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By Ty_Webb ·
I would say hang in there. I do get where you're coming from. My history follows if you're interested (or if you're not, it's still here, but you don't have to read it 🙂 ) I started playing in 1990 (14 years old). I got steadily better every year and reached about a 5 handicap when I was 18 (this is on the old CONGU system in the UK, which lags changes in ability much more than the WHS system). I took a year off between school and university to see how good I could get. I finished that year off a 6 handicap. That wasn't the best, but I did funnily enough get a lot better over the period. Then went to university, got into the golf team there and my first year we won the British Universities. That's a year long thing. 6 universities in a round robin that you play home and away, then the top team goes through to knockout. I think about 5 rounds of knockout. Got down to 2 by the time I finished university, then started work and got down to scratch a year later. 1998 summer I played some of my best golf. Broke the course record at my club (and shot 98 for 27 holes in a two round event - last 9 not so good). Then in about 2000 I got a hiccup in my driver swing. I'd get very stuck and hit these high blocky cuts out right. Couldn't release it. I went from +0.5 to 1.9 (up 2.4 shots) in 27 rounds. The way the system worked is your handicap goes up 0.1 if you shoot worse than 1 over your handicap, so 24 out of 27 rounds were worse than that and 3 of them were at my handicap or 1 over it. It was awful. I pretty much stopped hitting woods. Just used irons everywhere. My irons were still decent so I could still get a reasonable round going from time to time, but try as I might I couldn't get to grips with it. Then I got chip yips too - that was fun. My handicap ended up about 2.4 I think. Then I moved to the US in 2007 and didn't really play a whole lot for the next year or so. Then I started playing a bit more once I'd got to grips with how to get out to play from living in NYC. Sort of stumbled along playing around a 2-4 handicap level for a few years and moved out to Long Island when my son was born. I found a local pro who was well thought of and he was quite technical, which worked for me - I am technically minded. I've been working with him for about 7 years or so and my current handicap is +0.3. I think I have one score in the past 12 months that wasn't a tournament score and I've played maybe 20 rounds this year (10 of which were in one week in April and 6 of those were only playing every other shot). I'm pretty much rusty every time I play, but I've put some pretty good scores together this year, including a 72 on Bethpage Black in a tournament - I was quite pleased with that. Long story short - there is a path out of this. There was for me and I'm sure there will be for you. You might need to find a new coach or try something new somehow, but don't give up. The game is worth it. -
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By retoid ·
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By Ty_Webb ·
Yikes! There's so much wrong about that video. The first thing I noticed from the flyover is there is zero chance that stream is 75 yards ahead of the moguls down the right. The creek on the right side over the moguls looks like it might be only 265 or 270. If that's reachable with driver, then left side probably does actually make sense, but it's got nothing to do with the angle into the green. I will say I generally see a fade in my mind and if there are trees encroaching on the left, then I'll do everything I can to tee it up as far to the right as possible because I hate that cooped up feeling otherwise, but those trees don't look remotely close to in the way on the video. Maybe there's some kind of camera trickery going on and they're actually more in the way than it seems. 🤷♂️ The flag is back right. If it was front right (and the fairway was 70 yards wide), then the left side might be beneficial if it's firm, but you'll hit it closer a lot more often from the right fairway than you will the left rough, so aim it at the middle and go with it (assuming the water actually is 320 anyway). I thought the whole video was basically a 4 minute debunked cliche from the 80s.
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