Where do you hit the ball on the clubface?

This stuff is an excellent practice aid. It's called "Industrial Choice Precision Line Inverted Marking Paint by Rust-Oleum" It's basically washable spray paint and it allows you to easily see where on the clubface you're striking the ball. If most of your shots are on the toe or heel, adjusting your distance from the ball is an easy fix. I use it all the time and people always ask me about it at the range.

They sell a product similar to this at golf stores, but it is 20x as expensive. Better to buy this stuff at your local hardware store. Just make sure you buy the "water-based" and not "solvent-based" type. It's easy to wipe off your clubs immediately after a range session. If you leave it on too long, you'll need to scrub a bit. I've never used solvent-based, but I know the water-based one will do no harm at all to your golf clubs. And it will do wonders for your golf game.

The Dave Pelz is big on practicing with feedback, and I am in full agreement with him on this concept. And this marking paint is a great way to do it.

shooting a score

I hear so many people talking about this putt or that putt or this bounce or "if only" something had gone differently, they would have shot the score they wanted. But that's the beauty of golf. In the end, progess is so easy to measure. "What did you shoot?" Every round might not be spectacular, but the golfer you are will be clearly shown in the scores that you shoot over time.

I've embraced all the different games within golf, and how they cross over and how they differ. And I do love it all. I love the feeling of improving, of figuring something out that was causing consternation (and double bogeys). I feel like I am learning at a rapid pace. Now the only job is to:

Shoot a Score. Rinse. Repeat.

I look forward to reporting back when sub-80s scores become a regularity. I want to be able to coast to a 75, without really even paying attention. And I want to break 70.

Gotta go to work.