Golf Thread

[JustBen]

Mate just picked up an Taylormade M6 hybrid for like £40 in local pro shop.. Try checking those places out.

Aside from that - something around 20/21 degrees sounds ideal. Either hybrid or 7 wood would fit the bill.

With GTS coming out soon from Titliest, that means TSR range should drop a bit more as the GT range fitted between them in terms of cycles...

Might sound silly but does a club being a bit tatty really effect it? Quite often see some bashed up looking things going cheap, my local shop just sends most to golf clubs for cash for can be limited.
I've got a Cobra DS Adapt on the way, went 4 hybrid. Did see a 7 wood on golfbidder but before i got to add it to the basket it had sold.

Got my first official WHS handicap come through as 25. Anyone on here around that? Advice?
Looking to get into the teens by the end of the season. I played the other day and made bogey or double almost every single hole. At least I'm consistent! I also made my first birdie on my home course for the first time the other week. Got to take the positives eh!

I started the year on 22. sommet and now at 27 so around the same, i can go around low 80s and also over 100, aim this year is to get it consistently in the 90s at least.

 

[booyaka]

Might sound silly but does a club being a bit tatty really effect it? Quite often see some bashed up looking things going cheap, my local shop just sends most to golf clubs for cash for can be limited.
I've got a Cobra DS Adapt on the way, went 4 hybrid. Did see a 7 wood on golfbidder but before i got to add it to the basket it had sold.

Not really - it's more consmetic. So long as theirs no cracks/dents etc - it's generally fine.

Like jet black club faces get scuffed up easy with sand etc

 

[SKILL]

Out today just for some fun and banter, decided I'd try to draw everything, actually played decently shockingly

Got my first official WHS handicap come through as 25. Anyone on here around that? Advice?
Looking to get into the teens by the end of the season. I played the other day and made bogey or double almost every single hole. At least I'm consistent! I also made my first birdie on my home course for the first time the other week. Got to take the positives eh!

How many of you use rangefinder vs watch vs just guess?

My boys stole my rangefinders so for the last month or so I've been just guessing yardages. Got really quite good at it, but I know it's silly. Off to Temu I go I think for another one. Can't afford a Bushnell!

I'm only slightly lower at 21, did get as low as 17 but then my mental game fell to pieces As said I'm not sure I'd set a handicap goal, although I did, but it sucks when you don't meet it and golf is just plain hard!

For the second one I use both rangefinder and watch cause I'm a nerd. But of the two I'd go watch, today for example as just fun I didn't bother zapping any flags and just used the watch numbers. You can get free phone apps (with ads mostly!) as well, the 18birdies app is decent, I use it sometimes to scope out courses I've not played before.

 

[stephenb]

How many of you use rangefinder vs watch vs just guess?

My boys stole my rangefinders so for the last month or so I've been just guessing yardages. Got really quite good at it, but I know it's silly. Off to Temu I go I think for another one. Can't afford a Bushnell!

All three. Watch is my primary measurement device but I'll sometimes reference that against the 150y markers to make sure it's giving me an accurate distance, there's one hole at my club where it's always out. Laser is useful for measuring a layup or if I want an exact distance to the pin.

Out today for a midweek round, wind really made for tough conditions and having thrown in a few bad shots was happy to scramble well on the back nine to come in with 34pts (14/20 with three blobs). Got into the clubhouse to find winning score was 43pts Fair play to them having such a good round when it was gusting to 30-35mph. Highlight of the round was closing out birdie/par/par/birdie Think that's the first time I've ever birdied the last. If only I could have had that finish on one of my two rounds over the weekend!

 

[iGiDK]

Wed medal today after work, course is drying out nicely. Really poor start, 3pts for the first 4 holes but then settled in to it.

On Saturday I was hitting lovely baby fades off the tee for fun but today pretty much everything with the driver was hard left. Some good moments though and nice back to back birdies at 16 & 17, plenty of positives to take to the next round albeit 32pts today

 

[TheCSSDoctor]

Got my first official WHS handicap come through as 25. Anyone on here around that? Advice?
Looking to get into the teens by the end of the season. I played the other day and made bogey or double almost every single hole. At least I'm consistent! I also made my first birdie on my home course for the first time the other week. Got to take the positives eh!

Like others have said, don't focus on a handicap target,.just play golf

My biggest advice would be to say you have the handicap for a reason - obviously there will be holes where you have 2 extra shots to play with, but use the shots you have and ignore the par written on the card and base your target using your handicap shots

Too many higher handicaps, and I don't mean that disrespectfully, focus too much on the number written on the card rather than taking into account the additional shots their handicap allows

Another piece of advice would be to play boring golf - don't take on a shot you don't feel comfortable with trying. If a pin is tucked behind a bunker, just make sure you get the ball on the green rather than trying to play the flop shot that finishes in the bunker and ends up costing you extra shots

Sensible golf will see your handicap drop quicker than going for every shot

 

[booyaka]

First tie of the season already tonight - Lovely day - weather is beautiful up here on west coast Scotland.

Playing a guy off 1.8 so getting 4 shots I think (rare for me!)

His handicap scores mind you go back to August 2024.... He only put in 12 cards the whole of last year...

 

[OldKitMan]

Got my first official WHS handicap come through as 25. Anyone on here around that? Advice?
Looking to get into the teens by the end of the season. I played the other day and made bogey or double almost every single hole. At least I'm consistent! I also made my first birdie on my home course for the first time the other week. Got to take the positives eh!

Watch lots of these videos, mainly focuses on how to play sensible golf to your abilities.

Golf Sidekick

For collabs/partnerships contact: [email protected] Everyday golfers showing everyday golfers how we play golf. Not too much talking just golf shots and thought processes.

youtube.com

Has made me think a lot more about what kind of shot to hit.

 

[JustBen]

Watch lots of these videos, mainly focuses on how to play sensible golf to your abilities.

Golf Sidekick

For collabs/partnerships contact: [email protected] Everyday golfers showing everyday golfers how we play golf. Not too much talking just golf shots and thought processes.

youtube.com

Has made me think a lot more about what kind of shot to hit.

Distance'ees is what sticks in my head from his videos. Makes golf less stressful following his approach

 

[SKILL]

Out today at Cumberwell Park, weather was glorious and played some more solid golf, driver is definitely a bit off the boil but otherwise hit some lovely shots.

Best shot of the day was an unexpectedly well struck 2 iron that went way long into a ditch, terrible for the score but felt so damn good

Tomorrow is a big comp at my local, think it's a medal, don't expect much but if I can shoot under 90 I'll be happy I think, probably need more like 85 gross at worst to stand a chance, doable but seems unlikely given recent form...

 

[TheCSSDoctor]

Playing my first comps at my new club this weekend, a better-ball with my wife tomorrow and then not sure if Sunday is medal or Stableford

Will be my first rounds off the white tees at 6,700yds so will see how they go. Hopefully we won't have many comps off the tips as they are around 7,100yds and that is not something I have done very often at any course

 

[SKILL]

Didn't quite manage it, shot 91, net 74 (par 70 course). Not terrible just not great.

Winning score was a net 67 so I would've needed 84 gross, about what I predicted

Kinda glad it was an early start, it felt kinda chilly at the start but warmed up a tonne, as a ginger it's way too hot out there now

 

[JustBen]

last week i got 23 points this week 28 points

 

[booyaka]

So - Lost my tie at the 19th last night.

Played well but eventually the guy being 40-60 yards past me every hole with driver is hard to play against. I'm not short by any means but when I hit driver, 7 wood to par5 1st and he's hitting driver 9 iron it eventually becomes hard work!!

Somehow I did end up with about a 5ft putt on 18th to win match but had about 6" break on it and missed it. He birdied the 1st (19th) to my par 5.

Good match, nice guy, good chat but not to be.....

Out this morning in the medal - roasting hot here for a change.

Birdied 1st, then took 4 shots, yes 4 shots, out of the bunker on the 3rd after landing in a massive footprint, then rolling back into my own footprint 3 times..... the rest of the round was really poor ball striking, way too "flippy" with my hands, no rotation at all.....

Then nearly holed a wedge at the last for eagle, but settled for a tap in bridie.

So couple of nice birdies on 1 & 18, the rest was really poor today.

Crazy how last week, greens were almost flooded, and then 7 days later - it's playing like concrete again.....

 

[stephenb]

Stableford off the yellows this morning, perfect conditions. Had a decent front nine, 19pts despite losing two balls to the water. Was level with my handicap coming back until it unravelled on the final few holes.

Three putt on 15th after a good tee shot had left me around 20ft. Then had 8ft for birdie on 16th, lipped out and took another two to get down. Found the water with my tee shot on 17th then a double at the last after a dreadful second shot. Nine shots worse for those four holes compared to Wednesday when I played them -2. Just can't put 18 holes together at the moment, always at the ready to sabotage myself!

 

[JustBen]

Stableford off the yellows this morning, perfect conditions. Had a decent front nine, 19pts despite losing two balls to the water. Was level with my handicap coming back until it unravelled on the final few holes.

Three putt on 15th after a good tee shot had left me around 20ft. Then had 8ft for birdie on 16th, lipped out and took another two to get down. Found the water with my tee shot on 17th then a double at the last after a dreadful second shot. Nine shots worse for those four holes compared to Wednesday when I played them -2. Just can't put 18 holes together at the moment, always at the ready to sabotage myself!

i lost 5 balls today in my stableford :/ went gap wedge to play up before the water and hit it a little hard and it ent in the water.
Back 9 i set of with 3,3,3,2 pts then barely scored after that.

 

[TheCSSDoctor]

Better-ball with Jen this morning saw us come in with 43 points which I think could see us finish 7th (I haven't checked the scores this evening)

On my own ball I shot 79 (1 under handicap) from 6,700yds - I wanted to keep my score as I am playing again tomorrow in the Sunday comp from the same tees

If I can play like that again tomorrow and keep the 3 putts off the card (greens were slow today) I will be happy

 

[TheCSSDoctor]

Update from yesterday - after all scores were in, we did finish 7th

Tough front 9 today where I couldn't get off the bogey train.....the only pars made were on the par 3 holes

Back 9 was better with a birdie on 10 and a good up and down from the green side bunker on 18 to save par saw me finish with an 81(nett 73)

Despite this, the differential was only 7.1 and if my maths is correct, it will replace a counting score that was dropping off today and see my index drop from 6.6 to 6.4

Next comp round will see another counting score dropping off (7.6 differential) so hopefully I can keep going in the right direction

 

[stephenb]

Took a leaf out of @SKILL playbook today and played twice Went round this morning off the whites, stopped for lunch at the clubhouse then went back out off the yellows. Not sure I'll be repeating this any time soon but with nothing else on the weather was too good not to. No doubt I'll be paying for it tomorrow!

Best part of my game today was how well I was hitting my five wood. Hit some crackers yesterday too including one which rolled out to 220y (down the slope) out of some light rough. Member I played with this morning had recently got an Eleven 7° fairway wood. Not very practical off the deck but tee'd up and into the wind with firm fairways it rolled out for miles

 

[Lonewolf]

Finally played yesterday after 6 or 7 months. I didn’t expect much and I wasn’t too disappointed afterwards, tough slog, but I enjoyed it for the most part. Hopefully the weather stays dry so I can get out again next weekend