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Last 20 Scores:
11.9 handicap
87 scoring avg.
53.1% Fairway
1.92 Putts
35.1% GIR
mehhh.
GIR is definitely going up which is really encouraging. the fw's should be much higher but i bought an r11 which i promptly turned 3 degrees in, but while it goes 20 yards further, i spray the **** out of it. meanwhile, my old trusty king cobra offset (prob 5 years old) still goes 270 straight down the middle.
still keep both in the bag (leaving out a 60 degree i never use) but last few rounds haven't even bothered with the r11.
only paid $200 + tax for the r11 with a $60 shaft because i thought i had cured my slice. spent a lot of time at the range this summer with the offset and was hitting it straighter than i ever have. even the mis-hit slices were more fades than 'omg watch this straight right'.
resigned myself to the fact that i'll just have to hit an offset the rest of my life and i'll sell the r11 the first chance i get and just buy the newest version (those have to be coming soon right? the '13s?) of the KC offset.
putting is dramatically skewed by two rounds where the greens were stupidly fast. i generally putt well, speed especially. still read 20-25 footers wrong sometimes but the speed is usually right.
scoring average i feel like it also skewed as the course i've played the most is also the hardest. 87 i feel like is my average there. then boulder creek and yankee run with the greens as fast as they could possibly be and after those my average is probably 82-83ish.
first time i've ever tracked stats. started in august. first time i get to bitch about my handicap being based on my best rounds rather than a rolling average. it's totally within my game to go in the 30's, and i do occasionally just not all the time. i'm also capable of shooting 45/46 which apparently isn't taken into account on handicap.
anyway, driving range 10 minutes from here is semi-enclosed w/lights and heaters, so i'll be trying to hit at least once a week in the cold months and next summer that handicap will be in the single digits. this summer for whatever reason was the summer i caught the golf bug bad. most i've golfed in my life and it's not close.
fall goals: golf as long as it stays above 50.
winter goals: new woods, irons and probably wedges (still using 7ish year old nike crx irons). hit 100+ balls at least weekly.