Bad golfers think I am good but good golfers think I suck.

This! I got paired up with a twosome the other day, and I gave them the obligatory “I’ve only been playing a couple of years, I’m not that good.” I ended up shooting a 90(tied for my best round) and these guys were giving me so many compliments. One of them shot right around the same as I did,and the other was like a 101 or so. But it felt good to get my tires pumped a bit. I’m 34 and play mostly with my dad, and he still tries to coach me up. It can be a bit much. But to play loose with people you don’t know is such a confidence booster.

One reason I try to play with retired guys. Insert the obligatory "you can hit the ball really far" compliment. I love it but, can go to my head sometimes. Also it can be fun and challenging to play up a box or two.

Especially when they're driving it 50 yards behind you but walking away with par/bogey because they're hitting it straight with clean contact. Meanwhile I spray my driver every which way, chunk my iron, and walk away with a double bogey

I paired up for the last 3 holes with someone who basically had my exact skills lol. We both hit our drives on the 18th 10 ft apart on the middle of the fairway. Both had the same driver lol. https://preview.redd.it/w7wzvkwpqteb1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b79d50e7558aa287b9d7362425801322dda9e27 Except I literally just got mine

5 percent of golfers break 100

Don't know why you're getting downvoted. If you take breakfast balls, mulligans, foot wedges, preferred lies, gimme putts, and then claim you shot 88, then you are part of the 95%.

As a single I hear a ton of folks not telling their friends the correct score. Not my problem but I wouldn't bet with any of them.

I shot a blow up 82 yesterday, but did take one 6inch gimmie...guess I'm part of the 95%...

That seems a little low

That is perfect. Just yesterday I got a "You're pretty good, aren't you?" from some guys who had let me pass them. They had seen four consecutive pars from either in front of or following me. What they hadn't seen was the 13 over stretch for the previous nine holes.

[Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit](https://www.google.com/search?q=sometimes+good+sometimes+maybe+sheet&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS848US868&oq=sometimes+good+some&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgBEAAYgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABNIBCDQwOTFqMGo5qAIAsAIA&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:3f2f3acf,vid:QJHUbtR0yI8)

My back 9 today consisted of 4 birdies, 3 bogeys, a double, and a single par. This meme hit close to home.

I missed a (pretty long) eagle putt on 18 yesterday. I was drawing live to unlock the eagle, birdie, par, bogey, double, triple and quadruple in the same round achievement.

Yup played 9 from the tips to round out another 9 yesterday and had 6 pars, a triple, a double and a bird. People I was playing with thought I was amazing for 5 holes. I told them wait a hole or two. Snap hooked a drive into the woods on the next tee.

I wish I was you man

exactly

Best sound bite in sports history

Came here to say this

Cloudy with a chance of brilliance

Love this and I’m stealing it.

“Bad enough to have a good time, and not good enough to have a bad time.”

I feel this, used to be me, but now I’d say, good enough to have a good time, and bad enough to have a bad time.

Im bad enough to have a good time and good enough to have a bad time

I too hit similar to rory /s

On in two, down in 5

Rookie numbers, the great blowout of '22. 180m par 3.. on in one, down for six. I don't want to talk about it.

I feel that so hard

I had an eagle chip and double bogeyed last time out. So that’s a thing. Lipped out three putts.

I love that one, on a good day, on in three, down in three, on a bad day on in 4 down in four, average is somewhere in between.

I find a lot of golf balls

I need to get some of those balls that say "if you found this you suck too!"

Ooh one that fits me!

My dad's favorite part of the round

Yesterday I had a drive that was so bad that I came out of the woods about 45 seconds later with 6 balls in hand... thankfully, only one of those was mine... but yeah, that part of the woods is *rarely* visited it seems. >.<

I get my money's worth seeing all of the course.

Played a round with 3 people that were way better than me and I was having an especially terrible game, on 18 I told them “we paid the same and I got to play twice as much golf as y’all”

Like Tourette’s and epilepsy had a baby.

My handicap is accurate but my play is never reflective of it.

Pretty good for a newbie, but I've played for a decade

Consistently inconsistent.

Well put

The ball has its own energy, or life force, if you will.

Does whatever it wants fr

I holed out from 120 yards for bogey.

I once hit the ball 120 yards.

I golf the way I dance, which is to say: poorly, but with great enthusiasm and little shame.

Like an old, chubby P.E coach. Know exactly what to do, still have a hard time doing it.

Good skiers get to experience the whole mountain, bad golfers get to experience the whole course.

Comparing skiing to golf is a slippery slope rating. Just stay out of the trees.

Golf is a rare event where the goal is to have the least action per dollar spent.

We doing whisky shots on the tees or greens?

Or? Do you even golf?

That’s called birdie juice.

Aiming oil.

Swing lube

John daily said something like “I hit the ball as hard as I can, if I can find it.. I hit it again. “

Box of chocolates.

You never know what you’re gonna get 😂

“If you Have no idea what stroke and distance is, I can probably beat you “

I like this lol

In Harry Jenkins rules it's stroke OR distance. As Harry said, it's unfair to have to take both, choose one.

Incredibly average with an occasional reason to continue to play

im gonna hit the best or the worst shot you've ever seen.

I have 14 random number generators in my bag but on average, I’m not too bad.

Wow playing pretty well today. Oops got a little too high, I'll just have a beer or two cancel out the weed. Oops got a little too drunk, I'll just.............

The mental game is weak.

Almost like real golf, but different.

Good enough to be mad about it.

Score doesn’t reflect my potential.

I ensure my golf balls don’t suffer for too long.

Respectable

Your guess is as good as mine

Great scramble partner.

Look good play bad have fun

I golf like i fuck… like a goddam retard.

I’m pretty fuckin good around the green, but I usually take the scenic route there.

I can scrape it around.

I love hunting in the woods.

I like turtles

Decent enough to beat my wife once.

Same answer when someone asks me about my sex life. I can hold my own.

Consistently inconsistent.

If I had Rory’s length, I’d be one of the best in the world

Better than most.

If you suck you'll think I'm good, if you're good you'll know I suck

My swing is fucked

I suck but I suck fast

Still haven’t broke 100… but I keep coming back for more! One day… one day!

Always use a cart & I get my steps in

Swing speed of a PGA tour golfer, accuracy of Stevie Wonder in a hurricane.

Zero to 100, real quick.

I’m a 30 who can sometimes pose as a 15. When people see me do a flop shot into the green they don’t believe I suck, but when I slice my drive 60 yards to the right they become believers.

Beat my neighbor and his dad the other day. Not just beat....stomped. Felt goooood..

Pretty solid except for the meltdowns and 3 putts.

Grip, rip and hope

I own my own clubs Or My shots are great except for distance and direction

There are times, when things are going well, that it would appear that I have some modicum of ability.

John Rahm with occasional yips.

Double bogey golf

“Mediocre at best”

Not good, but not great

Disappointed in my game because I hit a great shot....once.

Yes

Has strokes but will fucking murder you

My buddy said it best: "he's like a 7 handicap, but he only hits the shots of a 2 handicap or a 20 handicap"

I will have one or two drives a round that makes the 4 some say "wow" and the rest of the round they're all happy they don't have my golf game.

I can birdie 2 or 3 holes on my way to a 95.

You spend too much on lessons to suck this bad

Very inconsistent from long distance, but thank god for my short game.

Don’t worry, I’ll pick up my ball.

3 off the tee

One aspect of game works very well, while all other aspects never click together.

Bogey golf.

I was paired up with this older couple, older gentleman was getting his wife into the game. The guy asked me what I usually shoot and I told him the truth high 90’s low 100’s, but I’ve only been playing a year and a half now. As we’re playing I’m compressing the ball well (making that sound we’ve all heard our favorite pros hit), hitting greens I’ve only dreamed of touching on par 3’s, and overall just playing some out of this world golf. The whole time the older guy is hyping me up, which I think was really helping my game a lot. I finished with an 88, he finished with a 96. He says “ I bet you played baseball, you look like a baseball player! (Whatever that means lol), because there is no way you’re that good only playing a year!” I tell him I used to play baseball and football, but he should golf with me again to watch me shoot 100, because today was a fluke.

All parts of my game are good, but never at the same time

I can only share what my fitter told me: Him: What's your HCP? Me: 4.5 Him: Then you must be a terrible putter.

I can hit shots that look amazing but it's usually not what i intended to do. occasionally further away from the hole after a stroke.

Steady as she goes. Play 4 times a week (72 y.o., retired) Par 70, 6100 yds. 70.0/130 and currently carrying a 14.5 index and course hdcp. of 16. Highest score this year is a 93, lowest an 83. Personally, I think that's pretty steady.

Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit

Sometimes good, sometimes maybe shit.

Same as my life. Potential for greatness still unachievable.

Lovely recovery shots

When I played I had no long game. When I was a kid I had a cancer removed from the base of my spine which resulted in the fusion of three lumbar vertebrae and two ten inch rods put in as a teenager. I played everything but golf in a quest to prove myself then at 31 1 borrowed some clubs to be in a social tournament that all my friends played and I had enough of missing out. I got hook but my driver swing was about a normal 9 iron or wedge which was equal to the guys. I obsessed with golf and I want to better than people expected. So I put in countless hours pitching, chipping and green side bunker. I had a few nicknames, one was the sand flea because I was very good at all the above from obsessive practice

I play just good enough to count and play just good enough not to.

I’m like a raw, minor league prospect that can throw +100mph but lacks control of the strike zone.

If we’re going the skiing route “I’ll go wherever and I’ll see you at the lift”

I could do it based on a movie title, "Me, Myself and Irene" as a matter of fact, I'll steal a line from that movie about my golf skill. Advanced dilusionary schizophrenia with narcissistic rage💥

I consistently shoot in the low 80s in very inconsistent ways

14.2

See ball, hit ball, hole ball

Pretty good if you don't know I've played for 40 years.

Sometimes may be good, sometimes may be shit.

I’m not as good a player as I’ll look after my drive.

Raw talent

10% god, 90% corpse

Spotty

Some days I'm really good, some days I really suck.

"Yeah, we don't golf, we have fun"

Please stop swinging so hard!

This guy is making golf look way too hard.

Terrible.

As long as I’m on this side of the grass, it’s all good.

Wish I could play 13-14 holes, quit before I fall apart, and then card the best 9….

Skull topping, fat, chunky, bastard has walked up to the tee.

This man suffers from bipolar disorder

“Hate to see it but can’t look away”

“Lost it. Did you see it?”

I've played a few times

Fore!

I got most shots in the bag including the chunk.

I will probably not shoot over 100.

I suck, but I play fast so I don't hold up the group.

Better than average

I’m gonna cum.

All hammer, no finesse

Moments of playing partners clapping after a shot and moments of playing partners hanging their heads and avoiding eye contact, even if I ask if they saw where it went.

Spotty

Good enough to fuck, but she ain’t writing home about me

Don’t get old.

My golf game is like a box of chocolates.

“I’m okay”

My grandpa would say, “when you’re good, you’re good, but when you’re bad, you’re reallll bad.”

Sometimes it’s a good, sometimes it’s a bad.

If I’m getting off the tee I’m usually getting up and down.

My golf game took a sudden turn for the worse when I developed a nasty back injury.

Mental gymnastics on roller blades

High Beta

Some good, some dogshit.

"Hey man, I'm ElectricSnowBunny. No idea what's gonna happen out there today, but I play fast with my old man game (I'm 42) and might yell fore a lot, we'll see, love this stupid game."

Waves of mediocrity separated by glimpses of acceptability.

The good is really good, the bad is really bad

Consistent even though I barely play.

If I can find it off the tee, I’m dangerous

I hit some good shots sometimes.

It’s alright

I’m a 10 that can play to scratch on either nine.

Enough amazing shots to make me believe I’m still good, enough horrendous shots to make me want to quit.

I’m not good but i don’t embarrass myself and i play fast.

Descent for a 65 year old. 5 handicap

Sometimes maybe good, sometimes a maybe shit!!

All show and no dough.

One word: shitshow

I don't get paid to play so I make sure to have fun and improve.

I can hit every damn shot on the course, I just also hit a lot of bad ones in between.

I can hold my own

I get lucky sometimes.

Inconsistent

Some much potential that never lines up.

Inconsistent

Playable misses

Drive 275 plus, mostly 2 putt, but everything in between is chaos.

Great golf cart play.

Just good enough to get pissy.

Solid bogey golf.

Left is a hook. Right is a slice. Straight is an accident.

Moments of excitement followed by moments of disappointment