7 handicap golfer shooting 108

[Golf Addict]

Anything is possible we all have our bad rounds!

[Kobey]

Hopefully you have enough practice time to work on it.  That's one reason I don't want to change my swing.  I work 40 hours a week then come home and work on the farm til dark so I don't have a lot of practice time.  The only time I get to work on my swing is when I get out on the course.  I'm hoping to get out once a week next year but it will most likely be once every two weeks.  So I really don't know if my inconsistencies are caused by swing flaws or just a lack of practice.

[bunkerputt]

At a minimum I do maybe 50 concentrated and focused swings per night, not hitting balls, well maybe just a 10 yard foam ball, just working mostly on transferring pressure into my left side on my downswing.  That seems to be the key for me right now.  My guess is that next summer or so it will start coming back around.  I was a 15 handicap before, so I don't mind being one again for a while if it means getting lower than 4.6, which is my lowest.  Russell's comment:  "Tough times don't last.  Grinders do." is pretty much what I'm going on right now.  Focus on the process, not the result.

I have a lot to be encouraged by because my good shots are really really spectacular, whereas before they were just good.  I never made a lot of birdies before, just a lot of fairway/green and two putt from 25-30 feet or so.  Now I'm sticking it tight a lot more on approach shots.  Trajectory is much more consistently medium-ish instead of the either too-high or too-low depending on whether I caught it thin the right amount.  Also, at the range, the range balls shoot off medium-ish and hit and stop.  There isn't really much roll-out at all.  That's with hard-cover range balls, so I'm sure they've got some zip on them.  This never really happened for me before.  It gives me an option to fire at tough spots and know I can hold it.

[bunkerputt]

Hey, I just punched my last round into oobgolf and it was actually +4, not +5!  One of the triples was actually a double .  Time to celebrate. This whole thing has really reinforced the lesson that it is wrong to think about people in terms of "He's a such-and-such handicap".  I like the language, "I'm currently playing to a --"