Home course phobia

[louise_a]

I have been playing well recently, on Friday last week I played a matchplay game at Romiley Golf club I won on the 17th and would have scored 36 points for those holes, on Tuesday I played a matchplay game at Wilmslow, I won on the last and would have scored 38 points. Yesterday I played in an open at Hesketh, I parred 8 of the first 10 holes.
Today I play in the weekly comp at Ellesmere and had a net 83!!

What is it about playing well on courses I don't really know but then playing absolute garbage at home, its the 36 hole Championship on Saturday and I have to say I am not looking forward to it at all.

 

[Keeno]

I think on your own course you can remember trouble spots, previous mistakes etc and you can tense up. Away from home, you pick your line and swing.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I think on your own course you can remember trouble spots, previous mistakes etc and you can tense up. Away from home, you pick your line and swing.

Very true, if you reverse your thinking you can shoot just as good at home.

Home courses are a place of personal bests and low points which you visit frequently, away days are easily forgotten if they are average to poor.

 

[DaveyG]

I have been playing well recently, on Friday last week I played a matchplay game at Romiley Golf club I won on the 17th and would have scored 36 points for those holes, on Tuesday I played a matchplay game at Wilmslow, I won on the last and would have scored 38 points. Yesterday I played in an open at Hesketh, I parred 8 of the first 10 holes.
Today I play in the weekly comp at Ellesmere and had a net 83!!

What is it about playing well on courses I don't really know but then playing absolute garbage at home, its the 36 hole Championship on Saturday and I have to say I am not looking forward to it at all.

There is no way you will go through the same thought process as when you play your home course...

If I said 5th hole tee shot to you... (I bet you are doing it now) you would know straight away pretty much club you will use!

 

[Liverbirdie]

There is no way you will go through the same thought process as when you play your home course...

If I said 5th hole tee shot to you... (I bet you are doing it now) you would know straight away pretty much club you will use!

Sometimes on your home course, you are on auto-pilot, whereas at away courses you check your yardages, look at your DMD more, and concentrate more.

 

[Birchy]

I find expectations are a bit more at home course too. Some holes you expect par or bogey no matter where you hit it and if you don't get it you sometimes think a bit negative about that. Away courses you might bogey an easy hole but you just move on as your not expecting anything just playing to score best you can.

 

[louise_a]

Some sensible replies, its the Club Championship tomorrow, I will try to approach it like I would an away course.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Also the two matchplay games and the open tend to suggest that you played with or against players you wouldn't normally play with, and so you might approach that differently to a game at your home course with regular partners or people you know better.

 

[garyinderry]

I don't think you can beat this. the nagging feeling doesn't leave.


what you have to try and do is get in competition mode on the first. no worse than bogey on every hole you play. the scorecard will take care of itself!