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Thread: WooHooo, my handicap is under 10 for the first time ever!!!!

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    I just got back from Florida last week. Went down mainly to get a couple rounds in. Shot an 87 (+10 on the front, +5 on the back) the first round and an 83 (+6 on the front, +5 on the back) the second. I was more than happy with those rounds considering I'd only played once since September. But I had 2 triples on the front and one on the back the second day that just destroyed what could have been a great round.

    But this is the year I get my game back. I was pretty good back in '00-'02. Didn't play hardly at all in '03 or '04 and it's been an uphill battle ever since. And about the end of last summer I could tell I was almost back to form.

    Every year I buy something new. To try and help my game ya know. Last year it was a new set of irons. The year before it was a Driver. So yesterday I just puchased a rangefinder. Got the freakin' grandaddy of them all. The Bushnell 1500 Tourney edition. Everything I read about it is great. 40 of 48 reviews on Amazon gave it a 5/5 rating. And 7 of the remaining 8 gave it a 4/5 rating. The only problem with getting it is I'll still have to hit my shot.

    But another thing I was gonna do this year (to hopefully improve) is track my shots. When I was in Florida I tracked every shot in a notebook. Club used, distance, push, pull, straight, draw, fade, fairway/rough, chip distance, putt distance. So I created a couple Excel spreadsheets and entered all this stuff in. About 5 hours later I figured there's got to be an easier way.

    That's when I ran into Scorecard. Man, this thing is freakin' sweet. I entered my 2 rounds from Florida and the one I got in this past Monday. It keeps track of almost everything I wanted. You can download it for free and enter 5 rounds just to see what it's like but I didn't even fool around with that. I just bought it. And not for the $30 it says. If you enter SANDTRAP in as a promotional code you'll save 20%. Then, I filled out their survey (while it was downloading) and they gave me another code so I saved another 10%.

    Man I can't wait for some warm weather!

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    I used a web-based system that looks like Scorecard for a while, which is why I know I was down in the 10% range in up and downs. Last year I didn't track my stats, but before that I used to track my fairways hit, greens, penalities, up and downs, etc.

    It's a good way to track what areas are costing you strokes and whether you are improving.

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    I shot a 101 Sunday - easy par 5

    Hole - Par - Me

    1- 4 - 7

    2 - 3 - 4

    3 - 4 - s

    5 - 4 - 6

    6 - 3 - 5

    7 - 4 - 5

    8 - 4 - 6

    9 - 5 - 7

    (51) (par 35)

    10 - 4 - 5

    11 - 4 - 7

    12 - 5 - 7

    13 - 3 - 5

    14 - 4 - 5

    15 - 4 -4 I MADE A PAR

    16 - 4 -6

    17- 3 - 5

    18 - 5 - 6


    (50) ( 36) - Total 101

    I only 3+ putted on 5 holes - HUGE for me - chipping/short game is coming along - what a difference it makes in your score - think - i extra putt per hole is 18 strokes to your game
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    Chipping/putting is HUGE to overall score. Great job. I am hoping to get back to playing soon.

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