new to golf, made a 78

ice tea then

ill take a whiskey, maybe it will help my chipping

thats a weird system in yalls countries, sounds neat though

The difference is maybe also that golf is in Belgium quiet an elite sport
not so many people play it
it has kind of a "rich mens game" label
while this is actually not true
in my club the practice member ship is free (2 euro for a full bucket of balls)
paying member ship for 1 year for the golf course is about 550 euro

I just starting fishing two days ago and I realed in a monster marlin. It was neato!

Well I am struggling..

On the 25th of March I went and hit a 82, with a 38 on the back.

I then had another lesson and found some slight problems, the Pro fixed those and off I went. Since then I have done nothing but push and slice the ball, hardly hit a good round, infact today I hit a 88, I am off 16HCP now so atleast I hit to it today.

If I swing to hard with my driver I slice, well a guy today said I swing it like a bull out of a gate, but to me it feels like I am only swinging it 50% power.

Within 7 days I took 6 strokes off my Handicap and was on fire, now after that 1 lesson I suck bad.

And went and checked my records and I have been playing exactly 4 months today. So in 4 months I have a best round of 82, and am off a HandiCap of 16. Won numerous local competitions and even snagged the odd longest drive in my Grade.

I still want to do better and do it fast, as membership runs out in 2 months time and I want to try get down to a HCP of 12 by then..

Hi Eastley,

I can relate to your feeling. I started to play in mid August, but could do only 4 rounds before we had snow. (Got my green card in late September.)

Now I am still waiting for the course to open. It will take about one month more. After that I want to drop my HCP from 41 to sigle digits in four months:-)

I think that your 78 would be enough, but need to be repeated few times:-)

Good luck to you.

Hannu

if he shot 78 after only 2 months with no lessons ..this cat must be a natural..Hell with a little coaching he could be another phenom.Now you played every shot where it lay and no mulligans..correct??

What is a mulligan?

mulligan = take the ball back to where it was before you hit it with no penalty.

What would be a situation when you can use a mulligan? - If you play by the rules?
- When a ball hits an animal or a ball is picked up by an outsider?
(If an outsider picks it up, you can drop a new ball where your ball was laying.)

Or if you open from a tee so that you are not in the two club zone? Your can be asked to open again, with out a penalty.

that was no mulligans, but im still just shooting mid to high 70s, after that 78 i lost my natural swing, watched the golf channel too much, didnt know it but i was ruining a good swing for a couple months, now the last month ive been shooting mid to high 70s, with one even par front 9, only thing i need to works on really is hitting more GIRs and ill be shooting par

my driving, putting and chipping are close to scratch

a muligan is say like i just sliced my driver shot into the next county, no one is looking throw another one down hit it good(dont you love second shots) and dont count the 2 strokes from hitting it OB

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What's a GIRs?

Girls in red .......GREENS IN REGULATION.

greens in regulation(GIR) is being on the green in 2 shots on a par 4, being on the green in 3 shots on a par 5, and being on the green in 1 shot on a par 3

basically if you are on the green and putting for birdie than you have a GIR

I use an on-line score card to record my rounds. It's in Finnish and "GIR" is "Greeniosuma". Loose translation would be a "green hit".

I just did not know that it is called "GIR".

I want to make GIRs too.