Do we talk the talk but fail to walk the walk ??????

[Dave3498]

Good thread this one.

To my mind there are simply 2 parts to the golf swing; the static part and the dynamic part. The static part concerns the grip, posture, stance, ball position, club selection, direction, etc. etc. If you take time to get the static part right and you have a half decent swing, you wont go far wrong.

I'm afraid that too often I stand over the ball knowing that I have the wrong club, or knowing that the ball is not in the right place, but I go ahead and swing, hoping for the best, not wanting to stand away, readjust, and waste time while my fellow players are waiting. It's a bad fault, but I think that many of us are guilty of it. Get that statics right and let the dynamics take care of themselves.

 

[jeffc]

I enjoy every round good or bad but with a real good feeling after a good one, just think of it like your sex life )

 

[Dave3498]

I think it was Sam Snead who said that 'sex and golf are two things that you can really enjoy without being particularly good at them.'

 

[medwayjon]

I dont let it worry me, If I have a crap round/week even I try to put it behind me and move on.

For example, on saturday with the forum boys I played like a complete tool, I think I scrambled 26pts and barely hit a decent shot. I was still smiling though and this week, I have played the best golf of my short golfing life. I have had a pb at my club, scored 27 in appalling conditions on a new course and won the 11 hole swindle on tuesday night.

I have accepted that I may be a competent golfer, but never a great one, I play to enjoy and thats why I refuse to get hugely worked up over things.

I take the rough with the smooth and regardless of playing good or bad, I am just grateful to be on the course at all.

 

[time_vans]

'better to be alive on a rainy day then dead on a sunny one' was my dads favourite saying....i guess he meant we should appreciate our lives......there will be plenty of ex. golfers who due to ilness or what ever would give everything to go round in 150 just to be back on the course .
if i look at my last three cards and cherry pick my best holes i am capable of going round in 90 the fact i havent broken 100 yet is irrelevent......its all about extracting the maximum amount of enjoyment

' if you can dream and not make dreams your master.
if you can think and not make thoughts your aim'

did rudyard kipling play golf ?

 

[cm_qs]

did rudyard kipling play golf ?

Yeah! He was exceedingly good at it

 

[Cernunnos]

I might get frustrated while on the course, but can't say I've been in a state of not enjoying my golf. I always enjoy playing no matter how good or bad my game. However I do believe at times I do get too technical & think too much, when just simply playing the game & doing what comes naturally whether technically good or bad may actually help my scores at least in the short term.

This week I know full well I took a thought from a lesson onto the course which actually got in the way of the natural flow of things during the round. On the other hand I probably saved as many shots doing this as I lost. But letting myself worry about the state of the greens & essentially gave myself a minor case of the Y!!S on a few holes, which cost me more shots. But did this mean I didn't enjoy the day... Nah! Thoroughly enjoyed myself.

I just accept that I tend to play at my best in September & October & even into November & the christmas period & my play & practice through the begining part of the year is all inpreperation to getting myself to the best I can play in these Autumn & winter months when I play, for me, my most important rounds of the year.

Which of course leads me to my main gripe about golf club membership as by the time in the year I'm playing my best & actually wanting to enter comps, all the major comps are over & only the winter league to play in (big deal..!), which of course you can't use to get your handicap down.

I am too hard on myself on & off the course, but can be equally as laid back at the same time after an initial outburst after a bad'un'. If I was to concentrate on anything for next year it might well be get the mental side of the game into gear & thinking in positive ways, as there are many positive points in my game, after all my coach has told me for the technical knowledge & the skills I do have at my disposal I ought to be playing off scratch. So belief is is probably the thing for next year.

Ok so scratch is way too much to hope for IMO, but If I make that an aim, along with being positive about myself & attitude & pure determination, then maybe I can knock off as at least half as many shots from the rounds I get in October as I reduce them by from spring to autumn. This is my aim for next season.

Be positive..!!! practice more off the course & play more on the course & also ignore every other bugger & their opinions I play with.

 

[toyboy54]

Craig..........you put that so well,nuff said!!!!!!!!

 

[Atticus_Finch]

' if you can dream and not make dreams your master.
if you can think and not make thoughts your aim'

did rudyard kipling play golf ?

"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same"

I think that these words sum up Craig's post perfectly.
one of the best I've seen on here.Bravo!