My 2011 Golf Page (2nd year of retirement)
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The Year of Golf
(August 26, 2010) This is my first year of retirement so by this time of the year I knew I would have played a few more games than in previous years. As of late August my count is almost at 75 games although this included 15 games in Florida and Arizona. One other reason for so many games is this was the earliest that the season has started and the weather has cooperated especially in April and May. I thought this year my game would improve quite a bit. It turns out that I maybe hitting the ball a little better but that sometimes gets me into trouble. I struggled with putting for the first half of the year and now it seems to have come back. I bought new clubs (Taylor Made Burners) this year, but I had a adjustment period with them. I am still struggling with certain yardages. All in all, in a year where I thought my handicap would get lower because of playing more games, it's only gone down 1 stroke but I am not getting the blow up games as before. Handicap is based on the 10 best of your last 20 games. The chart on the right tells you how it's basically calculated. The problem with the chart below is that handicap is based on the rating of the course not the par rating. Although my software is saying I have a 7, it's really more like a 9. As you can see August has been mostly a good month for me except for the odd triple bogey that also blows up my score. My software tried to incorporate the real calculation of handicap in their software but the USGA didn't permit them citing that the formula (seriously) should not be in the hands of people who do not understand it. The USGA is a little anal as you can observe.
I will probably
update this in September to see if the trend of good games keeps
going.....Stay tuned
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the golf ball My Golf Buddies I play golf with a lot of different people as you can probably see by my scorecards. My most regular partners now that I play once a week with are Mike McKeown and Mike O'Neil. There are others but I am pointing to these 2 people because our games are very similar. Not in style, but in total score. My forte is the short game so my greens in regulation stat is probably a lot lower but my up and down stats are probably better. Anyway to show you how close our stats are, I prepared a little comparison. Check this out and you will see why we don't give each other strokes when playing for money. |
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How long is the golf season here in Quebec? 2010 was a new record for every golf course in Quebec Don't go by me only, but below is a list of my first and last games of the last 11 seasons. This might give you an idea of how long the season is up here. It's actually longer than what I play since I don't like to go out in the freezing weather. In 2010, some courses in the Montréal area opened on March 19 and some closed on November 18. There were approximately 240 days where you could have played golf minus the rain out days which were few.
Here are my starting round dates (excluding vacation):
Here are my latest
games of the season
October 31, 1998
(86) Glendale Elite |
Breaking 80 Since I have been keeping track of my games with the computer (1998), I can see when the I broke 80 for the first time each year. It's interesting how long this takes every year and how under 80 games I have each year. 1998 - May 20 - 77 Oka
12th game (of year) (9 other times in the year)
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