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echidapus

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bowling vs. golf
« on: January 22, 2009, 05:47:45 AM »
In the history of sports, before tiger woods, bowling has been compared to golf.  

How many bowlers out there are also golfers?  

What is your bowling handicap vs. your golfers handicap?  Does anyone have a 0 for both?

What would be equivalent to a 300 game in golf?  Hole in 1?  That case how many who have both?

I was going to take up golf last summer, but a concussion kept me out.
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High series 804
High triplicate 774
High average 221
best game. when I was 6 I bowled a 158
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LuckyLefty

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Re: bowling vs. golf
« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2009, 01:08:21 PM »
Well...my comments on Firestone etc....

If it so easy why do I see so many players over par during tournaments.
PS My home couse was a PGA tour monday qualifying site and a good friend of mine I could beat went to Merion right after a long ago US open and shot 71...."easy" he said!  Of coure they had cut the rough in his case.

As far as State Amateur champs.  I had one that played behind me in high school. He still holds the state stroke play record.  
Ahead of me was a player he won the State Juniors championship.  Two of his victims on the way to the title were a guy named Jeff Sluman and another guy named Joey Sindelar.  I guess guys who are not quite good enough to win the state championship can somehow squeek by in the pros!!

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idriveahonda

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Re: bowling vs. golf
« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2009, 08:08:54 PM »
Two of the courses I play at are Monday Qualifiers, and one holds the Virginia Beach Open...used to.

And those examples aren't so good, they are a little older now, and the competition back then was nowhere near as fierce as it is now.  I play with kids who hold course records, who play in the Eastern Amateur and win...etc...who will NEVER make professional golf.

It's just too damn hard nowadays...and too expensive.

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Well...my comments on Firestone etc....

If it so easy why do I see so many players over par during tournaments.
PS My home couse was a PGA tour monday qualifying site and a good friend of mine I could beat went to Merion right after a long ago US open and shot 71...."easy" he said!  Of coure they had cut the rough in his case.

As far as State Amateur champs.  I had one that played behind me in high school. He still holds the state stroke play record.  
Ahead of me was a player he won the State Juniors championship.  Two of his victims on the way to the title were a guy named Jeff Sluman and another guy named Joey Sindelar.  I guess guys who are not quite good enough to win the state championship can somehow squeek by in the pros!!

REgards,

LUckylefty
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Kid Jete

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Re: bowling vs. golf
« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2009, 08:31:19 PM »
quote:
Well...my comments on Firestone etc....

If it so easy why do I see so many players over par during tournaments.
PS My home couse was a PGA tour monday qualifying site and a good friend of mine I could beat went to Merion right after a long ago US open and shot 71...."easy" he said!  Of coure they had cut the rough in his case.

As far as State Amateur champs.  I had one that played behind me in high school. He still holds the state stroke play record.  
Ahead of me was a player he won the State Juniors championship.  Two of his victims on the way to the title were a guy named Jeff Sluman and another guy named Joey Sindelar.  I guess guys who are not quite good enough to win the state championship can somehow squeek by in the pros!!

REgards,

LUckylefty
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All the guys on tour were top state and national amatuer players, if that's what you're getting at.  We're just saying most of these "top" players will never sniff the big leagues, it's THAT tough.  And as far as FSCC being easy... I would say "simple" rather than easy.  What makes it possible to score there are the greens.  They are some of the best in the country and very true to read.  There aren't a lot of holes that you need to just hit it in the middle of the green and make par.  The course gets tough when they let the rough grow out and put the tees at the tips.  It's fairly long compared to some other courses the tour sees.  The best player I have ever played with around here is Ben Curtis, a state amatuer champ as you have discussed.  Won the British then came back home and breaks his own course record at Windmill Lakes, which is no slouch course in itself.  Anyway I'm babbling again lol...
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nd300

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Re: bowling vs. golf
« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2009, 08:44:44 PM »
KR300,
 Give a 20 handicapper a $2,000 set of clubs and 5 lessons and he will hit it farther,but in what direction????
 IF the lessons are good ones AND he/she practices what they're told AND IF the clubs are fitted by a certified club fitter,you should EASILY be able to knock off 5 strokes minimum----if not 7-8 in a summer.My first set of custom fit irons and lots of practice and playing took me from a 15 handicap to a 6 IN ONE SUMMER,including a personal low of 72 on a course used by the Futures Tour(LPGA developmental tour)
 
 Personally,
 I'm a 7.2 handicap and have averaged over 200 for the past eleven years in at least two leagues per year with at least 66 games per league(and usually closer to 90).
 P.S.   No holes in one,but several 300 games.
 Golf is INFINITELY harder.Be off by 1-2 boards in bowling and you can still strike or spare.Be off by 1/2 degree closed or open on a shot in golf and you'll miss your target by a comparative mile.
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