Summer vs. fall scores

I have played for years, and kept statistics to back this information up. I always peak and have my best scores of the season during the middle two weeks in August; the hottest time of the year in Ohio.

I played a round today, October 15 and my scores are back up again seeming to correlate with the cooling temperatures. Nothing has changed including the frequency of play. I play practically everyday.

Some may call it coincidence but statistically speaking it is uncanny and irrefutable.

Why????

Chessbum....

Hi chessbum,

Here in ireland it is accepted as norm that when temperatures drop, the distance achieved drops. When the air is cold it certainly does affect the distance. Only this weekend I started to take an extra club for each shot on my home club. I was still only making the average distance that I would make in high summer.

Robert,

Thanks for the reply. In my mind I had the temperature factored in but I tend to think it is something more than that. Maybe it is the extra clothing, or the reduced body flexiblility, or a combination of all.

Oh well, I just wondered if I am the only one who noticed this phenomenon.

Best Regards and thanks for the reply.

P. S. I was in Ireland for two weeks in February. Flew into Dublin and spent the rest of the time in Dundalk about 50 miles north of Dublin. Very nice country. I had the chance to play golf but couldn't make it (business).

My scores also go up in the winter, and I tend to shoot my lowest scores during the warmer months. I agree with your ideas of lack of distance, and wearing more clothes being resonsible for this. One thing I do notice during my play in the colder months is that I give back most of my strokes in my long game. My short game does not seem to be bothered to much with the colder weather. If my short game does suffer it is always due to frosted greens, which effects my (speed) putting.

Now if I can get on the greens before the frost has disappeared, but still following people in front of me, their ball trails on the green help me to read the green for my putts. GJS

i have noticed this occurance also.went out last Sunday to the range for a little practice in the cooler weather and couldnt hit it worth a flip.at that moment it entered into my mind this very same thought of which you speak.i thought what the hell it cant be the weather..its swing mechanics.i continued to work and came to realize i was not making a shoulder turn but instead just hands/arming it.Went out last friday and shot my lowest round of the season of 80..which very easily could have been a high 70's round..No i think maybe the cooler weather might possibly make you get lazy on your swing..allthough it seems that hotter weather would be more prone to do that.oh well i proved to myself that its in the swing ..not the weather-David

Thanks guys for the replys. I think it is interesting that others have noted this same thing. I was wondering if it was just me or my imagination..haha

Chessbum...