3 over after 9.......Then!!!!!!!

[imran_ali]

I played at my local yesterday (woolston manor) and probably had the best fron 9 ever, 3 over and that includes a 3 putt on the 2nd!!! My club handicap is 22 but I played off 16 yesterday with a few friends!!!! But then it went all wrong!!!! I had 2 blow outs on the back 9 and finished 12 over on the back!!!! The interesting thing is the back 9 is easier then the front. I have recently done this a few times now. I realy tried to carry on from the front but it just did not happen!!!

 

[G_Mulligan]

Maybe you tried too hard and put too much pressure on yourself. How did you react to that 3 putt on the front nine compared to your first mistake on the back? Try and forget your front nine score (good or bad) and just play the back nine as a new set of holes. Or even try playing the course as 3 sets of 6 holes as that can also help.

Easy to say it but hard to put into practice but just try and take one hole and one shot at a time.

 

[imran_ali]

In the last 2 weeks I have been in the same position 4 times and I have ended up doing the same thing!!!! Last week we were playing stroke and matchplay. I was 5 up with 5 to play on the matchplay and 7 up on the strokeplay, I could not believe that I lost the last 5 holes and the strokeplay!!!!
I think the issue is I start letting the calculator come into the game and it makes me go very defensive on the back 9. I ended up not commiting to the shots.

 

[robbest3offthetee]

Imran,How can you play Strokeplay and Matchplay in the same round,surely there is difference in h/cap allowance,and how do you concentrate on one certain format,not for me i think....

 

[G_Mulligan]

If it is match play and you are up then just forget that and treat the back nine as a new match and try to win the back nine too. Stephen Hendry said something brilliant during the snooker. He said when he is ahead in a match he steps on his opponents throats. Good mentality for match play I think.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I used to do this, for the 1st 13 or so holes all I'd see was the fairway and the green, then when I was on for a good score I'd start seeing the trouble and go on the defensive, it doesn't work.

Having said that, I never finished 7 under my club h'cap and considered it a blow out. +15 for a 22 h'cap is a very respectable score regardless of what happened on the front nine.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I would not worry, 22 handicap allows for some blow up holes.

If they come all on one nine so be it, enjoy the overall low score and keep working on ironing out the blow up holes.

 

[Tommo21]

I played at my local yesterday (woolston manor) and probably had the best fron 9 ever, 3 over and that includes a 3 putt on the 2nd!!! My club handicap is 22 but I played off 16 yesterday with a few friends!!!! But then it went all wrong!!!! I had 2 blow outs on the back 9 and finished 12 over on the back!!!! The interesting thing is the back 9 is easier then the front. I have recently done this a few times now. I realy tried to carry on from the front but it just did not happen!!!

Thats why you're a 22HC and not 12. Getting a good run for 18 holes is hard to come by and to expect not to have a few bad holes off 22 or 16 for that matter is why golf is so frustrating at times. All this drives us forward to do better. Me, I never think of front or back nines. It's 18 holes. If you had these blowouts at the 4th and 10th would you be posting this. Your HC, at the level your at, will say the odd blowout.

 

[ScienceBoy]

Thats why you're a 22HC and not 12. Getting a good run for 18 holes is hard to come by and to expect not to have a few bad holes off 22 or 16 for that matter is why golf is so frustrating at times.

14 handicap here so a good example for this, usually when I look at my card I can be only two or three over gross for 12 or 13 holes. Then add in the double boges or worse...

sometimes they come mostly in just one 9, sometimes they are more spread out.. My aim is to try and eliminate them!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I have to agree that you are being very tough on yourself and I'd consider that far under my handicap a plus. You'll get some bad holes. I find that if I try and get too careful, I tend to try and steer the ball and so don't make a proper turn, use the arms too much and start hitting it badly. Try and keep relax, DON'T think about your score or what you need to do on the next or the last few holes to shoot x and try and paly each shot on its merits.

Take the positives and see if you can do it in another competition and get cut. I agree I'm not sure how you can play medal and stroke together. In medal just try and keep the ball in play and get out of trouble the easiest way you can even if that is just a chip sideways. In matchplay if you have a bad hole then forget it as you've only lost the hole and can get that back at the next