How do you rate your game !!

BUACHAILL

Just wondering how people feel about their games. Whats your strengths and weaknesses ? Where do you need to improve and what drills do you use to help with it all? Feel free to add to my list of shots.

handicap:8
Concentration:5/10
Driving: 6/10
Irons: 7/10
Chip shots: 8/10
Putting: 8/10
Bunker play: 7/10

My game is in reasonable shape. I am not consistent enough with my driver. When I am good I hit every fairway and long but nowhere near consistent enough. I am very happy with my short game and it has been as a result of having to scramble due to bad drives or poor approach shots etc. I need to improve on apparoach shots also, dont hit enough greens from middle of fairway. Going to lessons presently so it is coming around, my set up had been really letting me down. On a positive my short game is very strong, I fancy getting up and down from anywhere and do a lot of the times, I have a lot of different shots in the bag and helps me hugely. I read the greens very well and am a strong putter. I have a tendency to switch off or get hugely frustrated and its been so costly to me. something I am working hard on and dont get too upset with myself anymore.

Anyone else ?

Luckycharm

handicap:14
Concentration:6/10
Driving: 8/10
Irons: 5/10
Chip shots: 3/10
Putting: 6/10
Bunker play: 3/10

Driving has been really good recently, big drives middle of fairway with only 6/7 iron and then taking 6/7s. My chipping sucks and my putting is real up and down - some days great other days no confidence over 2/3 footers. Bunker play used to be good but poor recently. Feel i have one good game in me this summer we will see. Do not practise as don't have the time and tend to work on things during my round

Mr. Rager

Handicap: 24
Concentration: 6
Driving:7 (with a 5 wood, with a driver: 3)
Irons: 4
Chip shots: 7
Putting: 7
Bunker play: 5

I can't drive with a driver, just can't get good contact. I've a pretty good short game though.

Mr. Larson

Scores relative to my expectations, relative to my peers (in the 11 - 14 category), or relative to 'scratch'? I'll go with the assumption on 'scratch' and the entire 'field'.

My game at the moment:

Handicap:13
Concentration:5/10
Driving Distance: 8/10
Driving Accuracy: 6/10
Mid/Long Irons: 6/10
Short Irons: 2/10
Chip shots: 2/10
Putting: 5/10
Bunker play: 2/10

My problem is I'm a $h*te golfer who can flatter to decieve. Average about 3 blowouts/scratches per round. Capable of shooting low 70's but mostly shooting high 80's early 90's with the odd round tipping near 100. Typical round would be 6 pars, a birdie or two and only end up with 30 odd points.

General Consistency: 3/10

BUACHAILL

I judged my score relative to scratch as it gives everyone a fair reflection and idea of each others game etc !!

danthefan

Handicap 14

Concentration - 4/10
Driving - 7/10
Irons - 3/10
Chipping - 6/10
Putting - 7/10
Bunkers - 1/10

I am pretty crap to be honest, at the moment I'm struggling to play to my handicap.

charlieIRL

one word for mine - inconisistent! Even last night - 9 good holes & 9 terrible holes.

Can drive the ball fine, not long but on the fairway.
Long irons - forget about it - i use a rescue from yellow stakes!
Chipping - no problem
Bunker - problems! Afraid of grounding club which results in me topping the ball and it going anywhere.
Putting - on a great streak lately and playing partners even have me reading putts for them!

upthe19th

Handicap 15

Concentration - 2/10
Driving - 5/10
Irons - 6/10
Chipping - 6/10
Putting - 3/10
Bunkers - 6/10

playing a bit better this year but blow outs are frequent. had a round not so long ago where i was 4 over after 13 holes and finished up 12 over. if there was an award for bottling, i would be writing my speech. overall a pretty grim state of affairs.

mike12

Handicap: 9
Concentration: 6
Driving:8
Irons: 8
Chip shots: 3
Putting: 7
Bunker play: 7
My real weakness is my short game espically chipping happy enough with everything else, irons are good so hit a lot of greens so don't have to chip too much.

G1032

Ratings relative to a scratch or plus golfer

Handicap:5
Concentration:3/10
Driving: 6/10
Irons: 7/10
Pitching: 5/10
Chip shots: 5/10
Putting: 6/10
Bunker play: 7/10


Play well for 14 – 16 holes each round. I’ll be around the level par mark for these 15/16 holes –. Then the other 2 – 4 holes will be undoubtedly double or triple bogeys. Or stupid 3 putt bogeys.

These blow outs are mainly down to a lack of concentration. Knowing I’m not set up right but hitting the shot regardless.

Can put myself into a lot of trouble from the tee. Do this too often. Hit only 4 or 5 fairways a round. Becomes a problem when I play courses with punishing rough.

Irons generally very good. Hit about 60 – 65 % of greens. Hard to hit the green when you’re in the trees from the tee though!

Pitch shots from 100 yards and in are not good enough. Might only get up/down 2 out of ten times. Need to start getting the ball a lot closer to the pin from that range.

Chip shots not good enough by a long way. Only get up/down from greenside 50-55% of the time. Needs to improve. A lot. Don’t practice it anyway so what do I expect.

Putting: Good days and bad. Like everyone I suppose. In general I don’t hole enough of the birdie chances I create. 30+ putts each round. Reading of the greens needs to improve too. It's very poor at times.

Bunker play: Quite good. Happy with it.

Johnny_Fontane

Handicap:12
Concentration:5/10 (depending on how much $$ we are playing for)
Driving: 6/10
Irons: 6/10
Pitching: 6/10 (grew up with a 100 yard lawn)
Chip shots: 6/10
Putting:3/10
Bunker play: 7/10

struggling with my putting. going to adapt a new rule this weekend of keeping my head absolutely still like I do in fairway bunkers.

I love bunker shots, never had an issue with them.

If I drive the ball well, I invariably play well - that and a good start to the round.

overall i'm not playing great and would like to sort my putting out. great thread!

Webbs

ronaldochokes wrote: »

Ratings relative to a scratch or plus golfer

Handicap:5
Concentration:3/10
Driving: 6/10
Irons: 7/10
Pitching: 5/10
Chip shots: 5/10
Putting: 6/10
Bunker play: 7/10


Play well for 14 – 16 holes each round. I’ll be around the level par mark for these 15/16 holes –. Then the other 2 – 4 holes will be undoubtedly double or triple bogeys. Or stupid 3 putt bogeys.

These blow outs are mainly down to a lack of concentration. Knowing I’m not set up right but hitting the shot regardless.

Can put myself into a lot of trouble from the tee. Do this too often. Hit only 4 or 5 fairways a round. Becomes a problem when I play courses with punishing rough.

Irons generally very good. Hit about 60 – 65 % of greens. Hard to hit the green when you’re in the trees from the tee though!

Pitch shots from 100 yards and in are not good enough. Might only get up/down 2 out of ten times. Need to start getting the ball a lot closer to the pin from that range.

Chip shots not good enough by a long way. Only get up/down from greenside 50-55% of the time. Needs to improve. A lot. Don’t practice it anyway so what do I expect.

Putting: Good days and bad. Like everyone I suppose. In general I don’t hole enough of the birdie chances I create. 30+ putts each round. Reading of the greens needs to improve too. It's very poor at times.

Bunker play: Quite good. Happy with it.

Have you been watching me play!! Apart from the bunker play where I am average at best and maybe my putting is a bit more consistent than you describe you could have written that for me, . Am off 9 by the way

Zardoz

ronaldochokes wrote: »

Ratings relative to a scratch or plus golfer

Handicap:5
Concentration:3/10
Driving: 6/10
Irons: 7/10
Pitching: 5/10
Chip shots: 5/10
Putting: 6/10
Bunker play: 7/10


Play well for 14 – 16 holes each round. I’ll be around the level par mark for these 15/16 holes –. Then the other 2 – 4 holes will be undoubtedly double or triple bogeys. Or stupid 3 putt bogeys.

These blow outs are mainly down to a lack of concentration. Knowing I’m not set up right but hitting the shot regardless.

Can put myself into a lot of trouble from the tee. Do this too often. Hit only 4 or 5 fairways a round. Becomes a problem when I play courses with punishing rough.

Irons generally very good. Hit about 60 – 65 % of greens. Hard to hit the green when you’re in the trees from the tee though!

Pitch shots from 100 yards and in are not good enough. Might only get up/down 2 out of ten times. Need to start getting the ball a lot closer to the pin from that range.

Chip shots not good enough by a long way. Only get up/down from greenside 50-55% of the time. Needs to improve. A lot. Don’t practice it anyway so what do I expect.

Putting: Good days and bad. Like everyone I suppose. In general I don’t hole enough of the birdie chances I create. 30+ putts each round. Reading of the greens needs to improve too. It's very poor at times.

Bunker play: Quite good. Happy with it.

Pretty much identical to my game too ,bar driving where I am pretty accurate and dont hit too many wayward shots.
My short game from 140-70 yards out is my achilles heel.
I just cant get the ball close enough to the pin,I usually hit the green but leave myself medium length putts for birdie.
When I do miss a green then I often struggle to get up and down and make a bogey.
Concentration is another weak aspect of my game ,I generally have 2 bad holes in a round ,usually a slightly pushed tee shot into trees ,which costs me a double bogey.
I seem to do this on the same particular holes and its pretty much lack of concentration and not setting up properly.
I'm off 5 at the moment but I seem to be stuck at that handicap as I dont have enough time to practice my short game.
My long-medium game is fine but the short game is only ok ,it needs to be alot sharper to play off a lower handicap.

Handicap:5
Concentration:6/10
Driving: 7/10
Irons: 8/10
Pitching: 5/10
Chip shots: 6/10
Putting: 6/10
Bunker play: 5/10

G1032

Webbs wrote: »

Have you been watching me play!! Apart from the bunker play where I am average at best and maybe my putting is a bit more consistent than you describe you could have written that for me, . Am off 9 by the way

Zardoz wrote: »

Pretty much identical to my game too ,bar driving where I am pretty accurate and dont hit too many wayward shots.
My short game from 140-70 yards out is my achilles heel.
I just cant get the ball close enough to the pin,I usually hit the green but leave myself medium length putts for birdie.
When I do miss a green then I often struggle to get up and down and make a bogey.
Concentration is another weak aspect of my game ,I generally have 2 bad holes in a round ,usually a slightly pushed tee shot into trees ,which costs me a double bogey.
I seem to do this on the same particular holes and its pretty much lack of concentration and not setting up properly.
I'm off 5 at the moment but I seem to be stuck at that handicap as I dont have enough time to practice my short game.
My long-medium game is fine but the short game is only ok ,it needs to be alot sharper to play off a lower handicap.

Handicap:5
Concentration:6/10
Driving: 7/10
Irons: 8/10
Pitching: 5/10
Chip shots: 6/10
Putting: 6/10
Bunker play: 5/10

Ha!!:) Tried to be as honest as possible with my assessment. When I play opposite these 1 handicap and below players it really shows me how far I would have to go to get to that level. I am still a good 5. Up and down between 4 and 5 for a long time now. Haven't made the breakthrough to 3 yet but hoping I will soon. Their short games are just unreal. Super pitches, never 3 putt, always get the clutch par putts. They don't get in trouble off the tee. The 2 areas where I can compare to them is with my irons and with distance. As for the rest.................. forget it!!!

uptheroyals

handicap +2, onli way to judge your game is according to par. some things can be good one day, others good the next depending on things from personal life to conditions, but at the end of the day all we REALLY care about is our score!!

BUACHAILL

uptheroyals wrote: »

handicap +2, onli way to judge your game is according to par. some things can be good one day, others good the next depending on things from personal life to conditions, but at the end of the day all we REALLY care about is our score!!

I agree to a point on judging it to par but its only to give people an idea of other folks games, give pointers on where people feel they need to work on and what they are happy with. I disagree on your point about only caring about how we score, I sometimes play great golf and dont score well for one reason or another and I go away from the course not too upset knowing my game is in good shape. I have often played shi.te but scored well and came away upset over my game but hey each to their own, nice handicap by the way :cool:

uptheroyals

BUACHAILL wrote: »

I sometimes play great golf and dont score well for one reason or another and I go away from the course not too upset knowing my game is in good shape. I have often played shi.te but scored well and came away upset over my game but hey each to their own, nice handicap by the way :cool:

no what you mean to say is you have hit the ball sh1t, and chipped and putted well. what happens there is you like most guys seem to think the game is about playing "pretty golf" where as really the aim is to get it in the hole, weather that be in a pretty fashon or ugly as sin!! u can have stat after stat after stat, all you can really judge it off is score. you dont play well and score bad, you hit it well and score bad!! but who cares how you hit it, learn to win ugly, learn to grind out scores out of nothing, thats how you judge your game, thats how you say your a player and not just out for the stroll, thats where the fun is!! i love hitting a ball sideways and still beating guys by chipping in or holeing rakers!! I love that way more that just hitting fairways and greens!!

BUACHAILL

uptheroyals wrote: »

no what you mean to say is you have hit the ball sh1t, and chipped and putted well. what happens there is you like most guys seem to think the game is about playing "pretty golf" where as really the aim is to get it in the hole, weather that be in a pretty fashon or ugly as sin!! u can have stat after stat after stat, all you can really judge it off is score. you dont play well and score bad, you hit it well and score bad!! but who cares how you hit it, learn to win ugly, learn to grind out scores out of nothing, thats how you judge your game, thats how you say your a player and not just out for the stroll, thats where the fun is!! i love hitting a ball sideways and still beating guys by chipping in or holeing rakers!! I love that way more that just hitting fairways and greens!!

Me like most guys seem to think the game is about playing pretty ? Have you played with me? I like to hit my shot as I see it and when I dont I am disapointed but I just get on with it. I rate my game on several aspects, these include fairways hit, putting , driving, chipping , ball striking and of course scoring. I can accept a bad days scoring when I have struck the ball well because I know it will come. Thats just me, by the way if you speak to any of my regular playing partners they will confirm the oppposite to your theory. I thrive on getting up and down in impossible positions but you will never do it if your not striking it well hence the importance I put on it. But I do hear what your saying.

I agree it boils down to your scoring for a lot of people but your wrong to say it does for everyone. Not everyone plays at the competitive level you speak of, some people just play to get out of the house and have some fun with friends, happy to be the right side of the ground !! So to just assume this is wrong imo and what gives you your thrill not might the next man.

GreeBo

I would have to agree that hitting it pretty is an added bonus that comes after scoring well.
I'd rather miss every fariway and every green but get up and down than stripe the ball perfectly each time but not be able to make up for wrong club selection, bunker play, poor putting etc.

I do find that the lower handicap players never hit the ball as well as I think you need to to play of those handicaps, but they do score well regardless.

Comparing yourself to par is probably safest, its very hard to judge yourself against a scratch golfer on anything but score or "reliability" with any shot unless you either are one or play with one regularly.

BUACHAILL

GreeBo wrote: »

I would have to agree that hitting it pretty is an added bonus that comes after scoring well.
I'd rather miss every fariway and every green but get up and down than stripe the ball perfectly each time but not be able to make up for wrong club selection, bunker play, poor putting etc.

I do find that the lower handicap players never hit the ball as well as I think you need to to play of those handicaps, but they do score well regardless.

Comparing yourself to par is probably safest, its very hard to judge yourself against a scratch golfer on anything but score or "reliability" with any shot unless you either are one or play with one regularly.

Ok let me clear this up for people, I have not said I rather hit the ball well than score, nor have I said I don't like to score well I have simply said I can accept the days in which I do not score well but struck the ball well and what's wrong with that? If I had my chance greebo or anyone for that matter you would take the scrappy days in which you scored well but that doesn't mean you cannot be upset about something in your game!! Also comparing your game to par is the only way to have clarity on your standing within the game !! All fairly obvious I would have thought but cheers for that

PhilipMarlowe

I had 18 points for 9 holes tonight and fell I played yuck. Another night I had 22 points, was 2 under but couldn't hole a putt (chipped in the one green I missed and 2 putted for the other birdie) so it was a good 'score' but a frustrating time.
For social relaxing golf I prefer to hit nice shots (regardless of score to an extent) and for competition golf it's all about the scorecard.

ziggy

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DH2K9

Handicap: 22

Concentration: 3
Driving: 5
Irons: 7
Chip shots: 7
Putting: 9
Bunker play: 6

Have potential but bottle it when it really counts, with that score card in the back pocket.

Woodgate

handicap:5
Concentration:7/10
Driving: 8/10
Long Irons (3,4&5): 4/10
Mid/Short Irons (6,7,8,9,PW,GW,SW,LW): 8/10
Chip shots: 9/10
Putting: 8/10
Bunker play: 5/10

My main problem is a bit of inconsistancy with the longer irons, I have been practising and working on improving this. Short game is really good most of the time. Driving good aswell but I'm not long off the tee, but mostly never in trouble either.

applehunter

handicap:11
Concentration:7/10
Driving: 7/10
Long Irons : 6/10
Mid/Short Irons : 7/10
Chip shots: 4/10
Putting: 6/10
Bunker play: 3/10

I think I have a good attitude for the game and don't get worked up when things go against me. I've been accused of lacking a killer instinct but I think that is just my demenour.

I'm not long off the tee(c. 250 yards) but generally have good control and can draw and fade the ball.

My putting is very inconsistent and my chip shots around the green need of work as i tend to approach the shot without any real idea about what I'm doing.