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I have a great short game, much better than your average 8 handicap, I can absolutely putt with the best of them. So you can hit it around the course and make a lot of pars with that ability. The problem is I dont make enough birdies and don't have holes where one crooked shot just blows things up.

For example. 590 yard par 5, hit a 250 yard drive, a 190 yard 4 iron. SO I have 150 up hill into the wind left, I hit a 7 iron. It starts out a bit left of the target and hooks hard, so hard I hit a hill left of the green and then bounces across the cart path and into lose landscape rock, it leads to a double bogey. I have holes like this all the time, it was hole 7, was 3 over at the time. A birdie on the par 5 and its looking like a great round. I have to many holes like that. Next hole was a 460 yard par 4, hit a 270 yard drive and had 190 up the hill, hit a 5 iron to 20 feet. Just no consistency to get down to a low handicap.

I have always been able to hit it ok, any method, any style, but to get good the last couple years has been much much harder. Its not a lack of effort, thats for sure.