Anyone else here besides me that stink?
 

As I have been reading the latest posts here, I started to wonder if I am the only one here who is not either a low-handicapper or professional.

So, since this is the lounge, I figured that I would ask out loud: is there anyone else out there that plays poorly like me (index = 25.7)?

Lou

I don't have an official USGA 'cap but my gametrack handicap is about 15.

Stick around guys, you'll be hitting fully supported, compressed, fully balanced shots in no time with the information discussed here. Start by learning the 'imperatives' and the 'essentials'.

Stay balanced. 'swing' the entire club. Keep your hands ahead of the clubhead and driving downplane to both arms straight. Focus on the right forearm, and the angle in the right wrist. Take a divot.

chip, pitch, punch, full, to the inside corner of the ball

No, you are not the only one.

My index is around 25, and I often play even worse.

I just started playing at the beginning of last summer and was shooting around 120's. A few months later I lowered it to 110's. And the last 9 holes I played before winter set in, I shot 44. So dont feel too out of place. :D

Well this is a good time as any....

no officiial handicap yet but i plan to get one this april. Should be really low.
Started playing seriously about 2 years ago and shot in the mid 80s most of the time.

Worked on my own home-made swing and shot in the 60s on occassion and most of the time hovered around par. Had a real issue with timing.

Went to see brian and it took me about 6 months to really become comfortable with the changes but during the summer if i was as comfortable then as i am now there was one round where i would've definately shot a 64 but just had some swing changing issues.

I'm going out for the pub links and US AM this year as well as trying to qualify for a nationwide and hooters event, both local to me.

Wish me luck !

Jim,

You are dead to me :wink:

Good luck!

King Of The Road
 

We're all on the same road, Lou. It's just that some of us have been on it longer than others. So keep on truckin', and soon through your rear view mirror you will see the sign Welcome To Hackersville. On that day, honk the horn, wave out the window and let'em see your tail lights...

You won't be back.

....and if you stick with this forum, you might just leave some burning rubber behind because you are moving so fast (in a deliberate, positive and heavy way).

Wishing you all the luck in the world Jim

You have a dream. Go do it!

Last Train to Hacksville
 

If this game was easy it wouldn't be special. I am in the mid to upper eighties. A hacker? Maybe. But you should have seen me three years ago. Pheewouuuieee, I stank. But I still had fun. :)

I play off 12.6 so I suck as well. I am either on it or I just plain suck there is no in between.
Oh well, if we are all in the same boat then we can help each other out right?
Alex

Re: Anyone else here besides me that stink?
 

yes...but i have hope!:-)

Been playing nearly four years and have yet to break 80.

With the aid of TGM and the helpful guys on "fog clearing" detail in this, Chuck & Brian's forums, not to mention Dr. Carey Mumford (Keygolf), I hope to do so in the near future. At the tender age of 62 I do not have any time to waste.

I'm about a 10. But if there was a word "ugly10" in the dictionary, my picture would be right next to it. Bent left wrists and fluff balls.

I got a peak at what the Imperatives and flying wedges can do for my ballstriking at the very, very end of last season. This winter I have been building some mean mojo by hanging at golf message boards, fussing over a Yellow Book, working with dowels in the kitchen, and making loud noises out on the screened porch with an impact bag. My wife is encouraging me the whole way.... she says it's just more fodder for the commitment hearing. :)

I expect to really 'light this candle" with a road trip to The Swamp at the end of the month. Lit match to fuel. Exorcisms of the demons in my Basic Stroke. And the real word, loud and clear.

I'm 55 and, as Burner said above, no more time to waste. Not on the pervasive golf instruction vagueries. Fellow stinkers, let's get on the bus, pump and share the mojo.

Charlie

Ready To DEMONstrate
 

I've already picked up my outfit from the local FashionCare:

• The black coat cleaned.
  
  The black pants neatly pressed.
  
  Extra starch in the white collar.

And I've armed myself with a few choice Recitations from The Good Book Yellow.

I'm ready.

I think.

[-o<

Re: Ready To DEMONstrate
 

:lol:

Me to wife awhile back: "I just taped my new swing for the first time. I've got wobbles in it. I'm going to pursue traveling (from Phila) to Georgia to meet with Yoda and Luke the Nuke.."

Wife: "Georgia? Yoda? Luke the Nuke? Should we have you on medication?"

Me: "I know it sounds a little half baked......

Wife: "No, it sounds completely baked."

Theodan's Shieldmaiden never spares the sword. But, now she wants to come along to film it. :shock:

Charlie

Blue Screen
 

She can film it, Charlie, but nothing will show up.

8)