YamiKuriboh
Assistant Pro
You're not the only one, after a distaster of a season I too feel like I am going backwards. Take a deep breath and don't think about golf for a few days. Then book some lessons.
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Another disaster at the weekend a 100 shots off my 13 handicap. Ranked dead last. It's my first full year with an official handicap and I'm struggling bad. I've buffered once in 8 outings with a low of 83 and a high of 105! Average score is about 95 in medals.
I starting to think the handicap is my handicap. I am very inconsistent even without a card but of course more so with a card in hand. I'm capable of making par on any hole but also capable of a triple bogie. The worse part is I cannot fathom what is going wrong, slices, shanks, hooks followed by great shots that to me all feel the same.
I'm driving home thinking about how much to sell the club's for on eBay.
Do you just have to accept inconsistent play, is my handicap just wrong, are there others like this.
Options seem to be:
Get lessons
Suck it up and carry on
Stop playing comps
Become a social member only
Any advice welcome.
Don't take this the wrong way, ,but your story has heartened me😀
Because I am in the same situation and clearly, from the posts, I am not alone.
As it happens, today I played and I played a lot better than of late, more like my old self. I had left my newest driver behind and went back to my old one, but I think the real reason was , I slowed my swing.
It had not been helping that my mate was a higher handicap and playing( or rather scoring) much better than me, for weeks.
I say scoring because he a short hitter, using hardly any irons but mostly hybrids. However, he consistently( read almost always) hits it straight and is a verygood putter. His tempo was what I should have been emulating, but I was trying so hard to hit the ball.
Today, I concentrated on swinging slow and didn't worry about hitting the ball hard.
And it worked!
I am convinced that tempo is almost always the answer if the player has ,at a time in the past ,been a good player.
Best of luck, but don't give up, it will come back.
This could of been me posting the above.Answer to your question is no your not alone, can’t really give any advice except don’t give up it will get better.
I played 6 rounds this last week 4 of which was in competitions developed the Tom Hanks came out of nowhere and ruined my scores.
But I will persevere and it will get better.