20 post and no “hole-in-ones” vs “holes-in-one” debate? I’m in the former camp
I'm one of those people who used to be good. When I was at my best I didn't keep an official handicap, but I regularly scored in the high 70s. My best rounds back then were around 75 and my worst were around 80 or maybe 81. If I had to guess, had I kept a handicap it would've been around 6 or 7.
Now I usually shoot in the low- to mid-80s, with my best scores 80 or 81 and my worst about 87 or 88. My scores are highly clustered around 84. At one point a few years back I shot 84 exactly on every round for about 12 rounds in a row. It was crazy. The last time I kept an official handicap was at least a decade ago, and it was 11.8.
So, I'm not really that good anymore.
Sounds like you were and are a pretty good golfer. At one point in time, I either played golf every day of the week or I hit golf balls. Needless to say I let golf become too important in my life. Now if I was a pro-golfer that would have been ok but I wasn't. I carried a 5 handicap for a while but never got it lower than that. Chipping has always been my enemy, although I'm better at it than I was younger. Since I hit 75 years of age, I've done as Jack Nicklaus requested, play it forward. My best tee shots are now around 205-215 yards and I'm shooting 75-80. If I putted as well as I used to, I would be around par. As for hole in ones, I've never had one. I've come mighty close but no cigar. I've a friend who has 17 of them. I guess he got all my luck. Plus, he's good around a 2 handicap the last time I played with him. Keep up your great work and hit all the fairways and one-putt em all.
Wow, that's pretty impressive. I suppose you have "shot your age"? That's a rare feat, if you have (and even if you haven't).
My father just turned 87. I finally talked him into moving up to the gold tees earlier this year. He still shoots in the 70s fairly frequently. When he's 95 I'm gonna kick his butt!
"We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." --M. Proust
But here is only one hole per. Two holes in one hole is physically impossible — it’s just one whole hole.
I think the proper inquiry would be, “What is the total number of golf holes you have played in which you scored a hole in one?”
Oh, and the inquisitor should be wearing tweed. Definitely tweed.
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. . . Certainly didn’t expect a stout on Milkshake IPA Day.
I'm sort of hot and cold(putter). The best round I've had since I began playing again(quit for 7 years) was a 67 at Pine Knolls in K'ville. I was unconscious and made a lot of putts. This year the best so far has been 73 at Olde Home Place in Wallburg but I've also had a couple of 80s this season. I'm just glad the good Lord has let me play this long.
Putting has always been my strong suit.
I went around the front nine at Pasatiempo (as a teenager) in ten putts total. Never forgot the look on an opponent's face in high school when I turned the front nine in 37 without hitting a single green in regulation.
As recently as last summer, in a scramble, I holed 8 putts between 16 and about 40 feet.