Club champs

[golf_bug]

Plyed in the club champs on the weekend. Really enjoyable experience....apart from the golf that is!

It was over 2 days, with the lowest handicaps out on first on the first day. I had a shambles round of 95 (off 15 hcp). Played far too tentatively, tyring to swing smoothly and hit fairways. I was doing more harm than good. 3 off the tee on 4 occasions, numerous 3 putts...pretty poor.

Second day was highest gross scores from day one out first....so I was out early! Front 9 was more of the same...3 off the tee a couple of times and too many putts. After a double on the 10th I thought "sod this", opened my shoulders and went for everything....totally committed to my shots and was aggressive with the putter. 5 pars and a birdie followed! It was too little too late though and ended up with 89.

I am really annoyed at myself for not playing like I normally do from the start, but it was an important lesson to learn. I'll never be tentative again!

 

[birdieman]

Sorry golf bug , that's not really a lesson to learn. We have several players that go hell for leather on everything and once in a blue moon they shoot a low number but that is normally followed by NR'S and the usual high numbers for the next 10 rounds.
Using your head, playing to your strengths, knowing which flags to have a go at, knowing when to lagg a putt close for par rather than chase a birdie and take bogey etc is all part of course management.

Trying to 'swing smoothly to hit fairways' as you put it is a pretty decent approach I'd say.

 

[golf_bug]

But it didn't work for me......and I didn't enjoy it as much as when I went for my shots. Of course course management is important, and I am not advocating being a complete maverick on the course, but I think you can play too within yourself at times and that has an adverse affect.

Hardly comparable, but look at Tiger in the second round of the open. Logic dictates that if a man cannot hit his driver in a stright line on a narrow course with unforgiving rough, then he should ditch it.....even if he is the best of all time. Had he played irons off every tee he may well have made the cut, but that isn't the way he plays golf.

What I am trying to say is....I am just like Tiger Woods

 

[Leftie]

Hardly comparable, but look at Tiger in the second round of the open. Logic dictates that if a man cannot hit his driver in a stright line on a narrow course with unforgiving rough, then he should ditch it.....even if he is the best of all time. Had he played irons off every tee he may well have made the cut, but that isn't the way he plays golf.

What I am trying to say is....I am just like Tiger Woods

That's quite some logic there. Not in government are you?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Are you sure it wasn't just a case of letting the event get to you. I'm sure you aren't so tentative in monthly medals but make it the biggest event of the year and you decide to play it differently.

I accept flags will be tucked away, holes cut on tricky slopes and tees all the way back but it really isn't anything other than a normal event. Next year, tell yourself this and remember how well you have performed in normal events and just go out and play the same game. You'll enjoy it more, won't feel so tentative off the tee with the disasterous consequences you had and you might even get a lie in for your Sunday tee time

 

[DCB]

Sounds like a weekend where form deserted you and you just played like a donkey.

Too many OOBs or whatever over two rounds for someone off 15.

There's always next year ( as Stevie said to Tiger late last night)

 

[golf_bug]

Are you sure it wasn't just a case of letting the event get to you. I'm sure you aren't so tentative in monthly medals but make it the biggest event of the year and you decide to play it differently.

I accept flags will be tucked away, holes cut on tricky slopes and tees all the way back but it really isn't anything other than a normal event. Next year, tell yourself this and remember how well you have performed in normal events and just go out and play the same game. You'll enjoy it more, won't feel so tentative off the tee with the disasterous consequences you had and you might even get a lie in for your Sunday tee time

You're probably right. My thought on the first tee was "don't hit a bad shot", which really isn't the way to start!

I will play in it again next year, unlike a lot of others who have been put off by the high scores and apparant bias towards the low handicappers. Its something to work towards l season, but I take your point about treating it like any other medal round.