Handicap lowering- how long did it take YOU?

[Fyldewhite]

1. Whats your current handicap? 5
2. How long have you been playing? 33 years
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? Didn't play regular but proobably the 4th or 5th time I went. First ever round was 114.
4. Ditto to break 90? Within a year of breaking 100
5. Ditto to break 80? After joing club in 1993 and playing much more often.
I'd say inprovement was directly proportional to the amount I played until I got down to single figures. Since then it's been mostly short game/putting practice, learning much better course management and accepting that I'm crap in the grand scheme of things and not letting bad shots upset me.

 

[mweston1016]

1. 10
2. 18 years
3. 2 years
4. 4 years
5. 16 years

Breaking 80 was tough but I'll be playing on Tour soon, no doubt about it.

 

[ScienceBoy]

1. 15 (14.7) down from 17 in July 2010

2. almost 3 years with a 7 year break for univeristy and getting a job (3 or 4 games a year in the gap) 3 years (mainly just the summer) aged 14ish-17ish.

3. Broke 100 off the yellows fairly quickly after joining my first club, cannot remember but I would say around a few months.

4. Took me about 2 years to shoot my first round of 88, did it getting my handicap cards in.

5. Not done yet, only been back playing it since March 2010, shot two rounds of 84 with some fat ladies on the card so it cannot be too long.

 

[olliagolf]

Been playing about 5 years as a member and in comps.

Broke 100 right away been stuck in the 90's since, lowest ever 82 in the five years a couple of times, can't get it together in comps and stuck on 20 HCP

Can't wait for next year, not much for winter golf so I suppose that where I go wrong not keeping my eye in.

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[olliagolf]

Olliagolf

Looking for feedback!!
What are people wearing, is brand important.

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[drawboy]

Re: Olliagolf

ooooooh, i'll leave this to the others, get stuck in guys.

 

[Imurg]

Re: Olliagolf

Current - 8.3
Began - hacking round a 9-holer 20 years ago
Broke 100 - 4th time I played 18
Broke 90 - 2 months later
Broke 80 - 3 months after that. Then I stalled, had to stop for 5 years, came back on 13 and have been dropping since. 1st handicap was 15.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Re: Olliagolf

1. Whats your current handicap? 12
2. How long have you been playing? 30 years total
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? 6 months
4. Ditto to break 90? About 3 rounds later
5. Ditto to break 80? About 6 months after breaking 100

 

[Owen_Thomas_14]

Re: Olliagolf

1. Whats your current handicap? 6
2. How long have you been playing? 5 years now
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? 1 month
4. Ditto to break 90? 2 months
5. Ditto to break 80? 2 years

 

[Tommo21]

1. Whats your current handicap? 5 lowest I've ever been.
2. How long have you been playing? 37 years or so.
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? 6 or 7 rounds
4. Ditto to break 90? another 6 or 7 rounds
5. Ditto to break 80? another six months.
Break 70...three years.
Under par round...10 years.

Started too late and didn't play for many years....bad bad move.

 

[bozza]

1. Whats your current handicap? 28
2. How long have you been playing? 1 1/2 years
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? A year
4. Ditto to break 90? Next year hopefully
5. Ditto to break 80? If i do it in the next 3 or 4 years i'll be happy

 

[JT77]

1. Whats your current handicap? 10
2. How long have you been playing? 7 years
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? inside a month
4. Ditto to break 90? a year
5. Ditto to break 80? 5 years

 

[Region3]

I remember my handicap and roughly how long I've been playing but everything else is a blank.

 

[kid2]

1.Current handicap 16
2.Playing 12 months
3.around a month
4.4 months
5.Still in progress

 

[Lump]

1. Whats your current handicap? 14
2. How long have you been playing? Under a year properly (Played a few times as kid, and very on/off as a teenager)
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? First couple of weeks after starting properly in january
4. Ditto to break 90? 4-5 months, played a very flat forgiving course
5. Ditto to break 80? Not done it so far, a couple of 82's & 83's with far too many blobs on the card.

theirs a single handicap golfer in me, but my short game/putting lets me down alot.

 

[Swinger]

1. Whats your current handicap?

3.6

2. How long have you been playing?

15 Years - several of which I have no memory of

3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100?

6 months

4. Ditto to break 90?

9 months

5. Ditto to break 80?

2.5 Years

 

[Steve79]

I joined a club just over a year ago, previous to that I played was once in a blue moon and just on 9hole Par3’s so below is purely from when I joined a club and playing in medals/comps
 
1. Whats your current handicap – 26 / 25.8
2. How long have you been playing – as above but joined a club just over a year ago.
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? 4 months
4. Ditto to break 90? – shot 89 on Sat 6th Nov and still haven’t been cut as h/c sec has been on holiday
5. Ditto to break 80? At the moment a distant dream……

 

[SharkAttack]

1. Whats your current handicap? 7 (Only been back playing 2 1/2yrs)
2. How long have you been playing? 30 years (with 15 year injury break)
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? Never scored over 100
4. Ditto to break 90? Second competition
5. Ditto to break 80? Start of following season

 

[Whereditgo]

1. Whats your current handicap? 21
2. How long have you been playing? 18 months
3. From when you started how long did it take you to break 100? 2nd round
4. Ditto to break 90? About 6 months
5. Ditto to break 80? Been close a few times

 

[link80]

1. Handicap 18
2. Been playing 9 months
3. Broke 100 first round
4. Broke 90 ninth round
5. Not yet, mid 80's last few rounds, hopefully next year.