Hello, my name is Eric, and I'm a golfer (or hope to be)

[beantown_golfer]

Hello, my name is Eric. I have been playing golf for a while, but VERY sporadically (under 5 times a year). I have just recently had the funds and time to take the game more seriously. I love golf, and hate shooting the way I do. Golf is the most fun pain in the ass I have ever tried, and I am really hooked. I look forward to posting, and have enjoyed reading all of your posts for a couple of weeks now.

I just wanted to introduce myself, and say thanks for all the great threads I have read thus far and that I look forward to joining them in the future. At the moment I shoot around a 95, but I am working hard to bring that down.

[aquacooled]

welcome aboard eric!!!

work on your putting and that shave strokes right off your score..

goodluck

[Golfer7945]

Welcome Eric,

I am happy to read that you are becoming serious about the game. Like you I languished for years playing the occasional scramble for company functions. I decided to get serious two years ago. I was shooting between 120 and 140 and possessed the ugliest swing on the planet...... (my friends were in agony watching me swing) I made a plan and stuck to it.... First I purchased a set of KZG zero offset tour blades, I scheduled a set of 3 lessons with a pga pro set 3 weeks apart, then I committed myself to 100 balls a day on the range. I kept up this routine throughout an entire summer.

I played golf twice a week during the fall and once a week during the winter, I traded the blades for a set of KZG cavity forged irons the next spring and continued with lessons and rounds of golf... (now shooting in the 90's to low 100's) My next step was a new set of wedges and a lesson with my pro on how to use the wedges, I then practiced 3 times per week with the wedges and my scores dropped to the low 90's.

next step I sold the cavity back irons and had a set of KZG evolution irons fitted for me I now shoot in the 80's consistently and posted an 82, 83, 85 in a row this past summer.

I just bought a new driver (fitted) re-shafted my 5 wood (hitting from the short grasss is key..... I was inspired by Tiger at the Open Championship) and ordered a putter that fits me better than my old one does.

my goal is to break 80 this winter....

hang in there Eric and welcome to the world of golf addicts.

Dale