Roblar

Soccer guy. bigsoccer.com I mainly just lurk in the 'USMNT' and 'YANKS ABROAD' forums.

83. ...or about 50 more than the wind speed... 36 putts including a 4-putt. Yuck. Drives were all over the place - from 175-290 (based mostly on the wind). But it might have been the last warm day before winter and I had fun!

20-25 today. Not too bad by Oklahoma standards, but any time it gets near to 20 (or above) it gets in my head.

87. Not the best day for me. Not the way I wanted to celebrate my first 'real' handicap in the single digits. On the other hand, 20-25 mph winds made for some fun drives: two drives under 200yards, three in the 270s, and one that made it to 322 (!). (FYI: I average ~240.)

8.7 20th round hit the card this revision, so this is my first 'real' handicap. I had three good rounds back in summer that are keeping me at a single digit. Should go up to 12-13 by the time winter is through... Happy to be a 'single digit'. Not really believing it though.

Long day -- just getting back to this now. Thanks for the replies all -- lots of good food for thought. Long story short, I think it's time to start playing more courses (it's just so easy to stay close to home)! ...And to learn how to hit a drive reasonably straight!

Help me! I want an accurate handicap, and I feel like for me to get one, I would need to start sandbagging since my course seems to be easier than its rating. Seriously! * Long story short: My course is easy, and whenever I go somewhere else, my scores suck. My course is making me look better than I am, and my handicap is not representative of my skill. I feel that my handicap would be more accurate if I were to enter scores as if I am playing more forward tees. Short story long: I signed up for a GHIN handicap back in June, and I just made it to my 20th round this month (in time for the end of October revision). My handicap should end up being a 9-something. But... there is no way I am a single digit -- not even a high one. I suck way worse than a 9, and I should probably be closer to a 13-14 (maybe even higher). I can't hit fairways (30%), my distances are inconsistent (drives average 240, but range from low 200s to mid 260s -- irons are also pretty inconsistent), I almost never get birdies, and I can't sink a putt from outside 5 feet (maybe once in a round). I am convinced that my home course (Westwood in Norman OK) is WAY easier than its rating (70.4/123 from the tips). Here is why: 1) there is almost no penalty for missing a fairway: the course is super open, there is basically no rough, almost always a second shot - at least, for a slicer, 2) the course is short - 6,162 from the tips (and usually playing at least 50-80 yards shorter based on tee placements), 3) the greens are relatively big and flat, and 4) whenever I go to nearby courses (and most of them are rated as easier than Westwood), my score goes way up. ...I'm thinking that, even though I almost always play from the tips, I should enter my scores as if I'm playing from the Men's tees (one set up: 68.5/122). Those numbers, at least, indicate that the course plays easier than par. I just don't buy the 70.4 rating (or the 123 slope). I guess at the end of the day, I don't believe: a) the course rating, or b) that I'm actually a '9'. Do you trust the rating/slope for your course? Should I trust the rating/slope for mine? Or do I just happily claim my handicap even though it seems like I'm a likely suspect for someone carrying a vanity cap? * Okay. I'm not really serious about doing this, but I do think about it every time I play my home course. It's just way easier than other courses that have easier ratings.

well... one more: I feel unlucky with 14 clubs in the bag, so I almost always play with only 13. I usually take out the 3-wood.

If you can find a course that is rated as being much more difficult than it actually is that will shave off a few strokes too! ...I say this because I believe it to be true of my home course, and, at least in terms of my handicap, I think it makes a 3-4 difference. There's no way I'm a single digit, but my handicap says I am...

...and total speculation on my part, but: Bishop was out of line, but for him to actually be fired, I think that says that his 'bosses' were already unhappy with him. Maybe only in parts, but if they were anything more than content, I think he would have kept his job -- or, at the very least, it would have taken more time for him to lose his job. I'm guessing this was just the incident that allowed them to axe him - and not some 'out-of-the-blue' case of (very) poor judgment. (Or maybe it was just that his term was coming to an end soon anyway, and they thought it would be a way to grab some PR for the organization / PGA and sling all the blame at the individual / Bishop.) Whatevs.

It seems to me that this makes for appropriate reading: https://medium.com/human-parts/douchebag-the-white-racial-slur-weve-all-been-waiting-for-a2323002f85d

83. I was up near 90 the last few times out, so that's good for me, but I thought I would be much happier - only three over through 9. :(

I plan to remain homeless. ...though I do spend plenty of time day-dreaming about joining one of the four clubs nearby....

I have about ten ball marks. I won't use the same one two rounds in a row. And I organize them based on the score I shot with them - lowest score goes furthest to the right. (I tend not to use the ball marks on the left so much...) I won't add up a score until the end of a round, and I prefer not to know my score while I play. (I'm still bad enough that I usually have lost track before too long.) I start every round with a new ball. If I lose it, I play an old ball. (If I lose that... I'll put a new ball back in play if I'm playing well, otherwise it's another old ball.)

Baseball. ...and I'm *not* a good putter.

28. Some Qs were hard because the only 'tournaments' I play are scrambles.

...zombie thread...

Golf is an addiction. My favorites to play/watch are soccer and surfing. ...I live in OK, so no surfing. ...I blew out my ankle, so no more competitive soccer. ...I also like watching college football up until Oklahoma loses to a crappy team. That takes us right back to golf - my addiction and my current favorite sport to play.

Not up to 20 scores posted yet, but it's looking like when I get to the 20th, I'll be somewhere around a 10 or 11... (Currently 8.2)

I know someone who looks down on people who use golf as a verb in sentences like: "I like to golf." "I like to play golf," he says. "Golf is not a verb!" And yet, he is happy to say something like, "He's a good golfer." I have always found this funny. "Golfer" comes from "golf" + "-er" and means something like "someone who plays golf". English is confusing because lots of verbs and nouns look and sound the same: a dance (noun), to dance (verb), dancer (someone who dances)... and 'golf' might fit roughly in that category too. If you look at the suffix "+er", though, you can see that it combines with verbs, not nouns to create a word that means something like "someone/something that VERBs". E.g. "employer", "thinker", "opener", .... to employ (verb) employ + er = someone/something who employs people to think (verb) think + er = someone who thinks to open (verb) open + er = something that opens things ...and so on. So, if we reverse engineer "golfer" meaning "someone who golfs", we see it comes from a verb, "golf" plus a suffix "-er". ... So every time someone uses "golfer" they have just combined the verb "golf" with "er". ...so I usually chuckle when someone tells me that "golf" is not a verb. If they do, I just ask if they think "golfer" is a word, and then chuckle when they say, "Of course!"

My previous round ended poorly, but I still managed an 81. ...and the game today started where that one left off. ...and I ended up with an 89. :(

81. That's normally a good score for me, but today, I finished +4 on the final three holes, so that left a bad taste in my mouth. I had a chance to do better, adn I choked.

Still haven't made it to 20 scores posted. My 'faux' handicap is artificially high thanks to a few good rounds. Today's 87 is more representative than my last outing's 78.

87 and I sucked. Much worse than an 87. 3 penalties, hit a short layup almost 80 yards right of the target.... missed putts both sides of the cup, missed fairways on both sides (only hit ONE fairway).... And worst of all, I don't get to play again until next Monday. :(

Played a scramble - our foursome shot 66. If it had been just me, it probably would have been mid-80s.