how your score is made up

[brendy]

Excellent going with that monstrosity Bob!!

Played today after work and ended up similar to yourself. Very inconsistent but it was mainly long irons and hybrids that let me down today.

5 pars, 7 bogeys, 4 doubles and 2 triples. Shot 91 total so bang on handicap. Only 32 putts (1 three putt) which for me is very good going.

 

[Birchy]

My scores at the moment are usually made up of playing all of the difficult holes very well then absolutely butchering the short & supposedly straight forward ones

I think my strategy of being even more aggressive on the easy holes as I don't have a shot anymore needs a rethink :rofl:

 

[Robobum]

I will take inconsistent golf over consistent golf any day!

18pars would be lovely thanks very much

 

[HawkeyeMS]

My last four comp rounds have been as follows (Columns are Birdie, Par, Bogey, Double, treble, Quad)

2, 6, 7, 0, 3, 0
2, 7, 6, 1, 2, 0
1, 6, 8, 3, 0, 0
2, 7, 5, 1, 2 ,1

So a right mixed bag. The last two columns are not normal and need sorting out pronto!!!

 

[One Planer]

My last round included:

7 Pars
9 Bogeys
2 Doubles

The doubles were caused by poor chipping. Where better chips would have meant par, or bogey at worst, poor distance control/contact cost me doubles.

 

[Curls]

To the OP - I'm not big into keeping stats though I can see the sense in it, but maybe an idea if you play the same course to keep your scorecards. When you have 4 or 5 of them sit down and write them all in a column. There may be some holes you think you're okay about, but rarely seem to par. There will be others you regularly make a mess of. Try changing your strategy completely on these holes (even if it means driving with a 4 iron on a long par 4), see if you can't change a regular triple to just a bogey. Small gains in a few places will bring your h/c right down.

Personally I usually have about 8/9 pars, 5/6 bogeys, 3 doubles/worse. The odd time Ill throw in a birdie but its rare I'll have two in one round. The fact you're making 5 pars in encouraging, particularly if theyre not always the same holes. Good Q!

 

[HawkeyeMS]

To the OP - I'm not big into keeping stats though I can see the sense in it, but maybe an idea if you play the same course to keep your scorecards. When you have 4 or 5 of them sit down and write them all in a column. There may be some holes you think you're okay about, but rarely seem to par. There will be others you regularly make a mess of. Try changing your strategy completely on these holes (even if it means driving with a 4 iron on a long par 4), see if you can't change a regular triple to just a bogey. Small gains in a few places will bring your h/c right down.

Personally I usually have about 8/9 pars, 5/6 bogeys, 3 doubles/worse. The odd time Ill throw in a birdie but its rare I'll have two in one round. The fact you're making 5 pars in encouraging, particularly if theyre not always the same holes. Good Q!

This is good advice. I've always had an issue with our 7th. There is a ditch across the fairway at about 230yds but the fairway runs quite steeply downhill towards it so it plays a lot shorter than that. If you layup too close you invariably get a dodgy lie in the rough. I have take to using a club that leaves me well back from the ditch in the fairway. This leaves a longer shot to the green but a decent lie to play it off.

Personally I think the hole is badly designed but that's another topic so I've just tried to find a better way to play it.

 

[Fader]

This is good advice. I've always had an issue with our 7th. There is a ditch across the fairway at about 230yds but the fairway runs quite steeply downhill towards it so it plays a lot shorter than that. If you layup too close you invariably get a dodgy lie in the rough. I have take to using a club that leaves me well back from the ditch in the fairway. This leaves a longer shot to the green but a decent lie to play it off.

Personally I think the hole is badly designed but that's another topic so I've just tried to find a better way to play it.

Just had a quick look at your 7th hole and read the layout of it and pro tip on how to play it. So all downhill to the ditch then uphill to the green if i'm reading that right means its effectively like a bowl! In the current weather with hard ground and baked fairways you'd need to be hitting something like a 7 iron off the tee with run to bottom out at a distance to leave you far enough back to have a flat lie, that'd mean leaving something like a 4iron up the hill possibly over the top over tree so would need some serious airtime on a long iron.

** Clubs I used in the above are purely based on not seeing the hole and current conditions, but based on what I read/saw I make you right poorly designed. Can imagine it's a bitch to play in the winter into the wind during damp conditions.

But have to say the rest of it looks lovely.

 

[cookelad]

At the moment it's 15/16 holes of reasonable golf birdies, pars and bogeys that put me around my handicap but with 2 or 3 shockers that will put me well over my handicap, these could come at any time during the round and are definitely not limited to the same holes every time - must suffer from sporadic brain farts!

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Just had a quick look at your 7th hole and read the layout of it and pro tip on how to play it. So all downhill to the ditch then uphill to the green if i'm reading that right means its effectively like a bowl! In the current weather with hard ground and baked fairways you'd need to be hitting something like a 7 iron off the tee with run to bottom out at a distance to leave you far enough back to have a flat lie, that'd mean leaving something like a 4iron up the hill possibly over the top over tree so would need some serious airtime on a long iron.

** Clubs I used in the above are purely based on not seeing the hole and current conditions, but based on what I read/saw I make you right poorly designed. Can imagine it's a bitch to play in the winter into the wind during damp conditions.

But have to say the rest of it looks lovely.

You're right, last time out I hit 6i\5W which seems a bit backwards. The tee shot has to be really precise down the right side of the fairway as anything left of centre is blocked by the tree. Even if you are long enough to carry the ditch unless you hit a draw you are probably blocked out by a tree and\or have a ropey lie.

Personally I think the ground either side of the ditch needs to be raised and the fairway maintained closer to the ditch or the ditch needs to be either rerouted so it is closer to the green or filled in in part to give a narrow run of fairway through the gap. Never gonna happen though and probably just as well as I'm no course designer!

 

[Chrisb83]

I'm yet to break 100 so consider my handicap to be 28 but not official, just takes one bad hole for me and it all starts to go wrong.

Last round I got:

1 par
8 Bogies
2 Double Bogies
7 Triples and a lot worse

I use an app called golf pad which gives me all sorts of information like how I score on par 3 , par 4 etc.

The thing that it really highlights is how awful my putting is, 48 puts on the last round, no wonder I cant break 100!

 

[Stuey01]

48 putts utt:

Get thee to a putting green!

 

[StrangelyBrown]

I had an 83 on Saturday that consisted of about 6 pars, 11 bogies and a 9 :|

I had loads of putts for birdie and holed nothing. The 9 was caused by 2 snap hooks off the tee.

I should have broken 80 for the first time, but it wasn't to be

I still beat my personal best by 5 strokes, so shouldn't be to upset

 

[power fade]

To the OP - I'm not big into keeping stats though I can see the sense in it, but maybe an idea if you play the same course to keep your scorecards. When you have 4 or 5 of them sit down and write them all in a column. There may be some holes you think you're okay about, but rarely seem to par. There will be others you regularly make a mess of. Try changing your strategy completely on these holes (even if it means driving with a 4 iron on a long par 4), see if you can't change a regular triple to just a bogey. Small gains in a few places will bring your h/c right down.

Personally I usually have about 8/9 pars, 5/6 bogeys, 3 doubles/worse. The odd time Ill throw in a birdie but its rare I'll have two in one round. The fact you're making 5 pars in encouraging, particularly if theyre not always the same holes. Good Q!

hi, hadnt really thought too much about stats until the other day - guess i am looking for answers to explain and better understand my scoring.
my gut feel is with the exception of maybe one short par 4, i can score anything from a birdie to an 8 at any hole at any one time. I am starting to find stats interesting now and maybe should look more towards putts taken, gir, fairways hit and try to build up a picture of where i am weakest. As an improving golfer i think i need to do this or similar.

Before now the only data i had was total shots over 18 holes and how many balls lost (&found).

 

[Curls]

my gut feel
anything from a birdie to an 8

Gut feelings can be deceptive, I know theres at least two holes on my course I feel are easy yet I fail to score well in competition on them.

No harm in keeping stats as long as you don't get obsessed with it and it gets in the way of you concentrating on your round. My buddy is forever noting what he did on the last hole when he should be focusing on the one in front of him. If your memory is good the best time to take stats is after your round with a cup of tea, not on the tee when you should be thinking about how best to par the hole in front of you.

This is a good way of thinking - how can I par this hole? Drive down the left leaves an easy approach, don't mind the pin just get it on the green. 2 putts. If anything goes wrong at any point in the plan it becomes "how can I make bogey?", even if thats chipping out sideways to the spot you were aiming for off the tee. Many say you should think of the hole backwards, stand on the green and look back at the fairway - wheres the best place to get here from? Thats your landing area, a proper, specific target you can aim for from the tee.

This kind of thinking can shave more shots off than a new shiney.

Though new shineys are very shiney....

 

[ScienceBoy]

18pars would be lovely thanks very much

I know where you are coming from but if someone offered you a lifetime of pars, every hole the same for the rest of your time playing OR a lifetime where your 18 hole score on a par 72 could be anything between 64 and 140. I would take the latter every time, would you?

 

[Robobum]

I'd still take the pars

 

[ScienceBoy]

I'd still take the pars

Some would say you are being stubborn