Luck on the golf course

[louise_a]

Luck often plays a part during a round but I ( and I expect others) bemoan the bad but just assume you deserve the good.

Today I had 2 shots that both hit the fairway and then got bad bounces one sideways into deepish round and the other sideways into a bunker, so when I am thinking about my round I think I could have been 2 at least 2 shots better.
What I casually overlook is the thinned bunker shot that caught the lip and stopped 3 feet from the hole instead of flying over the green and the thinned 7 iron that ran straight as a die onto the middle of the green, without these I could have been 2 shots or worse off.

So the luck actually balanced out over the course of the round.

How do others treat the good and bad luck they get.

 

[PJ87]

I just go with the flow

the bads just annoying.. I was playing on a society day and one of my playing partners hit a pin seeking tee shot on a par 3.. with the way he hits aswell would have stopped nicely on the green.. but nope he smashed straight into the pin itself.. and proceeded to hit the downslope at the front of the green leaving him 50 yards to chip from lol

on the flip side I played last week on a second round of a 4 day comp.. hit a wedge off the tee sent it way right.. hit the bank and it finished up 5 foot from the cup lol

 

[Imurg]

When I get some good luck I'll let you know....

 

[ScienceBoy]

It is true you are the curator of your own fortune...

You could to always play with a brick wall following behind you (yes I get that is a bit silly, it would need wheels). Good or bad put it behind you and focus on the most important shot, the next one.

This can help you avoid the negative effects of a bit of good or bad luck.

 

[Region3]

I seem to get far more good luck than bad, and never forget that when the bad happens.

I agree with your point though, lots of people just remember the bad.

 

[patricks148]

at the moment i only get the bad kind

 

[TonyN]

I believe in golf karma. The course usually takes what its owed.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

There's only two types isn't there - no luck and bad luck!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

It works out. For every bad bounce there will be the ball heading into the woods or even OOB that hits a tree and bounces back into play

 

[Junior]

Ask Liverbirdie....more jammy than Hartleys that fella . I usually complain like hell when i get bad luck whilst my mates laugh their balls off at me

 

[Slab]

Its becasue good shots aren't always rewarded

For the ones that land on the fairway or is derived from a solid well struck shot then a good bounce is an intentional result, using the course and played for and luck plays no part in it, a bounce into problems from a good shot is always bad luck 10/10

For the poor shots, most of the time we're punished (some would say rightly so) but we still expect a 50/50 that we might get lucky. The reality is that maybe 1in10 we get good luck

So there's far more chances to get bad luck than good

 

[Smiffy]

Put a stream 100 yards short of the green.
And then put me 160 yards out from the green.
It doesn't matter how badly I hit the ball, fat, thin, shank, top, I always end up in the stream. Not just short of it, not just over it.
Always in it.
How does that work????

 

[FairwayDodger]

If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all....


Ok, not true. I bounced over the burn on the 10th at Carnoustie and it ran nicely onto the middle of the green. But that didn't even come close to balancing out the bad luck that day.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

How many times do you hear a member in the clubhouse going on and on about how lucky they were today?

I played a scratch semi final years ago against a good player I had not played before.
I won easily, and after the match told my opponent that he must have had an off day.

He replied that he had talked to a mutual friend and asked his opinion of my game.
The mutual friend had said that I was a pretty good player who seems to get more than his fair share of good luck.
He could not get the lucky bit our of his head and was expecting all my shots to get a 'lucky' bounce.

 

[garyinderry]

Some of you expect jist to turn up and be lucky.

It's the same as anything. You must work at it at it and practice it.

The more I play the luckier I get etc


bad players tend to hit real bad shots which there is no rerun from.

Better players hit not quite so bad shots which are not quite as likely to lead to the same level punishment.


Small example of this is where a poor player dribbles his ball into a green side bunker as he has mis hit or not executed the shot properly. He curses his luck at being stuck by the back lip of the bunker.

The better player that is caught by the the same trap makes better contact with the ball and has enough energy to make it to the green. He finds his ball in a nice lie in the middle of the bunker.


Both look in the bunker and thank / curse their respective strokes of luck but maybe their is something more to it than that.

Also some people are Liverbirdie the ****. Jammy so and so.