Comments on: Average golf handicap statistics

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 12:07:48 +0000

To somebody’s point, course management is key. Risk vs Reward, leave the driver in the bag on short par 4 hit a long iron or hybrid. Play to the center of the green, don’t go flag hunting and miss to a hazard.

I hate the term course management, handicap management.

Your handicap will have a direct correlation if you play with the same ball all round long

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 12:03:24 +0000

I agree with most. Most people don’t carry an index, so as one who has a <10 index it seems that most people fall higher.

When Golfers want to be serious they get an index, it gives them a focus point, a target to shoot for when playing. Otherwise they don't care as much etc

The index thing is fascinating in that you are only supposed to shoot your index 1 out of 4 rounds, and in the Northeast we get killed early season when posting season starts as we might have 6 months of non posting golf, seems we start all over again.
But it is a great game because no matter our levels within reason we can all play in a foursome as long as pace of play is good

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 30 May 2017 12:38:00 +0000

Well don Dan for putting yourself out there. There is nothing worse than naysayers who sit on the couch! I reckon if you put the effort in and are 100% committed to improving all the time then you will make it. The pros as good as they are are also human and also started somewhere. Yes there are different levels of talent for sure but “hard work beats talent when talent doesn`t work” not sure who said that! Keep yourself strong in the gym and gain those extra yardages through suppleness.

Go for it Dan and read Mind Power by John Kehoe – it took my golf from a bad 24 to an 8 in a year using his visualization techniques

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By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 05:23:31 +0000

Low golf scores and thus low handicap indexes are more complex than pure talent and practice. I started playing golf 40 years ago at age 13. I played hockey, some rep level, and was a decent athlete, above average but not amazing at any sport in particular except maybe skiing. My mother put me on skis at two and was a decorated ski racer in the fifties. Athleticism, call it hand eye coordination or what have you, plays a big part in shooting low scores. However, there are human traits that can also enhance your game. Things like strategy, imagination and being a student of the game like Tiger Woods. There are a lot of things that are not God given that can have a great impact on your game regardless of raw talent. As a teenager, I managed perhaps a 12-15 handicap, never excelled as a junior and though I was improving, I never picked up the game like my brother. He has raw talent in all sports and took to golf quickly when he started dating a golf pros daughter. He had hands, amazing hands. Within two years he was winning golf tourneys, at first just on sheer short game expertise. Not many have natural soft hands like this. He could get “up and down” from a locked VW. He is now the top teaching pro in Austria. He just turned 50 and missed the cut for the Senior British Open by one “horseshoe” lip out! This kid can play……He just shot 61 in Mexico on a course I had trouble breaking 80 on and I’m a four handicap. Anyway, the point I want to make is that as talented as my brother is, he plays smart. Educate yourself on the key fundamentals that all good players use. Strategize your golf round, analyze risk vs reward scenarios. The Fed Ex Championship was a classic example of taking your medicine and not giving the tournament away coming down the stretch. What a par….I might add. Great, smart and intelligent golf by that young man. Until you explore all the nuances of golf, you will not achieve your potential. I don’t practice, I play two times a week recently but have not had the time to really push the envelope of what I really can achieve in golf but I’m still learning and evolving. I recently shot a first round 67 in my club championship followed by a tournament blowout on Sunday of 81. I felt so good on the previous round, pure ball striking and confident. Sunday I didn’t feel good over the ball and this forced two bad decisions off the tee. One caused a quad the other a triple on a par five……very deflating. I could have recognized my Sunday dilemma and reacted differently and may have kept the round somewhat in check. I guess in closing I would again like to point out that there are many factors that determine a golf score, not just pure God given talent. I was recently beaten by a guy with the ugliest half swing chunks you ever saw. He played and practiced and somehow has found a way to get it done, even with poor fundamentals. It’s really not how……..but how many. Tee it high, and let it fly!

By: Daniel Day

Daniel Day — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:17:00 +0000

The USGA rule is a 3.4 handicap or less for the Seniors what is an average round shot for a 3.4 shooter?