Goals for the year

Hey all

was wondering what every ones goals for the current golfing year are?

Mine is a fairly humble goal that by end of year i will be shooting between 90 and 95 on a weekly basis.

By improving my chipping/pitching round the green and better course management (remembering that just because i saw a pro do it once doesnt mean i can do it) as well s regular playing/range i think this is an achievable target.

Last year my handicap was bouncing between 5 and 6, this year I want to get myself firmly down to Cat 1 where I don't have to worry about going above 5 every time I play in a medal. This means shooting under 75 on a regular basis round my course.

Get the ability to consistently shoot below 100 by June, proceed down to 18 handicap by the end of the summer, and improve course management through experience. Should be interesting...

This years goal is to get my handicap down to +1, by spending more time on the practice ground and posying regular 2/3 under par rounds of golf in competitions this year

First goal of the year is to get round 18 holes! After a winter of bad weather and a foot injury I'm off out this morning for the first time in 10 weeks.

Once I find I can play a full 18 again, then the next goal is to get the h/c down hopefully to around the 18 mark which is where I feel I should be. After creeping up to 23 early last year I've got it back down to 21 before the foot injury and I'm looking to take another 2 or 3 shots off that by late summer.

But first things first - a completed 18 is the first priority!

My goals are:
Fundamentally to enjoy my golf by entering comps at my new club, represent the B Team at home and away fixtures and meet up with as many of my fellow 606v2ers over the course of the summer at Saunton, Bournmouth and anywhere else financially feasible. Would like to get my handicap down to about 16 too. Ohh and if anyone on here is interested, during the week I can get visitors in for £5.00 rpt £5.00 a round during the month of March, so if anyone fances a round at a nice little course in the North Cotswolds www.nauntondowns.co.uk then let me know

Play as many courses as possible and assemble my hickory set.

Mac:
Thought of you. Played with a couple of old guys at my course yesterday, one of whom had a really old hickory shafted putter (apparently from st Andrews circa 1920) belonged to his father. He putted well with it too, must have holed half a dozen from outside 6 feet :lol:

Well to follow up my own post from earlier, I made my first goal of the year. 18 holes completed with only some discomfort from the foot over the last two or three holes.

It remains to be seen how sore it is tomorrow, but for today it couldn't have been better.

The comp was supposed to be a qualifier but with one hole closed due to maintenance/improvement and the par 5 third turned into a a temporary 3a and 3b (long par3, short par4) the comp had to be demoted to a non-qualifier.

Still I managed 31 points with a lost ball on the last that I didn't bother looking for for the full 5 minutes as it didn't really matter; I was more than happy. First game in almost 3 months I'd have settled for anything over 20 points as long as I made it around!

After such a long lay-off I expected to be much more rusty but half on hour on the range before and half an hour on the putting green took the edge off that and my short game was much better than I expected after such a long break. Don't think I had any three putts which surprised me as we have big greens and I usually many one or two three putts even when I'm playing well!

It's good to be back :friend:

sweet

good going, glad to hear goal one completed and went well.

davie

nice one, sounds like a bit of a result. Hope there is no reaction in the morning and you'll be back out on the links every week now

get the scratch thats from 2.8 to 0.4 - im trying to think positive!

I'm currently at 16 and would like to get down around 12 by the year end.
But my aim on a round by round basis is to score nothing worse than bogey on any hole. Getting to any par 4 in 3 shots is do-able regardless of what sort of day it is, so if playing for a bogey on 1 or 2 holes elimates the odd 6 or 7 i will take that.
I regualrly par 9 or 10 holes a round but also have too many doubles or worse. If i can reduce those to bogeys that shuold get me down around 12. Short term aim for a long term goal!

After what was my worst season yet last season my hcap went up 0.8 to 3.6, I'll be trying to get back to where I was at the end of 2009.

Main target is Cat 1, so less than 5.4 - currently 6.7
I also want to
break gross par for the first time
get a cut in an open comp
win a medal
play under my handicap at a top top venue

Goldie

What happened, that sounds horrific. If it is not too painful I would be interested to hear what happened?

looking to get to 2.0 from 3.3 so its a big ask.

going to play a few more 36 holers this season and would like a top 10 in one :shooter:
im hoping to get into the 36 holer at silloth ...never played it before so a couple of buffers would do fine.

for the firt time in my life i have actually planned my golf this year inc practice on wed nights instead of playing the wed comps

hope everyone hits meets their goals......look forward to the update for this thread in october :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:

Really want to get my handicap down to below 14 which was my original target but have now hit 2 rounds of 84 & 85. But to be honest all I want to do is enjoy my golf this year as have only been back playing again for the last 6 months. But shooting low scores I am sure will go along way to enjoying it I am sure :shooter:

Another target is to hit 4 birdies or more in a single round have only ever managed 3 so this would be a massive achievemnt

Ok so I said one goal but have sat down today and planned my season first time I've been able to do this for about 3years.

Have got my entries in for four 36 hole scratch events. (1 per month may through august)
Want a top 5 in each of those with 1 win ideally.

Practice 3 nights a week.
Try to win club championship & Scratch Matchplay

One I would love to achieve is our amateur course record currently its -6 (held by my brother)
Attend all 4 days of the Open at RSG

Finish the year with handicap of +1

My goal last year was to hit a score in the 80's. I made 4 in the end.

This year I want to hit 5 80's rounds in a row, and a stretch target to hit a round in the 70's by christmas.

My goals are -

Shoot in the 70s.

Get handicap from 15 to 10.

Have lessons at regular intervals to check the basics.

Play more courses.

Get to the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart.

Maverick wrote:Ok so I said one goal but have sat down today and planned my season first time I've been able to do this for about 3years.

Have got my entries in for four 36 hole scratch events. (1 per month may through august)
Want a top 5 in each of those with 1 win ideally.

Practice 3 nights a week.
Try to win club championship & Scratch Matchplay

One I would love to achieve is our amateur course record currently its -6 (held by my brother)
Attend all 4 days of the Open at RSG

Finish the year with handicap of +1

Well we now know why Mrs Mav has allowed you to spend so much time outdoors In her position I'd do exactly the same. She must cringe evrytime you walk in the bedroom, poor love :606laugh:

Hey what can i say, my strokes obviously good and keeps hitting the target...............................

Plus if it means more outdoors time on the course im happy

Maverick wrote:Hey what can i say, my strokes obviously good and keeps hitting the target...............................

Plus if it means more outdoors time on the course im happy

you must be taking the right urine out of the kids eat free offers at places like Pizza Hut. :606laugh:

LondonJonnyO wrote:

Maverick wrote:Hey what can i say, my strokes obviously good and keeps hitting the target...............................

Plus if it means more outdoors time on the course im happy

you must be taking the right urine out of the kids eat free offers at places like Pizza Hut. :606laugh:

More like the under 2's go free on flights LJ, need a whole bank of seats

Maverick wrote:

LondonJonnyO wrote:

Maverick wrote:Hey what can i say, my strokes obviously good and keeps hitting the target...............................

Plus if it means more outdoors time on the course im happy

you must be taking the right urine out of the kids eat free offers at places like Pizza Hut. :606laugh:

More like the under 2's go free on flights LJ, need a whole bank of seats

so it's UK holidays only from 2013 or so then?

LondonJonnyO wrote:
so it's UK holidays only from 2013 or so then?

Hell No, just means more golf holidays without the kids! and leaving the wife in the hotel spa while im on the course so we can both relax away from the little ones. Plus can holiday at places like disney land kids will love it oh and wait! Theres a golf course too 8)

Maverick wrote:

LondonJonnyO wrote:
so it's UK holidays only from 2013 or so then?

Hell No, just means more golf holidays without the kids! and leaving the wife in the hotel spa while im on the course so we can both relax away from the little ones. Plus can holiday at places like disney land kids will love it oh and wait! Theres a golf course too 8)

A lot of hotels have kiddie priso.... sorry. Kiddie clubs as well now.

2011 Targets:

- Retain the cup i won in 2010 for best 6 nett medal scores based on your handicap at the start of the year (i.e. long hand for most improved golfer) - Started well -2 for the first (January) medal which i won

- Reduce handicap from 18 to 12 - Started well, down to 17 already by virtue of my Jan medal win.

- Win a matchplay comp - Started well, in the semi of the Winter Greensomes.

- Round in the 70s...

- Be more consistent, i went through June, July and August last when i was absolutely dog poo, March, April and May, Sept, Oct and Nov were good.

The goal is to get down to 9 from 11.8 and for the first time ever, have a single figure handicap. That's a reduction of 2.4, ie 12 shots under my current handicap, nett over the season.

How? Practise twice a week with around 75% short game, 25% long game; stop trying to leather the ball on every shot - just because I can hit it a very long way for my handicap doesn't mean I have to and usually results in cabbage grief; increase FIRs and GIRs with more considerate course mgmt (and less ball leathering); get some consistency with my streaky putter! when it's good it's awesome but i find myself going through spells of leaving everything short and therefore never giving the ball a chance; join the very reaonably priced local course (Crail's 30mins away) to get more on-course practice (option of £100 annual fee plus £2 a round played).

If I actually manage to do all of those things, the handicap should take care of itself.