Originally Posted by Dartgod (Post 16545503)

I'd love to, but I know my limitations. I'd probably never get to a single digit cap and would have to off myself.

Originally Posted by ROYC75 (Post 16545586)

To answer the OP? Not bad for 65 yrs old, losing flexibility to old age and many many surgeries .

To Dart's pist, I'll never see my single handicap again due to the previous comment!

Now FTR, My short game is becoming a little more fluid, chipped 2 in yesterday for birdies in a scramble and putting is better.

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow (Post 16545396)

My home course (Prairie Dunes) has greens that are always quick. I've worked my way to a really solid 2 putt, with an occasional 3 putt. I'm not sure that it will help you, but my mentality with the 1-3 foot putts is to square the face to the center of the hole and hit it solid enough to take any break out of it. It's worked well for me through the years. My golfing issues are generally outside of the green.

Originally Posted by Dartgod (Post 16545494)

Fixed it.

Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks (Post 16544694)

If you're a blank slate with no ingrained bad swing habits I'd recommend taking some beginner lessons at GolfTec. That way you can start off with a good swing and not have to unlearn bad habits. You can start with an hour for under $100 and they'll hook you up to sensors and match what you're doing with what you should be doing. Quite a few locations in the valley.

Originally Posted by BWillie (Post 16545766)

Glad you feel it is necessary to call people names. But that is normal for CP around here. I did not reference you or your game at all. If you enjoy the game at a 24 handicap by all means keep playing, I just personally would struggle to enjoy it unless I was a sporadic player. Just open up some YouTube vids about swallowing your swing and Im sure that would help cut your handicap in half without even a ton of work. Eric Cogorno, Clay Ballard all very good. My point is alot of golfers just beat ball after ball and play without altering their swing expecting that will simply get them better and it doesn't usually work like that. Playing a ton of golf only does so much. I have a subpar swing so my ceiling is very low, and all the years when I was younger beating ball after ball did not do me any favors. It only ingrained a flawed swing further into my brain.



Best advice in entire thread. If you are new to golf and you think it may be something you are passionate about. Get lessons. Start out right, stay right. Don't develop the early release and downward chop swing that 95% of amateurs have.