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When I first started I shot 144, for 18, I was so bad the club was going to tell me not to play till I could play to 108, I was a 15 years old at the time, I got paided out at school, so I started practicing my butt off, then within six months broke a hundred, then everything snow balled went from 144 to shooting par round in 12months.
I thank everyone for paying me out, made a golfer of me.

I just checked golflink and the first time I broke 100 in comp (where it counts!) was the 1st of September, 2007. Three months later I was playing off 17 :-). Sadly I am still there :(

Mr C,
top effort welldone, you will come done again, just a matter of time.

3 years an it has not happened for me yet .. 106 is the closest

1976, age 12, hcp at time was 27, shot 99 at Exmouth Golf Club, NW West Aust. Didn’t break 100 again until a couple of years later as a junior member at old Rockingham course, but did break a lot of clubs in between! 8(

Brett

Brett,
Exmouth nice part of the country, Love taking holidays at exmouth and coral bay, I miss W.A great place

As a kid bio, better than Disneyland! Golf, cricket, football, tennis, swimming, baseball, basketball, fishing, athletics, etc. Looking back, I wonder when we had time for school! 8)

Mr C,
top effort welldone, you will come done again, just a matter of time.

Thanks Bio, I fell off the wagon for a bit there but am back and put in 20hrs of solid practice this week and I feel my game is moving in the right direction, but time will tell.

3 years an it has not happened for me yet .. 106 is the closest

Keep at it tiny tool.
myself can’t remember. Yarra bend back in the 90’s

As a kid bio, better than Disneyland! Golf, cricket, football, tennis, swimming, baseball, basketball, fishing, athletics, etc. Looking back, I wonder when we had time for school! 8)

I spent 10 years in Tom Price and never once went to Exmouth…can’t believe we never visited…everyone who has ever been there raves about it…wish I went when it was ‘just down the road’.

Yeah, how good was sport up there? – just sport sport sport…we even got PE at school more often than others I think.

You can’t beat sport in a small town as a kid!

still haven’t broken 100.. have recently started breaking 110 regularly with 104 the best. this is no comfort however, as i have realised that my swing has problems and without lessons, i can’t see things progressing.

last time out shot 105 with only 34 putts (ouch!)

5 months since getting my handicap and my best comp score is 103, shooting high teens-low 20’s at the moment. Did shoot 47 for 9 back in August last year so I was half way to beating 100.

3rd card going for handicap, first two shot 106 & 102, then 91 which is still my best round, the day when I kept all tee shots on the fairway and the putter worked well (in 35-36deg, 80% humidity). I’ve only been playing for 10 months, got to get my handicap down from 28 struggled during the build up and wet season. Now the monsoonal rain has stopped and the course has dried out, I’m getting 25-30m more run on the fairways and finding it easier to make it to the green on long par 4 and 5’s.

Keep at it guys, like the shampoo commericals says “it won’t happen overnight…but it will happen”

I played about 12 years ago. Broke 100 after about 9 months. Hiatus of 10 years started again 3 years ago .Took me 2 years to break 100. Must say I mainly play 9 but play 18 probably 4 times a year. Lowest score to date 97, was an easy course though.

Almost to embarrased to say ‘but it has in reality taken me 20 years :-)

Having said that I have only played a handful of games a year at most with breaks of up to 3 years at one stage.

Since I began paying once to twice a week in the last eighteen months I offically broke 100 with a 96 three weeks ago.Up till then I would shoot mid forties on one nine & mid fifties the other nine & consistantly shooting 101 to 105 … Fustrating .Hopefully I have broken ice know and more will come.

Russ

i started hiting balls when i was 3 ( scottish parents) i broke 100 when i was about 11.. pity i gave the game up 14,

now 35 and been playing for about two and a half years.. took me a year and a half to beat my best score of 82 (which i did when i was 13 and half at north ryde)
ha ha

I reckon best way to beat the dreaded 100 is to focus on scoring 5 on each and every hole including par 3’s and not think about the end result, that way you will consistantly in the 90’s.

1976, age 12, hcp at time was 27, shot 99 at Exmouth Golf Club, NW West Aust. Didn’t break 100 again until a couple of years later as a junior member at old Rockingham course, but did break a lot of clubs in between! 8(

Brett

Lol…I must have missed those golf courses when I was there around 1970.

I reckon it took me about 10 years to break 100! I played my first game of golf aged 12 at Keysborough and about 10 years later I broke 100 on one of the WA public courses…I’m stuffed if I can remember which one! I’d be lucky to have played a dozen games in those 10 years;-)

I just checked golflink and the first time I broke 100 in comp (where it counts!) was the 1st of September, 2007. Three months later I was playing off 17 :-). Sadly I am still there :(

The REAL Mr Consistency

http://www.golflink.com.au/...

Mr C it took me 3 months to break 100, 9 months before I could play to 27 handicap with any consistancy & 5 years to get my handicap down to 17 where you are. I have been on 17 for about 4 years but believe i can still lower it further. persevere your handicap will start to drop again. do you play regularly?

Pom, I’d bet you’d (and me) love to be about 20 years of age with a 17 h/c? :P Imagine all those golfing years ahead of us…sigh!

Good to hear you haven’t given up on lowering the h/c.

I first broke 100 about ten years ago when I was 13. Used to shoot mid 90’s, then I stopped playing. I Took up golf again about 2 years ago and it didn’t take me long to break 100, probably 6 months. I’m in the low to mid 80’s now but can’t seem to go lower than 81!

I just checked golflink and the first time I broke 100 in comp (where it counts!) was the 1st of September, 2007. Three months later I was playing off 17 :-). Sadly I am still there :(

The REAL Mr Consistency

http://www.golflink.com.au/...

Mr C it took me 3 months to break 100, 9 months before I could play to 27 handicap with any consistancy & 5 years to get my handicap down to 17 where you are. I have been on 17 for about 4 years but believe i can still lower it further. persevere your handicap will start to drop again. do you play regularly?

A bad day on the golf course is better than no golf at all. :(

No one who ever had a lesson would have a swing like mine

Lee Trevino

There was a time where I didnt play any golf for a month and very little in the month before, I have since regain my passion for golf and was out there tues,wed, thurs and sat of this week. Most of it was practicing on the range and putting greens but I am hoping to make a 4+ day golf week a common thing now that I am back in the fray :)

Boys easiest way to break a hundred, Never look at your score,
Have fun out there, play shot, by shot, when putted out after each hole write your score down, don’t look at your card don’t add your score forget about the score, after nine tell your playing partner don’t worry about telling the score, I know. Do this the whole 18, at the end of the round, you will be pleasantly surprised.
In golf you can’t aim for a score anything can happen, Then your not pressured or trying to hard , but all that matters your having fun remember once you hit the ball and it’s in the air it’s in gods hands.