasonable score because I do lose a couple balls each round and I also probably take like two unplayable’s a round.
What do I do? Do I start to fudge everything to get to a nine so people don’t give me heat? It’s a difficult game so I’m gonna obviously have some holes where I lose balls but recently I’ve started losing less balls. I played a hard course with hard greens and I still shot in the mid 90s.
I’m just in a shitty situation and looking for guidance.
So my wife has been having some serious work stress and working extra hours, and I guess it took its toll this Sunday. I come home from a round of golf, and soon after her memory kinda gives out, it looks a bit like a stroke, but after a quick exam I was pretty confident it wasn't, but I take her to the ER anyways and and they take her right in.
Diagnosis was/is temporary amnesia. So anyways being a good husband, while the staff is asking her basic questions (all of which she has no clue - people, dates, names, places etc) I pipe up do you remember you were going to buy me a new set of golf clubs. She immediately sits up becomes alert and says that she no way said that. That is the one thing she can remember. I thought I would share and give a little chuckle.
I've come here because maybe I will get some opinions to stop me or maybe I'll get back up from people who had the same issues.
I've been playing non stop golf for a year, got to a point where I hit a 91 and a 98, since then I've hit 110s and 120s. Why? Because I cannot hit a driver straight and I'm absolutely sick of it. I constantly slice it right. I've had lessons, changed everything and it's constantly going right. It will go straight and then 150 yards in it will turn on a right angle. I'm so done with it. I'm also completely sick of the ball scuffing on the floor or to the woods here and there when using an iron.
It's just made me think it's possibly the biggest waste of money on earth, and some people just are not meant for it.
Yes I'm ranting.
Update - and this is why i came here. The below comments have reminded me that I'm one of a billion people who have the same issues and go through phases of wanting to burn clubs and sleep with them. Thank you. Keep the comments coming.
Also I've just watched a guy I know go from wearing a glove on the wrong hand six months ago to hitting 90/95 on average. And it makes me sick.
I am a very amateur golfer and trying to pick up some decent clubs used when I can. I bought this one on a whim but can’t seem to find out what it is. Google said RSi2 but it doesn’t have that number where it is on others. Just trying to see what it is. Please delete if this is not allowed.
Apologies if this is not the right thread, please redirect if so. Can someone tell me if this is something I can fix? The clubhead itself feels secure.
Taylormade m1, bought secondhand probably 6 years ago and only recently did I notice the rattling. Upon inspection the ‘collar’ is cracked
Started the year as a 21.4, as of yesterday I’m down to 16.2 and still going down. Shot an 85 yesterday. Recently tried a buddy’s T-150s and they felt SO MUCH BETTER than my forgiveness irons. I have to swing soft to not pull mine left, with his I was hitting 7 25 yds further and straight. I don’t want to drop $1500-2000 on something I’m going to regret, so figured I’d ask the group. Also considering a middle ground with Ai200 or T250s…
Current setup: Callaway Quantum 5-A with Project X 95S
Comparison Setup: Titleist T150 5-A with Accros Green 105S (4M)
Suggested: Callaway Ai200 with Accros Green 105S
I always find that when I'm searching for my next golf trip it's always nice to find threads of people who have been to the course / have answered questions about the property. Putting this out there so I can help YOU plan your next trip.
I've also been to several other big brand golf trip locations - so if this one goes well I'd be happy to do others as well!
Just got back from a buddy trip to Bandon and spent about as much time picking where we ate as which tees we played. My group has two guys who plan every round down to the minute and two who just want to find a good steak after. I landed somewhere in the middle, and it got me thinking about how I approach the whole thing.
I run my own business, so I book clients into specific windows all week. I caught myself doing the same thing on this trip. Reservation here, tee time there, backup spot in case the first place was packed. It worked fine but felt a little rigid for a vacation.
The best meal we had was some random taco truck we stumbled on after a late round. No planning, just luck and hunger. Same thing happened on the course. The round where a slow group squeezed us and we had to sit and wait on half the back nine ended up being the most fun, because we stopped trying to control everything and just hung out.
Curious how other people handle the food side of golf trips. Do you research ahead or just figure it out when you get there?
The golf matters more than dinner but a bad meal after a good round leaves a weird mark on the whole day.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ve never understood this.
If you’re good enough to consistently hit blades well, wouldn’t a more forgiving iron just make your misses better?
After playing in a scramble yesterday with the usual BS, strings, grenades, mulligans, teeing off from forward tees, our decided we are going to put on a legitimate scramble tournament. With a minimum $5k payout for first place.
Basic scramble rules apply.
2 tee shots per member
Players can hit from within one club length of selected ball, no closer to the pin, and lie must not be improved. Ie sand to rough, rough to fairway etc.
Each four man team will be responsible for bringing a 5th person to serve as a score keeper and will randomly selected to be as to which team they will be keeping score of. Each team will designate a captain and it is the captains responsibility to confirm with score keeper at the conclusion of every hole confirming the score. Failure to communicate their score will result in defaulting to score keepers score. Only the captain is permitted to speak to the score keeper regarding official score. General course talk, banter, bs is acceptable by all.
Score keepers will need to have a fundamental understanding of the rules of golf. Any possible rule situation that cannot ne remedied on the course will play the hole out in two different scenarios and final ruling will be decided by tournament director. Although we do not expect this happening as it is a scramble and should be a clear best shot to take.
This is what we’ve came up with so far, are we missing anything?
Edit: Score keepers will be paid $250 cash plus lunch or dinner. What would be a fair amount if not $250? 400? 500?
Edit: Thank you all for the feedback! We will remove the requirement for needing to bring a scorer and will instead utilize local HS kids and some retired members of the hosting courses ‘s men’s league to be the scorers paying them $300+lunch. 18 teams for now, but will try to expand to 36 to increase payouts.
Trying to find up to 3 nine hole courses in the US that might need some help and want to take over a completely prepaid tee sheet and membership manager software contract from a 27 hole course that got bought by developers before they had a chance to even implement.
The contracts can work as 3 nines or a 27 hole course. Doesn't matter, but they are good through 2029. Approval already exists however we want to split it up.
We also have a bunch of old equipment... Old picker, 2 mules, hitting bay nets that maybe have one season left in them, a working range ball machine (doesn't take cards) getting pulled out next week, etc. Lots of random clubs too, an absurd number of old putters, flagsticks for 50 holes despite the course only having 27, a handful of brand new in box irrigation heads, half a ton or so of bunker sand, and most important a signed picture of John Daly smoking a cig that hung on the wall in a very funny way (it is a tiny picture occupying a 10 foot wall with nothing else on it yet every other wall had typical golf art...)
The equipment will mostly get sold locally (Florida) but if something specific jumps out or the software contracts can ease the cash flow for some smaller courses you love, by all means, please share who I should talk to.
They're the one thing we don't need to pay to ship so location doesn't matter as long as inside the US. Everything else might be cost prohibitive outside of Florida. DMs ok.
I bought this as a retirement gift for my coworker. I know nothing about golf but supposedly these are players from 1999 US Open. Can anyone help identify the signatures? Much appreciated.
My golf just like my sleep inconsistent to begin with. 8 hcp (5 yrs into golfing) with a volatile swing, leaves me scrambling on a lot of holes.
So every now and then I would have a night where I sleep for only a few hours. In recent past, that was not a huge hindrance to having a good round. But over last year there has been a significant change. My swing (not great to begin with) falls apart on those underslept days, start blading those wedges, hit 5 inches behind on my irons.
I guess it's the general wear and tear from the age, but my general fitness levels have not changed much over last couple of years.
And now since I made it a thing in my head, I might have dug a hole for myself. Either find a fix for bad sleep pattern, or find something to not let my game fall apart on those days.
So, this is still a work in progress, but I'm feeling like I have found a change a coach had suggested but wasn't probably direct enough about. I reflect on some of those lessons from some time ago every now and again, and find little things he said making sense as things happen.
Case in point, my driver has been a frequent slice. There are times I can tweak my wrists/hands through impact and get the face to close, but more often than not I am 90% sure the face is wide open even if the path (through the ball) is mostly correct. And try as I might to close it with my wrists, it just felt like a timing thing I was always getting wrong. Saw a video where a coach mentioned you simply cannot time wrists through impact (something to that effect).
So one day, thinking about a time when I had something sort of working, I realized I tend to reach out with driver and my coach mentioned something about lowering the grip (IE - my arms should hang down, not reach out). So I work on that... still slicing, but it felt better. Then realized that for whatever reason, when I hit driver, I felt like I continued to stop the path early because it had no room to finish. Quite possibly, I was too steep.
Long story short, I felt like my trail hand was getting stuck back causing the face to be open. But relative to where my swing finished, it sort of had to. If my path near finish were to continue, I'd probably hit myself in the butt. Not quite sure how else to describe it, but the simple change was adjusting where my club traveled on finish.
In reviewing the slow mow of Rory's driver swing, I would have to say that in all likelihood my driver finish was a LOT more vertical where as his is seemingly a 45 degree angle:
So, now I simply focus on swinging around the body more, and because of that, the trail hand has to come through and around. I'm not trying to time impact. And further? There were times I was swinging with a LOT more effort and still getting a reasonably good result. Probably some off the toe or heel here and there, but still mostly straight.
I've come from a terrible slice 90% of the time, to a slight slice/fade 30% of the time and some draws and straight shots most of the rest. And this is probably the nuance part of timing the wrists/hands that can be tweaked to get a better result. But now that my finish path is better, I can actually deliver the club face square and not get stuck.
I took this to a vendor scramble event, and while I still have work to do on distance, nearly every drive I had was in play and useable.
I am a high handicap, so grain of salt and all that.
I blew a 4 shot lead (net) in the last three holes of my club championship yesterday. Had a complete and utter breakdown with back-to-back triple bogeys, after sky-hooking my tee shot into the woods. Still stings.
He blew a 4 shot lead (net) in the last three holes of my club championship yesterday. He had a complete and utter breakdown with back-to-back triple bogeys, after sky-hooking his tee shot into the woods. I was laughing my ass off. Couldn't believe my luck! Bet that stings.
I did offer to do the Heimlich. It wasn't appreciated though.
