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Hugh Jars

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Hugh Jars

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Hello everyone, my name is Andy, 38 from Perth Western Australia. I've been playing golf for about 3 years. The last 6 months I've started getting more serious about playing competitively. I love golf, I love playing it and following it. I'm pretty honest about my golfing ability - my handicap index is 21.7, I'm prone to big rounds of 100+ and am happy with any round under 100 or 30+ stableford points. I don't know if I should be embarrassed about my handicap and my dedication to the sport - I practice, play, think and spend money on my game probably way too much. My ball striking is as inconsistent and you'd expect from a 22 handicapper across all areas. I'm a member of a club in a beautiful native bush surrounding. Its a very challenging, tree adorned, long course (slope 132/73). I get 3 extra shots to my handicap on the course. My golf has improved, that I can say, since joining my club about 3 months ago. and learning to play the course. For example, I've had to learn to hit multiple different clubs off the tee, like my 3 and 5 wood.

I'm interested in the mental side of learning how to play your best in competitive situations. I'm also a maths nerd (by profession) and love the concept of stat tracking (I have a Shotscope V3). I am currently reading "Lowest Score Wins" which is what got me on to this forum. I've been seduced previously in to other course strategy/game improvement mantras like Will Robbins "The Scoring Method" and Golf Sidekick (which I cant really make sense of to be honest because its pretty contradictory). I will very likely have lots of questions relating to the concepts in Lowest Score Wins.

Cheers!

 

 

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Welcome to TST! There are plenty of stat loving gurus on this forum so you should be well taken care of. Glad you joined. 

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7 hours ago, Andy Capped said:

 I'm prone to big rounds of 100+ and am happy with any round under 100 or 30+ stableford points. I don't know if I should be embarrassed about my handicap and my dedication to the sport - I practice, play, think and spend money on my game probably way too much. My ball striking is as inconsistent and you'd expect from a 22 handicapper across all areas.

First, welcome to TST.  You sound a lot like I did when I joined -- except I think my handicap was around 25 instead of 22 ;-)  I thought about golf all the time, spent a lot of money on it, but I really enjoyed what I was doing and I did eventually get better (a little under two years ago, I broke 80 for the first time -- and you will too, someday).

You'll get that swing to be better.  It's probably fairly consistent in that most of your results fit into some description -- I'd view that as encouraging.  If, for example, 89% of your shots either go straight or curve right, you can probably play for that;  I'll bet you already do.

Anyway, welcome to the site.  We're going to have a lot of fun making you the best golfer we can.

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Welcome to the site!  :beer:

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13 hours ago, McLeanGabrielle said:

Welcome aboard from Washington! I'm also new here 😄

 

Welcome mate. Washington DC? I love that city.

Or Washington state? Seattle is nice too!


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Welcome @McLeanGabrielle and @Andy Capped. You guys will enjoy the site and learn a lot. I am from Bangalore in India.

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