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Yeah I'm finding the good shots annoy me more than the bad ones because I know I can do it. It's just remembering the new swing and club lengths.
Update: My club killed it. We beat them 30.5 - 5.5 in total points. I won my match 2.5 - .5 (won the front easily up three and halved the back). I had to give two strokes to my opponent and I knew I was in good shape when I could see the concern on my opponent's face after I outdrove him and his driver with my hybrid on the first shot. Generally, I know whether I am playing a "good" match play opponent if he appears unimpressed by my practice swing and recognizes that handicaps exist for a reason and he just has to trust his game and ignore mine.
Yep. 5.1 I believe. And I think I'm playing consistently as one which is nice as opposed to the rollercoaster of variance.
Nothing worse than hitting a poor shot right in front of the group letting you through. Glad you justified their decision.
That's awesome. Hope my wife gets there eventually haha
My wife got to experience this just this past weekend. We play a lot of Sundays as our "dates" now that we both play a lot and our playing partners dropped last minute so we got stuck behind four balls as a two ball. We aren't in a hurry but it gets annoyingly slow even though we are both playing about as slow as our comfort levels will permit. Group directly in front of us was ridiculously slow (1.5 holes behind - I almost pulled the "board member card" and tattled on them) so I made the decision t- just skip ahead of them with them exclaiming "there are other groups in front!" as I give them the courtesy waive and point so they knew what we were doing. We catch up to the next foursome after the next hole and they are surprised but do the right thing and offer us to play through after they hit their drives. They joked that we better hit good ones which made my wife nervous.
Hole is a short par 5 with a bottleneck about 300 yards up the fairway to squeeze the longer hitters playing something other than the tips. I put a three wood dead center past their drives into the heart of the bottleneck. My wife then steps up to the women's tees and cranks one probably 240 down the middle and winds up sitting right next to my drive - well past the four guys' drives that I recognized as regular players. Dudes' jaws were dropped. My wife was very happy and I was very proud of her. I explained to her that there isn't anything much more nerve-wracking in golf than hitting your tee shot quickly but well in front of the group letting you go through.
No, not with my driver. I'd rather see my crappy swings.
I don't, but if it works for you why not go for it? They're adjustable for a reason. We should use whatever legal advantage we're given.
Idk if it will work for me haha. I was trying to see if anyone doesn't and if it works before I try it and it doesn't and a round is destroyed haha
Go to the range for something like this. I wouldn't do it for a round if you are unfamiliar with the change.
I could tell the last couple rounds I was getting close. Tough to tell on one course because the sand was rock hard, but I had a good one once I put the ball on a slight elevation. The other time out I was getting the right contact, but my judgment of distance was off. Then yesterday I finally had an ah-ha moment.
) so I kept flying my chips 20 feet or so past. Then the roles reversed from 11-15. I suddenly couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, but once I got within 50 yards I was great. Up-and-down one putts on 3 of the next 5 with a chip in mixed in and they were all for bogey or double. It seemed to all finally came together the final 3 holes with a bird on 16, a par on the 230 yard behometh par 3 17, then piped a drive on 18 out to 105 out dead center fairway, but then I let an easy wedge leak into the right green side bunker on 18. Is this really how I'm going to finish this round? First bunker all day, let's see what I've got left. It was deep, but I could barely see the bottom of the flag. Given the way these greens were playing, I just needed to clear the lip, land softly on the short stuff before the down slope, then let it feed to the hole. I took a big swing, knowing that when I've done this in the past I've hit the ball thin and may take out a window in the pro shop, and all I heard was a **poof** then saw the ball do exactly as I envisioned, rolling up to about 18" for a tap-in par to salvage an adventurous 89. 
Up .75. I use 1 heel bias. But that was when I was playing fades off the tee. Probably go back to neutral again
