Canary_Yellow
Journeyman Pro
The weekend before last, I got under 90 (an 89) in a medal for the first time at my course. Needless to say I was delighted with this! It also got me a nice little cut and took me down to 19.2 - the lowest I've ever been.
I spent the whole of last week with a smile on my face - and I felt that I could score even lower than 89, my score was based on solid golf, nothing spectacular and I struggled to hold it together a little bit on the back 9 knowing that I was on a good score (43 out, 46 back - which included a 4 putt!!).
I was away last week so not able to practice at all, but I went and played yesterday - what a disaster that was! I was terrible! Right back to being as bad as I was all winter! I still enjoyed myself, but it was a bit frustrating to feel like I'd taken one step forward and then a great leap back!
I think I was trying too hard and that killed me. I'm in the process of trying to really improve my swing and this time last week I thought I was getting there - this week however, it all feels very strange and awkward again and I don't feel like I know what I'm doing at all. Trying to force it only made things even worse!
Silly old game - I know I can do it, just got to work out how I can do it again, I don't think that overthinking it is the way to go though. I'm booked in for a lesson tomorrow and I'll go from there. Might read a bit of Dr Bob while I'm at it too, and dig the V-Easy out for a bit of putting practice!
I'm sure what I'm going through at the moment is perfectly normal, can anyone offer me a little reassurance? My main concern is that last week was the one off and yesterday is the norm!!
I spent the whole of last week with a smile on my face - and I felt that I could score even lower than 89, my score was based on solid golf, nothing spectacular and I struggled to hold it together a little bit on the back 9 knowing that I was on a good score (43 out, 46 back - which included a 4 putt!!).
I was away last week so not able to practice at all, but I went and played yesterday - what a disaster that was! I was terrible! Right back to being as bad as I was all winter! I still enjoyed myself, but it was a bit frustrating to feel like I'd taken one step forward and then a great leap back!
I think I was trying too hard and that killed me. I'm in the process of trying to really improve my swing and this time last week I thought I was getting there - this week however, it all feels very strange and awkward again and I don't feel like I know what I'm doing at all. Trying to force it only made things even worse!
Silly old game - I know I can do it, just got to work out how I can do it again, I don't think that overthinking it is the way to go though. I'm booked in for a lesson tomorrow and I'll go from there. Might read a bit of Dr Bob while I'm at it too, and dig the V-Easy out for a bit of putting practice!
I'm sure what I'm going through at the moment is perfectly normal, can anyone offer me a little reassurance? My main concern is that last week was the one off and yesterday is the norm!!