What are your strengths, does your handicap travel and why ?

[patricks148]

I'll start,

I'm a reasonable driver and pretty straight off the tee.

Playing links I think makes you a better all round player as conditions are different every time you play.

How about you?

 

[fundy]

Good iron player and very good albeit sometimes streaky putter. Hcap travels ok

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Decent mid-irons, good pitcher and reasonable putter. When the course was in the middle of the race course it never travelled well but since we moved it has stood the test very well.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Handicap seems to travel

Strengths - iron play and short game

 

[garyinderry]

short game. I can be wild off the tee but decent management and smart wedge play means I don't run up too many cricket scores.


9 pars, 9 bogies is not too hard a task around most courses especially if I can nick a birdie or two along the way.

 

[Swinger]

My strengths are generally in the bar afterwards and I play bad golf everywhere.
I usually find I don't get enough shots to make scores look semi respectable.

 

[G1BB0]

my strength is my ability to laugh at myself after hitting a horror shot or missing a short putt. Handicap is false, 22 is way too low

 

[duncan mackie]

strength - positive mental attitude; can do etc

weaknesses - driving, iron play, pitching and putting

 

[jimbob.someroo]

Relatively long off the tee which, when straight, is a big help.

Was talking with my playing partner today, I'm probably a 9 handicap in my long-game, but around 3-4 handicap from 100 yards in and around the greens.

Hopefully the course of lessons will improve my greens and fairways in reg and save me a couple of shots a round.

 

[garyinderry]

Was talking with my playing partner today, I'm probably a 9 handicap in my long-game, but around 3-4 handicap from 100 yards in and around the greens.

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heard some reports that you are a bit of a wizard with a wedge and long off the tee. a nice mix :thup:

 

[duncan mackie]

Was talking with my playing partner today, I'm probably a 9 handicap in my long-game, but around 3-4 handicap from 100 yards in and around the greens.

you must have changed a hell of a lot through the later part of the year - I have you the opposite!

put another way, give the average 3 handicapper your tee shots and they will shoot under their handicap, not above.

 

[jimbob.someroo]

heard some reports that you are a bit of a wizard with a wedge and long off the tee. a nice mix :thup:

haha, still didn't stop those pesky scousers whooping my ass. Will have to try and get a game next time I'm back up at home fella :thup:

 

[User20205]

My strengths are generally in the bar afterwards.

underrated that mate. :thup:

Mine seems to travel pretty well, I'm ok off the tee, my irons are good. mentally I'm a rock :rofl:

 

[Swinger]

underrated that mate. :thup:

Mine seems to travel pretty well, I'm ok off the tee, my irons are good. mentally I'm a rock :rofl:

Your irons are very forgiving!

 

[delc]

I am pretty straight off the tee, hit decent fairway woods and hybrids, and am a reasonably good putter. I am less good with my irons and my chipping can be awful if I don't practice it a lot. I am not a particularly long hitter. My game seems to travel OK.

 

[Robobum]

Biggest weakness is maths.

A good spin off of this being that my scores are always good regardless of where I play

 

[jimbob.someroo]

you must have changed a hell of a lot through the later part of the year - I have you the opposite!

put another way, give the average 3 handicapper your tee shots and they will shoot under their handicap, not above.

Yeah, after the HFH today when I was appalling on the greens I've put quite a bit of work in, but maybe at the expense of my long game. Still hitting the ball well but not finding nearly enough fairways. Only hit 3 fairways through 15 holes today in our winter fourball but still managed to win pretty comfortably and was probably only 4 over in horrid conditions due to some good putting and up and downs.

Hopefully this year will bring it all together in one go!

 

[NWJocko]

Not sure I have any strengths, more just that im slightly better than mediocre across the board!

Can hit the ball a reasonable way off the tee (not got big enough cojones for the distance most on here hit right enough!) but can be wild.

Putting improved, short game brutal but my irons are better than everything else by a distance I'd say.

In terms of handicap travelling I do ok in retinal matchplays etc, have too many erratic days though.

 

[jimbob.someroo]

Biggest weakness is maths.

A good spin off of this being that my scores are always good regardless of where I play

It's alright being crap at maths when you only have to minus two shots from your gross score

 

[bladeplayer]

Strenght would probably my driving , im kinda ok at all the rest , mental side of the game is good tho , (after a bad patch early last year )
handicap seems to travel well enough , sometime i think i play steadier golf away from home .

As a parklander i guess all my conditions are the same every day just a few trees thrown in sorry patrick couldn't help it..

Have played and won on a few links tho :thup: