Avoiding the Van de Velde.

[RGDave]

I looked up my recent qualifying score score recently to see where I came. Whilst mooching around the website
http://www.masterscoreboard.co.uk
I found an interesting way of seeing all my scores, organised by date and organised by hole......

What a shock......

Unknown to me, there are 3 holes that I regularly play atrociously, and it's pretty much always the same ones.
7, 10 and 17.

Looking back, I hadn't realised that I'd suffered quite so badly on these holes.

7 = par 5. OOB left, double-lined trees (tall too) down the right. Over a pond for the 2nd shot, 100 yards in.
10 = par 4. Dense trees right (lost ball probably with a slice), ditch crossing fairway...
17th = par 3. Horror show off the back.....

I'm just beginning to wonder if I need an alarm to go off in my head on these holes IF I make a mess of the first shot. I'm cruising these on a day to day basis, but it seems that as soon as I make a small mistake on match day, I just throw away endless shots trying to chase the elusive pars (or even bogeys). Maybe I need to re-think.

Any thoughts or advice?

 

[Leftie]

That is another great feature of Scoresaver. You can use it for exactly this purpose and it will even show you the fairways and greens hit/missed left/missed right on all holes played on each course.

Def an eye opener.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I'm pretty sure 16 and 17 at my course would show similar results. They have been unkind recently but I thought I had played them well historically. I'm off to find out the truth but I'm guessing it won't be pretty reading

 

[RGDave]

That is another great feature of Scoresaver. You can use it for exactly this purpose

Good, never thought of it this way

Can it stop me losing it completely on these holes?

 

[RGDave]

I think I'm going to write something on a piece of paper and attach it to my stroke-saver.

What I need is a plan for all eventualities and jolly well stick to it.

e.g. on the 10th, if I end up behind the tree down the left, I need to chip it out 40-60 yards towards the next tee, not try and play a miracle hook with a 5 iron!
on the 17th...well, I've no idea whatsoever...

 

[viscount17]

as this is the first year I've kept any stats I don't have Scoresaver (yet, I'll get there SS2). I've been recording them on an oo spreadsheet which has been refined as I go along to show more info (haven't got into the fairway/gir thing yet).
It does show average scores on each hole so the consistent stinkers show up. What was surprising was that <u>my</u> stinkers weren't those with the highest/lowest (?) SSS rating. (which leads on to another query which I'll post elsewhere).
What it also shows is the holes where my score can go from the sublime to the ridiculous (birdie one day, 10 the next)

annoyingly I can't get it to calculate Stableford scores - I have a formula but can't get it to work!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

As I thought. Put in the all time figures from SS and found that on I'm averaging +1.38 over par on my 16th (SI 3), +1,29 on the 17th (SI 13!) and +1.13 on the 7th (SI 1). Was shocked (perhaps not) to see that the 17th is my 2nd hardest hole and I'm happy that my other poor holes at least cokme on two of the three hardest on the course. My best is the par 5 15th (SI 15) which I play in an average of +0.21 over par

 

[RGDave]

What was surprising was that <u>my</u> stinkers weren't those with the highest/lowest (?) SSS rating. (which leads on to another query which I'll post elsewhere).

Yep, the S.I. for my course is almost irrelevant to my scores.

But the S.I. is certainly relevant to attitude.....because I need to PAR the par 5s to make 2 points, I just get too greedy and take risks.....

 

[CrapHacker]

As I thought. Put in the all time figures from SS and found that on I'm averaging +1.38 over par on my 16th (SI 3), +1,29 on the 17th (SI 13!) and +1.13 on the 7th (SI 1). Was shocked (perhaps not) to see that the 17th is my 2nd hardest hole and I'm happy that my other poor holes at least cokme on two of the three hardest on the course. My best is the par 5 15th (SI 15) which I play in an average of +0.21 over par

Yup.

I find my bad holes cock me as well.

 

[RGDave]

I played today and took particular notice of the three "killer" holes. Parred them all off yellow, shouldn't be too hard to work out a strategy next time NOW I am aware of the dangers. The 7th and 10th are not any tougher off white, just 5 yards or so, but of course the horror par 3 17th is going to be looming all the way round. I guess if I'm in good shape when I arrive to that hole, I'll just have to play it as it should be played and accept whatever comes...

At least I'll have the cushion of having a partner to help me out, as it's a pairs this weekend.