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Darren Lehey
Handicap: 36
Stockton-on-Tees
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 15
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After player regular rounds over the last three weeks i have brought my round down from 100-120 to mid 90's with quite a bit of help from the people i have been playing with, hopefully over the next month or so I will be hitting under 90.
Bearing in mind I always seem to have a double figure hole in every round I play.
Is this something I should expect ? or am I aiming a bit high ? -- 01/07/2009 22:00:52: post edited by Darren Lehey.
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Carol Bellis
Handicap: 36
Kent
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 76
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If your playing partners have managed to help you get your score down so dramatically after only three weeks, my first recommendation would be to keep playing with them! (And could you fix me up for a game with them as well?)
Don't expect to break 90, because if you don't, it will rock your confidence - but there's nothing to stop you aiming for it. Sounds like you're progressing fast anyway!
Well done and good luck.
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Russell Middlet...
Handicap: 36
Essex
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 387
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Darren, I hope I'm one of those 'people you have been playing with?' And if I am Carol, feel free to join us for a round of golf.
The more you play Darren the better you will get.
Once you get to a certain level you should stop getting those double figure holes, although once every now and again one will pop up and bite you on the bum.
You've got a swing that is good for the irons but not too good for the woods. Once you can get your drives down the fairway you will have no problems getting resonable scores.
Keep playing and learning and you will find that your scores will continue to come down.
Even the good players go through a period where everything they try doesn't work, and then it will start working for them. If you continue to play be aware that your game will have peaks and troughs.
See you next week if I'm not working.
Russ
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Jack Paggeot
Handicap: 19
Michigan
Joined: Nov 2008
Posts: 11
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When I started out, I broke 100 by the end (late November) of the first season. The second year I broke 90, my third year found me breaking 80. I plateaued in the low to mid 80's, occasionally dipping into the 70's for many years -- then the reversal of fortunes started! I am nearing 70 years of age now and there is absolutely no danger of me shooting my age!
The good news is you can enjoy the game at any level. These days I just try to enjoy the game and try not to embarrass myself or my playing friends on any course -- I can still play the good ones without flopping around like a dork. Well, too badly, anyway!
You sound as though you are progressing very well. Work on improving your differing strokes and the score will take care of itself. The biggest issue for me was always to forget the last shot (good or bad) and just concentrate on what I was trying to accomplish with the shot at hand, regardless if it was from the middle of the fairway or off in the brambles someplace! The next shot was always important and would count as much as the last one. Might as well make it as good a shot as possible.
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Darren Lehey
Handicap: 36
Stockton-on-Tees
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 15
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Good advice Jack and appreciated.
i have been told this many times by my playing partners as i always seem to dwell on bad holes/shots even many holes after the event.
today i managed to go round not doing this, even after losing balls in places where i thought i had seen them land !! low and behold I shot a 87 which is my best round by far and breaking 90 has set me a new milestone.
I think this is the way forward for me, not worrying to much about the score and just enjoying playing golf, which i did today.
Maybe i will break 80 one day, but in the meantime I won't beat myself up about it.
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