Shot my personal best today

I have just recently started playing again after about 5 years or so of..well...not playing I guess. I have always had a horrible slice and couldn't hit my irons to save my life. I played in mid February and shot a, now try not to laugh, 146
I went out again almost a month later and shot, please maintain your resolve to composure, 138
I just couldn't "get it", and it was frustrating the snot out of me.
I went the other day and took a lesson at Golf Galaxy. Yeah yeah, I know it was indoors off of a mat and all, but the guy has been teaching for 40 years so I figured "why not"?

Well, I went out this afternoon to play, and started off a bit shaky. First tee ball OB ending up with 3 penalty strokes. Next tee ball OB...by this time I'm thinking "just go home", but I'm glad I didn't. My iron play just seemed to "turn on" after a while, and I was making some really nice shots. The wedge and putter caught fire and I managed to save a 108 out of it all.

I realize 108 isn't exactly a good score, but for me today you'd have thought I had broken par! I only took one penalty on the back 9, which for me is phenomenal. I had 7 one putts, 3 two putts, and I even chipped one in from about 10 yards.
I even carded my first birdie!

108 is still a long way from good, but the confidence boost of knocking off 30 strokes at one time feels soooooo good.

Anywho, sorry for the rambling, but I don't know who else to tell that would care

Congrats! Btw, The max handicap you can have is 36. yours says 50! Ahah it would make yourself look better if you changed it to 36

I'm not sure mine makes for all that spectacular a story. It was on a 477 yard par 5. Tee shot was off a bit in the right rough. Pulled out a 3 iron for a second. Thinned it a bit but it ran in right to my sand wedge range. Knocked a sand wedge to about 8' and made the little downhill right to left for a 4

Funny you should say that. My first par-5 birdie involved topping a 3-iron for my second shot

I'm betting 90s on my next round. If it had "clicked on" about 5 holes earlier I would have been in the low 90s that round.

It isn't so much jinxing yourself as thinking too far in the future. Go out and

yes, main thing is to enjoy yourself.

Hi There,

Congrats on your personal best. Well done Bigman! I only started playing last year really and haven't played since October, so looking forward to going out again.

I go out with 3 golf pals who are all pretty much better than me, I learn a bit from them and we have fun. That's the main thing, enjoy the hopefully good weather, have a fun time with your friends and of course enjoy the game.