How to break 90..everytime.

[NCGolfer]

By the way - if you're trying to get more strokes (or should I say - give less) at the next Newport Cup based on that statement - FORGET IT. Nice try !

We didn't need more strokes...I believe it was the red team that did. I'm happy right where I am, thank you very much.

[Rafcin]

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Ouch! that hurt. I thought you realized, that it was a lucky win and next time around you'll need more

[iacas]

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I had the same response drafted but fortunately flipped to page three here...

GO BLUE

[Beastlyben]

Originally Posted by Rafcin

IMHO breaking 90's is simple avoid "blow-ups". no triples, very little double bogies.

If you avoid blowup holes you will break 90 every time! I made the maximum score on a hole for my handicap (8) twice today and I shot 91. I also tripled a par 4. I think getting my handicap below 20 would help me break 90 every time!

[blankwall]

Keep the doubles off the card and youll shoot 70s triples off the card and your in the 80s I shot 79 the other day with one double but it makes it harder. I havent shot 90 in a while but a triple or two wil get you there real quick. Short game is key

[meenman]

Originally Posted by Beastlyben

If you avoid blowup holes you will break 90 every time! I made the maximum score on a hole for my handicap (8) twice today and I shot 91. I also tripled a par 4. I think getting my handicap below 20 would help me break 90 every time!

Reviving a 6+ year old thread - must be some new kind of record

There is no maximum you can shoot for your handicap, only a maximum you can post - looks like you are trying to break an ESC 90 and not a real 90.

[Maverick]

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Originally Posted by LarryK

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I would think it would take enormous discipline to hit a 5-iron off the tee on a par 5 with a BIG WIDE FAIRWAY, but if you've got that discipline, more power to you!

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Again, it's a matter of discipline, but a lot of guys would rationalize as follows: "Well, I hit split the middle with that 5-iron pretty good, surely I can get on the green

somewhere with a 6-iron..."

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For you and me, more than likely, but I've noticed that the really good players are almost always going for the hole and rarely leave it short. That four footer coming back doesn't seem to bother them. Me? Heck, I've lagged 10 foot birdie putts just because I was so excited about the prospect of making par.

I'm not disparaging your strategy. It is really very sound. I'm just saying you may find it harder to actually follow than you think. Good luck and let us know how it turns out in actual practice.

It turning out quite nice as I've been breaking 90 for the the last 3 rounds (less the last round I played..first time at an unknown course).  When I get to the green, I'm not lagging..my intention is to hole out every time or get close to a tap in.

[Goonsidious]

So basically... improve your mental game. Got it.

[Ricepr]

My dad would always shoot around 90, rarely below. Old man swing, maybe up to his shoulder on backswing. 150 yards straight like clockwork. Course par 4's averaged 370 or so.

Two 150 yard shots, 3 shots from there cause he could pitch and putt a bit.

[VegasRenegade]

My best score ever was shot with two clubs 7 iron and a putter. That being said it was a boring round.

[TidyFreak]

Originally Posted by VegasRenegade

My best score ever was shot with two clubs 7 iron and a putter. That being said it was a boring round.

A teaching pro friend of mine once opined that the best handicap was around 12 - 15 because you could occasionally have those exciting rounds where you shoots the lights out, but this is interspersed with average and some bad rounds, whereas the consistency that comes with being a low 'capper means your scores are usually very similar from round to round. I replied that I'd got for being a "boring" low 'capper thank you very much.

Strange that we strive to improve our swings, our scores and our handicaps and yet we can categorise a good or excellent round as "boring" ! Maybe it's just that I've nevber had one

TF

[VegasRenegade]

I think it was  boring because each shot was the same 150 150 chip on one or two puts.

Never got to let the Big Dog eat. Never played out of the sand. Never had a great recover shoot. Never hit it 300 yards OB. But I am sure I could break into the low mid to low 80s ever time playing like this. If the course was between Under 6400 ft

[Adam Young]

As an amateur, I hit the ball a pathetic 200 yards, but got down to 4 handicap doing that. My short game was absolute killer - I seem to have lost it now - alongside an additional 70 yards gained.

I also teach a lot of top class ladies. It is interesting to see them pat it out there 230 or so, and yet shoot level. I Understand the courses are a little shorter, but these girls are firing 5 woods into 30 feet from the flag regularly. Controlling path, face and strike is imperative to this - the girls who curve the ball too much struggle, even if they are sometimes longer.

Strategy is difficult to teach - there are no hard and fast rules. It is an ever changing situation depending upon what your confidence levels, skill levels (co-ordination) and daily patterns are. The best players I see are able to adjust their strategy based on these thing... whereas the worse players seem to stick with an all out aggressive strategy or an overly conservative strategy all the time. I personally struggle a lot to play aggressively. I have always aimed away from flags and danger - my subconscious mind does not want to short side myself at all.

I find the best way for people to learn strategy is to play a few games, such as below.

1. play every hole as aggressively as you can - strategy wise, not maximum speed and distance every shot.

2. play every hole as conservatively as you can

3. play a game of worse ball - hit 2 balls and pick the worst shot, then repeat until the ball is on the green - to which, putt out as normal.

4. Play a game of texas scramble, picking the best result of 2 balls every time, until the ball is on the green.

5. Impossigolf - A game I invented after playing Tiger woods 2007 was to tigerproof the course. hitting the rough was treated as a lateral water hazard, bunkers were out of bounds and you had to drop the ball 20 steps away from the flag, in a line with the flagstick, when the ball lay on the green. This last part really helps you to try and figure out where is the best MISS on the green.

6 Confidence golf - play a round where you can place the ball in perfect lies, If you hit the fairway you can kick it 20 paces further down (not in the rough) and when you land on the green you can drop the ball 10 paces closer to the hole (no closer than 10 feet). This last part makes you just try and play to the fat part of the green more.

you learn a different thing from each game, and the lesson is never the same. Go out and try an few

[VegasRenegade]

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I find the best way for people to learn strategy is to play a few games, such as below.

1. play every hole as aggressively as you can - strategy wise, not maximum speed and distance every shot.

2. play every hole as conservatively as you can

3. play a game of worse ball - hit 2 balls and pick the worst shot, then repeat until the ball is on the green - to which, putt out as normal.

4. Play a game of texas scramble, picking the best result of 2 balls every time, until the ball is on the green.

5. Impossigolf - A game I invented after playing Tiger woods 2007 was to tigerproof the course. hitting the rough was treated as a lateral water hazard, bunkers were out of bounds and you had to drop the ball 20 steps away from the flag, in a line with the flagstick, when the ball lay on the green. This last part really helps you to try and figure out where is the best MISS on the green.

6 Confidence golf - play a round where you can place the ball in perfect lies, If you hit the fairway you can kick it 20 paces further down (not in the rough) and when you land on the green you can drop the ball 10 paces closer to the hole (no closer than 10 feet). This last part makes you just try and play to the fat part of the green more.

you learn a different thing from each game, and the lesson is never the same. Go out and try an few

The only one of these I have used is number 4 I can shoot very close to scratch doing that. Now If I did number 3 I am sure my score would be around 120.  number 5 I could only play with my 7 iron.  6 sounds fun.. I play a lot of rounds alone on an empty course so I will give them all a try.

[iceman777]

Played a few days ago and for the first time ever, left driver in the trunk . Used 5 hybrid for all but par threes . Par 5 520 yds , hit two shots about 180 and third shot on green . Two putted for a par . Ended up with 44 with a 7 on the second par 3 . Course is about 3000 yds . Bogey golf is easy if I just hit the clubs I can count on to get me there the great majority of the time

[VegasRenegade]

Originally Posted by iceman777

Played a few days ago and for the first time ever, left driver in the trunk . Used 5 hybrid for all but par threes . Par 5 520 yds , hit two shots about 180 and third shot on green . Two putted for a par . Ended up with 44 with a 7 on the second par 3 . Course is about 3000 yds . Bogey golf is easy if I just hit the clubs I can count on to get me there the great majority of the time

First time ever you hit 44 Great Job

[AmazingWhacker]

My goal for this year was to become a bogey golfer or better and this is how I did it.  Very similarly, I pretend "par" for every hole is bogey and play accordingly.  I was joking to my buddy the other day that I want to get a t-shirt that reads "Bogey is my par".

Maybe I suck at driver more than most but I would much rather hit 3iron off every tee.  My "good" drives aren't that much longer than the 3i and there are dozens of bad drives for every "good one".  And, when I do hit a bad shot with my 3iron it is usually not OB or lost - it's usually skulled up the middle or something.

[VegasRenegade]

Originally Posted by AmazingWhacker

My goal for this year was to become a bogey golfer or better and this is how I did it.  Very similarly, I pretend "par" for every hole is bogey and play accordingly.  I was joking to my buddy the other day that I want to get a t-shirt that reads "Bogey is my par".

Maybe I suck at driver more than most but I would much rather hit 3iron off every tee.  My "good" drives aren't that much longer than the 3i and there are dozens of bad drives for every "good one".  And, when I do hit a bad shot with my 3iron it is usually not OB or lost - it's usually skulled up the middle or something.

True for me to but that one or two times a round you hit it pure and it goes out there 260 right down the middle keeps it coming out on the T