Complete Golf Brain Shutdown

[User 105]

Is it just me or does sometimes your golfing brain completely shutdown ?

I'll explain. Your swinging fine, hitting the ball pretty good. But for some reason you keep making stupid mental mistakes. And you know it the second you hit the ball.

For example. Today on the 1st green. The putt I have has been breaking right to left all year. So why when I read it today do I see a left to right putt. I know it's right to left.

And

75 yard pitch on the 5th. That's a 3/4 56 wedge for me. I know it's 75 yards. I know it's a 3/4 56 wedge. So why do I practice a 1/2 swing 56, then proceed to hit it 50 yards. Which funnily enough is a 1/2 56 wedge. :temper:

AND

8th hole. Par 3. All year it's 8i to the middle of the green. Flags at the back today, so why the hell do I try and get a 9i there, and just put a normal swing on it. :angry:

It was like my golf brain just got switched off, but you know the instant after exactly what you've done.

Please tell me it's not just me this happens to ?

 

[hopeful]

"My body and my brain haven't been speaking to each other for years" Charlie Brown

 

[anotherdouble]

All the bloody time. That why my handicap will always be in double figures.

 

[Birchy]

Simon Dyson does it too so dont beat yourself up too much

 

[User 105]

Simon Dyson does it too so dont beat yourself up too much

lol. Looks like it.

The dumb thing is until I have actually played the shot what I'm doing seems the right thing to do. It's not like I'm trying some hail mary curve the ball 50 yards through tree's type of shot. It's just simple stuff.

Doesn't happen often, thank god, but I get the occasional day where I'l do this type of thing 6-7 times and end up walking off the course after 18 absolutely bewildered.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Know what you mean. Had a 3 footer on our 3rd today and stood there thinking I was aiming too far right. "I'll be ok". Guess what. Missed right.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I'm guilty of this all the time although I am getting better. Todays incident was on 16. I had 170 to the middle. On 10 I'd hit 9i from 121 to 2 feet and on 14 I'd hit 4H from 180 to the middle of the green. Knowing I have about 12yd gaps between my clubs this was very clearly a 5i, so I hit 6 and came up short: knob

 

[Foxholer]

Simon Dyson does it too so dont beat yourself up too much

:rofl::clap:

Indeed I can remember once having exactly 80yd to pin (perfect 9 o'clock PW distance) and swinging a beautiful 10:30! Strangely enough, I had a 20yd putt!:mmm:

 

[El Bandito]

Yep. Yesterday go a decent drive away on a par 5. Dead centre, 20 yards short of big marker post on the brow. Local rule is that you cannot remove the post, but can take relief. Given it is a par 5 with a wide fairway, and I was looking to lay up to wedge distance, simplest solution seemed to be to play as it lies and miss the post left or right. Caught the hybrid right out of the screws, hit the post before disappearing off right never to be seen again....

 

[Foxholer]

Yep. Yesterday go a decent drive away on a par 5. Dead centre, 20 yards short of big marker post on the brow. Local rule is that you cannot remove the post, but can take relief. Given it is a par 5 with a wide fairway, and I was looking to lay up to wedge distance, simplest solution seemed to be to play as it lies and miss the post left or right. Caught the hybrid right out of the screws, hit the post before disappearing off right never to be seen again....

There were a couple of seriously battered ones at Craigielaw - on 2 and 18 - and those were moveable!

 

[User 105]

Well same again this morning. Dumb mistake after dumb mistake. It's like I'm playing with fog in my brain at the moment.

And to top it all my swing completely deserted me today. Every shot I was completely off balance.

Possibly some of the worse golf I've played in years.

I didn't add my card up, but it was a long way the wrong side of 100

Everything about golf just feels very alien to me right now. Think I need to give it a rest for a while.

 

[CMAC]

Is it just me or does sometimes your golfing brain completely shutdown ?

I'll explain. Your swinging fine, hitting the ball pretty good. But for some reason you keep making stupid mental mistakes. And you know it the second you hit the ball.

For example. Today on the 1st green. The putt I have has been breaking right to left all year. So why when I read it today do I see a left to right putt. I know it's right to left.

And

75 yard pitch on the 5th. That's a 3/4 56 wedge for me. I know it's 75 yards. I know it's a 3/4 56 wedge. So why do I practice a 1/2 swing 56, then proceed to hit it 50 yards. Which funnily enough is a 1/2 56 wedge. :temper:

AND

8th hole. Par 3. All year it's 8i to the middle of the green. Flags at the back today, so why the hell do I try and get a 9i there, and just put a normal swing on it. :angry:

It was like my golf brain just got switched off, but you know the instant after exactly what you've done.

Please tell me it's not just me this happens to ?

yup, just you, rest of us are golfing Gods!