Knowing Your Limitations
 

Yup...that's me

Seriously I have to play within myself 'cause that's all I got. I doesn't matter who I'm playing with. guys play from the tips...I play from the forward middle again...that's all I got.

...and Johneli...275 is a good swing for anyone.

That startled me. I thought I had actually written that and went furiously for the edit button. LOL!!!!!

You are fortunate. I am about the same age as you, and 250 in my limit. Then again I tend to use my 3w more than my driver, so 230 of the tee is my number. When youngsters shows up with their 300 yard driver, I don't try to compete with them. It's waste of time. I just square it up with them usually because I have a better short, approach game, and better putting stroke. http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...lies/clapp.gif

You can't pay attention to what anyone else is doing. You just have to hit your shots the way you see it. I know what you mean though I have to resist the urge to try to kill the ball when I am playing with a big hitter. Remember though that those guys really don't have an advantage unless they can control their distance, if they are hitting a 7 iron 200 yards one time and 180 the next their game will suffer, better to hit it 165 every time.

I agree with your every word.

I long ago quit worrying about what others can do. I've never been long with my irons... pretty much accepted that I'm generally going to be hitting one or 2 clubs longer than most of the people I play with. That has been true for 20 odd years. My driver has usually been above average, but now that I'm losing length with that too, it really doesn't bother me because I've been used to it in the iron game anyway.

A player has to focus on what HE can do, not on what Joe Bomber is doing. Like they always say, it not HOW, it's how MANY. http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...es/biggrin.png

Definitely have to try not to keep up with others. Sometimes I'm the long hitter in a group, sometimes I'll have a guy outdriving me by 20-50 yards. And it's strange the way my clubs work out. While I might be outdriving my group by 25 yards some days, when we hit the par-3's I'll be hitting a club stronger than them to reach the green. If I try to match someone with my irons I always end up overswinging and playing even worse. http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...es/beat-up.png

You know, I noticed something along those lines that's interesting...

More than once (but not more than once during a round), someone has asked someone else in the group (could be me, could be others) what club they're playing on a par-3. Why? I mean, I'm a short hitter (e.g., while others play an 8 iron, i'm playing a 7, or maybe even a 6). So they ask what I'm playing and I tell them, then they play whatever feels right to them anyway. Is it just to make themselves feel better about outhitting someone? I don't think it's that they don't know what club to use. Just seems a little... odd to me.

I can definitely see the logic to that. People like to allow themselves a little "left-handed" bragging once in awhile.

Hubby does that a lot, but it's because he cannot seem to make up his own mind. He doesn't pay enough attention to his own distances, so he wants to use the same club everyone else is using, whether or not it's right for him.

Dirty Harry.... http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...ilies/cool.png

Thanks FP. Went blank on that one.

I just play my own game,if i am beng outdriven it doesnt affect me or the shots i am playing.

I've lost some distance over the last couple years. Enough to irritate me and make playing 6,900 yard and up courses more difficult. I've been avoiding the tips at my home course because of it, but I don't like it. At all.

So I guess I know my limitations, but wish I didn't. Long hitting young people are starting to annoy me. I'm just as good a player as many of them, but can't play the same courses. No matter how you look at it, the guy with the 8i in his hand has an advantage over the guy swinging the 5i, all other things being equal. I can go back to the tips and my handicap stays the same because of the different rating and slope, but that doesn't satisfy me like the lower scores from more forward tees.

I fear I am becoming a grouchy old man at 48. Soon I'll sit on my porch and scream at kids to get off my lawn and the transformation will be complete.

Kevin

Dude.....if I had a two handicap at your age I would ALWAYS play my own game. http://www.thehackersparadise.com/fo...es/biggrin.png

Actually, that particular transformation isn't complete until you also begin wearing your pants pulled up around your chest.

Only THEN, will you have officially "crossed over" and become fully qualified to scream at the neighborhood kids.


-JP

I just bought a stretchy belt so I can do just that. I can now wear my pants just over my belly bulge. I'm still deciding on socks as the pants legs now end above my ankles. It does make you feel like yelling at young people.

Kevin

Socks are a no brainer:

White.

They have to be white! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...s/thumbsup.gif


(In fact, I think that's an actual rule).



-JP