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Beginner seeking feedback

• MainzMan 9,591 Posts

  Sun, Jun 26 2016 4:12 AM

  My advice is to forget about your stats, everyone who isn't an old legend or tour legend with a new account will have what appear to be poor stats early on.  They'll improve, you just need to learn the game and get used to how your clubs work.

  As for mapping and calculations, while I used to do the old wind x distance / 200 in my head for cross wind allowances I never mapped clubs or played any practice rounds getting to know a new set.

  This is obviously just my way and it doesn't have to be yours but I find real life golf is about judgement and feel and I play the same way here.  You'll quickly get used to moving the aimer to where feels right, same for the power on the meter.  And you'll be less annoyed when the ball finishes 10 feet from the hole since you didn't calculate power and aim to 6 decimal places.

  Ignore stats, average and tier. 

  Concentrate on having fun.

• julio1235 238 Posts

  Sun, Jun 26 2016 5:27 AM

  The only thing I could add to the great advice from the other posters here is:  when I was upgrading my clubs I noticed that the more the meter speed for all of them matched each other the better to hitting the ding would go up. 

  Many players keep their old clubs also.  I bought a set of irons level 90 twice trying to hit them but they were simply to fast compared to my other clubs.  Then 2 months later they came out with a .5 meter speed slower for them and I bought them again and played with them till level 97 irons.  LOL.

• JimbeauC 5,835 Posts

  Sun, Jun 26 2016 9:09 AM

  CrazyNewt:

  If anyone can be bothered to have a squiz over my stats and provide any pointers I'd really appreciate it!

  What stands out to me is a fairly low 1 putt percentage. The easiest way to improve putting is to land the approach closer, so working with your irons seems the way to go. I'm assuming you've done a forum search to get advice on wind and elevation. There's probably a CC thread or two that would help. 

  The best place to get practice in and calibrating irons is a flat course. Beware StA as (at least for me) the runouts can be exaggerated. I'd recommend Pinehurst. Obviously, to get a handle on elevations, you'll need to check in at a hilly course. Congressional is a good venue for this. (Beware #18. The elevation calcs go out the window, there, but the rest of the course is fairly consistent.)

  Once you have a good handle on that, I'd suggest looking into how the landing area contours affect your shot. Hopefully, you've learned the trick of changing your stroke to pitch in order to get a look at how the green is contoured. 

  Good luck. Mainly have fun with it, frustrating as it sometimes is. 

• kilbraur 219 Posts

  Mon, Jun 27 2016 3:59 PM

  Crazynewt If you go mine profile page you is see I has many help sheets of notes. Al ar translate to the English. Maybe they be of some little help to you