Just how much do double bogeys kill your handicap?

[PaulyMcK]

Double bogey's do cost me, as a 24 Handicapper, my last medal score was 90, and if I drop all the Doubles to normal bogeys I would of shot 80, 40 in and 40.

3 Puts and keeping the ball in play is probably the main reason for them, but I will be working on my game a lot before the turn of the year for the new season.

 

[patricks148]

Double bogey's do cost me, as a 24 Handicapper, my last medal score was 90, and if I drop all the Doubles to normal bogeys I would of shot 80, 40 in and 40.

3 Puts and keeping the ball in play is probably the main reason for them, but I will be working on my game a lot before the turn of the year for the new season.

if you are shooting 90 off 24 its not killing your handicap though is it? unless you are playing on a course where the CSS is 60 of course

 

[Spear-Chucker]

Don't bother me much, they're inevitable and statistically I'll get one every other round. A run of bogeys or lack of birdies feels more destructive if anything.

 

[PaulyMcK]

if you are shooting 90 off 24 its not killing your handicap though is it? unless you are playing on a course where the CSS is 60 of course

The par was 68 and CSS was 65, but to be honest having just started playing Golf/Medals I'm unsure what the CSS means anyway.


It's killed my handicap as in the sense that it's not going down :lol:

 

[Garush34]

Doubles certainly kill my game big time. No main cause for it, sometimes tee shot is the issue other times it the approach. Need to work on general ball striking this winter to get better.

 

[patricks148]

The par was 68 and CSS was 65, but to be honest having just started playing Golf/Medals I'm unsure what the CSS means anyway.


It's killed my handicap as in the sense that it's not going down :lol:

you are playing to your handicap then, killing it would be you were going up. you get a 4 shot buffer to even if you shoot a net 69 you are still playing to your handicap.. even if you were shooting 80 reg, you would prob be a 14 handicap and still be playing to your handicap

 

[RGDave]

Doubles are fine (now I'm off 12...)

It's the trebles that normally kill me - but then again when I avoid any doubles it's my opponents that get the guns out :thup:

A 'snowman' doesn't help either. Not had one of those in a while... maybe he is due a visit?

 

[HankMarvin]

Never a good thing getting a double but when you get a few birdies it makes it a little bit easier, make more birdies than doubles so I can handle the odd one if its been down to a bad tee shot.

 

[nickjdavis]

Its not the doubles that kill me.....its the trebles!!!

Yesterdays round consisted of 11 pars, 4 bogies and three trebles....well....I say they were trebles but I'd picked up on two of the holes when I couldn't score (s'ford) and on neither occasion was I likely to make a double!!

Still....the resulting 0.1 got me back up to 9 meaning I get a shot at the toughest hole on the course!!

 

[Matty6]

3 doubles and 2 blobs killed my round on the weekend. I par'd or bogey'd the other 13 holes.

 

[Hosel Fade]

Far more satisfying to have a round without doubles even if it ends up 11-13 over for me than it is shooting +8 or 9 with 2 or 3 birdies and some doubles

 

[mikeb4]

I know double bogeys are my achilles heel. They happen far to often to me and destroy good rounds I am putting together.

With plans of really improving next season I have done something I've never done before- stats. I pulled together all my medal rounds and am looking at problem holes etc.

But here's the shocker. I play off 6 and have a lot of double bogeys. What if I could have limited all of those to bogeys? I'd be off +1 now.

I know it's not that simple and you will always have doubles, there's no way to remove them altogether but that is a scary stat. Even halving their frequency would be huge.

So, if like me, you have a lot of doubles, they're hurting you even more than you think!

i play off 6 too so i feel your pain, at the most two double bogeys per round can make a decent score (buffer) a poor one.

 

[UlyssesSky]

What if I could have limited all of those to bogeys? I'd be off +1 now.

And if grandma had wheels, she'd be a wagon


Chances are that the style of play that leads to these ugly double bogeys is also the reason you play the other holes well enough to still play off 6.

If you changed to a less agressive style of play to get the doubles off your card, you'd probably also play less birdies/pars as well.

 

[jamielaing]

And if grandma had wheels, she'd be a wagon


Chances are that the style of play that leads to these ugly double bogeys is also the reason you play the other holes well enough to still play off 6.

If you changed to a less agressive style of play to get the doubles off your card, you'd probably also play less birdies/pars as well.

Point being it's food for thought. Half the doubles, come down three shots. Worth trying for.

I disagree that it's the style of play that also creates the birdies, I think it's forcing bad positions and not playing the recovery shots. I have very few amazing recoveries but a lot of smashed branches.

 

[Deleted member 15717]

Don't bother me much, they're inevitable and statistically I'll get one every other round. A run of bogeys or lack of birdies feels more destructive if anything.

I echo this. 1/2 doubles isn't bad...however, a run of 4/5 bogeys is the real killer...i think mainly from a mental standpoint. Bogeying half the holes on the front (or back) 9 and it becomes a real struggle

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I echo this. 1/2 doubles isn't bad...however, a run of 4/5 bogeys is the real killer...i think mainly from a mental standpoint. Bogeying half the holes on the front (or back) 9 and it becomes a real struggle

An interesting point and I guess it simply comes down to not compiling one error with another which is what the pros and lower handicappers seem to do so well. I'm as guilty as anyone as having a poor hole, and then another and another and suddenly what was looking an ok round is unravelling

 

[Spear-Chucker]

I echo this. 1/2 doubles isn't bad...however, a run of 4/5 bogeys is the real killer...i think mainly from a mental standpoint. Bogeying half the holes on the front (or back) 9 and it becomes a real struggle

Definately...

Can feel your game draining away if not careful! Arresting that run really does feel good though

 

[Spear-Chucker]

An interesting point and I guess it simply comes down to not compiling one error with another which is what the pros and lower handicappers seem to do so well. I'm as guilty as anyone as having a poor hole, and then another and another and suddenly what was looking an ok round is unravelling

Always strikes me watching the very successful pro's, they can just put one or two poor holes behind them (no one's impervious to these!) so well and eke out a good score

 

[UlyssesSky]

I disagree that it's the style of play that also creates the birdies, I think it's forcing bad positions and not playing the recovery shots. I have very few amazing recoveries but a lot of smashed branches.

But how many of that recovery shots could be avoided by playing less agressive in the frist place? E.g. by hitting something else than driver off the tee, accepting a longer approch and going for the middle of the green instead of right at the flag?

 

[MadAdey]

The last few weeks the dreaded doubles have crept into my card. I had really got my game sorted out over the last 12 months playing better golf and doubles really wasn't something that showed up very often on the card, singles weren't either. Just lots and lots of pars.

The last few weeks I've started making silly doubles, playing golf no differently than I was before, I'm not 3-putting or loosing balls either. It just feels like the golfing gods have decided they have been too kind to me recently and they're getting some revenge.