Lol @ completely ignoring my putting advice, don't u know I put a lot of effort into writing it?

@ frankie
thx, I really put some time in putting. But mostly I'm concentrating on shorter putts rather than long ones. But need to change it.
Also do ~100 putts/day in my room with peltz putting tutor.
My back doesn't like it tho

@augie
I dont play much (almost at all) practice round. We have a Summer Cup in my club- so I play a tourney every Wednesday, also almost every weekend we have other tournaments (sometimes 2day events) so usually 2-3 competitive rounds per week.
Other days I spend on driving range and putting green.
Sometimes (like today) when I don't feel like practicing I will go and play 9 holes with multiple driving from the tee, few approaches, few putts on each hole - so typical practicing play

If its any comfort to u lfc, I played golf for the first time in 5-6 weeks tonight, I'm used to shooting maybe 3 or 4 over at worst. I'd have been lucky to shoot 90 ish tonight.

worst golfer ever

http://eagle.pzgolf.pl/Public/LiveSc...ref=True&lang=

5 OB
at least I see a little improvement in putting

spent a lot of time near the green lately.
Here are 2 vids I took today

1st one is ~40m pitch, 2nd is 32m. Got only front view
any opinions ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAAOPs4e_nY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTbFeV_4QD8

Change all your doubles / worse to bogies and you shoot 79

"When in trouble play for a "sure/probable" bogie".

"Never make double (or worse)" (at least try).

Jack Nicklaus in "Golf My Way", wrote that the average golfer will often try shots that are not possible by ANY golfer, not realizing that the shot is impossible.

If you can recall this round, describe how you made the doubles, trips, ... quad

Learning #2, will (often) make #1 un-necessary.

Treat the driver as just another club, using the same tempo as a smooth mid / short iron. Not the "see how far I can hit it / 110% tempo"

And / or learn when to just pitch it out

Gripping down a few inches is a pretty simple technique

Had a great shot at this today. Shot 41-40 for an 81, but was on par for the first 4 holes of the back nine. Short game really saved a lot of strokes for me, as I made quite a few up & downs and didn't 3 putt (9 1 putts, 27 putts total). Best thing was I made no worse than a bogey, even though I went into a hazard on hole 17 (Needed to par last 2 to get 79).

10 bogeys, 7 pars, 1 birdie.
2 GIR, 7 Fairways.

Short game was it for me the other day. I made an 80 but only had a few saves when I missed the green. Probably hit the most greens in my life, a complete opposite of my recent 81 round.

hopefully you have gotten there, if not short game is definitly the way to, if you can hit 9 gir you long game prolly pretty good

This is getting ridiculous. It’s the end of a March and it’s still snowing In Poland. All golf courses and driving ranges are still closed. Whats worse, bcos of frequent temperature changes conditions of a greens at my course are horrible. Greens might be closed for about 3 more weeks… Temperature is still around 0 degree. Hope it’s gonna be warmer In next week so I can finaly hit some balls.

Haven’t made a summary from last season. Goals from last season:

- My current goal of breaking 90 is still on. But I hope to break it soon. Goal for the end of the season is breaking 85 (already made a small bet about it )
- HCP =<16
- Currently I’m a member in two golf clubs- one is only a driving range, but with a membership (~$450) I have unlimited DR balls. There is a club championship in August, my goal is to be in top5 in this tourney
- 2nd golf club is a “normal” one with much more better players. Club championship is 23-24.06 – goal is top20 (20th last year was 176).
- Probably I will also play in Summer Cup- 8 tourneys July-August, best 4 scores (STB) counts. Goal is top15 (about 140 STB (4 scores))

So I reached my main two goals. 2 rounds of 82 and HCP is currently at 13.6. Also my 4th and 5th goals are done.
But I’m so dissapointed about my 3rd goal. After first Day of this championhip I was 2nd, 5 shot behind leader. And on the 2nd Day I played horrible round, finished 8th I believe. What’s worst, after this tournament I didn’t have any desire to practise or play anymore.
But All In All I think it was quite a good season.
This one will be different I’m afraid. I started a regular job (no more poker pro) as I always wanted. Also met THE girl. Don’t know how much time will I have to practise. Also a driving range where I have unlimited balls for ~250$/year is closed and don’t know when it will be open.

Anyway goals for ’13 are simple:
-<80 round
-single digit HCP (keep In mind that europeans HCP is calculated In a diffrent way)

Bought a ticket to BMW PGA Championship, it will be my first live tournament as a spektator, looking forward to this.

So how do U see my chances of reaching my goals?

First, congrats on meeting most of your goals from last year! I don't see why you can't reach your new goals for this year and maybe even win your club championship!

Congrats on the job! A lot of people are able to balance work and golf and continue to improve. There's no reason you can't as well. Besides, from what I've been told, it's daylight 24/7 in Poland during the summer, giving you a unique opportunity that isn't available for a lot of people that live in the civilized world. So when you get up in the middle of the "night" to get a drink or take a piss, use this opportunity to go in your backyard and chip a few balls before heading back to bed. It's about finding time when you didn't think there was any.

Okay... not the end of the world. We can overcome this. Maybe you can steal a golf mat and old range balls from this driving range while no one's there. Then, go buy a golf net that you can setup and hit into in your backyard. I feel this will be a better setup in the long run than going to the driving range. You would no longer be limited to just practicing chipping and putting at home. Especially, as noted above, when you're feeling a little restless at 2 am, grab a hat and sunglasses and get to work on that full swing!

Oh... nevermind.

Yeah, you can go ahead and cancel these plans as well.

Not sure if you are sarcastic or not

but wtf is this?

it's not daylight 24/7
during summer it's getting dark at about 9pm and sunrise ~5.30am

also b'cos of my weak english don't now if U included Poland in civilized world or not, hope you did

My hours in work looks good. one week I work 7am-2pm - so can go straight to the GC after, next week 2pm-8pm, so a lot of time before that.

but golf net is something I need to consider. Got quite a big backyard, not sure why I have't got one yet

i wasnt the one who mentioned the long hours in poland but i would have thought middle of summer would be longer. but poland might be a little further south latitude-wise than i think and its a decent size country south to north.

i too am trying to break 80. and im trying to do it playing the blacks at a pretty tough course (i'd say front nine would be almost have high rated as anywhere). so i have been backsliding some. probably not going to be able to break 80 from the blacks.

but i can go back to the whites or play another course.

from the whites at this course i am have done 81 and 82 recently and beaten 80 in 18 consecutive holes (but back nine first and different days). so i am/was very close.

driving the ball straight is probably #1 factor.

then for me getting rid of duffed pitches (i play thru winter and it's a mudbowl at times) and poorly hit shorter irons is the other big thing. and economize chips and putts (just need to be moderately tighter on this)

i need to learn more about draw/fade. and for this course especially uneven lies. everything is sloped here.

pretty close. should be able to break 80 from the whites fairly soon. then the real work of trying to break 80 from the blacks.

vis-a-vis white tees though, i heard college golfer from a big name state NCAA school shot 58 from the whites at a championship course but isn't nearly good enough to have realistic shot of making it as a touring pro.

Sorry, my post was trying to be facetious and not sarcastic or serious. Except the congrats parts, those were sincere. I won't quit my day job to be a comedian anytime soon... I promise.

I'm 45 and have been playing since I was 9. I chipped in for birdie on the 2nd hole and never looked back.

Have never shot or broke 80

2 years ago, I played 36 at Santa Clara Muni. 81, 81. The next day, I played 18 at San Jose Muni. 81.

Over the course of the following two weeks, I shot 96, 92, 87, 95 and have not played since.

This happens to me every 4th year or so. Last time I was stuck on 83 and didn't play for 3 years following.

****ing head case game.

interesting as everytimfe i've got close it seems i've subsequently regressed too. not exactly sure why

i like the sentiment but at his/my handicap range i'd say max double is more like and hopefully very few of those

if he/i could hit the ball in a manner consistent enough to seldom bogey we would have broken 80 already.... and he's going to lose some pars like this

i do really need to reconsider some tough lies.... and i need to realize that inbthe fairway vs in rough 20 yards away is completely different

yep, max double sounds about right
I feel like that unfortunately there is no way of me playing a round without a db right now

weather update: more and more snow
just kill me plz

It's 70 and sunny today, enjoy boys!!!

i'm going back at the 80 quest probably tomorrow. touch wood everything is coming together nicely

the only thing that seems to have wobbled recently is full wedge type shots. hitting them very low. very important shots, but should be fixable.

For what this is worth:

I shot a bunch of 81's when I was chasing 80 last year and the year before. Shot one 80.

Had another kid (my second), went from playing three to five rounds a week to playing one every ten days or so...

...forget it. The dream is dead. I will shoot 85-95 for the rest of my life.

If you do not have the time or energy to practice properly, you will not get better. Take a week off? Huge setback. Take a month? May as well spend five hours on the range instead because it's like you never played before.

great, I'm after 5months winter break....
hope I will break 90 in first 2 months of the season

I'm a head case, so i play much, much better after not playing for a year or two. I'm also pretty light, so while I can easily play 36 in a day, the repeativeness of range balls tires me out quickly, so I do not practice on days I'm playing.

My biggest obstacle to 80 by a far far far margin is off the tee. My ball just doesn't go very far. My best drive is probably like 220 and most the time it's more like 190-200 because I'm trying to hit it 240. Add a little banana to that 190-200 from trying to hard and it's a perfect recipe for 'not getting there in 2'.

Ive learned to deal with it though and my main redemption is that I chip and putt like a madman.

So you hit your irons normal distance, but not your driver? I had this problem for years.

I would bet it's a weak grip or a reverse pivot.