How long did it take for you to break 100?

[TheCaddie]

Question to all....

When you started playing golf, how long did it take for you break 100? And how often were you playing at the time?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

About two months!. It's individual and I was playing every day (school holidays). Don't set a time frame, play sensibly and don't try and force a score and it'll come

 

[Dan2501]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

I've been playing about 2 years, and broke 100 for the first time after about 10 months, and was playing 4 or 5 times a week. Didn't begin doing it regularly until the last couple of months of last summer though, and recorded a best of 92 in September of last year.

 

[Jimbop90]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

Took me an 8 year absence from golf, grew about a foot taller and near doubled my weight in that time.

 

[One Planer]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

From never hitting a ball in anger, just over a month.

 

[Jimaroid]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

Playing maybe once or twice a week if I was lucky and after I'd put 3 cards in to get my first handicap...

It took me 1 week to break 100.
It took another 14 weeks to break 90.
It took another 2 years to break 80.

I think I can break par 70 one day...

 

[TheDiablo]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

I broke 100 for the second time yesterday (98 @ Puttenham GC in Surrey) - been playing for about 5 months now. It was also the first time I've not lost a single ball!

Previously I'd shot a 97 around Silvermere, having played it 3 times in 3 days. I've probably played about 8 full rounds in total, and other scores fall between 105-110.

I play 9 holes most Saturday mornings on a short par 34 course and can knock it around in 45 most weeks, but the course is a real beginners track!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

First round with a card in my hand was under a hundred -

 

[garyinderry]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

No idea. First time I beat my dad was 105 - 107.
I was about 10 at the time.

Only started to play seriously 5 years ago. I just hacked it round with a big slice before that.

I still have that card ☺

 

[TheCaddie]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

First round with a card in my hand was under a hundred -

I have a feeling I am not playing 18 holes enough!!! Maybe 1-2 times a month if I am lucky.

Practicing a lot, playing 9 hole short course (par 3), lessons....

But not enough course time it seems. Shooting 105-110......

 

[Imurg]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

Dabbled with golf for a few years prior to taking it up seriously.
My 3rd full 18 score was 98, my first handicap card was 85 about a year later.

 

[Marshy77]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

I still whack it round above 100 and have been playing about 2 times a month for 3/4 years. Doesn't bother me really.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

Probably about 4 months after I joined a club. Before that, I had played before but never very seriously.

 

[matt71]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

took me around a year to break 100 but was only playing twice a month if that. took me about 2 years to break 90 but will take me a lot longer to break 80 (not sure I ever will to be honest)

 

[jpjeffery]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

I broke 100 on my 41st attempt, on 28/04/2013. My first 18-hole round was on 01/08/2010. So nearly three years, but it was only my 5th round that year.

I broke 100 again 13 rounds later on 12/09/2013, then again three rounds after that...but then not again until 15/08/2014, which was 24 rounds later.

I've managed it on two other occasions, the most recent of which was just yesterday.

My best gross score is 94, which was also my first sub-100 score. My average is 112.2!

Sub-100 scores represent 6 out of 83 18-hole rounds. 7.2%

Golf is hard.

 

[KhalJimbo]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

I have a feeling I am not playing 18 holes enough!!! Maybe 1-2 times a month if I am lucky.

Practicing a lot, playing 9 hole short course (par 3), lessons....

But not enough course time it seems. Shooting 105-110......

I'm a bit like you, I spend a lot of time on short Par 3 courses, I think it's the most important part of the game is the short game.

One hit of your driver could get you within 100yds of the flag, but it could take you 3 shots of your irons to get from 100yds if you're not rehearsed with them.

Saying that I do need to start spending more time on full courses, looking forward to summer and having some evening rounds in after work.

 

[Tongo]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

My first sub 100 round was about 2 months after i started playing regularly. Although it did arrive at a somewhat easier course than i had been playing: East Horton's Parkland course after starting at the Southampton Municipal.

 

[Darren24]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

Off the yellow tee's im hitting under 100 with an average about 97ish. In comps i have never hit under 100. My best being 101 regularly. My average score of white tee's 101.5 thats after 10 comps. This year my 1st aim is to hit under the hundred in a comp. I play once a week at the moment.

 

[TheCaddie]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

Off the yellow tee's im hitting under 100 with an average about 97ish. In comps i have never hit under 100. My best being 101 regularly. My average score of white tee's 101.5 thats after 10 comps. This year my 1st aim is to hit under the hundred in a comp. I play once a week at the moment.

How long have you been playing Darren?

 

[Darren24]

Re: How did it take for you to break 100?

Properly started last April when I joined my current club and started playing comps. But before that I was playing on and off for about a year and half before joining the current club but was awful and never had any lessons and rarely played tbh.