Bottled it (again)

[EaseNgrace]

Played in a medal today at my home club. Started with a double but followed it up with some of my best golf to finish the half at +1. I continued to play some great stuff, driving like a beast and my shortgame was on fire for the first time all season. I was at +4 on the 14th tee thinking a good cut is virtually guaranteed even if I throw in a couple of bogeys. Then I bottled it as usual and finished bogey, bogey, bogey, double I 3 putted 17 and 18 which included missing from 8 inches on the last.
Finished with 81 (nett 71), still under my h/c but should have been so much better.

 

[pokerjoke]

Played in a medal today at my home club. Started with a double but followed it up with some of my best golf to finish the half at +1. I continued to play some great stuff, driving like a beast and my shortgame was on fire for the first time all season. I was at +4 on the 14th tee thinking a good cut is virtually guaranteed even if I throw in a couple of bogeys. Then I bottled it as usual and finished bogey, bogey, bogey, double I 3 putted 17 and 18 which included missing from 8 inches on the last.
Finished with 81 (nett 71), still under my h/c but should have been so much better.

Well played mate,sounds like a few more tweaks needed

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Can't have been easy though as I don't think much of the UK escaped the torrential rain so I'm guessing it was wet in places. Even with all those wasted shots you were close to you handicap so take the positives. If it's any consolation I missed one in the last medal from about the same distance.

 

[Tommo21]

Then I bottled it as usual and finished bogey, bogey, bogey, double

Sounds like a wee mental block there mate...I suggest you take one hole, one shot at a time and dont look at your score card.

 

[EaseNgrace]

Well played mate,sounds like a few more tweaks needed

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Leave my tweaks alone you

 

[EaseNgrace]

Then I bottled it as usual and finished bogey, bogey, bogey, double

Sounds like a wee mental block there mate...I suggest you take one hole, one shot at a time and dont look at your score card.

You're spot on mate, it's the first time in ages i've had an eye on my score. It's hard not to when it's going well. I think as time goes on the mental side of my game will improve. I've only been playing comps at all since last April.

 

[USER1999]

You have the game, you just need to realise that where you want to be is where you should be.

 

[jammydodger]

Strange one that Aaron as both myself and Phil thought the last few holes were playing easy today (both finished with 6 pars)

Chin up mate the season will soon be over and you can concentrate on tuning things up ready for your big year next year. You'll rip it up next year when you've had a good winter sorting thiings out.

 

[JT77]

Shame that happened going up the last few, not sure if you already do it, but I always carry hazelnuts and bananas and plenty of water, you need to keep your body fuelled up so that you mind doesnt wander, and fruit and nuts are good for slow release energy and water for hydration. it could help, i find it does anyway, most of time! lol

 

[EaseNgrace]

Another good tip, I did foget to stock up on grub yesterday. oops.

 

[Smiffy]

fruit and nuts are good for slow release

I can vouch for this.
I ate a whole massive bar of Cadburys Fruit & Nut on Monday evening and didn't start slow releasing until Thursday.

 

[Fyldewhite]

I try to take the pressure off by looking at it like this.... A round of golf is 18 separate holes. On all but the best of rounds I will play some of them badly. If the bad holes happen to be the last few then so be it. Sometimes this will happen, it doesn't mean I've bottled anything. If I mess up the first few and end up playing to handicap I feel good but in some ways, if you treat each hole individually (which we should all try to do all the time) it's no different to messing up the last few or a random assortment in the middle. It's the score that matters which was still good so well played yesterday, good score, if you hadn't messed up a few holes it would have been a great score. Now was there a thread about over thinking somewhere ....

 

[EaseNgrace]

cheers everyone, very helpful as ever.

 

[EaseNgrace]

Oh yeah, and I found out today that the 8 incher I missed on the last would have won the comp.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Oh yeah, and I found out today that the 8 incher I missed on the last would have won the comp.

DOH!