What's your handicap?

[PitiFulmer]

Besides your overall game, of course. After some instruction from a local pro I'm down to 12, after being around a 20 my entire life.

Does anyone use this site to calculate rounds? It's pretty damn awesome, and free. It even recognizes nearly every course in the U.S.

http://www.golflink.com/mygame/

[TREX]

Being left handed they tell me.

Honestly I dont play enough to have one. That is my handicap. I would shoot mid 80's to mid 90's depending on where I played right now.

Let me play 2 or 3 times a week for 2 months and that changes.

As one comedian said "I got potential". "I was a Liscense Plate pressin MFER back in the Pen"

[Tnphil]

Played to a 7 handi at one time for several years when I practiced and took the game serious....dont play much anymore and have not for about 3-4 years....I would say now I am about 15-17....

[GhenghisVol]

Short arms.

[aadicof]

Much like the way the lesbians breasts get in the way of their swings, my large package widens my stance and hinders my hip turn and weight transfer.

[GhenghisVol]

haw haw haw

If I could putt worth a shit, I'd be an 8. As it is right now I'm an 18.

[aadicof]

I'm 30+.

Hardly ever play and suck when I do.

[BANG]

I've never kept an "official" handicap before but the last time I figured it I think it was 9. Anyway cool site aerialview, I've registered my 3 rounds I've played so far this year in the golflink.


Edit: I finally got 5 rounds in for the season to "figure" my handicap, right now it stands at 8.3. If I could learn to putt and consistently hit fairways off the tee it would easily be 2.3.

[Napervol]

1 trending 0. Takes a while to get your game back in this cold climate. Usual spread is -1 to 3. Low point of the year usually does not come until August/September.

[GhostofJohnnyMajors]

My experience has been that probably 75% of golfers have handicaps alot higher than they think. It pisses me off to no end watching golfers take mulligans, kick balls stuck behind trees, take drops in the fairway after a lost tee shot with no penalty, etc etc.. and then claim in the clubhouse how they shot an 85 on the course today when it legitimately would have probably been closer to a 95-100. I've played with people who interpreted anything inside of 10 feet a gimme putt.

[RynoVol]

My experience has been that probably 75% of golfers have handicaps alot higher than they think. It pisses me off to no end watching golfers take mulligans, kick balls stuck behind trees, take drops in the fairway after a lost tee shot with no penalty, etc etc.. and then claim in the clubhouse how they shot an 85 on the course today when it legitimately would have probably been closer to a 95-100. I've played with people who interpreted anything inside of 10 feet a gimme putt.

Thank you. I've got known of a few of those guys too. I can honestly say without any hesitation that my handicap is............

[BrassVols]

Mine has varied from 18 to as low as 13. I haven't kept it since 2 years ago though. I would have to go to a short game school and do some weight/flexibility training to break 10.

[Napervol]

My experience has been that probably 75% of golfers have handicaps alot higher than they think. It pisses me off to no end watching golfers take mulligans, kick balls stuck behind trees, take drops in the fairway after a lost tee shot with no penalty, etc etc.. and then claim in the clubhouse how they shot an 85 on the course today when it legitimately would have probably been closer to a 95-100. I've played with people who interpreted anything inside of 10 feet a gimme putt.

I agree with that. Hardest driving hole on our course is number one- OB right, water left- wind usually cranking- and people taking a breakfast ball after spending a half hour on the range. Bigger issue for the ego handicaps is the gimmees. Putt the damn things out- every putt is misable.

They usually get flushed out in tournaments- guys with zero handicaps that cannot break 80 in tournaments have an ego handicap. From experience, handicaps tend to fall accordingly:

Accurate- 20%
Ego - 50%
Bagger - 30%

[PitiFulmer]

Shot a 71 yesterday, at a Par 69 course...but still, I'm happy as shit. Oh, and yes, I had 2 penalty strokes included in there...and it helped that I closed out with birds on the last 3 holes.

[Tnphil]

Shot a 71 yesterday, at a Par 69 course...but still, I'm happy as shit. Oh, and yes, I had 2 penalty strokes included in there...and it helped that I closed out with birds on the last 3 holes.

Congrats on that score......never played a par 69 course......I shot 80 sat. on a par 72 course and had 5....count-em...5.. 3 putts... Thats why i gave up the game 3 years ago, I cant putt anymore...10-15-20 years ago I would put my putting up against anyone....5 years ago I got the Yepps and cant make a 3-4 foot putt.....Ive done it all, changed putters, cross hand, claw, saw, drugs and drinking...nothing helped!!!!

[PitiFulmer]

Thanks man. I just recorded that round, and it dropped me from 12 to 9.5. I never thought the day would come that I would be in single digits.

[golfvol]

When I was able to play more than once every 3-4 months I got down to a 12.7 thanks to a pair of 78's 2 weeks apart. Right now I am probably 16-18 range.

[BANG]

Question about figuring handicap: So I'm figuring my handicap using Golflink site but have run into a snag when entering 27 hole courses. My question is it asks what each hole's handicap is, on 18 hole courses that "total" handicap is 171, on 27 hole courses it only lists hole handicaps 1 thru 9 for a total of 90(if you just play 18).

How does that affect the handicap calculation? Also, I actually played 27 but the site only lets you submit 18 hole rounds, any ideas?

[Napervol]

Question about figuring handicap: So I'm figuring my handicap using Golflink site but have run into a snag when entering 27 hole courses. My question is it asks what each hole's handicap is, on 18 hole courses that "total" handicap is 171, on 27 hole courses it only lists hole handicaps 1 thru 9 for a total of 90(if you just play 18).

How does that affect the handicap calculation? Also, I actually played 27 but the site only lets you submit 18 hole rounds, any ideas?

you turn in the 18, and then when you get another nine in you turn it in with your 19-27 as an 18 hole round. If you are keeping a handicap on either a state system or local system, they allow for nine hole rounds to be placed, they simply make up an eighteen hole round the next time you put in a nine hole round.

[Chiutfan]

I think Im a solid 13-15 ... and for now, Im ok with that. If I played more, and practiced more.. Id still probably be a 13-15... HA HA