In case there’s any question as to why I’m excited about golf these days, check out this graph of my strokes over par from May 2009 to today:
This chart is from oobgolf. In the top-left corner is a score of 96 (+24) followed by another score of 104 (+32).
Up until the last few months, those were my typical, average scores. I broke 90 once a few years ago, but at one point I actually got frustrated with the lack of improvement and stopped playing altogether for about a year and a half. At the urging of friends, I picked the game back up this year around the April/May timeframe and decided to do something about my poor play.
In the bottom right of the chart is the score of 75 (+3), which I just posted yesterday, approximately 3 months later. It’s neat how I’m seeing a sharp drop in scores after the Tour Academy, especially after my scores were pretty level (or even slightly rising) for about two months after the initial decline.
When viewing this chart, what’s there to not be excited about?