feeling sooooooo low

[hovis]

the last 3 weeks of my golf have been great. yesterday i shot 9 under my handicap. THEN..........
today i went for my usual pre game warm up on the range. to my horror it looked liked i'd never hit a ball in my life. i'm not talking about a few slices, hooks and thin shots, i'm talking about being a nats whisker away from a air shot, huge right to left shots, fat and thin. most shot where coming out of the toe and/or the sole of the club. anyway, i started my game and walked off after the 3rd having shot a 9,10,8.

is this common? if so how do you guy's deal with it? i went straight to the range and tried to strip it back and start again. i couldn't even get good conection with 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 shots. just when i though i'd nailed this golf thing.

 

[Alex1975]

Very common yes, you shot nine under your handicap yesterday and went to the course today with something very dangerous to golfers...Expectations.


I deal with it but downloading my head into my golf diary(new this week) and or a post like this, then I work out what the actual problem was, not always swing related.


Golf will teach you about yourself so make sure the outcome is positive. What I mean is don't think things like "to hell with this" or "I want to give up" think about being a soldier and how you are going to make it right. I will not let this game beat me and the sooner it realizes it the sooner we can both get on a little better!


Congrats on the nine under your handicap, dine out on that feeling for a while...

 

[pokerjoke]

This is the main reason we keep coming back.
Firstly you think youve cracked it,so you go out thinking your going to shoot your best round ever.
Then all hell breaks loose and you feel your starting again.
What a great game

 

[Philm]

it happens.

personally im a pretty confident guy inside, so i just laugh it off knowing that i can string some pars together as easily as hook one out of bounds LOL

just relax.

Phil

 

[HickoryShaft]

I have done exactly this and most people I have spoken to the same.

So much so in fact that I have developed a defence meachanism to guard against it

Now following a good medal or comp the first thing I try and do is hit the range and then get in a few 9 hole freindlies but play a format like stableford or match play so I am picking up if I play poor on a hole or 3. It keeps you ticking along and forget the score when you make a mare of a hole. Usually this way I now get back to earth more gently - lol

 

[Smiffy]

I played 36 holes at Cooden about a month ago.
41 points in the morning, same in the afternoon. No blobs, I don't think I even had a 3 putt all day.
Played superbly to shoot 8 over gross both rounds. Was on top of the world, and thought "I'm back".
Played at Hankley Common four days later, Chart Hills the following day and Chartham Park the following Wednesday.
I scored a total of 75 points for the three rounds combined compared to my 82 points over two rounds at Cooden.
Only had 9 points on the front 9 at Hankley.

Just when you think you've cracked this game, it bites you in the arse. Hard.
Don't get down on yourself. It happens to the best of us.........and will continue happening all the time you carry on playing this poxy game.

 

[CMAC]

back to basics- its the only effective way

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I walked in after 14 for the first time in memory last week so I share you pain. I went to the range in the afternoon and fortunately found the problem and I'm working on the fix. The problem I've got at the moment is a real dose of flu and not the man kind and I've spent most of the last 24 hours in bed. No game today and pulled out of the medal tomorrow and with work all of next week (providing I'm well enough to go in) I'm going to be deliciously undercooked in terms of perparation before an important club match next Saturda

 

[fundy]

shot level gross round Brocket Hall yesterday, shot +16 today :0 . Just one of them things, get back on the horse next week

 

[Smiffy]

I went to the range in the afternoon and fortunately found the problem and I'm working on the fix.

Was that comment "cut and pasted" from about 3 years ago Homer?