Recent content by BornSlippy1994

'Mistakes there really cost...' Are you watching a different broadcast to everyone else? You can barely get the ball out of the rough. Tiger hit the green on hole 2 from 250 yards, but flew it a few yards too far so rolled about 20 yards off the elevated green and barely had a chance of getting...

I've been playing for a year or so now, and I'm most definitely improving. However, I'm struggling to find any consistency to the extent that I genuinely feel like two golfers during a single round. I've played with a few people now (including a club pro who gave me a lesson) who have all...

Ask if your club has any rollups where you can play with others and get one of them to mark a card for you. Alternatively, you may be able to 'enter' the competitions purely to submit a card for handicap purposes. You won't actually be in the competition, but if any groups have a space there...

I had a lesson a few weeks back to work on my driving, something that I'd been really struggling with ever since I started playing. Until then I'd tried pretty much everything I could to sort it out, but my horrid slice still persisted. Turns out I was standing too close to the ball, and had...

Golf is known for being a game played by posh/upper middle class white, middle aged men. Golf undoubtedly has a stuffy reputation, and arguing women shouldn't be able to compete/play with men because you can't conversely normally around women, or go for a piss during your round is precisely the...

Some of the comments on this thread highlight exactly why golf has the reputation it has, and people wonder why participation levels aren't particularly high. I've never actually heard of Laura Davis before, but I've got no issue with her competing against men, nor would I have any issue with...

Thanks for the replies everyone. Pretty much what I expected in all honesty but useful to hear it! I'm naturally quite a structured/formulaic person in what I do, so I suppose I was hoping for was a simple 'to get down to 9, you need to hit XYZ GIR and get up and down XYZ per round...

I don't think I've got a score I'd be happy with prior to teeing off. I can reach all par fours in two, one of the par fives in two and the other comfortably in three so for me I'm aiming for par on every hole (except the two short par 3s, where I'm aiming to give myself a decent look for...

I've recently a huge breakthrough with my iron play, to the point now where I'm striking the ball consistently very well and I feel confident on every hole of either hitting the green in reg, or at worst being within chipping distance of the green. This is a stark contrast to a couple of months...

I recently started a similar thread and was given loads of great suggestions so might be worth having a search for that. I ended up joining Chislehurst in the end, which seems to be pretty accessible from Peckham. I just take my clubs on the train to Bickley and get the bus for a few stops...

First round today using Shot Scope. Really interesting to see my averages from the round (a tiny, tiny sample size), but, what is evident is that I'm embarrassingly bad with a driver or 3 wood in my hands. For example, averaged 105 with a 52 wedge, and averaged 197 with a 4 iron. One of those...

Disagree completely with the 'workplace' comparison. You are paid to work. It's a reasonable requirement that as part of paying you a company can demand that you don't talk negatively about them publicly. You are the one providing the service, and receiving compensation for it. The inverse...

This is a really good list. I looked at most of these a year or so ago when I was looking for a first set of clubs and went with Mizuno JPX 825s. Got a set for just £140ish last year so would imagine you can get them for less than £120 now and I reckon for a beginner they're absolutely spot...

Try leading your shoulder turn with your right, not left, shoulder. Imagine pulling your shoulders and left arm around with the right shoulder, instead of leading with the left. This helped me sort out the issue. My left arm went from feeling incredibly tight so having to bend a bit, to...

My argument though is that replicating that type of player is much, much more difficult. Other than tee shots, everything about playing golf in that kind of fashion is more difficult. I could revert to less rotation and hit it shorter, whilst hitting more fairways, but I genuinely think it...