Mein Kampf

[Basher]

Played 18 after work yesterday.
Played with 2 guys from work. One a regular with no official handicap. The other a total novice.

I started well (for me!) bogeyed the 1st then par, par, par, par. Things looked great, my confidence was high.

At the turn the wheels fell off........I was scoring 6's and 7's on almost all holes (including the par 3's!!!) Just felt like I'd forgotten how to hit the ball. I was topping it, fatting it and dare I say it, a few s***ks as well. Totally ruined my good card.

Got home and thought about it but couldn't come up with any logical reason as to why my game went pear shaped so badly mid way through a round.

Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[CrapHacker]

Never !!









Ok,



Maybe that should be ;

Shedloads !!



You started thinking. Always a bad move. When you can train yourself to just set up, relax, and then suddenly find yourself in a beautiful balanced finish, with the ball flying majestically through the air. Well that's when you'll be a golfer, my son

 

[RGDave]

Has this happened to anyone else?

Yes. It happens to everyone sometimes. Chin up.

 

[CannyFifer]

Weekly mate, similar handicap but consistancy is what we need, it will arrive through time though. (I hope for me too)

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Um yes, just this morning actually. Playing in our monthly stableford. 20pts on the front 9, feeling good, then go double, double, double, bogey, double. Standing on 15th tee with 23pts then score 10 in last 4 holes including another double on 16. What you gonna do, that's golf sometimes, just got to forget about it.

 

[drawboy]

Mmmmmmn, sounds familiar, aint life a bitch!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Yes but you wait until it tears into your golfing soul and you feel like walking off. I've had a week off and to be honest haven't missed it. Might be to do with the fact we've had a proper manic week in work and I've been too tired to go to the range but I doubt it. I had a lesson today. Not sure where I go from there but I did enjoy two hours hitting chip and pitch shots and working on the short game.

Put it down to a bad day. If it persists get a lesson. Its golf and we've all grabbed a poor score from the clutches of potential handicap cutting round

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Yep but what you gonna do? To be honest I was half expecting something like that to happen. Confidence in golf is a very dangerous thing. I'm just gonna take the positives from it. After all, 33pts with 5 double bogeys in 7 holes, 3 of which were blobs ain't that bad.

 

[RGDave]

Um yes, just this morning actually. Playing in our monthly stableford. 20pts on the front 9, feeling good, then go double, double, double, bogey, double. Standing on 15th tee with 23pts then score 10 in last 4 holes including another double on 16. What you gonna do, that's golf sometimes, just got to forget about it.

Bad luck Hawkeye. Do you ever rethink your strategy for the second nine holes when you are sailing along (too) nicely?

I only mention it, because if I'm on the 10th a shot or two up from where I should be, I play 4 holes (10th/13th/14th/17th) totally differently. No joke....

I'm just interested in the course management aspect.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

No, I play the same way regardless. I used to change strategy but I found that I was doing it for negative reasons and it doesn't work. I think today I just maybe lost a bit of concentration. Whether it was the heat I don't know but there was certainly no change in strategy.

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Had a nightmare yesterday, back to the dark ages again.