Weetbix wrote:

BumpunRun wrote:

Weetbix wrote:

BumpunRun wrote:

See you in 5 sleeps Weets

Can’t wait

You going driver off the 1st?

what other holes do you want my advice on?

Given you started with a 240m 3 wood which is a bit out of my league I suspect that your advice wont be very applicable to this chopper!

Better play (pssst don’t tell Bump) is about 40mtrs shorter- takes water and bunkers out of play- leave 100-110m in.

First tee shot for Bump with all of us watching!

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Can break 80 wrote:

Weetbix wrote:

Are passports and other documentation available here too?

We Victorians might need a passport and other document papers to just to travel to NSW for the Nationals in October.

dig a tunnel?

Special wrote:

Commish wrote:

Special wrote:

Played a few round recently, tried using my old mans old driver. It has a shorter shaft (despite him being 6ft6 thought would be longer than mine), and feels like it has a bit more weight in the head. I seem to be squaring the face up quicker with it and finding a lot more fair ways. Still have the odd one where I get a bit loose and the hands open right up goes flying right, but probably finding 2/3 fairways the last 2 rounds with it, as opposed to basically none.

Yesterdays round started horrifically, couldn’t find a fairway to start and the irons were cutting a fair bit. Started with 55 on the front, couldn’t get much worse and then had a 44 on the back. Difference was finding more fairways, the long irons were still off but at least they were up there and i could chip on and 2 putt for a bogey. Was like 2 different golfers.

Got the first handicap and I got to say I am a little confused. It’s 16.1 when my best round I put in was a 97. So i expect I’ll blow that right out and will be a little bit until I have a hc I can play too.

Not sure if this is exactly right Special, but I think for the purpose of handicap they only allow for double bogey on any given hole, so even though you may have had a 97 as your best, take off any triples and above and you may have only had a 90. Same goes for the other h’cap cards. Have you been given your handicap off 3 cards or 5? If three, then yeah it will go out a bit.

That sounds about right, I had a few holes triple or above in my last 2 rounds, outside of that quite a few pars and a couple birdies.

I expect I won’t have a hc I’ll be able to play to for quite a few rounds but that’s ok it’s all progressing nicely anyway.

You arent supposed to play to your handicap everytime,

Back to Basics: Handicapping 101 – Playing to Your Handicap
What does “playing to your handicap” mean, and how often are you going to actually do it? Having a good understanding of what your chances are will not only help you make sense of the Handicap System, you won’t feel so badly those times when you don’t hit your number!

The first thing to know is how important USGA Course Rating is, and exactly how it plays into the equation.

Ever heard the term “Target Score”? Let’s say you’ve entered a tournament at Stone Creek GC, and you’re going to play the Blue tees, which has a Course Rating of 71.4 and a Slope Rating of 127. What’s the best score you could probably hope to shoot that day? Your Handicap Index is a 15.2, so it converts to 17 (using Course Handicap Tables or “Conversion Charts”). Now add the 17 to 71.4 for a total of 88 (rounded). This means you’ve played to your handicap for the tournament, which is a good showing!

This little bit of math illustrates that playing to your handicap is not about how well you think you played or the number of putts you had, but a measurable number. Notice that par has not been mentioned? That’s because playing to your handicap is not how your net score relates to par (forget about par – it just doesn’t give you enough information about a golf course’s difficulty in order to relate it to handicapping).

How often should you play to your handicap? Taking each component of the Handicap System formula into consideration, at the end of the day, playing to your handicap actually happens only once out of four to five rounds. But don’t get discouraged – there’s a good reason the USGA came up with this probability.

Even though all scores must be posted (the system needs lots of data to work correctly) the formula bases your Handicap Index on the better half of them. If, however, all of them were used, players with higher handicaps would see significant increases while those with lower handicaps would not increase as much. This would tip the balance of the system heavily toward higher handicap players.

So keep setting your target to play to your handicap – it’s good to have a goal! – but don’t feel badly if you only play to it 20-25% of the time.

https://www.oga.org/back-basics-handicapping-101-playing-your-handicap#:~:text=How%20often%20should%20you%20play,came%20up%20with%20this%20probability.

xrman wrote:

Madam wrote:

xrman wrote:

I played in the comp this morning. It took 4 hours, waiting for every hit. The group in front were slowwwwww!
I find it difficult to maintain concentration under these playing conditions.

Two steps forward:
1) I feel confident with my clubs now. New wedges arrived yesterday.
2) pitching into the greens was good today. it is too soggy to land short and expect any bounce at all.

One step back
1) tee shots are hitting the fairways more often,but still lacking distance .

Whats better for your scoring?

Hit more fairways but lack a little distance?

Or hit it further but miss fairways?

That obvious, but I want both distance and accuracy! Don’t we all ?

length over width is the million dollar question

BumpunRun wrote:

Mads, we’re in carts next weekend aren’t we?
I am just deciding what to wear and to make the point that we will be in carts and that I am going to win the crown

Crap I almost missed this sledge! damn you are good.

Its walking, their pull buggies are all hired out already, (he he he) and I’m going to drop a couple of bricks in your bag when you are not looking.

“Crown” pffftt

#DOWNWITHEMONARCHY

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