Posts tagged Handicap

Use a “Personal Par” to play better golf

Oct 12th

Personal Par

I don’t worry about the par on the scorecard anymore. The truth is that it’s not really relevant. When I got back into golf 3 years ago, I was about a 26 handicap. Back then it was really not relevant.

As I get closer and closer to becoming a scratch golfer it will become more relevant but for now not worrying about it has been tremendously helpful in lowering my handicap from 26 to my current index of 9.3.

What I do care about is my personal par. The course I play has rating of 71.7 and a slope of 129. In my book that makes it a nice test. It’s not the most challenging course I play, but it’s not the easiest either. My course handicap based on the above numbers is 11. Therefore my personal par is 83. However my goal is to shoot my index or 2 strokes less. Meaning I’m satisfied with an 81 (-2) , but I want a 79 (-4).