How do you get two good nines in the same round?

[delc]

Yesterday I was 2 over for the front nine and 10 over for the back nine. Today I was 9 over for the front nine and 4 over for the back nine. So potentially I could go round in 6 over, but I have only ever done that 3 times in many years of playing golf!

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

If you find out please let me know. One of our regular 4ball has won four or five best front 9's in club comps this season but then just collapses. We now rib him on the 10th tee about which type of crumble he has brought with him this week.

 

[Deleted member 21258]

If only there was a simple answer.

Hope and bouncing off trees, I find works sometimes

 

[Tashyboy]

Think I started a similar thread the others week called " why why oh flippin why".

could of started it again today, bloody game.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Missed 2 putts for 8's?

 

[Slab]

Yesterday I was 2 over for the front nine and 10 over for the back nine. Today I was 9 over for the front nine and 4 over for the back nine. So potentially I could go round in 6 over, but I have only ever done that 3 times in many years of playing golf!

Its nice to be positive but obviously its equally true to say you could also 'potentially go round' in 19 over! But please please don't dwell on that thought for your next game

 

[Imurg]

I think it's almost entirely down to concentration.
Having played 9 holes in 2 over shows that you can do it.
No reason you can't string 2 good 9s together except a loss of concentration leading to poor shots and/or decision making..
Allowing for bad breaks, as I've birdied every hole on my course and eagled a few as well, I should be able to shoot under par regularly.
I believe it's loss of concentration that stops this..or concentrating on the wrong things..

 

[bobmac]

Rather than separating the round into 2 sets of 9, try playing 3 sets of 6 holes

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Rather than separating the round into 2 sets of 9, try playing 3 sets of 6 holes

Is there any mileage in breaking it further into three hole bursts and simply trying to match the score to par on the next three, and then the one after that etc?

 

[bobmac]

Is there any mileage in breaking it further into three hole bursts and simply trying to match the score to par on the next three, and then the one after that etc?

There is but thought it would be worth starting with 3 x 6 first

 

[Farmergeddon]

Its all to do with luck!!! most of us arnt good enough to hit the ball where we are aiming or have any distance control at all, relying on the bounce, some holes the bounce is good on others it isnt.. Sometimes you have to much club but hit it fat and it ends up by the hole great shot!! but next time its out the back LUCK.

 

[MashieNiblick]

To some extent I think this is just about how our good and bad holes are distributed during a round, which to be honest is fairly random. If they are spread out then we accept it as a "normal" round if they come mostly in the front 9 or back 9 then we think about why couldn't I play the other 9 better, but it's really no more than saying why can't I play better for 18 holes, then I'd be a better player.

 

[Khamelion]

Play each individually, rather than playing 2 x 9 or 3 x 6 or 6 x 3

If you have a bad hole don't dwell on it, do what Tiger Woods does. Draw an imaginary line on the ground, say three or four steps from you, as you get to that line pause a moment, clear your mind of the hole you have just played, then as you step over it (The Tiger Line) forget about the previous hole and focus on the hole you are about to play, picture your tee shot and go through your pre-shot routine, repeat 17 times.

 

[FairwayDodger]

One shot at a time, one hole at a time, add em up at the end.

 

[chip barm]

as well as concentration, i think fatigue can play it's part too.

 

[Senseicads]

I am aiming for 90 on each round, so what I do is attempt to score 5 on each hole, knowing that this will get me a 90 with a few shots in hand. I am a 24 handicap now so 90 would put me in contention for a comp win. Although I haven't had many rounds this low(one to be precise!), but it is a target to aim for! When I lose shots on the par 5's I make them up on the par 3's. Or that is the theory. it works for me because it pretty much allows me to take each hole as it comes and target a 5. This focuses me and even on those holes were I score a 6, I know I am able to pull this back on the par 3's.

 

[garyinderry]

Chip barm - fatigue doesn't come into it when you shoot the lights put on the back 9 after chopping it on the front.

Agree with farmergeddon. Sometimes our great rounds come from being heaped in luck. Sure there is the relative skill involved but for it all to come together into that great full round, boy do you need your luck.

Example of this was my front 9 at Castlerock at the weekend.

1st Hole - pull drive into left rough. Decent lie, come up 10 yards short of green with 6 iron that didn't come out great and ran. Nice pitch and putt par.

2nd - bit of a pull hybrid, nice 5 I then 2 putt par.

3rd duff off tee 150 yards. Decent lie. Hybrid pitch putt putt par.

4- green side bunker. Missed putt bogey

5- dodgy drive again. Lucky decent lie. Hybrid pitch putt bird.

6. Again missed fairway slightly right. Ok lie. Fat and put it in burn infront of green. Pitch putt bogey.

7. Long par 4. Layup putt putt bogey

8. Decent drive. Good approach putt putt par. First hole no luck required.

9. Long par 3 played well. GIR. Par.

There is a 2 over front 9 that was steeped in luck. Lucky with any lie in rough apart from 7 so I laid up with a gap wedge. Score bailed out by good pitching and putting.

I was 3 off the tee later in round and card kept going by a bird with second ball for bogey.

Luck ran out and got myself in a few tricky spots over the back 9.

Finished a respectable 7 over but didn't get the breaks I did on the front.

 

[JamPal]

Yesterday I was 2 over for the front nine and 10 over for the back nine. Today I was 9 over for the front nine and 4 over for the back nine. So potentially I could go round in 6 over, but I have only ever done that 3 times in many years of playing golf!

Regression to the mean.

You are playing (roughly) to your handicap. Sorry to answer a question with a question, but why should the bad holes be evenly spread out? What makes you think that you should be able to play so far below your handicap? All that happened is your good holes came at once.

If you had shot 12 over, and had 9 pars spread out through the round, with three double bogeys and six bogeys also spread through the round, you wouldn't have noticed.

 

[JamPal]

BTW. I also think fatigue has a big part to play.

And I have entertained the same thoughts.. I play off 22, I was 2 over through 6 the other day. Still managed to play to my handicap by the end.. ;-)

 

[Robobum]

I think the OP is confusing ambition with ability.

I fall into that trap every time I birdie the 1st and start thinking of the new course record.