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I have this problem for 1 or 2 days when I come back to the game from a break of anything more then a week.(lots of low hooks with irons). However my consistancy is awesome and my shortgame gets worked nearly everyday (chipping, short pitches and puttin in my house on my puttin mat.

For the first time in a couple of years, I am about to find out what my game looks like after a two week layoff. I normally play just about every day, but we are currently in the middle of a couple of weeks of bad weather. I will be off the course for two consecutive weeks by this weekend.. I have never had a two week layoff since I started playing 6 years ago.

Go rent the movie "The Legend of Bagger Vance", you'll enjoy it. Part of the plot is the main character (ugh, mind gone blank...the young stud from The Bourne Identity) who "lost his swing" and Will Smith is the caddy character who helps him get it back....you'll enjoy it...oh oh... Matt Damon.

I do not lose my swing during the winter. I swing a short heavy club indoors all winter long, and work on the swing with that. I may be a little rusty when I hit real balls again in the spring, but the swing isn't lost. Some winters, I have actually made solid improvements to my swing, from my efforts indoors.

I've resigned myself to accepting the rustiness by having two sets of clubs.
Long story shortened; I played pings for 20 years because they worked. In the eighties, these were a big deal. Then "oversize" became the new deal and zings (followed by zing 2s) were in my bag. Then I sold the pings feeling that my game deserved "forged" and bought Hogan FTX's -funny how things evolve (devolve).
Well, in the spring those things humbled me. I had to find a set of zings (on ebay, of course) to keep for humble beginnings each spring. I should never have sold them in the first place - great clubs regardless of how you are playing at any time. I will continue to play both sets as my confidence dictates. The Hogans are wonderful when struck sweet consistantly.

Yep, I think it's pretty natural. Even though I live in Ca, where the weather is always pretty nice, I don't play as much when it is wet and soggy out. It just isn't as much fun.

Plus, with it getting darker earlier, sometimes I don't hit as many balls.

My handicap looks like a bell curve, with winter being the higher scores. lol

Fortunately, I don't play as many rounds in the winter, so I am able to somehow keep the handicap around 8.

I always have a collection of scores going to my handicap in the summer, and in the winter just a few.

Me, too. I live in Salt Lake and can go months without being able to play.

I'm sure I could find my post about this last year here at GR.

I end the season with a handicap that makes it tough on me to compete in the UGA tournaments. It's pretty much donated money for at least the first half of the season in those tournaments, then I start scoring worse from playing "too much" golf, then the season starts to near an end and I start scoring well again.

"I eat because I'm unhappy. I'm unhappy because I eat. It's a vicious cycle."