Roger H. Sterling
Category 3 Poster
Noticed that there's a fair number of golfers in amongst you lot. I picked up a club properly for the first time in September there, and have been playing every few weeks since. Finally getting pretty competent and have fully caught the bug. Can't get enough.
Played Silverknowes on Monday, Kilspindie on Tuesday, and Braid Hills on Saturday. Scoring around the 100 mark as my putting is absolutely abysmal and I'm 3 putting pretty much every hole.
Anyone into it seriously? Best/worst part of your game? Favourite course?
How did most of you get to a decent level without giving up? I started using it as a way to see my grandad more often, so was worth doing it even when I was shit. I can only imagine if I was doing it off my own back I'd have given up pretty quick due to how steep a learning curve it is. No idea how people stick to being shit for so long, in the hope that they'll eventually get it.
Charlie Kelly
Viva Mexico!
I've played on and off since I was about 15 and I'll be honest I've not got much better since. I'm a member up at Glencorse and I'll be honest I'm not a fan of it purely because I struggle badly on the front 9, but my old man and a lot of my mates are all members up there so always get a good laugh when going up for a round. Probably the only reason I stick at it tbh, that and the yearly golf trips away.
Since I got back to playing regularly my short game and putting have been good but my wild tee shots are killing me, if I got them under control I'm confident I'd be shooting late 80's/90's but I'm 3 off the tee on far too many holes these days. Soul destroying at times but I always end up finishing like a champion so I always end up going back.
I've not played many courses but Haddington is probably up there as one of the best I've played, played Kilspindie when I was a junior and loved that as well.
I was thrust onto a golf course at the ago of about 8 and have played irregularly ever since. I have never been particularly good.
I am horrendously inconsistent. I can go birdie, par, birdie, quadruple bogey, double bogey, pick up etc. The only way to get any good unless you are naturally talented at it is to play a lot. I just dont have the time or desire to do that.
Play mostly with work now - I would advise anyone to get competent at golf as the amount of 'networking' days I get out of the office is great.
Get buggies when I play with work. Buggies are awesome and make it much more bearable if you're playing shite
Roger H. Sterling
Category 3 Poster
What are you struggling to improve on? I'm at that noob gains stage where the swing is just starting to click, so I'm connecting with most shots rather than scuffing every single one. I take it this is where most folk will peak? I can't imagine anyone goes for years still topping/slicing every shot, that would be soul destroying. It's really not a forgiving sport for learners.
Think I can get myself to your level, at the 80s/90s if I improve my putting. It's just a completely different game to learn.
Shanklands Fivehead
Seize the memes of production
Charlie Kelly
Viva Mexico!
Another problem I've got is when I hit a bad shot, I'll go on a run of hitting bad shots and it just kills my round. A lot of it's mental as well as physical, if you can shake off the bad shots quickly then you can limit the damage but it's hard not to just completely lose the plot.
You will quickly get past the scuffing/topping stage. But when you start to hit the ball further your problems increase - a gentle slice over a long distance can put you in the trees, lost ball, penalty strokes. Hit the next into a shitey bunker that takes two or three to get out of.
My main issue, though, is my short game. I can drive the ball a mile and my mid-long irons are mostly fine but chipping and putting takes a lot of work. Near the green in two and take 4 or 5 to get it in from there is not uncommon for me.
I played a round with a bird last summer (for the first time ever). She couldn't hit the ball far at all- but it was always straight. No lost balls, rarely in bunkers. She beat me comfortably.
The Great Naisy
Morph is a wee wank
I'm pure pish at golf. I really want to play but I'm fucking gash and it just annoys me.
Johnny
Well kent cretin and slaver
Roger H. Sterling
Category 3 Poster
Frei me a river
Nelson Seegero
I played a lot as a kid and got my handicap down to single figures but it's all gone now. I can still strike a ball reasonably well but any consistency I ever had has gone. It's something I'd like to get back into but I don't really have the time just now so limit myself to a few rounds with my brother and jollies with suppliers.
Plenty good courses through in the East. Particularly down East Lothian and Fife. My favourites being Gullan and Elie but any of the links can be good and it's 12 months of the year playable unlike parkland courses so if I was joining anywhere through your way it'd be links.
Prepare to be patient because you'll get worse before you get better which is when you'll find out if you want to stick it.
Zizou
Drunk Cretin & Hassle Magnet
I just can't be arsed with a game where even the best player in the world can be amazing one day and terrible the next.
It's quite a good pass time as well, but it's a fucking joke of a sport to get any good at.
Roger H. Sterling
Category 3 Poster
Used to play a lot when I was younger, had a handicap of around 18-20 as a 15-16 year old, which I think was pretty good. Not played properly in about 6 years and played about twice in 3 years, bit of a shame because I enjoyed it and was okay at it, had even won a few competitions.
Gave up cos I was going to uni, which, looking back at it, was a really stupid decision. Regret it now, and doubt Id be able to do much with a Golf club these days - which is a shame, and probably the reason I haven't went back to it.
This post was last modified: 06-29-2015, 10:38 PM by Morgaro Gomis.
Roger H. Sterling
Category 3 Poster
Nah, I joined on the 1st. Driver.
I got the pish ripped out of me for being cack handed (whatever that is) and decided not to go back.
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