At what age does your golfing prowess go downhill?

[richart]

I heard that past 40, pretty much life is over.

Brave talk sonny.:angry:

 

[bluewolf]

Downhill? I'm still waiting for mine to start going uphill!!!!!!

 

[Rooter]

Brave talk sonny.:angry:

hehe

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Started playing aged 10 so I reckon about 10 1/2

 

[HawkeyeMS]

44 sounds good to me, gives me 6 more years to improve

 

[Imurg]

44 sounds good to me, gives me 6 more years to improve

Excellent - means I'm nearly 6 years on the slide..........

 

[HomerJSimpson]

44 sounds good to me, gives me 6 more years to improve

I assume from the chipper attitude things are better in your game

 

[JustOne]

Started playing aged 10 so I reckon about 10 1/2

:thup:

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I assume from the chipper attitude things are better in your game

In 6 years they better be

 

[ScienceBoy]

Mines is slowly going and Im only 24.....creeping upwards and upwards! Theres a lad not much older than me was off 3 as a junior, club champ etc, went up 0.1 consecutively to 8 or 9!!!!

I think thats more to do with discovering women, booze etc...

 

[Tommo21]

I never got to cat 1 until a few years ago and I'm still hanging in there at 60. Played with a scratch golfer in the medal at Dunbar last week, both of us shot 78. Mind you, the wind was blowing a bit and the CSS was 74, but only a handful of players bettered our score.

Short game guys, all the young guns think of hitting the ball, I think of holing it.

 

[Robobum]

An easily repeated swing, not necssarily a "good" swing or a thing of beauty, can see you playing competitive golf right into your 60s. You just need to look at the county seniors teams.

As long as your nerves remain intact enough to aoid the yips on any chips or putts.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

As an aside, at what age does it go uphill?

I'm 30 now, and still waiting

 

[HawkeyeMS]

As an aside, at what age does it go uphill?

I'm 30 now, and still waiting

38, still waiting here as well so don't hold your breath.

 

[Hobbit]

25yrs ago, at age 30, I was pretty much the longest off the tee at the club and was playing off 5. Currently, I'm hitting the ball about the same distance but way down behind the youngsters yet my handicap is still 5. That said I'd have been lucky to break 30 putts back then but nowadays its rare I go over 30 putts. Back then I couldforce a wedge to 150 but now its a 7 or even a 6...

Length has gone but not cunning...

 

[Tommo21]

And there my good peeps is the key.............

 

[Leftie]

I love the way the "youngsters" are putting us old gits out to pasture ....