road2ruin
Q-School Graduate
I love golf however the game is proving a mystery in terms of getting a level of consistency.
I played in the Saturday Roll Up off 13 (we have a pretty penal handicap system to ensure a spread of winners) and scored 37 points and still felt there were shots left out there. However in the main my game was brilliant. The driver was gun barrel straight and going around 260-280. Every time I stepped up to the ball I knew what I was going to do and generally I did it.
Fast forward 24 hours and we have a stableford comp this morning. Confidence was high given my golf yesterday especially coupled with playing off my official handicap of 20. Had good partners and was really looking forward to the round what with the recent weather, a genuine opportunity for an early season cut.
Sadly it was like night and day. Driver was ballooning wide right, pitches were heavy and putting was an unmitigated disaster! Ended up scoring 36 points which actually doesn't sound that bad however the standard of golf to score that was truly rubbish. I also had a lot of luck! The tree gods were on my side and twice I clattered into big bits of wood only to be chucked back out on the fairway. I also thinned a ball on a 200yd Par 3 which ended up 10 ft from the pin.
It's the driving that is really frustrating. I work really hard on it and think I'm getting somewhere and then I get on the course today and I cannot control anything. Swing feels the same as yesterday however the results couldn't be further apart. On the plus side this weekend was e first time that. I have taken to the course and not been wearing almost every piece of golf clothing I own to try and keep warm!!
I played in the Saturday Roll Up off 13 (we have a pretty penal handicap system to ensure a spread of winners) and scored 37 points and still felt there were shots left out there. However in the main my game was brilliant. The driver was gun barrel straight and going around 260-280. Every time I stepped up to the ball I knew what I was going to do and generally I did it.
Fast forward 24 hours and we have a stableford comp this morning. Confidence was high given my golf yesterday especially coupled with playing off my official handicap of 20. Had good partners and was really looking forward to the round what with the recent weather, a genuine opportunity for an early season cut.
Sadly it was like night and day. Driver was ballooning wide right, pitches were heavy and putting was an unmitigated disaster! Ended up scoring 36 points which actually doesn't sound that bad however the standard of golf to score that was truly rubbish. I also had a lot of luck! The tree gods were on my side and twice I clattered into big bits of wood only to be chucked back out on the fairway. I also thinned a ball on a 200yd Par 3 which ended up 10 ft from the pin.
It's the driving that is really frustrating. I work really hard on it and think I'm getting somewhere and then I get on the course today and I cannot control anything. Swing feels the same as yesterday however the results couldn't be further apart. On the plus side this weekend was e first time that. I have taken to the course and not been wearing almost every piece of golf clothing I own to try and keep warm!!
