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Timbo

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And how I want to jack this all in!!

Been playing quite well recently, got my official handicap of 26, and have played in a couple of comps. Wanted to improve my driving, had a lesson and our pro who seemed to sort me out on the range. Happy days! Really looking forward to todays Sat Stableford and was keen to play well and hoping to get cut.

How wrong could I be?! I couldn't drive for toffee and ended up with only 22 pts. I wanted the ground to open up and to disappear very quickly into it. I didn't even get a decent shot to remember to make me want to go back out again. It's so embarressing.

How do you bounce back from this?!
 
And how I want to jack this all in!!

Been playing quite well recently, got my official handicap of 26, and have played in a couple of comps. Wanted to improve my driving, had a lesson and our pro who seemed to sort me out on the range. Happy days! Really looking forward to todays Sat Stableford and was keen to play well and hoping to get cut.

How wrong could I be?! I couldn't drive for toffee and ended up with only 22 pts. I wanted the ground to open up and to disappear very quickly into it. I didn't even get a decent shot to remember to make me want to go back out again. It's so embarressing.

How do you bounce back from this?!
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keep going you're not the first and you won't be the last
to have a bad round, cheer up
 
My driving today was great and rubbish, but still managed a good score and a matchplay comp win so dont worry about it, the guy I played with today as my partner was a young lad who hit 325yds into a light head breeze and scored great, yet the time before that he played he shot 99, his h/c is 7 something, it happens to us all, just look for the good stuff and the overall enjoyment and it will come.
 
It takes a while for the benefit if leesons to manifest itself on the course. You are usually caught between your old swing and the new swing.
Dont get too down hearted.
You will improve.
 
1998 I won Captains Day with 41 points.
Next day was a roll-up and I came dead last with 19 points.
It happens. Just like in Keef's post about something being wrong with him - not at all. You're just experiencing golf.

I played in a Company day at the Belfry years ago and one Guy picked up when he got to 10 on EVERY hole. He came back with the unenviable total of a big fat Zero!!!!
And you think you had it bad. This guy played of 19!!!!!
 
I played in a Company day at the Belfry years ago and one Guy picked up when he got to 10 on EVERY hole. He came back with the unenviable total of a big fat Zero!!!!
And you think you had it bad. This guy played of 19!!!!!
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Now I really am beginning to think about asking for my cheque back!

I need to practice some more!

(I think I'll just go and enjoy it with very low expectations of my own ability!!)
 
Hi,

I think we all have been there at some time, just the other day I felt like sacking it, due to playing like I had never held a club in my life, lost 12 balls (yes 12 ) in 3 holes, played next day and was expecting the worse, played really well and love the game again.

Advice would be to stick at it.

Cheers

Midnight...
 
I played in a Company day at the Belfry years ago and one Guy picked up when he got to 10 on EVERY hole. He came back with the unenviable total of a big fat Zero!!!!
And you think you had it bad. This guy played of 19!!!!!
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Now I really am beginning to think about asking for my cheque back!

I need to practice some more!

(I think I'll just go and enjoy it with very low expectations of my own ability!!)
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This was the Derby course HH - not the difficult ones!!

Honestly, I think he was seriously hung-over and suffereing from Hay-fever as well.

You'll be fine.......

I think!!
 
It takes a while for the benefit if leesons to manifest itself on the course. You are usually caught between your old swing and the new swing.
Dont get too down hearted.
You will improve.
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This.

It sounds like you need to practise the lesson on the range a few times before you take it onto the course.

If the game was easy, it'd get sooooo boring.

:)
 
I played in a Company day at the Belfry years ago and one Guy picked up when he got to 10 on EVERY hole. He came back with the unenviable total of a big fat Zero!!!!
And you think you had it bad. This guy played of 19!!!!!
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Now I really am beginning to think about asking for my cheque back!

I need to practice some more!

(I think I'll just go and enjoy it with very low expectations of my own ability!!)
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If it hasn't changed too much over the years the Belfry isn't that terrifying. I played a society do there, and I think I was playing handicap golf for about the first 14 holes.

Admittedly the final few did chew me up and spit me out, good and proper :p
 
Timbo, I wouldn’t worry too much, we all have bad days I went from scoring late 70s/early 80s in friendly games to shooting 106 + 105 for my hcp card, I was so embarrassed and to be honest I played with my dad who is a beginner/part time player and he beat me on my own track he had never played before!!! This was a couple of months ago and I was about to walk away from the game as I just wasn’t enjoying it, then I played with my wife who reminded me that its about enjoying the game not what score you shoot. There is not one golfer pro or amateur that doesn’t thin or fat a shot, I try now and only give a good or a bad shot 20 seconds of thought, then I move on to the next shot with a clear mind and this really does help, taking a bad shot into the next will only lead to a further bad shot.

Get out there on the range or course and relax.
 
HH
Can I just give you some advice based on experience.

I used to be really adicted to golf, late teens to mid twenties. Single figures.
Things changed and I gave up the game.
Picked up some clubs again just over two years ago when some else advised me to do so to relax.
Hooked again.
Thing is, I can't help thinking about all those lost years.
I wish I had stuck with it. You can't get those years back.

Assess where you are, what is causing the leaked shots.
Are there errors on each hole or is it the odd few lapses that are costing you.
What do you want out of the game?
You're not going to be a tour pro, but do you want to hit every shot how you picture it? If so then the only remedy is practice, practice, practice.
If you just want to go round at a reasonable level without looking foolish, accept the errors and enjoy the good shots.
If you can come off the course and remember one shot that you thought "wow" then park that in your memory. Come off with at least one positive, be it a drive, iron or putt.

Read a Dr Bob book and put things into perpective.

Don't give it up. You WILL regret it!!!
 
I managed to go round the front 9 at Mottram Hall in zero the other week.

I think I managed my first point on the 13th hole it was such a relief!

I don't think i managed double fgures :o
 
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