http://www.cruciblefitness.com/etips/swimtechnique02.htm
Just curious as to what type of “golf scores” we have amongst us.
For a 50y swim, add the # of strokes plus the # of seconds (for completion), and that’s your score.
Example: you swim 50y in 44 seconds, while taking 32 strokes.
Swim golf score = 44 + 32 = 76.
Article says, under 80 is good.
Mine sucks. 58 + 36 = 94.
All out (no dive) - 53
Race pace (1500) - 63
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I thought a swim golfer was someone who would dive in the water to fetch balls when they got lost…darn!
where I live, that’s crazy … snapping turtles … Haaaayooge ones. You can buy more golf balls, you can’t buy fingers.
…hmmm, no fingers, but how about a carbon-fiber hook? Ti?
“thought a swim golfer was someone who would dive in the water to fetch balls when they got lost”
A scuba friend of mine used to do that on Saturday afternoons at the local gold courses. Usually picked up a few hundred extra bucks every time.
shot average rounds of 68 this morning, currently working on the swing so score was somewhat high, my drive is somewhat short at this time, Tempo is good yet ball striking and the mental relaxation is what I am working on.
“at the local gold courses”
Guess that was a Freudian slip. Should have been “at the local golf courses”. Those white balls he retreived were like gold to him.
Medium pace: 63
Usually 25-27 strokes in 37 seconds, give or take
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Great, I suck too. I’ve hit 80 once. I can’t get two low numbers - if one is low, the other is high.
Does it count if you dolphin kick off the walls for half a length?
Doing that, I used to be able to get a score of 45 or so.
Just normal swimming, probably under 60.
67-70 smooth, on a good day, but I’m 52 with a** bad** swim body.
Notice how all the good swimmers are the ones to jump on this one.
Ok, I admit I’m just jealous. 87 golf score at a normal pace.
Dont feel bad jaylew. Mine was a 94.
Dave
Lets see…I did 3500trds in 60 min sooo…Thats 51 sec per 50 at 22=73. 73 may be a good score but thats as fast as I can go and that is slow!
i’ve seen as low as 63 but 65-67 is pretty common. At the end of a really tough workout it’ll be up to 69.
For reference I’ll turn in a 30’-32’ 1/2 IM swim with medium to low effort
About 82, but I don’t push off of the wall too hard, I think that is cheating if you are practicing for open water swimming. If I do then I will be around 76.
I believe that these numbers are more for personal evaluation. It would be ridiculous to think that I could take as few of strokes as someone that is 6’4" when I’m 5’4". My arms are 6 to 8 inches shorter. I used a calculator for how many strokes I should take from a web site a while ago, I don’t remember the link, but I was ball park for a stroke count of 36 to 38 per 50yds. I have tried to get that count down too but it feels like I’m gliding too much. I think Jill posted the link several months ago. I’ve been working on mantaining the count while dropping my times. Last September I was at 90 and have dropped 8 since then.
The bottom line to me is how fast can you swim in open water and feel strong at the end.
By the way, I got me a bright pink towel for the gym so nobody will mistake it for theirs. I think I will mark it with Kiki or something like that.
jaretj
(I’m desperately trying to be the man my dog thinks I am.)
If one is trying for BEST golf score, for comparison purposes, a good push is fine. For training, it might not be.
Edit:
No dolphin kicks allowed to my mind.
If I cheated at swim-golf like I do at regular golf, I’d include dive-ins, flip-turns, dolphin-kicks, etc … and then subtract 15 seconds off my 50y time … for no other reason than “just because”.
I’m the guy you see on the course that picks up his drive and throws it another 100 yards … and I’m not embarrassed about it.
I am not ashamed at my inclusion of the 15 yard streamline dolfin kick when I got my golf score of 38 (that’s 10 strokes and a 28" 50yards, well, actually a total of 20 yards of swimming). As for real golf, I am not ashamed about throwing my ball up onto the green from 70-80 yards out, I just make sure that no one sees me, and I make a noise with my club that sounds like a swing. I play swimming golf to warm down when I am very fatigued from a hard workout. I find it helps me hold the stroke together and smooth things up. Realistically, I can hold 32’s with 30 strokes (14 down 16 coming back) without much problem for 10 x 50’s on :45. For my height, I think that is okay. (5’8") If I try to go for less, my stroke gets all wonky.
90 on a good day
But, I am down from 100+ when I first started, so I guess that’s a good thing. I only post to make the rest of you feel good about yourself! 
Dawn