Bounceback

[bobmac]

I'm sure most of you have heard this while watching the golf on TV.
The players ability to forget the bogey on the previous hole and bounce back with a birdie on the next.
The americans even have a stat for it.
Forgetting Sergio yesterday, how often do you see the TOP players get so upset it ruins the rest of their round.
They have the ability and mental strength to, not forget, but to lay aside the bad shot on the last and focus on what's to come.
It's one area where lots of golfers can improve mentally and just get on with it. Sure, no-one hits perfect shots all the time, it's how you cope when the poor ones when they come along.
If you're having a bad day, what's more important to you...your last shot or your next???

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It is something Rotella bangs on about a lot, the need to control only the things you can i.e. the next one and not the one you've just hit. It sounds so easy its written down like that but we all know how hard it is to achieve.

It's something I'm trying to improve on (and getting better) and hope my sessions with the golf psychologist in April will give me some help in getting better still. I didn't know there was an actual stat for it but as it's American I guess it was inevitable

 

[Taggart]

Personally a bad shot from me might bring a quick curse mostly under my breath and then its on to the next one.

I find it quite funny how grown men can throw clubs around. After all its not the club's fault

 

[Deleted member 1740]

what's more important to you...your last shot or your next???[/i]

The next shot for sure but when your 5 off the tee on a par 3 in a medal it's very hard to forget your last shot.

After listening to Bob Rotella, i'm trying to think a lot more positive before and after every shot regardless of the outcome. I know this will be very important to me achieving my target handicap cut.

 

[EaseNgrace]

If I play a bad shot im generally good at putting it to one side and getting on with the next one with a clear mind. This applies to everything but chipping and pitching, I have a reccuring (sp?) confidence problem. When I hit one duffed chip shot or fat pitch shot I really struggle to feel confident about the next one.
I have improved a lot since last year, I know I can do it in practice, bouncing back is something I have focused on when practicing i.e. always following up a bad shot with a nice and smooth action on the next. I just have to take that onto the course.

 

[pokerjoke]

It will be amazing how many players will say the next shot and in their mind they probally are but subconsiously[hope thats a word] it really is still on their mind and can be effecting their game for a few holes after.Im sure im the same even though as im writing this i dont think i am[em interesting].

 

[kid2]

I always leave the bad shots behind me and if one does start creeping in i always try and image the great ones iv hit (not a lot)
Also i never want to know how im doing through a round i think it causes too much pressure on you which in turn can lead to mistakes.
Like yesterdays comp for eg. it went triple bogie,bogie,birdie,par,par,bogie,par,double bogie,birdie,bogie,bogie,bogie,triple bogie,
I thought after the first i was going to have a "MARE" but just had a chuckle about it and settled into the round after that.

 

[bigbiffa]

always the next shot....logic tells you you cant do anything about the last shot! however i have had a few colourfull words to myself afer a bad shot!

 

[Imurg]

Same

Unless its a stupid pin position on the 17th at the PGA that really pee'd me off for the last hole!!

 

[Leftie]

If you're having a bad day, what's more important to you...your last shot or your next???

Neither.

I'm not out there playing for megabucks. I'm out there for fresh air, good company (usually ), exercise, and all the good reasons we all play golf. A bad day on the course is far better than a good day at work or being stuck indoors. I've started off in a medal with a 9 on the par 4 1st and ended up being cut 1.2.

Unless it is your living, don't worry about it.

Who said golf is not a matter of life and death - it's far more important than that? Read my sig.

 

[FourPutt]

I find it quite funny how grown men can throw clubs around. After all its not the club's fault

No... But throwing yourself might hurt!

 

[Deleted member 1147]

So what are you saying.........I shouldn't get so cross after a 3 stab that on the next tee I try to carry the lake in the middle of the fairway by trying to knock the cover off the ball?

Get out of my head devil man!

 

[TRS30]

I'd like to say I never think about the last shot but I'd be lying. Especially if it was a long shot and I have a walk to get to my ball, once there I get into my pre shot routine and am fully focused on the shot in hand.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

I think it depends. I'm quite good at 'forgetting' the last shot - it's done, I can't do anything about it now - let's make up for it over the next few holes is my usual mantra. However, I recently played and was putting together a really good card. I was three over for the front nine - a feww bad putts in there but I was staying consistent. Only dropped a further shot on the back nine so four over standing on the 15th tee. It's a short par four - tight, tree lined fairway - OOB down the left. I took a 2 iron for accuracy - hooked it left - OOB!!! I ended up taking a 9!!! This completely took the wind out of my sails and I just couldn't recover.

So, I think it depends where my bad shot happens. Early in the round and I'm OK - I'll put it behind me and try and recover. Too late in the round and it deckchairs me.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I had a number of experiences similar to AuburnWarriors last year with a great score going only for the wheels, axle and exhaust to fall off. I compounded the problem with an even better card the week after and got to the same spot (tee shot on 16) and repeated the whole process again. Once I'd hooked OB I couldn't stop thinking about the week before and repeated every bad shot to finish exactly the same way. As you can imagine the tee shot at 16 became a bit of a mental issue for a while after.

I don't mind going OB (well I do mind actually but you know what I mean) early doors (our 2nd is a prime candidate) as there is time to get it back but so close to home its a crippler.

 

[TheChamp]

I try my best to move on straight away, but sometimes you just have to let the frustration out somehow - whether that be putting the club back into the bag with a bit of force or releasing a few expletives.

How do people get rid of the frustration/anger after a bad shot? Alot of people seem to use the ten second rule i.e. dwell on the shot for 10 seconds then it's gone. Any other thoughts?

 

[AuburnWarrior]

I try my best to move on straight away, but sometimes you just have to let the frustration out somehow - whether that be putting the club back into the bag with a bit of force or releasing a few expletives.

How do people get rid of the frustration/anger after a bad shot? Alot of people seem to use the ten second rule i.e. dwell on the shot for 10 seconds then it's gone. Any other thoughts?

I don't throw clubs or smash them about but I do swear. Oh yes, I swear!!! Normally the C word.....

That normally does the job.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

How do people get rid of the frustration/anger after a bad shot? Alot of people seem to use the ten second rule i.e. dwell on the shot for 10 seconds then it's gone. Any other thoughts?

As I said in my earlier post I tend to try to hit my next drive too hard.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Same

Unless its a stupid pin position on the 17th at the PGA that really pee'd me off for the last hole!!

Get Over it Little Bro,
that must have been nearly 6 months ago

You really were hacked off wern't you

Bro Fragger

 

[Screwback]

I think its a good question. To me as amatuers we are always going to get frustrated at bad shots and will find it difficult to move on i have been trying to work on temprement and moving on when hitting a bad shot and i feel i have made progress but im still thinking about the previous shot. I take my hat off to anyone that can completely put it out their minds.

Tigers 10 step rule is a drill that has helped trying to put bad shots out my head.