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They are really good irons and it's a good buy. No reason to be concerned.

My trouble I guess is my left foot fanning out and pointing towards the target while my right foot is more John Travolta than Tiger Woods. I need to get them under control that little bit more.

Mental problems become physical. Big hazard on the right and we make compensations which typically result in a cut shot. Between good players hazards don't really cause as much fear. If there is a big pond before the green I don't doubt my club. Avoiding unwanted fades/draws which could cause me trouble are another matter.

This is a great idea, something I had not yet thought of doing but will definitely keep it in mind in future. Accurate distances and feel go hand in hand. You take the data and make adjustments for the situation. I guarantee a player as equally as skilled as myself will not put the shots that he 'feel's from 150 yards closer on average than my shots where I use my rangefinder + feel. You'll always be better off even with chipping when you know the exact distances.

Indeed. Making a topic on a golf forum to gather information is not to make a committment to act on it. If you don't take action you wont be achieving anything. So we all need to know what you are going to be doing. You need to be a bit more open. All this about not knowing you is guff. We are working off limited information on the internet that you provide and unless I am mistaken you never told us that you had signed up to frequent lessons with a quality instructor. I mean, that's a salient point and if you mention that and your other measures you'll get a lot a help, I guarantee it. The last guy I asked what measures he was taking to go from 17 to scratch in a year hasn't been seen for 3 weeks - see 'scratch dreams' thread.

I hadn't a clue what you were talking about but looked at his swing on video. I have to say the backswing looks awful and I'm surprised it doesn't result in horrible shots.

I think with the internet needling is for a generation of people - water off a ducks back. If someone needles me I don't really care and all it does is highlight a way which they would not like to be treated themselves. So they make themselves vulnerable.

Less about bragging, more about just deserts. Get with it!

I will say once and for all guys that the reason this feat is impossible is because OP in these types of threads never lifts a finger to actually achieve the goal. OP was information gathering and didn't say the feat could be achieved- he merely asked about it. That in itself is a big indicator because he is making no sort of committment. That's why his chance is zero. Also people should wind their neck in! There has been a lot of honest yet negative posts in this thread. It is ludicrous that people who are arguing the probability of failure which is 9.9999999/10 have to put up with vociferous arguments that they could be wrong. If I am going to be proved flatly wrong in that way, which I doubt would occur if I lived 100 lifetimes I might just accept that to be right every other time! This type of thread should get one response in future. Something that states the low probability, sets out a regime to achieve the goal and then ask the op to keep a weekly update on progress and close the topic.

There's one course I know that its a 250y carry to the fairway off the championship tees and you have to be a 4hc or less to play them. No problem for anyone on this forum then.

All this reminds me of dumb and dumber. Lloyd: I want to ask you a question... straight out, flat out... and I want you to give me an honest answer. What do you think the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together? Mary: Well Lloyd... that's difficult to say... you really don't... Lloyd: Hit me! Just give it to me straight! I came a long way just to see you Mary. The least you can do is level with me. What are my chances? Mary: Not good. Lloyd: [Gulps] You mean, not good like one out of a hundred? Mary: I'd say more like... one out of a million. Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance. Yeah! The funny thing about that exchange is that Lloyd is not put off by the odds causing everyone to us to laugh at him. Here we are talking about a feat that must be less likely than winning the lotto, strike that, OP is more likely to visit the moon in the next 5 years than to make it into a Nationwide Tour event. Now I'm not suggesting to laugh at OP but I am going to laugh at the many Lloyds in this topic who get excited about a negligible chance. And it's not just a guessing game. OP gave us several facts to base these remarks off. But I'd just like to lay down one challenge because i've seen these types of topics before. I'm not asking this to call OP a liar, he was only asking a question but just out of interest I long for someone who brings up topics about unlikely ambitions to actually put their money where their mouth is. I'd love to see if he can get to scratch within a year.

I've had one lesson in 12 years and so consider myself almost completely self taught. In that lesson I recall him doing some half swing drills with me hinging the wrists and flaring out my left foot and narrowing my stance but to what extent I gained something from that long term i just don't know. Like I say it has been 12 years of golf, 4 spent as a club member and several years where I didn't play much golf at all. I suppose I could look back at what could have been but I'm more inclined towards the future. I'd like to get to scratch too and it is encouraging to hear you got an extra club length with lessons because I really need that. Iacas Could you put that extra club length down to any one thing or was it based on a combination of improvements?

Original poster: Some of the responses you may find predictable, negative or postive- that was to be a given with this topic. The actual probability of you qualifying for the Nationwide Tour event is probably the salient point in all this. It's very very low. However what makes you even more open to negativity is that you have given little indication of the bit that is in your control- your willingness to sacrifice. If you had said you will give up your job, a large chunck of your social life etc I would say- be the best you can be. But what you described was a path to a 7.8 Handicap which although in a quicker than average time barely registers as impressive. It doesn't say a jot about how easily you will get to scratch. Most of all though you've already played only sporadically, stopping playing for this reason and that. It doesn't sound like you have the ability to commit to this. So in my opinion the few pieces of information you have supplied will cause people to be skeptical.

Swing looks good from this angle. A front on view would be more telling perhaps. Personally I would be very satisfied with your posture, takeaway and balance from what I see in that video.

Nazi salute and bend your fingers towards your head= cupped wrist Bowed wrist = gay wrist easy!

I don't know the exact cost of greens but I've heard figures of £40k at good courses. If I was in charge of a course and came across that damage the suspect would be dealing with the police.

There will always be a doubt about shooting a higher score on an unfamiliar course. Inevitably lack of familiarity will cost strokes. Had he shot his best round he might equally say that the course cost him an even better score. Perhaps he got lucky or perhaps the course was easy to read and had few quirks. Whatever way you look at it, I personally find that making the correct decisions about a golf hole, the first time I see it, is often difficult. It's only when you get to the green do you realise that you should always play right side or take a club more because of elevation. Then there is getting to know the greens. No two putts are ever the same but I think knowing the break can really help and it takes experience to know the breaks well.

What the committee 'shall' do (decisions on rules of golf 1992) may be an entirely different matter to what they actually do. Their failure to stake the hazard does not mean that it is not a hazard nor does it preclude a player from deciding what the hazard is based on the rules quoted just before your last response. The rules do not appear to explicitly state that judgements must be 'honest' however we are making DECISIONS on the rules of golf suggesting something must be determined/ decided that may require a level of interpretation. For example -what does it mean to be 'clearly in the hazard' or 'reasonable evidence' that a ball is lost in a hazard. As in Zeg's previous post the ground which is within the margin of a hazard is clearly defined in the rule book regardless of where stakes are positioned. But other than that almost any decision would surely have to be an honest/reasonable/evidenced one.

I don't the questions is whether I will get to scratch but will I get the OPPORTUNITY to do so.

The sad thing about this post is, I'm 25 and maybe if I was as good as I am now when I was 7 years of age I'd have a shot. Time is not on our side!

He's a 7.8 handicap and has played a few times with Bob May. I do wonder if I am losing my mind sometimes when the replies are 'he's never played with a tour player obviously' or 'he must cheat'. Am I missing something?

I'm not a hybrid person but a 5i isn't usually too bad to hit. In this case I think you'd stand much more to gain from improving your technique that switching to another hybrid. Unless you aren't really trying to improve in which case find whatever club suits you best for your current ability.

Well done!

Henri Paul.

What he should have done was to play his second shot from where the ball ended up after his first stroke. Or did it go oob?