Random Golf Thoughts

I understand your pain.Been there.Was a very good 12/13 h/c with a great short game.Suddently out of nowhere I started shanking short chips.Was a laugh in the begining for my long time playing partners ,but not for me.Gave up golf about a year later.Still miss the golf but not the embarassment of shanking.

McGuirks in Kinsealy is hitting out into a range.

Same for Foregolf.

You're hitting off a mat in both though

Just looking back at my scores over the last few years..

Double bogeys… The last time i went double free was October 2021… Even when i managed to break 80 a few times the doubles were there.

Mad How easily i could score better by just improving this stat…😆

Will have to start tracking my rounds again.

I need to identify which proportion of shots is the main culprit.

I suspect off the tee , but i seem to be messing up more with approach from the fairway/1st cut a lot lately.

Yes, avoiding penalties is absolutely critical.

Was more making the point that amateurs think that low guys are making piles of birdies, when they're not actually, they just avoid the bit numbers much better

Whats strange about this is a lot of the reasons some golfers remain stuck on a handicap is what I see as a misguided approach to the game and how they can lower scores. As others have said, birdies aren't the route to lower scores, its avoiding doubles and worse. Yet every weekend you'll see players of all levels get frustrated or annoyed that they didn't birdie a hole from 100 yards out. There is another element to this as well though which is that a lot of golfers are just turning up to play a round and aren't that interested or dedicated to getting better so its not that surprising that they are both surprised at how 'good' a single digit player is while at the same time making decisions and mistakes that single digit players don't make but can't make the connection between the two.

Yeah the murder the driver thing is a common error as well, compounding mistakes is easy to do and i can usually trace back my big numbers to compounding a mistake with another mistake, turning a bogey into a double or triple. Its not easy stay disciplined though and I struggle with it myself even though I know i'm making a bad decision nearly as i hit the ball. Can't get out of our own way sometimes but thats the game I suppose.

Definitely watching on TV is misleading, you usually only see the great shots outside of the sunday evening finish that most people would watch, the stats on datagolf or the tour website would give a much better idea of the standards but then who's bothered looking that stuff up on a sunday evening.

Just stroke and distance rule.Tee area and Green are treated different.S

Is your Low Index 3 or more shots lower than your Handicap Index?

We're friends on GI. I just checked your scores and the calc matches exactly to your index.

You don't need to worry about 9 hole scores, the system converts to an 18 hole differential for them

Sorry you're right. Let me take a look again, got same digits, but in a different order 😆

I'm not sure at what point the hard/soft caps start getting applied, but it's likely that you hit one or both of those at some point so you are not getting the full adjustment

It gets applied if you're more than 3 higher for the soft cap than your low index. But I'm not sure if its applicable when your building up to the full 20 rounds or if your low index is applied from round 1

Yes, once you're 3 strokes higher than your low index, every subsequent increase is reduced by 50% until you reach a max of 5 above your low index (think its a rolling level for a year).

Looking at your record it does look like you would have hit it. It looks like you're currently 4.8 above your low index, so just under the hard cap, so you must be getting the 50% reduced increases.

I think it might work the same going back down till you reach the soft cap again

I'm not 100% on that, but my suspicion is that it's because you didn't have a fully formed 20 round handicap.

Your first round with an index listed is your low index currently. All of your rounds with an index more than 5 higher than that are less than 20 rounds from that point.

If you count your low index as the first round then within 20 rounds of that you're back within 5 of it

Yes club can make reduction or exceptional score. But what happens is your previous 20 rounds are adjusted. So if you are looking the day after the adjustments have been made, all your score differentials would be 1 shot lower (if it was a 1 shot cut). Therefore looking at the scores would still add up so this will s not the reason.

if you log into the golf Ireland website as opposed to the app, it displays your low index. It doesn’t show it in the app. The app is actually missing a fair bit ☹️