liveeel

late..... sorry

On most par 4's,he has his caddy go on down to the green,and tend the flag.

I know where you are coming from. When I first started playing I was in that very same boat.I could bomb it long and fairly straight, and commence to screw the hole up from there. Finally grooved in an iron swing and a decent short game, and cant hit driver now to save my life. If you would have told me 2 years ago that my iron and wedge game was going to be the best part of my game, I would have laughed my ass off. It took some time and a lot of work, now Ive gotta figure out that dang driver again.

The fact that we have a thread concerning the color of gloves may be one of the reasons I love this game. I did find a great deal on 5 black Nike gloves for 20 bucks. Well, actually my buddy found it, and me being the only lefty he knows, he passed it along to me. They do look kind of odd while wearing short sleeves, but seem to flow quite well in long sleeves. IMO, but I can appreciate a man sticking to his guns and saying they are offensive. SIDENOTE: Sometimes if I am playing bad, I will take it off and play raw. It may be mental but seems to help.

I am absolutely, without a doubt, strung slam out on it. Never was a great husband, but I was one hell of a fisherman. Now I am a mediocre golfer. Strung slam out. It's almost been 3 yrs. since I started, hasn't got any better. Glad to say my club buying has slowed down. Everything you guys have testified to in this thread, I am guilty of.

Thanks for all the replies. Visited the scene of the crime today and kinda re-lived the moment for a minute. Tee's and pin were in similar locations, hit same club, drew a lil to much, ended up 15' pin high, made par.

I've never replied to this particular thread for some reason, I've read a lot of what you guys have posted here, and have enjoyed, and learned from them. I started playing this great game of ours almost 3 yrs ago, but have played 4 or 5 days a week since day one, a lot of times 5 or 6 days in row. Yea I've got it pretty bad. I've been mid to low 80's for awhile now. So today wasn't that special shooting an 80, but something special did happen today. I've felt like, for sometime now, that it was in me to shoot even par. I'm sure a lot of us hacks feel like that from time to time. Obviously I didn't shoot even par, but I did have my longest string of pars ever.Im not even sure what my best was before, but I'm sure it wasn't as long as today. Started out ok with a par on 1, but had a couple bad shots and some poor putting thru 6 holes to be 8 over par. Never dropped another stroke after that. Although I did miss 3 greens I managed to get up and down, the sad part is, I had several very birdie putts inside of 10 ft that I missed, one putt was less than 3 ft that I missed. Twice my par putt coming back was longer than the birdie putt that I had just rolled by.

5 on a team, that's pretty cool. Keep us posted on the season. I once played with my father in law, who is also a lefty, after 2 holes we ran into a father-son duo that were both left handed. The course was way backed up, so we finished the round as a left handed foursome.

Small group aren't we.

Called my dad to tell him about it. That's pretty much what he said.

Sorry guys,maybe I shouldn't have started a new thread for this, I wasn't sure where to post it. For the last couple weeks the weather around here has been extremely cold, for South Carolina standards anyway, and I played 12 outta 14 days. Promised my wife I would slow down so I left my clubs at home Monday just so I would not even be tempted. Low and behold my boss comes up to me Monday morning and says, if you played in that mess over the weekend, I know you are playing today, its supposed to be 60 degrees this afternoon. I told him I left my clubs at home just so I would not be tempted. He then said, well go home at lunch and get em' , were teeing off at 2:30. What's a man to do, at lunch I went home and told my wife ''the boss man said''. The round started O.K. I had a couple errant tee shots and after a bogy on 7 I thought I can par out and shoot 40 on this side. #8 is a 144yd par 3 over water that was playing 134. While we waited on the green to clear, my bosses buddy says '' I've never had a hole in one'' ,( he's only been playing for a year), I said ''well most folks haven't, I've never even seen one''. I pulled gap wedge and flushed it, it was high and going right at the pin, of course I said ''just go in the hole''. There was a little noise and the ball just disappeared, It landed straight in the hole, a slam dunk. I went crazy, not sure why I ran and did a Pete Rose slide across the gold tee box, just felt like the thing to do at the time. The guys in front of us had to think '' somebody just canned one''. Im not sure how a ball can stay in the hole like that, but Im glad it did. Ended up shooting 39- 41. My wife said exactly what I thought she would, ''that's exactly what you needed to do, to help you cut back on playing golf". Proud to report I have'nt played in 2 days. LOL it's been snowing.

I voted ''one not mentioned here''. I do however have trouble hitting a cut iron shot when I need to. Can cut my driver, but have learned if I don't totally commit and focus on the shot, a lil cut shot can turn out to be a huge slice. The only shot that scares me to death is a flop. Im scared of it on the range, never even attempted during a round.

Ive heard that same exact story, joke, reference, whatever you want to call it, from 3 other guys, used in different, but similar circumstances, and they were all know it all, as$holes, but Im sure your a very nice guy.

That sounds fun. May try to employ that method.

I did the same thing. Missed the gist of the question as well. I would say pick 1 or 2 and practice your ass off with them. The reason I say 2, is I've always used a 56, but would use a 60 if I was short sided. I realized the 56 swing aint near enough for the 60. I honestly believe its whatever you practice with, whether it be a 8 iron or a 64.

I may be the only idiot that did this, but I recently realized that I watched the putter head go back and thru my putting stroke. The second I caught myself, I thought about some guy on tv commenting on someone missing a short putt, ''must have moved their head or eyes''. I've been putting worlds better ever since I learned to keep my eyes still. Something that may help your chipping is practicing on different lies, choke down, and flatten your stroke, more like a long putting stroke. The most important part of chipping committing to the shot, if you stand over it scared, it's usually a bad result. Take a few practice strokes in similar rough or lack there of, commit to it, then look at your buddy and tell him to get this out the hole, or better yet go ahead and pull the pin. To be a good chipper it helps to be a lil cocky. Cocky is an old Indian word for confident. Ok, ok, I made that last part up.

The guys I play with during the week play double par, 6 on a par 3, 8 on a par 4,and 10 on par 5's.(those hurt). They also putt out, no gimmes. We can move it a lil in the fairway, but don't touch it in the rough. The guys I play with on the weekend play triple, and gimmes inside the leather. They play the same as far as roll it in the fairway and play it down in the rough. Most of the other guys at my home course play double bogie golf and gimmes at various distances depending on what the putts for. For example, if its a 4 ftr for bogie, they may say, ''whats that for bogie? Pick it up. The 1st time I played with these guys, I thought no wonder they always shoot low scores. Im not even going to talk about a threesome I once played with that moved it a club length from anywhere, woods, water out of bounds, and a mulligan per 9. Im a go with the flow kind of guy, and I will play however the group wants to play, but I do hate it when I make the turn with my double par buddies, and a double bogie guy in the clubhouse ask me what I shot on the front, and I have to tell him a 45 or worse.

I think you nailed it. I used to do play alone and do the 2 or 3 ball thing, and don't get me wrong it was good practice. After talking to buddy of mine, ''who happens to be scratch'' about the state of my golf game, and what I was working on, and how I was going about fixing whatever needed fixing, he mentioned doing exactly that. He said to play 3 shots, but play the worst of the three, and take the longest putt of the three, that way your learning how to scramble, and building confidence that you can make the shot you were trying to make. I've become a lot better scrambler because of it.

I've never hit anyone while actually playing golf, but I have a pretty good story nonetheless. I practice chipping in the back yard all the time, now given I cant chip the ball quite as good during a competitive round of golf, as I can in the confines of my own back yard, but I have become a pretty darn good chipper. I am also the proud father of 4 lovely children of which I lose all chipping capabilities when any one of them get anywhere close to me. If one of them gets behind me, or near where I'm chipping to, I duff it, chunk it, ect. I'm worried to death I may hit em with a golf ball. I may or may not have had a drink or 2 during these lil chipping sessions. Well one day while I was chipping around, my precious little 5 yr old girl was working on her hulla hooping. She had just told me that her 5k teacher told her, she was the best hulla hooper in the class. After her asking me to hulla hoop, and me telling her that daddy's not a very good hulla hooper, she had the idea of me chipping a ball thru her hulla hoop. I made her hold it way out to the side of her body, I was maybe 5yds away,I chipped 1 just over the hulla hoop, she yelled ''you missed daddy''. I thought alright I got this, so very carefully and very softly I gave it another go, and proceeded to thump her square in the middle of her forehead with the ball. She hit the ground screaming bloody murder, Im freaking out, I swoop her up, and run her inside to her mama. I start explaining what happened and how bad I felt, not to mention how big of a dumbass I was, before she could say it of course. Sarah ended up being ok, besides the goose egg and the bruise that followed it, which she had to take her school pictures with.

Well said.

Ive had that same idea for sometime now. I really think it would help. I mean really, unless you have a caddy, who else knows you, like you do.

Nothing pisses me off more than playing bad. If you are a decent golfer and pay good money to go out there and hack up the course, all the while keeping your cool, then maybe you should quit golf and find something that you are a little more passionate about. I have met VERY few people that don't get pissed off after a bad shot. Actually I know of 2, one is a devout Christian and he will occasionally give the steering wheel on the cart a few small punches. The other, is one of them guys that would never ever do anything to draw attention to himself, but he threatens to give up the game all the time. Well let me back up and say not really a bad shot, but a day of bad golf and its one of several bad shots that sets said golfer off.

A couple of days ago I went to the course to play in our weds. night scramble. I got there a couple hrs early to hit some balls and maybe squeeze in 9 holes. Ran into my old baseball coach and he asked me to play. Of coarse I normally play the blue tees and he plays the whites. Well he insisted I play the whites with him to save time and maybe we could get in 18. I shot even on the front 3 birdies, 3 bogeys and 3 pars. Best 9 holes of my life, he was so pumped for me that he quit playing after 13 and read putts and pulled pins in the pouring rain just so I could finish ''the round of my life''. but the whole time in the back of my mind I kept thinking this doesn't even really count, I cant claim this as my lowest score ever. Ended up shooting a 78 which is 2 strokes better than my best round. I was hitting the ball really well and putted out of my mind that day but would have I shot 78 from the blues. Doubt it.

Ive gotta have more.