It has been over a month, what is going on with your plan?

Also, do you know where you're losing strokes?  For example, if my main goal were to get to single digits (that'd be nice), I know it's short game and putting for me -- I already have better-than-10-hcp strokes gained stats for approach (by a good bit) and I hover around there on driving.  However, since I don't have a deadline to get to single digits, I continue to practice at 65-20-15, stepping up the latter two categories only when I have a tournament coming up.

4 minutes ago, Shindig said:

Also, do you know where you're losing strokes?  For example, if my main goal were to get to single digits (that'd be nice), I know it's short game and putting for me -- I already have better-than-10-hcp strokes gained stats for approach (by a good bit) and I hover around there on driving.  However, since I don't have a deadline to get to single digits, I continue to practice at 65-20-15, stepping up the latter two categories only when I have a tournament coming up.

Just curious, if you know that you are already significantly above average in certain areas and below average for your handicap in other areas, why wouldn't you spend the time now to improve those weaknesses and get all 4 aspects to roughly the same skill level?

If you are quite a bit better than a 10 hcp at approach and hover around a 10 hcp off the tee, then it would seem like short game and putting would be your glaring weaknesses, right? Which would mean that spending a few lessons and some dedicated practice sessions to those two areas could result in a drastic decrease of your scores pretty quickly.

Lets say you continue to go the 65-20-15 route and your approach game gets to like a 2hcp level. Your scores are still going to be somewhat limited by your short game and putting being over a 10 handicap level. I'm not a coach or anything, but in my mind it would make sense to get all areas down to at least say a 10 handicap level, then continue down the 65-20-15 route.

1 minute ago, klineka said:

Just curious, if you know that you are already significantly above average in certain areas and below average for your handicap in other areas, why wouldn't you spend the time now to improve those weaknesses and get all 4 aspects to roughly the same skill level?

If you are quite a bit better than a 10 hcp at approach and hover around a 10 hcp off the tee, then it would seem like short game and putting would be your glaring weaknesses, right? Which would mean that spending a few lessons and some dedicated practice sessions to those two areas could result in a drastic decrease of your scores pretty quickly.

Lets say you continue to go the 65-20-15 route and your approach game gets to like a 2hcp level. Your scores are still going to be somewhat limited by your short game and putting being over a 10 handicap level. I'm not a coach or anything, but in my mind it would make sense to get all areas down to at least say a 10 handicap level, then continue down the 65-20-15 route.

To me, it's about long-term improvement.  I have done some cramming of short game + putting practice and will probably do so again (tournament in about two weeks).  I think I should post more about this in the 65-20-15 thread, so let me put my thoughts there, where it will be more on-topic.

@klineka -- as I typed out what my plans were, I realized you're right.  More details here: