I've been hovering around 13 for a while. Finally trending towards below 12. Goal is to get to single digits. Just gotta eliminate those blow up holes. Usually due to losing one off the tee.

I can lose one anywhere at anytime. But I always star my saves so I remember. Keeps you humble when you play well and makes you thankful when playing poorly.

Last round I had 4 legitimate birdie opportunities. And then I made my only one putting sideways through a bald spot from the fringe.

cpatin said:

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I've been hovering around 13 for a while. Finally trending towards below 12. Goal is to get to single digits. Just gotta eliminate those blow up holes. Usually due to losing one off the tee.

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I'm right where you are HC wise. I was playing 9 holes the other day and was one over through 5 holes and went double /quad

As far as distances - simulators are great but not sure if you're able to do this at your course - I took a day when it wasn't busy and just drove out to a specific distance on each hole and hit 3 or 4 balls into the pin and then on the next hole did the same from a different distance. Really helps figure out distances with your actual ball and real life conditions. If you have head or tail winds you can extrapolate accordingly

carl spacklers hat said:

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So when your caddie tells you to hit it 170 you have no clue which club to swing. Sounds like a formula for a lot of +100 rounds.

On a lighter note, have fun. But I'd sure want to know my distances if I'm taking that kind of a trip!

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Oh I know my distances when I hit them squarely, but that rarely happens. Unless i'm feeling it, I'll more than likely play everything short and have fun.

It's possible to tinker and try hard and have fun. You don't have to suck just to say you're having fun

PGA superstore hitting bay.

Delete the duffs.

Fdsa said:

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Garmin launch monitor on the range and then I'll take it out on the course in the evenings when no one is out. Might hit a few at different places during a 5-6 hole practice session.

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I greatly prefer using a launch monitor on the range to the hitting bays when it comes to irons. I find with the hitting bays on AstroTurf, I am 5-8 yards longer than on the driving range hitting off grass.

I don't play but my daughter does. We have a Mevo+, will go to range (strongly prefer to do this on grass and not mats) and hit 10-15 shots per club. Sometimes will do half the bag one day then the remaining half the next if I can tell she is tiring. I pick standard days, no wind. Will look at the data and remove the outliers. I print out an index card sized table that has club, carry distance, total distance and for the distances I used the standard deviation to do a distance +|- (so she has a range for carry distance and a range for total distance ). I put that print out in a plastic sleeve and it is on her bag always. She is growing and her distances change so we do it maybe every 3-4 months. Not sure if that is the best way but it has worked for us. Before we had the mevo+ we'd go to Swing Zone in Spring, TX and do the same thing. I'd just write the data down the and do the calculation at home.

I need to learn to hit consistently in order to be able to get anything useful in figuring distances.

MooreTrucker said:

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I need to learn to hit consistently in order to be able to get anything useful in figuring distances.

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One way to work around that is to focus on the clubs you do hit consistently and get those distances. Any clubs that you can't hit reliably enough to count on shouldn't be in your bag. Work on the unreliable clubs on the range until you can count on them. But you need to know at least some distances. What's your 75 yard club? What's your 100 yard club? 150? Even three distances and a 5-club bag is better than guessing at everything.

Good idea. Thanks!

I hit every club the same dog crap distance so there's that

carl spacklers hat said:

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So when your caddie tells you to hit it 170 you have no clue which club to swing. Sounds like a formula for a lot of +100 rounds.

On a lighter note, have fun. But I'd sure want to know my distances if I'm taking that kind of a trip!

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Oh I know which club to hit for every distance, I just rarely hit that distance, lol. Some of the courses in Ireland were so firm I learned from the caddie to play shorter and the ball would haul ass up the fairway. Going at the green was a terrible idea given the firmness and drop offs on the back side, or ending up on a hill on the thickest stuff you could imagine.

But shot low 90's on every course which absolutely shocked me.

If you don't already know what those numbers are, you don't need'em.