One year ago today a good friend of mine convinced me to try to learn to play golf. Here's a recap of my lessons and scoring progress to date:
August 2011 through January 2012 (first six months): took 19 hours of lessons from Westerville Golf Center, improved last ten nine hole rounds running average from 65.0 to 58.7 (10% improvement).
February 2012 through July 2012 (second six months): took 16 hours of lessons from GolfTEC, improved last ten nine hole rounds running average from 58.7 to 49.6 (16% improvement).
And here is a list of some milestones/personal bests:
Average drive distance (18 holes):
139 yards on 3/14/12
148 yards on 3/29/12
176 yards on 4/12/12
207 yards on 6/7/12
211 yards on 7/19/12
Fairways hit (18 holes):
1 fairway on 3/7/12
2 fairways on 3/21/12
4 fairways on 4/27/12
5 fairways on 6/7/12
7 fairways on 7/19/12
Greens in regulation (18 holes):
1 green on 1/10/12
2 greens on 3/29/12
3 greens on 4/19/12
4 greens on 7/10/12
5 greens on 7/29/12
Total putts (18 holes):
42 on 12/26/11
35 on 12/29/11
32 on 1/10/12
29 on 6/5/12
Wedge to hole strokes (18 holes):
66 on 7/26/12
58 on 7/29/12
9-hole scores:
65 on 10/28/11
55 on 11/19/11
53 on 12/29/11
51 on 1/7/12
47 on 4/12/12
44 on 5/26/12
43 on 6/5/12
18-hole scores:
122 on 12/26/11
114 on 12/29/11
109 on 3/14/12
104 on 4/12/12
99 on 4/19/12
91 on 5/26/12
89 on 6/5/12
For anyone who's been there and done that, does it seem like I am progressing at a decent rate? And how much additional improvement do you think might be realistic for the next year?
