Just how quickly can a good round unravel !!!

[Macster]

Played in a Medal yesterday, which was also the Qualifier for our Main Club knockout, and paired up with a 6H/C'er.
Best start I can recall for absolutely ages, 4 straight and very solid Pars, and stood on the 7th Tee only +1 Gross. Happy Days, and looking forward to a decent score.
Wrong.

A hooked drive into the trees later, a chip that hit wood and didnt get out, resultd in a Double B, which I repeated in similar fashion on the 8th too, before ending the Front 9 +5. No Disaster, but .......

A massive drive on 10 (Str 1), put a 6i into the Bunker, 2 to get out, and walked off with a Double again

After that, things just didnt go smoothly, temp went, confidence went, and ended up with a Nett 75, perhaps enough to qualify for the knockout, but after the start i'd had, was hoping for a good result for H/C . Damn.

Thankfully, I managed to not put my partner off who carded a Gross 71, Nett 65, to perhaps win, and a good cut for him.

So frickin frustrated by my collapse, - altho I wasnt happy with the new grips, which might have contributed to my bad Driving

 

[Fyldewhite]

About 10 seconds can be enough ...when I convince myself that a certain choice of shot is actually "on". The single hardest part of golf (for me anyway) is to keep concentrating on every shot.

 

[One Planer]

I would say it depends on your mentality and how you approach the game.

If you're a perfectionist then you may implode alot quicker than someone who accepts there may be a few bad shots during their round.

 

[bigbazzaboy]

One really bad drive can usually do it for me. Although recently i've not been letting a bad hole affect me too much. Drove into the trees at the 2nd,couldn't get a path through and when i did my 6i punch skidded through the green,3 putts later and i had a 9. Took a 5 on the par 3 3rd and thougt i was in for a bad day. Managed to just about keep it together and even played the back 9 in +1 which is a miracle.

 

[Migs]

I can McIlroy with the best of them at the moment... only been playing 6 months, was 46 for the front 9 yesterday, which for me having not broken 100 yet, was great everything was clicking....

10th hole- Ditch, thick rough, lake... scored a 10 and from then on went on to hit 62 for the back 9 Bloody game!!!

 

[Basher]

I do it regularly, also do it in reverse sometimes. No consistency whatsoever!
Played last night and the driver wouldn't behave. Got to the turn and the drives were awesome! Trouble was my iron play went Pete Tong big style.

Frustrating.

 

[Oddsocks]

Played in a Medal yesterday, which was also the Qualifier for our Main Club knockout, and paired up with a 6H/C'er.
Best start I can recall for absolutely ages, 4 straight and very solid Pars, and stood on the 7th Tee only +1 Gross. Happy Days, and looking forward to a decent score.
Wrong.

A hooked drive into the trees later, a chip that hit wood and didnt get out, resultd in a Double B, which I repeated in similar fashion on the 8th too, before ending the Front 9 +5. No Disaster, but .......

Up until this bit my round mirrored your in my last medal.

+6 on 6th (not bad off 13), hook up 7, duff chip out, pitch short, chip on the worst green of our course and a 4 putt....

Ive learned never to stand on a tee reflecting on the last holes played, but concentrate on the ones your playing.

 

[SimonC]

One hole for me, a couple of years back I shot 32 on the front 9 (par is 34 stood on the par 4 10th tee and 3 balls out of bounds later I was 7 off the tee, I ended up with an 11.

 

[Whereditgo]

21 points on the front 9 on the Hotchkin, followed by 3 straight scrubs damn those bunkers!!!!

 

[Billysboots]

One shot is all it takes - it's how you react to that destructive shot which is the key.

McIlroy at The Masters is proof of that. One bad shot cost him the tournament, and I'm not referring to his tee shot at 10. It was the missed putt at the 1st which lost it for him - all of a sudden a 4 shot cushion was halved and he never got going from there on.

 

[Oddsocks]

thats about right billy. It was a big fault of mine as a junior, other players would hit a bad shot, scrub it from their memory and move on, me on the other hand could destroy a great card in one shot.

 

[bluetoon]

Pretty quickly for me if a few recent rounds are anything to go by.
Haven't put my finger on it yet. Loss of focus maybe, but both times recently were into strong head winds, just seem to start spraying and wreck the card.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Pretty quickly if yesterday is anything to go on. Missed a real tiddler on the first being way too casual. On the second I hit my tee shot very close tot he OB fence right. Tried to hit an 8 iron across the corner into play again. It hit a fencepost in front of me sailed right over my head and back OB and never to be seen. Reload and finished with an 8 to start with a double and a triple bogey.

 

[HRC99]

Very fast. But you can get it back. Played Saturday and I was 11 over after 5 and finished 12 over. It ain't over til it's over!

 

[FourPutt]

Happy Days, and looking forward to a decent score.

That was your first mistake. It's hard, but gotta try not to think about the score. I realise that you will know exactly what you are on, having just hit mostly pars, but you've got to try and stay in the present. It's not so much about not knowing what score you are on, but when you try and think about what you could get if you can only keep it steady etc then it's a recipe for disaster. (blah blah psychobabble)

Have you read any of Bob Rotella's books? People take the mick, but they have helped me with blowing up so badly in competition rounds etc. Golf is Not a Game of Perfect is pretty much my bible. Worth more than ten swing mechanics books, in my opinion. (Of course, I play off 23, so what would I know about swing mechanics?!?!? )

 

[Smiffy]

1st hole on the Hotchkin. A bit of a slice off the tee but ball was in play, sitting down a bit in the rough but hacked a 6 iron up the fairway. Shortish pitch (60 yards) onto the green left myself a 20 footer for par. Just slide past the hole, left myself a tiddler for bogie. A tiddler. About a foot. Would have been a gimme, but we weren't playing them. I missed it. Blob. It was downhill from there.