Handicap dropping.... need to pick it up.

[groovezilla79]

The beginning of this year has been just crap... and now my handicap is suffering for it. I've had some good ball striking days, but the driver and putter have been killing me. I keep telling myself it's still early in the season and the crazy ass Ohio Valley weather has been keeping me from practicing/playing, but I need to step it up a notch. Playing off 5 to now playing off 7 is not that big of a difference, but for the courses I play, that is straddling the upper 70's lower 80's. I can't stand not breaking 80 on a few courses that I was heading toward breaking par just last season. I sure do hope I can pull it together.

/end rant.

[sean_miller]

The beginning of this year has been just crap... and now my handicap is suffering for it. I've had some good ball striking days, but the driver and putter have been killing me. I keep telling myself it's still early in the season and the crazy ass Ohio Valley weather has been keeping me from practicing/playing, but I need to step it up a notch. Playing off 5 to now playing off 7 is not that big of a difference, but for the courses I play, that is straddling the upper 70's lower 80's. I can't stand not breaking 80 on a few courses that I was heading toward breaking par just last season. I sure do hope I can pull it together.

When you say, "dropping", you mean "risiing". I hear ya on the putting. When my ballstriking was more erratic I thought my putting was okay.

[enis750]

The beginning of this year has been just crap... and now my handicap is suffering for it. I've had some good ball striking days, but the driver and putter have been killing me. I keep telling myself it's still early in the season and the crazy ass Ohio Valley weather has been keeping me from practicing/playing, but I need to step it up a notch. Playing off 5 to now playing off 7 is not that big of a difference, but for the courses I play, that is straddling the upper 70's lower 80's. I can't stand not breaking 80 on a few courses that I was heading toward breaking par just last season. I sure do hope I can pull it together.

yeah bro it has been a weird year fr me too

i started the year at a 2.9 and now a 4.2, but my scoring average is around 77 on a par 71 my goal was to try and hit scratch this year, but thats lookin tough bro my consistency is terrible but putting is the one things holding me back from a low 70's round last year, i too was close to breakin par on a course rated 71.7 and is 6850 yds long from the Championship tees my index now is still taking those rounds into effect, prolly why its still so low - i should be and probably will be a 6-7 if i dont get putting well although, i do attribute SOME of my putting woes to greens that didnt winter well and its nearly impossible to roll on - SOME, not all of my issues ;) but ur right dude, its early i have NEVER had 14+ rounds in BEFORE May long weekend, so it can only get better????

[rebby]

I'm in the same boat. Playing terrible. One day I won't be able to hit a green, the next a fairway. Some days I'm hitting the ball well but just can't score. It's been super frustrating. The only good (bad?) thing is that I don't have enough rounds in yet this year to affect my index yet. I've been mainly playing 9 hole rounds here and there though, hard to get on a roll over such a short round. Practice has been tough too, we've got a newborn in the house this spring (he's just over a month old). I just keep telling myself that it's going to turn around, soon. Oh well, it's worth it, golf will always take a back seat to my kids. On the bright side... I'm putting very good this season, I'm hoping that keeps up. Chipping, for the most part, has been pretty good as well. It's still early, things will come around eventually.

[groovezilla79]

When you say, "dropping", you mean "risiing". I hear ya on the putting. When my ballstriking was more erratic I thought my putting was okay.

LoL.. yeah thanks for pointing that out. I should have definitely said RISING in the title.