Car Crash Golf

[hackandburn]

Played our club champs over the weekend. 36 holes, with 26 decent and then 10 absolute blow ups! Doubles, triples and even a couple of quad bogeys thrown in for good measure!

Like watching a car crash - you know it's happening, can't do a thing about it but you keep watching and hoping for the best.

Love this game - on to next week's medal..........

Anyone else experience this kind of carnage on the course??

 

[North Mimms]

Played our club champs over the weekend. 36 holes, with 26 decent and then 10 absolute blow ups! Doubles, triples and even a couple of quad bogeys thrown in for good measure!

Like watching a car crash - you know it's happening, can't do a thing about it but you keep watching and hoping for the best.

Love this game - on to next week's medal..........

Anyone else experience this kind of carnage on the course??

Yep - in our household it's known as "every Saturday"

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Played our club champs over the weekend. 36 holes, with 26 decent and then 10 absolute blow ups! Doubles, triples and even a couple of quad bogeys thrown in for good measure!

Like watching a car crash - you know it's happening, can't do a thing about it but you keep watching and hoping for the best.

Love this game - on to next week's medal..........

Anyone else experience this kind of carnage on the course??

Had ours at the weekend. Started round one with a double. Chucked a double in on the 5th after missing a green and not getting out of the bunker. Managed to get back on track and on handicap playing 14. Made double and then made triple on the relative straightforward 15th. Ended up carding a net 75 (+5).

Started round 2 with a double. Went out one under handicap and ticking along. Made double on 12 after a bad drive and was thirty yards right off the tee on the par three 13th for another double. Finished net 73 (+3)

Both rounds could and should have been considerably better but made four bad swings and frittered away a handful of shots elsewhere. Not quite car crash but these bad shots are regularly manifesting thmeselves amidst very good ball striking rounds and I've been scoring nicely until they arrive. I need to find a way to stop these two bad holes per round and then the cuts will come

 

[hackandburn]

Good to know it's not just me then. I used to be quite a steady player but now a complete basket case with a card in my hand.....

 

[davidy233]

Went out for a hit last night - two over par after four then went birdie, birdie (first time I've had back to back birdies in years) so level par after six holes - then shot a nice easy eight followed by a simple seven before steadying up with a par on nine

Back nine was much steadier but felt mediocre, just bogeys and pars

 

[patricks148]

yes it has.... everyone thats ever played golf.

Big comp the other week, went out on the friday with a mate, both shot 3 under gross .. next day both of us shot 90 in the comp

 

[guest100718]

yes it has.... everyone thats ever played golf.

Big comp the other week, went out on the friday with a mate, both shot 3 under gross .. next day both of us shot 90 in the comp

better than a 93 ;o)

 

[garyinderry]

any time I step onto a links its the same! good honest fun though!! really enjoy the challenge!

 

[User 105]

Yep, last two weekends have been a complete disaster.

Up until then i'd been playing some of my best golf for ages. Was regularly buffering and actually got my self a nice little cut for shooting 4 under my hcp.

Last weekend started ok, absolutely booming my drives (rare for me) but kept pulling all my irons and wedges and missing greens from short distance. Then back 9 it leaked into my driver too and started snap hooking every drive. Stopped counting but was probably a high 90's round.

Wen't up the range in the week and was hitting it great so just put it down to one of those things.

Then Sunday it went from bad to worse. Snap hook was back with the driver from the 1st tee. Just felt completely off balance with every club. Topped, fatted, shanked, duffed chips and complete air shots.

And I, if this is even possible, I duffed a putt. Hit the ground about 2 inches behind the ball.

You name it, I hit it, or didn't in some cases. Ended up shooting 106.

In the past something like this would usually really get to me but for some reason I just found it really funny.:rofl:

 

[Slicer30]

I had a car crash hole on saturday - literally all my bad shots for the round in 1 hole!

Was going along lovely, birdied our 7th and followed it with 5 pars. Walking to the 13th Tee I stupidly said not to do what I did on the 13th last week ( 5 off the tee after 2 big hooks).

1st tee shot - hooked into the rough - maybe find it, but played a provisional - hooked the provisional and couldnt find it.

2nd provisional - Skied the Driver to just make the fairway.

Topped the 2nd provisional up past where the 1st went in the rough.

found the 1st - yay, but the lie was horrid and at best I could chip back out to the fairway. Caught it flush and it went all the way across the fairway into the rough on the right. Found it, should have declared it unplayable but my head was gone and I buried it even deeper in the crap. so take an unplayable and chip out and have played 5. 6th sliced into the rough by the green, had to play another provisional and seriously considering N/R. Hooked the provisional into OOB and had to play Another provisional! which I topped about 100 yds.

Amazingly - found my ball on the right so hacked it out onto the green and played 7. 2 putted for a 9 and somehow finished with the same ball as a Teed off with. 2 provisional balls lost.

Parred the next and finished well for a nice cut- crazy hole it was and I felt knackered after it.

 

[macca64]

Played our club champs over the weekend. 36 holes, with 26 decent and then 10 absolute blow ups! Doubles, triples and even a couple of quad bogeys thrown in for good measure!

Like watching a car crash - you know it's happening, can't do a thing about it but you keep watching and hoping for the best.

Love this game - on to next week's medal..........

Anyone else experience this kind of carnage on the course??

Yep, our club champs also, 1st round 13th fairway -3, 14th tee +1, had a Sherman, all down hill for the next 22 holes, had a birdie on the last hole of second round, my golf stinks not sure how much longer I can put up with it.

 

[Lump]

I personally think its the time of year. We play so little golf in this sort of weather, then when it comes around you feel the need to play well so "try" too hard, resulting in big scores out of no where.
I honestly play better when its overcast and cool. My best golf comes later in the year when I cools down and the course softens up.

 

[Vikingman]

Been struggling recently but last Friday managed 36 points so was hoping to back it up on the Sunday.

Some hope, tee shot on the 1st crashed into a tree 20 yards away and set the tone for the first nine holes when I scored a grand total of 7 points (including 5 blobs).

Managed 17 points on the back nine (2 more blobs) for a grand total of 24 points.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Happens to me all the time, last year was particularly bad, one round I shot 14 over with a quad, 2 x trebles and a double on the card. I also shot +8 about a month ago with a quad and a double in it. Drives me insane.