I'd bet the over on both.Damn. And 100 rounds for you is like 1000 beers and 150 cigars
I'd bet the over on both.Damn. And 100 rounds for you is like 1000 beers and 150 cigars
Haha when I read 91 I immediately knew that was the round. 24 guys, many low single digits to scratch, no one broke 80.#rounds: 68
High: 91
Low: 73
Avg: 79.7
I was perplexed by the 91 because I didn't remember shooting a 90s score this year. I see now that it was the round at Pacific Dunes in March in 30mph winds. Fun times.
Same with me. I'm a 5.9 and I play a lot of 10-15 handicaps and lose money basically every time.This is a fun game:
# of Scores: 115
High: 88
Low: 68
Avg.: 77.1
Somehow, I average +5 but my handicap is 1.6 and that's the highest it's been since August (1.7). I know, it's supposed to reflect potential, but all I see is the potential for losing money to 10-15 handicaps all winter.
I’m an 11 and it’s the perfect spot to be to win money. I can play well and go shoot 84 and dominate or scrape it around at 92 and make a ton of net pars.Same with me. I'm a 5.9 and I play a lot of 10-15 handicaps and lose money basically every time.
When I shot 68 earlier this year I was playing skins with my group. I won 0 skins. 11, 12, and 18 handicaps. 6 birdies that day. 0 skins. It's why I so prefer flighted tourneys to handicapped tourneys.I’m an 11 and it’s the perfect spot to be to win money. I can play well and go shoot 84 and dominate or scrape it around at 92 and make a ton of net pars.
Or shoot 98 and chalk it up to a bad day.
Vanity capsSame with me. I'm a 5.9 and I play a lot of 10-15 handicaps and lose money basically every time.
So... do you want to play soon? I’m free in March, if that works for youI always do the same thing every year, getting my handicap low enough at the end of the season that I get absolutely robbed blind in matches for the first month or so of the next season. 2020 stats:
Rounds: 34
High: 87
Low: 71
Avg: 77.1
Index: 1.5 (low 1.1 for the year)
Yeah, you private club golfers are at a disadvantage when you leave your well known confines. That's how guys like @FL4WL3SS shoot a 91 at Pacific DunesI've gotten back down to an 11.6 thanks to a lot of golf this year. Does having a "home course" discount that any? So I know most of the breaks in the greens now.. That probably saves me a few shots a round... I know I need to hit this chip out way right, so rather than a two putt, I am left with a tap in. But if I go to a new course, that knowledge doesn't really translate. Also the home course is shorter/more of a shot making course which plays into my game better than a bombers one.
All in all, I am happy with where my game is. At my age (Tigeresque) I think I had my best year overall. Two sub 80 rounds. I think I had previously only had two in my life coming into the year. Thank you @FL4WL3SS for the thought of starting steep and ending shallow (may not have been those words, but that was the idea), and everyone else in this thread for the constant fistbumps and encouragement... whether we were scratch or a 30 handicapper.
Our handicaps definitely do NOT travel.Yeah, you private club golfers are at a disadvantage when you leave your well known confines. That's how guys like @FL4WL3SS shoot a 91 at Pacific Dunes
Just say when and whereI'd also play you for almost any amount of money straight up. I pick the tees
I was keeping count through most of the summer but eventually lost track along the way. Up somewhere in the 60-70 round range at this point. I played something like 20 in the first month after MA allowed courses to open and everything else was closed, then 2-3 a week through October. Nothing else to do on weekends or days off!Are you guys getting total rounds on the ghin app? I only see my most recent 20
Where the drop down says “recent and revision scores” at the top, change it to “2020 scores”Are you guys getting total rounds on the ghin app? I only see my most recent 20
Seconded.Where the drop down says “recent and revision scores” at the top, change it to “2020 scores”
Maybe, but a 4.4 who can shoot 75 at your course is likely still going to get paid pretty regularly, especially in the winter in the PNW where length is a big advantage.I finished the year at 4.4 with a season low of 3.4. I shot a 75 on the last day of posting season to go from a 4.7 to a 4.4 which cost me one stroke over the winter. Playing as a course 6 instead of a course 5 would have been huge for my winter match play competition.
I usually like to spread out my play and not get a membership at one course, but when i did a few years ago i achieved my lowest handicap of my career.....after not re-upping the following year the handicap slowly went back upI've gotten back down to an 11.6 thanks to a lot of golf this year. Does having a "home course" discount that any? So I know most of the breaks in the greens now.. That probably saves me a few shots a round... I know I need to hit this chip out way right, so rather than a two putt, I am left with a tap in. But if I go to a new course, that knowledge doesn't really translate. Also the home course is shorter/more of a shot making course which plays into my game better than a bombers one.
All in all, I am happy with where my game is. At my age (Tigeresque) I think I had my best year overall. Two sub 80 rounds. I think I had previously only had two in my life coming into the year. Thank you @FL4WL3SS for the thought of starting steep and ending shallow (may not have been those words, but that was the idea), and everyone else in this thread for the constant fistbumps and encouragement... whether we were scratch or a 30 handicapper.
Well, I'd also like to improve and get better. I can still have fun shooting 100 but I'd imagine shooting an 80 is also a lot of fun.Sounds like you enjoy golf the way it is, why change it?
Well some of these guys here shoot from like 68-75 routinely, and I imagine it's gotta be pretty boring hitting drives down the middle, hitting the green, and putting for birdie (with tap-ins for par), hole after hole after hole. I mean, where's the variety? They don't even get to see most of the golf course. And from a stroke per dollar standpoint, they're getting ripped off.Well, I'd also like to improve and get better. I can still have fun shooting 100 but I'd imagine shooting an 80 is also a lot of fun.
Not necessarily true.Well, I'd also like to improve and get better. I can still have fun shooting 100 but I'd imagine shooting an 80 is also a lot of fun.
I think you'd be surprised to see what a 75 really looks like on a regular basis. I, for one, hit the ball all over the damn place. Lower caps generally are just better at recovering and not making matters worse by turning bogeys into doubles. 9 pars, 6 bogeys, and 3 birdies is a 75. Make a couple of those pars into bogies and a couple of those bogeys into doubles and your right there in the 80s.Well some of these guys here shoot from like 68-75 routinely, and I imagine it's gotta be pretty boring hitting drives down the middle, hitting the green, and putting for birdie (with tap-ins for par), hole after hole after hole. I mean, where's the variety? They don't even get to see most of the golf course. And from a stroke per dollar standpoint, they're getting ripped off.
Mostly true here in Denver too. We have 6" of snow on the ground at my house but 30 minutes north it's completely clear. Played yesterday and today.Golf season still going strong here in Seattle. Have had a run of phenomenal weather.
As someone considering a move to the PNW eventually, especially the Seattle-proper area does golf season ever really end? I've been out there a bunch in the winters and it always seems like it sits in the 40's for most of the winter (which is arguably shorter than New Englands). Also snow is pretty rare too.Golf season still going strong here in Seattle. Have had a run of phenomenal weather.
The idea that "winter" is shorter in the PNW than in NE is incorrect. It's apparently gotten somewhat better since I moved away from Portland in 2013, but winter is late October to June-ish (we referred to it as June-uary). The conventional wisdom was that you can count on good weather starting on the 4th of July. There can be some nice days mixed in here and there, but expect rain of some sort on just about every day in that range. That being said, I absolutely played year-round. You'll need a bunch of rain gear and it's hard to describe the slop you'll play in, but you can definitely still play and you just get used to it. Get really good shoes and tie them tight. The mud will try to take them right off your feet.As someone considering a move to the PNW eventually, especially the Seattle-proper area does golf season ever really end? I've been out there a bunch in the winters and it always seems like it sits in the 40's for most of the winter (which is arguably shorter than New Englands). Also snow is pretty rare too.
My grandfather used to caddy back in the 20's/30's (1920's/30's). He had a whole bunch of hickory shafted wooden head drivers, razor thin irons in his basement. I'm hanging onto them.Persimmon woods. Man, I haven't thought about them for a while but it reminded me of an experience.
My dad, soon after getting out of the Army in 1952, went to a public golf range to hit some balls. They had an old trash can that had a bunch of old clubs that patrons could borrow. My dad noticed there was a matching set of 1, 2, and 3 Spalding Kro-Flite Robert T. Jones 133 persimmon woods. He asked and the proprietor agreed to sell them to my dad for $5.
My research says they were likely made sometime before 1942, the last year Spalding manufactured persimmon woods (afterward they progressed to laminate woods).
He had them completely refinished, lacquered, and gripped. They're beautiful. Not rare, but probably worth somewhere around $500.