For me, there is no such thing. The reason someone has a high handicap could be different to why someone else does. I guess he means the fairways are wide open and hazard free though.
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For me, there is no such thing. The reason someone has a high handicap could be different to why someone else does. I guess he means the fairways are wide open and hazard free though.
Got my handicap down to about 18 when was I was a member of a course. Play off around 24 now as I play about 5 times a year. My first outing tomorrow actually. Never had a problem driving it 270-300 yards.......now direction that's something else completely!!!!!
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i play off 12 and wish i could hit the ball that far, my normal drive is about 240.
helps a lot though when most of them are in the fairway or just off so i have a second shot.
lot of golfers focus and how far they can hit it and not worry about the short game, that is where you can cut a serious amount of shots from your handicap.
Yeah I have to reign the big shots in as any real power normally means as my uncle would call it my 'natural slice' would come into play big time. If all holes were dog leg rights I'd probably play off a 10 handicap
, if they were all dogleg lefts I'd be playing tennis!!!
out with the wife tonight to play 9 holes, weather little overcast but she wants to go out and who am i to argue, i have changed her swing so she needs to practice and when she suggests we play a few holes am instantly up for it...i mean its golf and any excuse for me to play 
I can hit a golf ball a very long way and the majority of the times its a massive help but I have now learnt to play around the course rather than try to obliterate it with distance. Its amazing how many of us go to the range and smack 10 kinds of **** out of the ball, yet never practice on our putting or our sand game. My short game has come on leaps and bounds with practice. There is a field at the back of our offices and I generally, weather permitting, go out there with a bag of balls and just practice my wedges. Not 120 yards wedge shots but 10-50 yds, its helped massively.
I was in a pro-am and the pro told me that my game was ok. he said if you want to get your handicap down that i was to practice chipping around the greens, turn a one chip and 2 putts into a single chip and put, very good advice.
I have said before that I haven't played since December but what I do know is that when I finally play my driving will be reasonably okay. However, my short game will be dog ****.
What I have put I bold; if there is any advice I could give to aspiring golfers is this. You lose more shots around the green then you do from the tee.
Used to use my gap wedge around the greens but recently started using my pitching wedge, find it much easier to control.Stop talking about chipping
just waiting for non golfers to comment on chips and wedges now??
Anyone know how to hit a 60 degree wedge? I always thin the bastards!! Stopped using it and reverted to a 9 iron around the green and that has saved me from utter dross a lot of times!
Ha I used to have a 64 degree wedge I used for short game and bunker shots. Two of the best shorts I've ever seen were by me with that club.......the other 600 million will that club are horror movie stuff!!
My best club is my 64 degree lob wedge. Can't chip from 30-50 yards but I can lob it no problem. Wierd.
Lob wedges 60° I reckon cannot be used on soft grassy lies, your hands have to be ahead of the ball and the bottom edge of the log wedge has to be undertaken the ball.
On rock hard lies it is very hard to get a lob wedge to lob
On rock hard lies it is very hard to get a lob wedge to lob
Fort MaCleod Golf Course in Alberta , Canada ....master of my 3 wood .
Best way to explain my game is I can smash a ball,.I can be on in 2 on a par 5 putting for eagle and end up with a triple bogey GRR . Putt it and it goes off the green , chip it 2 feet , chip it over the green .Get pissed. Off and 3 putt from there starting off the green .
Best way to explain my game is I can smash a ball,.I can be on in 2 on a par 5 putting for eagle and end up with a triple bogey GRR . Putt it and it goes off the green , chip it 2 feet , chip it over the green .Get pissed. Off and 3 putt from there starting off the green .
close the face of yr 60 degree+ lob, and clip it, playing with your hands ahead of the ball. catch it right and you'll stop it on a sixpence. easier than trying to flop it with an open face off a hard surface.
bit practice and patience in getting comfy with the dhot and yr range is worth all the time and effort.
my new 3-iron arrived today. get back home tomorrow night and look forward to giving that puppy a baptism on Friday. love a good 3-iron.
bit practice and patience in getting comfy with the dhot and yr range is worth all the time and effort.
my new 3-iron arrived today. get back home tomorrow night and look forward to giving that puppy a baptism on Friday. love a good 3-iron.