What is your handicap

[ianh]

am currently 1.3

lowest ever +1.4

would like to be 0.0

[leekgolf]

[quote name='ianh' post='882991' date='Jan 25 2008, 07:37 PM']am currently 1.3

lowest ever +1.4

would like to be 0.0[/quote]

And your age?

[CARPET BOMBER]

Age 51

Current +1.4

Lowest +2.4

I have 7 weeks into a 15 week golf specific fitness program. Not your Granddads workout either. My goals are to qualify for the U.S. Senior Open and U.S. Mid-Am this year.

[memphishorn]

I'm 53 and currrently have 5.8 on Handicap Tracker. In 2006 I finished at 5.7 USGA Handicap. Lowest ever was a 5 in 1972. I know handicaps are calcualted the same for everyone but I don't feel like true "6". My last 3 rounds in November/December are 82,86,85 but only the 82 figures in the handicap ( All from the back tees at my club).

I will usually start the year at an 8/9 and work my way to 5-7.

Given how little I get to practice these days, I'm pretty happy where I am.

[rgk5]

Current; 6
Lowest; 0
Goal; 4

A new putter and driver along with my fitted Ping irons should do it.

[lrgdawg]

Hi all,

 

I'll be 57 in 3 weeks. Current index +0.1 lowest it's been in a long, long time. Lowest it has been is a +2, although that was back in my college days.

 

My goal is to continue to be a scratch through 2008 and enjoy the ride as long as I can!

 

I will say that I enjoy golf much more now than I ever have. To me, the worst day of golf course is better than the best day of work!

:tongue:

[AAL]

Age is 65

 

1.) Current GHIN is 15.6

 

2.) Best was 10

 

3.) Goal is 12 this year. Improving to 10 next year.

[Dayton]

Age 52

Current 11

Lowest 7

Goal 5 - kids are grown more time to play

Need to learn to putt again. It left about 10 years ago.

[jon539]

currently a 6, lowest was a 4, would like to stay single diget as long as possible.

[cwgolfman]

59--0.8--+2--goal is to hit driver straighter--

[blade_man]

55 (on the down hill to 56) index is a 2 and tried but failed to make the USGA Senior AM ;) , that is my goal this year.

[rony]

55 (on the down hill to 56) index is a 2 and tried but failed to make the USGA Senior AM :D , that is my goal this year.

 

 

Good on you Blade. Wish I was good enough to even try. Good Luck in 08! ;)

[Pingguy58]

Age: 59, will be 60 this year

 

 

Current: 5.2

 

Lowest: 4.9

 

Goal: Work harder this year, get down to between 1 and 2 so I can qualify to enter the U.S. Senior Am just one time. Playing a lot of senior tournaments. Playing in the GCAT this year also, that should be fun.

[Ronzo]

Age: 56

 

Current Index: 27.4

 

Goal in 12 months: 13.5

 

Objectives: Improve chipping & pitching; improve course management; double my Greens In Regulation percentage; improve my Drives In Fairway percentage to 75%.

 

My short game sucks. It has to suck a lot less.

[blade_man]

55 (on the down hill to 56) index is a 2 and tried but failed to make the USGA Senior AM ;) , that is my goal this year. :D

 

 

Good on you Blade. Wish I was good enough to even try. Good Luck in 08! ;)

 

Thank you and I sincerely mean that! Played a course in Cincinnati call Kenwood CC and course was not hard but could not putt those greens!! They only let me have one practice round and I had 5 (yep! five) three putts! One guy in our group had a four putt from 6 feet! Only birdie I had was a bunker shot....sad but true....

[leekgolf]

Blademan, I love that course! Of course I'm used to very fast undulating greens.

[blade_man]

Age 51

 

Current +1.4

 

Lowest +2.4

 

I have 7 weeks into a 15 week golf specific fitness program. Not your Granddads workout either. My goals are to qualify for the U.S. Senior Open and U.S. Mid-Am this year.

Have to be the double nickel to get into the USGA Senior AM! But with that h/c you won't have a problem!

[blade_man]

Blademan, I love that course! Of course I'm used to very fast undulating greens.

 

 

If you are a member maybe we could "sneek" on so I could putt better! Really loved the course and that long par 3 was a dandy! But it did get confusing with the "other course" intertwined! :D

[leekgolf]

I am not. A friend is a member there and has taken me a few times.

[teespoon]

Age 68

 

No official hdcp

 

Was around a 5.5...... 10 years ago

 

Ambition is....To shoot my age from Sr tees ASAP (Getting close, but no Cigar!) :)

[weten2]

Turned 59 today and have a current index of 19.0. I've been playing for 7 years and my low index was 17.2 last year. Current goal is to decide when I should retire and play more golf. I would like to get down to a 12.

[pingman1]

I'm 60 yrs old:

 

10.6

 

10.6

 

Goal: just have fun!

[Steve K]

Age: 56

 

Current Index: 27.4

 

Goal in 12 months: 13.5

 

Objectives: Improve chipping & pitching; improve course management; double my Greens In Regulation percentage; improve my Drives In Fairway percentage to 75%.

 

My short game sucks. It has to suck a lot less.

 

Ronzo, I've been waiting for you! I'm 59 im may and really got back to this game about a year ago. Memberships at the local club just got terribly affordable and the combination or available spare time and the wife deciding she would like to learn to play got us going.

 

I'm gathering enough scores to begin posting and will have a trend like yours after a few more weeks. If I could eventually get it into the teens, any teens, I'd be grinning.

 

What's in the bag is new and some is on order. I'll update that soon, but it's all Cobra. I had a beer with the pro shop manager last night and he said what most of us know and that was that it's not the Arrow, as much as it is the Indian. But it sure is nice to have good arrows!

[Ronzo]

Ronzo, I've been waiting for you! I'm 59 im may and really got back to this game about a year ago. Memberships at the local club just got terribly affordable and the combination or available spare time and the wife deciding she would like to learn to play got us going.

 

I'm gathering enough scores to begin posting and will have a trend like yours after a few more weeks. If I could eventually get it into the teens, any teens, I'd be grinning.

 

What's in the bag is new and some is on order. I'll update that soon, but it's all Cobra. I had a beer with the pro shop manager last night and he said what most of us know and that was that it's not the Arrow, as much as it is the Indian. But it sure is nice to have good arrows!

 

It sure is nice to have good arrows. My son and daughter-in-law started me off again with some gift certificates for my birthday and Christmas. But I must go into the confessional here: my handicap has INCREASED by 2.5 strokes! Here's an example of why, posted on another site. This is a round I shot back on March 15th:

"Drove spectacularly well, pitched and chipped horribly. Drives 240-275 in the fairway on 1,2,4,5,9,12, & 13. Skyed drive on 3 and hit drive right to right on 16 OB, but recovered with 250 drive dead in the middle of the fairway. Hit every iron thin all day, from almost perfect positions. Example: #12 -- Hit drive a MEASURED 275 to center of the fairway -- just BOMBED it -- and then bladed a 70 yd SW over the green into a mangrove thicket. Took 4 more from there to get on the green; just awful and depressing. My iron game needs a full overhaul to give me some consistency. Felt really good, no pain at all. Just anguish about my terrible iron play and mediocre putting. I can hit all of the shots. I truly can. But I cannot put it all together. There is always some part of my game where the wheels just totally come off. I drove to within 75 yards on 3 or 4 holes, and was completely unable to take advantage of it today. I don't need to learn the mechanics. I NEED CONSISTENCY!!!"

 

Since then, I've posted two 9-hole scores: a 40 and a 53. They were posted on a short, VERY tight local track, where any inaccuracy is severely penalized. Why do I play there, when it doesn't suit my game's strong points? Because I need to do exactly the things that this course requires to get better. I need to hit half-wedges, pitch to greens only 25 feet in diameter, and chip and pitch from awkward positions to get to a point where I have truly improved.

 

Strangely, I seem to play much better on more demanding courses, as long as I have a little room to miss. A longer course with larger greens, even with more hazards, is something that I can post a score on that is almost the same as one I would post on the short, tight track. Maybe it's because I focus better on the tasks at hand, but playing a 4,300 yard course and hitting 3 or 4 shots OB because you missed the 10 yard diameter green by 15 feet and bounced into the adjoining condo's lawn 10 feet further away gets me steamed, and I lose it mentally, I guess. What bothers me most is that the course's low slope rating seems to be determined almost exclusively by the shortness of it, rather than the accuracy it demands. Yes, I can hit two lob wedges on a par 3 there and likely not miss, but what kind of golf is that? I think it's the type that would truncate me as a player, probably permanently.

 

Oh, well. At least it's an index I can play to. But I'm really tired of sucking.

[madred]

76 years old playing off 11.5

Lowest was 8

Goal to get back to single figures

Main aim is to keep going and keep playing.

[loves golfer]

53 years young

current index 3.0

lowest .8

goal To qualify for the Senior open and mid am this year.

[Twister]

Age 58 (Live in the UK)

 

Current - 9.8

 

Lowest - 5.0 (30 years ago)

 

Ambition - To become more consistent (see below) and get as close to 5 as possible.

 

Played yesterday - extremely cold 15-20 mph crosswind and light rain - shot 86 nett 76 (css 73) - essentially 2 holes ruined a reasonable round (2 triple bogeys)

 

Cheers

Jim

[Robert Brown]

Right now= 6.2

 

Lowest= 4

 

Goal= 5

 

 

Age= 55

[greyguy]

66 years old and currently a 9. Was as low as 6 a few years ago for a short period of time.

I am currently trying to use the stack and tilt to get back down to a 6. I need extra distance off the tee. Currently hitting the drive about 230 yrds give or take.

[TestnDoc]

Current Index: 1.7

 

Best: 0.5

 

Age: 48

 

I hope to get to 0, but getting below 5 requires alot of practice/play. The best thing I ever did was switch to Mizuno irons, currently playing mixed set of MP57s and MP67s. The wedges are deadly!