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[rehmwa]

I need to stop getting nervous when I get under par....

Me too, but then I finish the second hole and I'm back over again so the stress is gone.....

(honestly ------ you are under par.......you belong there.....you've EARNED it.......next shot is your favorite shot - go get it.  It's no biggie, right?  this is your comfy place)

[Unforgiven93]

Me too, but then I finish the second hole and I'm back over again so the stress is gone.....  ;-)   (honestly ------ you are under par.......you belong there.....you've EARNED it.......next shot is your favorite shot - go get it.  It's no biggie, right?  this is your comfy place)

That's true... I've never thought about it that way. It should make me comfortable that I'm playing well. I'll try that next time. I'm thinking about playing super easy tees just to get used to being under par, but I have a pro (ish) event next week that will be on a long and difficult course so I don't want to come in unprepared for that... Maybe after it I will.

[Jeremie Boop]

22.3.... slowly but surely going in the right direction so I won't complain

[Mop Bucket]

Mine dropped .3. I'm a little surprised because I had a couple high rounds and only one where I went low. My only guess is that consistency has something to do with it.

[rcwkent]

down to 19.5 from 19.7....my first time two consecuitve periods under 20!

[mcanadiens]

Prior to a good round yesterday, I have really, really sucked for the past few weeks. Up a full point from June 15, but full of hope to reverse that by mid-month.

[mcanadiens]

And on that round I spoke of.

The good folks at Miami Shores GC, Troy, OH chose not tell me about the flooding on the back nine and how it significantly shortened the 16th and 17th holes.

On the 16th, they actually cut a temporary hole in the middle of the fairway, roughly 275 yards from the tee. A white circle 10 feet from the pin designated the green. On 17, the blue and white tees were moved up. The usual 375 yard, par-four became a 300-yard par four and that was one of my two birdie holes.

The question is does that change the way I post this round?

[Mop Bucket]

And on that round I spoke of. The good folks at Miami Shores GC, Troy, OH chose not tell me about the flooding on the back nine and how it significantly shortened the 16th and 17th holes. On the 16th, they actually cut a temporary hole in the middle of the fairway, roughly 275 yards from the tee. A white circle 10 feet from the pin designated the green. On 17, the blue and white tees were moved up. The usual 375 yard, par-four became a 300-yard par four and that was one of my two birdie holes. The question is does that change the way I post this round?

I always give myself and the people I play with a break when we have to use temp greens and if a round has more than a couple I usually don't even post it. Something about three jacking a 20 foot putt in the middle of s fairway feels like I'm being cheated out of something- plus you never get a good yardage into a temp. League is league, but when I'm playing for fun, temp greens pretty much mean I'm enforcing the "no three-putts allowed" rule.

[AbsoluteTruths]

I use the USGA GHIN handicap system. My handicap has gone from 29 to the current 27.6 since January. It is all attributed to Keys 1 and 2 and help from you all here on this forum.

It is a little skewed because there is a gap in me posting scores to this system from Oct 2012 till Dec 2014 and three of those old scores are being used for my current handicap.

That should clear up as I play more rounds this year.

[dfreuter415]

Yep, just like I predicted. When the 74 and 76 came out I ended up going from 7.8 to 9.0.

[newtogolf]

22.3.... slowly but surely going in the right direction so I won't complain

Just hit that number myself, I'll be happy when it's back to 18.

[pecos24]

Up .2 to 30.3

[thenewguy]

If I knew where I could get a Handicap for free I'd have an official, otherwise I just google a calculation and put it in myself. The one I have is from start of summer 2015. a been averaging +22 recently so I think I need to recalculate.

[No Mulligans]

If I knew where I could get a Handicap for free I'd have an official, otherwise I just google a calculation and put it in myself. The one I have is from start of summer 2015. a

been averaging +22 recently so I think I need to recalculate.

You can get a free HI from here:

http://www.diablogolf.com/

And, it's an official USGA handicap:

[drdre]

Down to 6.5.

[jsgolfer]

Dropped to 6.7 from 7.2

[Braivo]

Dropped from 16.9 to 16.6.

[GangGreen]

Down to 17.5, have had a good stretch of scoring.  Index is down 4 strokes from where I started the year and 6 strokes from where I was this time last year.  I've read on this forum that improvement will come in waves (in between plateaus) for higher handicappers like myself, I seem to be riding a bit of a wave lately and loving it.