my target is to play more competitions this year. I got a handicap last year but only played limited number of times and only one comp. I'd also like to sample a few more courses as I move to full membership rates next year
Finally, I'd like a handicap below 20 to justify some new clubs next winter
1) get my handicap down to 5, had a chat with my coach in one of our junior squad sessions, said if i can build some consistancy into my game it could happen!
2) get into the county golf system for Cambridgeshire
3) Retain my trophies from last year and our junior team ones
4) Contend in some board comps and junior opens
My target is to go out and enjoy every round, good bad or indifferent. Hopefully the short game will finally kick in and we can look towards getting back down to 11 or 12 but as long as I'm enjoying it I'm getting to the point where it'l be what it'll be handicap wise and so if I can't get there then so what
Better my best handicap of 12.3, would love to get to single figs but 9.4 from 15.5 is a big ask regardless of how well I play, would probably need a merit cut to get there.
Practice hard whilst pushing my h/cap out to about 14 when playing in comps then win EVERYTHING next Summer
OR
Take it carefully, work on my swing as best as I can and find some kind of game that'll have me playing somewhere close to my h/cap and not in pain. Scoring better from 100yds is probably the 1st thing to work on... and the last :thup:
Seems that nearly 1/3 of the year has gone already and i've played in precisely ONE comp which involved walking in on the 8th Could be a slow year.
sorting out my driving is the main aim to start with. id be happier hitting more fairways with a repeatable straight drive than the erratic mess of a drive i have at the minute trying to get it down the fairway as far as possible.
if i can get the ball on the fairway 230 down then it turns most of the par 4's into a par 3 of less than 150yards. i fancy myself to get down in 3 in quite a few of these. i quite often think of holes in this way. hit a good drive and the hole is then a simple par 3.