What are your goals this season???

["Richard"]

-I want to go from a 13.8 handicap to anything in the single digits
-Take 5 lessons this season
-practice the stuff I'm taught and spend a lot of time on my short game
-pick up some good golf books this year.
-get fitting for my driver at aristan golf
-Learn proper course mgt.
-no more club hoeing
-Carry my clubs, no pull carts.. might ride but not pull
-play atleast 40 rounds this year
-go under 90 atleast 15 times
-go under 80 once
-drive a few par 4s
-eagle atleast one hole


Might be a bit early for this thread... but I'm jonesing bad!

[jonf]

Break 90 for the first time
Break 90 for the 5th time
Break 90 for the 10th time
Play as much as possible
Pick up some fairway woods if money allows

[sandbagger72]

i'm gonna play under par for 18 this year last year i kept breaking even.
win my club championship
get at least 5 rounds in with covanant
keep my clubs for a season lol

[dan_670_12]

birde every hole at home course(did this last year)
eagle all par 5s at home course
play as much as last year or more(125)

[Ginker]

Three years ago I finished 2 in the club championship, two years ago I won it, last year I finished 2nd.. I guess I am due to win this year.. Thats the plan for this year..

[Big Johnny69]

My goals:

1) Make the Intersectional team
2) Finish in the top 5 for the Club Championship
3) Repeat or better my performance in the Match Play (lost in semis)
4) Shoot under par for one round, shot par once last year with a double on the 18th
5) Get the cap to 5 or under


This is a personal battle of mine, get a short game!

[shovellover]

1-Enjoy every round
2-Pull off more miracle shots & long drives
3-Learn to get the ball in the hole faster
4-Quit changing fw wds every 3 weeks
5-Respike my shoes because i fell on my a55 on #18 teebox today while hitting my drive.
6-If i meet the right pro, take a lesson. No garantees there.

[fundonny]

To not become a club ho (I don't want to go broke).
Oh, and to stop reading threads started by thotho...

[Big Johnny69]

Oh, and to stop reading threads started by thotho...

That might be the best goal, but probably the most diffcult, to achieve this year.

Notice how I left out stop hoing clubs. I don't want to seem unrealistic in my goals for the upcoming year.

[Colby]

-I want to go from a 13.8 handicap to anything in the single digits
-Take 5 lessons this season
-practice the stuff I'm taught and spend a lot of time on my short game
-pick up some good golf books this year.
-get fitting for my driver at aristan golf
-Learn proper course mgt.
-no more club hoeing
-Carry my clubs, no pull carts.. might ride but not pull
-play atleast 40 rounds this year
-go under 90 atleast 15 times
-go under 80 once
-drive a few par 4s
-eagle atleast one hole


Might be a bit early for this thread... but I'm jonesing bad!

Hmm, your math may be a bit off here...

If you want a single digit handicap, you need to go below 80 more than once...

[Colby]

As for my goals, I'm not sure I have very many.

First of all, I want to just go out and have fun. Keep the stress away, and just enjoy being able to get out there and play.

I would like to defend the men's double match play title at the club, play on the Interclub team (not intersectionals) again, keep my index below 10, and beat Steve more times than he beats me

["Richard"]

Hmm, your math may be a bit off here...

If you want a single digit handicap, you need to go below 80 more than once...

Hmmm, that is going to be hard. I'm not that good yet but its strange because I shoot really well on about 10 holes.. if I take my 10 best holes I will usually be at par, but its the other 8 holes that I will double, triple and quad boogie but since I started the year shooting a few really low rounds, my handicap meant I could only take two over on each hole but slowly its been going up and leveled off around 14.

What is a good goal to set for handicap then?

[little brit]

Join a league,
Concentrate on short game
Relax and enjoy
Birdie many holes
Buy a new driver

Wow! I could go on but I will stop now. hehe

[Nat Williams]

1. Take mpare's $$ on the course

[Golfbum]

I usually do not set "Goals" for the season. When you do that you put undue pressure on yourself every time you walk to the first tee.
I plan on playing 150+ rounds this year. No pressure there, that will be a piece of cake to meet that one.
I plan on having fun on the course. I do that every year. Constant grinding during every round is not much fun. Years ago I wanted to hammer everyone I played with,beat them by as many strokes as I could. I found I was not having fun on the course. Now I just go out and play. If I have a great round, that is good. If I have a bad round I don't worry about it. It is a game afterall. Life goes on whether you shoot 73 or 83.
If I had to set a couple of goals:
1. Drive the ball straighter
2. Lower my index from 7 to 5 or 4
3. Always have a cold beer after every round
The first two will require work, the last one is easy!

All I can say to everyone is tee it up as often as you can, play as well as you can. Enjoy the day, enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the people you are walking down the fairways with. Meet and make new friends on the course. I find golf friendships last a lifetime.

[LBH]

Same as last year: play as much as I can while enjoying it as much as I should...

[Colby]

Hmmm, that is going to be hard. I'm not that good yet but its strange because I shoot really well on about 10 holes.. if I take my 10 best holes I will usually be at par, but its the other 8 holes that I will double, triple and quad boogie but since I started the year shooting a few really low rounds, my handicap meant I could only take two over on each hole but slowly its been going up and leveled off around 14.

What is a good goal to set for handicap then?

I wouldn't worry too much about where your handicap is. I would look at where your strokes are coming from on those bad holes. Keep some stats and see if they are coming from penalties, bad recovery shots from sand traps, forcing recovery shots because of bad shot selection, etc. Then concentrate on fixing those issues. I did that one year by working on my sand game which would cost me 2 or 3 strokes per game and reducing the number of penalties per round. If you can drop a couple of strokes per round that way, that's huge when you are a 12-14 handicap.

As your handicap gets lower, the variance in your scores is less and less. This makes the changes in your handicap less dramatic, unless you shoot a really low round, which seems to make your handicap drop a lot faster than it does when it starts to increase, lol!

[Started2k3]

I have done this every year that I have been playing.

Here are my goals for 2006:

1) Get more consistency in distance
2) Be able to hit all shots straight
3) Track partial shot distance and spread for 7i to 60° wedge
4) Break 80
5) Learn to keep the drives low to get the added length (300 yds)
6) Learn, learn, learn

[Indio]

1. Play a lot of different courses after 10 years of the same course
2. Meet and play with some of the inmates of OG
3. Avoid being beaten by my wife (at golf)
4. Not to pay much attention to my scores
5. Relax and enjoy the scenery
6. Keep the same clubs as last year in my bag!
7. Find a regular 'golf night' for a '9 N dine' type thingy but NOT COMPETITIVE

[BullDog]

1. Break 80 for the second time and then hopefully a few more times.

2. Narrow down the variety of scores I get - competitively I shot between 84 and 110 on the Slammer Tour last year. Out of 40 rounds, 10 were over 100 and 9 were 90 and under. The other 21 were 91-99. My leisure rounds at my home course basically ranged between 79 and 95 (with one 99 in there for good measure at the beginning of the 2005 season.)

3. Continue getting my GIR % up. It went up to 26% at the end of the year. It's so easy to score well when you're on in regulation! I'd like to see if I can hit 40% this year.

4. Play as much as possible, and not to wuss out so early (I quit on Nov. 13 because I grew tired of playing on soggy and cold courses.) Now I want to play on soggy and cold courses today!

[up&down]

The last 5 yrs i've been slacking off. This year i'm hoping to play and practice like i used to and compete once more with the young guns

[r2g2]

Simple plan ... hit the green after driving the ball in the middle of the fairway.

[Andru]

Hmm, your math may be a bit off here...

If you want a single digit handicap, you need to go below 80 more than once...

Depends on the difficulty track Colby.

[Andru]

The Ultimate Goal for this year is the same as it is every year pinky "Try to take over the World.............."

[fundonny]

:groupwave :groupwave :groupwave

Hilarious!!!!!!

The Ultimate Goal for this year is the same as it is every year pinky "Try to take over the World.............."

[Colby]

Depends on the difficulty track Colby.

Difficulty track? Not sure that is in the handicap manual

Yes, if you were to play super hard courses, ones with high ratings and slope, had rounds in the low 80's and one under 80 you would probably be close to a single digit handicap. That said, someone who is a 14 handicap, and aiming to shoot a single round under 80, it would be highly unlikely for that handicap to move into single digits.

[mberube]

Enjoy every day that I am on the course. We only golf 7 months out of 12 so I want savour every round.

Better my short game and putting.

Oh ya, play par a couple of times.

[Andru]

Difficulty track? Not sure that is in the handicap manual

Yes, if you were to play super hard courses, ones with high ratings and slope, had rounds in the low 80's and one under 80 you would probably be close to a single digit handicap. That said, someone who is a 14 handicap, and aiming to shoot a single round under 80, it would be highly unlikely for that handicap to move into single digits.

that was my point if you play the golds at the marshse and shoot 80-79 every round you'll be in the single digits. Point taken though

[Dunny]

Keep the clubs I have for the whole season

Wait for after the round for beers

"be the ball Danny"

[Nat Williams]

Keep the clubs I have for the whole season

I would LOVE to do this

Bag is pretty set, but I know I will prolly go through another 5-10 putters this season .