zRam

I had my best game ever, but it was a rocky road. I shot a 58 on the front 9 and a 45 on the back, for a grand total of 103 . I had 5 pars , 5 bogies , 3- quads , and 4- triple bogies . I only lost 2 balls and had 1 - 284 yard drive, and 1 - 260 yard drive (measured with GPS) I putted great, but I'm still having hell with my Irons.

Sunday I shot 108 with 35 putts...I'm having trouble making good contact with my Irons. My driver is finally working, I just hit my Irons too thin. It was very disappointing after taking 8 weeks of lessons (finished a month ago) I actually play 3 strokes worse.

I don't doubt it. They're probably teaching pros.

My buddy has one of these and we call it " Billy Ray ". It makes a loud WONK! and the head cover looks like a Mullet hair cut. "... don't tell my heart, my achey, breaky heart ...."

Mine is Iron Horse in Ft. Worth http://www.ironhorsetx.com/layout9.asp?id=134&page;=1818

why are they a joke?

I hit a -2 yard Drive on Sunday. A long Par 5 needed to make it to the dogleg, I rared back gave it all I got. Topped it, it went straight into the ground and sprung back behind me. The rest of the day was worse : ) My very longest drive ever was about 275-280 with a lot of roll on hard ground, most are much shorter for me.

here is a little trick I figured out. draw a line that is a known distance outside the fairway, 100 or 50 yards and print it out. this can make measuring on the printed out paper easy if you want to add some dimensions later. Just use it to set your calipers (or a piece of paper) to this known distance and measure away.

I've used Google earth to zoom in close enough to measure the distance between the 100 and 150 yard marker several times to check it. It was right everytime. I printed off my local course, hole by hole, and used Google earth to take measurements. I made a yardage book basically. nifty program.

get ready though. Your game will suffer as you try to incorporate the new swing changes you learn. It will be very aggravating if you had major issues to work on. If you're happy with your full swing, I'd get them to work on your short game. It will improve your scoring without all the heart ache of working on your full swing. I've been working through an 8 lesson cycle, and I had to just completely quit playing golf and only practice. If you go out and play before you have the new swing grooved you'll be thinking too much about mechanics and have a hard time. You'll be tempted to revert back to your original swing to get through the game, and you might lose what you were working on.

We do it two ways. I have some friends that we bet with and we each enter our handicaps and play it like it was designed. I got 20 strokes. I won last time, so they were pissed. The way I see it if I shoot better than normal, and they shoot worse than normal I should win. That is the point of the handicap system. I play better under pressure, they don't. I have some other friends that refuse to give me strokes. So I play them on who wins the hole. But, I win the ties. I think this is fair, I tend to play steady golf and then just blow up on a few holes which has me shooting in the 105 -110 range. by playing a hole at a time I can blow up on one hole and bogey or par the next and still stand a chance of winning. that way my entire round isn't ruined by one hole.