Cupcakus

Errant tee shots are also about the only way I lose balls now, that driver, ugh... I always take a club up now on the tee box, even though I tee it very low, I have a problem hitting properly down on a teed ball and never leave a divot, so while I usually get decent ball flight I don't get the spin and distance I should. Maybe you swing really hard on the tee? There is an impulse to really go for it when the ball is teed up.

I still play my local executive quite a bit, but I have found in my short few months of learning that taming my driver is the biggest challenge and most important part of my game I need to work on in order to become a bogey golfer, I can only do that from a full length course. I think you should get out there as soon as you can, especially if you are hitting par occasionally on par 3 holes. In my experience you are already better than most of the weekenders out there.

While I've been trying to hit fades and draws on the range for a couple of weeks now, I still just don't have a good enough swing to manipulate it well, but this did occur to me while I was practicing. If my coach had just explained to me how to hit a slice on purpose I'm sure I would have had a much easier time getting rid of it than I did.

Well I did it again, so maybe it wasn't a fluke, shot 51 on the front, my driver was everywhere but straight, and my hero shot to intentionally slice the ball with a 5 wood around a tree just hit the tree and bounced 10 yards backwards. But I shot a 45 on the back to card a 96. The driver started cooperating and I mixed in with the threesome behind me which kept the pace a lot better as I kept running into the terrible foursome ahead of me and had to wait 10 minutes at every tee. Game Golf round (I just received this little toy today, so I did forget to always tag each shot and had to manually add them back in later from memory) http://www.gamegolf.com/player/Cupcakus/round/541598 Golfshot Scorecard http://golfshot.com/Rounds/Detail/233-30488305-30488550

I had a VHS tape many years ago about swing thoughts, kind of like mental exercises before each shot, supposed to help, it didn't. But I was much younger and only played a few times.

Well, I finally shot a 97 today. It's my best score ever, but it happened on a par 69 course, and I shot 106 yesterday on a par 72, so I'm not jumping for joy just yet. Even so it is the lowest course rating differential I've shot so far so all in all a pretty good day of golf. [URL=http://golfshot.com/Rounds/Detail/231-30447814-30448057]Scorecard[/URL]

Mine is magnetic flap too never had a problem

The case for mine has a clip on it, if yours just has just a belt loop you could just as easily put a carribeaner in there. Then I just clip it to my bag on top of my towel, ride or carry that's where it is when I need it.

I'm curious what the course rating is for this course. My executive is par 31 (Rating 29.6) and I seem to average less than 40 lately. I have the opposite problem, my drives are long and straight but long par 3 holes are really tough, getting on the green in one from 200-170 yards is still really hard for me, I'll pull it left or roll off the back into trouble. 4 over is probably a good score regardless of the rating, you should get out there on a full 72 even if you leave the driver in the bag, it's a ton of fun.

Yah I guess I should have said I routinely play about -5 to par net, and that still seems wrong to me. Your HI is supposed to be what you should score to par + 6%, meaning I should be averaging about +2, or maybe even if I'm improving consistently, but -5 seems like a lot. I know for a fact if I played in my local club tournament and shot -5 net I will likely win my flight.

I'm not sure what par has to do with it, if I shoot 100 with a course handicap of 35, it's a 65, regardless of the course length as far as I know? Unless I'm doing it wrong. Score to par is different for sure... here's my last 7 rounds, 6 of which were used in the 8/15 calculation. Score/Slope (Course Hcp) Net (Score to Par) 100/120 (35) 65 (-5 to par) 85/91 (28) 57 (-5 to par) 109/118 (36) 73 (+1 to par) 100/118 (36) 64 (-8 to par) 87/91 (28) 59 (-3 to par) 102/121 (37) 65 (-5 to par) 90/91 (28) 62 (+1 to par)

I have yet to run into a course marshal that wasn't a complete tool. Best case he'll roll by and make a bad golf joke "Hey, is the course record in jeopardy?" more than likely he will give me guff for something someone else did, like my last run-in with him where the first fairway was full of balls because the foursome on #2 all sliced their tee shots and he rolled up to the first tee before I ever hit a ball and made sure to let me know that the first tee is not the driving range. I had no idea what he was on about until I drove down there and saw all the balls. And then when we needed a marshal on a different course, a bunch of weekend hackers were playing from the tips and holding everyone up, the best we could get him to do was drive by and give a nasty look, they did not care. Sorry, probably off topic, but I had to agree with your statement and then disagree in the fact that I have yet to see a marshal actually do his or her job in this manner, or help speed up golfers on the course politely.

I'm getting there slowly, 34.4 -> 32.6 but of my 10 best rounds used in the calculation, 6 of them were my last 6 so I think I'm actually doing better. In-fact, if I actually calculate my course handicap and apply it I routinely play in the mid 60s net, this seems wrong to me, but maybe not. (On Saturday I shot 100, Hcp 32.6, Slope 120 (White tees), Course Handicap: 35 -- That's a 65 net?)

I play with my wife quite a bit, and she's really slow, on Saturday I shot 100, she shot 136, and we still finished in 4 hours with another couple we were paired with. We even let a couple groups through. We didn't really play ready golf, I hear this a lot but I'm still not sure why it takes some people 5+ hours? I've hit traffic jams at the tee before that have caused it to take that long, or an extended food/bathroom break at the turn that can eat up a bunch of time, but how many practice swings does it take to extend a game an hour?

Be very careful on the range, you may not be hitting it as well as you think. I used to think I was amazing on the range, and then couldn't bring it to the course. It's really easy to forget the bad shots on the range as you just grab another ball and then hit it perfect. If I pull 1 out of 15, 8i shots on the range, I will probably forget all about it, and then I tee up on number 2 par 3 and pull it and think "This never happens on the range". I know keep a running total of my % of missed shots from the range to the course and it has helped greatly, I now that yes, a 6i will get me there, but there's a 30% chance I'll pull it into the thick stuff and a 20% chance I'll hit it fat. Also gives me a bunch of focus on what to work on at the range.

Shot another 100 today, so close, this time I didn't check the score until I was done. Four putted the first hole again, putting was just bad all around today. Scores 49/51

Playing an Oceanside links course I've never been to tomorrow, with 13mph winds forecast, but I will still finally break 100

I have a problem, and I think almost all of us have this problem, thinking I'm so good on the range and then terrible on the course. Its so easy to forget that huge slice or shank on the range when you can just grab another ball and hit a good one right after, on the course you will remember that bad shot all day as you have to walk over there and play it. I have made it a point to track my bad shots on the range, try to remember them more than the good ones so I can assess the risk of a particular club on the course.

I have a much harder time seeing the yellow balls in flight than the white ones, but even as a young guy with 20/10 vision I still lose sight of them sometimes, especially when playing in the afternoon and the sun gets lower. I also expect my drives to go straight, so if I really pull it or push it I might not see it for the first 50ft, and if you don't see it leave the club good luck finding it in flight.

I also just recently had this problem of skying the driver, even though I was teeing it low and trying desperately to hit down on it. What fixed it for me was actually trying to hit it on the upward part of the swing. I still tee it pretty low, line it up with my left heel, and then put some weight on my right side so I'm leaning a bit to the right, the shaft angle of the driver matches my left leg. Then I hit up on it, and there you go. Worked for me. They still pop up fairly high, but the distance is back to where it was.

Wow, this thread was resurrected from 6 years ago! Just yesterday I was teeing off on the second hole of my local 9 hole executive I practice at almost every day after work, I always pull my tee shot left of the green there... *ALWAYS* it's super frustrating, I think maybe it's an optical illusion or something how the hole is set up and I always line up left of it or something. I hit a ton of bad shots, but hitting the same bad shot every day made me toss my wedge into the air yesterday. It happens to everyone I think.

I was taught to sink 3 putts from 3ft, then three from 5ft, then three from 7ft. If I miss I have to start over. While I'm still a terrible golfer, putting inside 5ft is not a problem with this drill.

Been on the forums for a little while now but never posted here. Just picked up the game a few months ago, and Im still struggling to break 100 but I'm working hard at it, I hit the range and/or the course at least 5 days a week. I have no golf buddies that can or want to play as much as I do, so if anyone here is in the North or East Bay Area drop me a message and let's play sometime.

109 today really not good for me given my progress over the past few weeks. I had two major issues, sometimes the ball will just pop out completely right, not a slight push, but a huge 80 degrees right of my stance. I'm not sure how to correct it, because I don't know what causes it. It's not a shank the ball flies into the air like you would expect, and it happened on a hybrid as well which doesn't have a hozel to hit. I suppose the face could be opening but that would be a really big open face. This routinely not only made me lose a shot but put the ball in an even worse lie or even in a hazard that was in no way a threat. I also cannot get my approach shots to stay on the green, even if I hit the very front with anything more than a wedge it will bounce and roll off the back, I made some great 160yd 7 iron approach shots today and they just rolled right off. I use really cheap balls, Wilson's I get on amazon for $9 for 18, if I shoot for before the green the ball will stck there and won't bounce up, so I was hitting long lag putts and chips on every hole today. I also ran into a traffic jam on 14 and each of the last 4 holes was a 15 minute wait and I started to tighten up.

The GC2 says 235ish every time I hit one straight, the swing speed comes from a Swingbyte so maybe it's not as accurate as I would have hoped. Before I bought the Aero I was 200 max, I just assumed the extra distance was something magical in the driver design. My old driver was just the one that came in a $200 amazon set.