NR TODAY!

[GRAEMBO]

Right now I am so considering selling my clubs!! I hit the ball today as good as I have in 2 years, I putted as well as I have since summer last season, but I just couldnt score!!!

I hit one fairway all day wih the driver, everything was low left, but my iron play got me out of a few sticky situations.

Two bad drives, and me thinking I was Seve caused 2 sevens, and a plugged ball in the rough caused another.

That was game over and NR! I had 29 putts today and never had a score....Im gutted!! I dont even want to practice now!

 

[birdieman]

I would focus on the positives. If driver is proving problematic, choke down on it a little and ease off the throttle - good position is better than an extra 15 yards but in the hay. 3 wood might be even better.

 

[jammydodger]

Steady on m8 , calm down , theres not one person on this forum who hasnt felt that way at some point during their golfing life. It gets better , one round doesnt a bad golfer make.

Chances are you'll shoot the lights out next time and it will all be forgotten

 

[GRAEMBO]

Jammy....I flippin better...played a 2 rounder on saturday....up 0.2, if i go up again this weekend, then that will be one full stroke in 2 weeks!!

I just couldnt get the driver in the air, or out of the centre of the shaft for a full day! the last 5 holes (aside from 17) i hit my hybrid, and hit it close 3 times!

At the weekend the driver was the only thing working....and i was shaping shots etc.

The only postive today was my scrambling ability, and my putting!

 

[jammydodger]

Maybe youre getting too tense and getting down on yourself too quickly. Its easy to do when youre seeing all the hard work and good rounds youve had to shoot to get cut just disappearing so easily. Try to think back to the good rounds youve shot and find out why you had them , were you more relaxed , had you practiced more beforehand , have you something bad going on in your personal life that is making you irritable quickly ??

Have a bit of quiet time and do some thinking about the good times and what place you were in at the time

 

[thecraw]

No offence, however I hate people who NR, it should not be allowed and it fails to properly reflect on the CSS for the competition for the rest of the field. I had two 8's on Saturday and also three 6's which was an obvious point 1 onto my handicap. Despite shooting probably a 10 year worst ever score of 16 over par, 86 (playing off of 4) I still put my card in.

I had a bad day at the office, between my first 8 and my second 8 I played 9 holes in -1, the wheels then fell off as I lost interest however my card was still signed and handed in.

NR's are bad!

 

[jammydodger]

No offence, however I hate people who NR, it should not be allowed and it fails to properly reflect on the CSS for the competition for the rest of the field. I had two 8's on Saturday and also three 6's which was an obvious point 1 onto my handicap. Despite shooting probably a 10 year worst ever score of 16 over par, 86 (playing off of 4) I still put my card in.

I had a bad day at the office, between my first 8 and my second 8 I played 9 holes in -1, the wheels then fell off as I lost interest however my card was still signed and handed in.

NR's are bad!

I have to say I agree with you Craw , my partner on sunday put one OOB on the 18th and said 'I cant make the buffer so im not hitting another'. I said he'd got to as it affects the CSS but he just carried on walking and didnt look back...bah

 

[Herbie]

I dont understand the logic of this post?

If you play off 6 I also dont understand how you got there with the comments and suggestions made in this post.

Its not logical for a 6 h/capper to hit as well as they have in the last two yrs and score like this, especially when you say you putted well too?

A 6 h/capper being so far off target, notching up 7s and the like, for me is just a 6 h/capper having a bad day, nothing dramatic or ott required and I would expect a 6 h/capper to accept this and understand it.

A 6 h/capper being consistantly off line or target, is a 6 h/capper with a problem, not one who is hitting well.

I am not trying to annoy you, but if you are not seeing your own probs perhaps you need a pro's advice.

To me, your post in some way suggests an unwillingness to accept that you may be losing your standard a little, or that you have simply spat your dummy out after a bad day?

 

[Smiffy]

I played down at Old Thorns towards the tail end of last year with a couple of other forum members plus three of my mates.
If my golfing future had been reliant on how I played that day my golf clubs would have been thrown in the bin on the way out of the car park. I played like an absolute drain, you'd have thought I hadn't picked a club up before that day!
I've played well since, and I've played badly.
But the beauty of this game is standing on the first tee not knowing what the hell the round will bring. No two games are ever alike. You can shoot the same score five days on the trot but you won't have played the same game.
Stick with it

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I agree totally with the other posts and that you are probably getting too tense and trying too hard. We are all trying to get down as low as possible but if you have to take a couple of steps back first then look at it as a challenge and not a set back. You know you have the game so give it a chance to flow. If your ball striking is really that bad why not get a lesson.

 

[GRAEMBO]

Craw...I NRd on the last...I hit my second shot from in behind an outshot of trees, my playing partner said it was just short of the green, I got there and there was no ball...I was that pissed off I just couldnt walk back.

To the other guy, 6 and 6s are racked up because I thought I was seve for a couple of recovery shots and landed up leaving myself in trouble before taking my medicine and chipping out. I overclubbed on a few occassions, but still hit the ball well. How is it therefore impossible that I hit it well?

I had 3 lessons in the winter, after I got my new irons, I was hitting it really well and I felt in control, I bought a new driver that was recommended at my fitting and I hit it really well on the range, but not on the course...I dunno what that craic is. Ive booked in with my pro for the weekend, hopefully we get somewhere in a couple of sessions.

 

[Herbie]

Craw...I NRd on the last...I hit my second shot from in behind an outshot of trees, my playing partner said it was just short of the green, I got there and there was no ball...I was that pissed off I just couldnt walk back.

To the other guy, 6 and 6s are racked up because I thought I was seve for a couple of recovery shots and landed up leaving myself in trouble before taking my medicine and chipping out. I overclubbed on a few occassions, but still hit the ball well. How is it therefore impossible that I hit it well?

I had 3 lessons in the winter, after I got my new irons, I was hitting it really well and I felt in control, I bought a new driver that was recommended at my fitting and I hit it really well on the range, but not on the course...I dunno what that craic is. Ive booked in with my pro for the weekend, hopefully we get somewhere in a couple of sessions.

Hitting the odd shots well is not the issue, if I only hit 1 fairway in a round then I am not hitting well, I may be hitting a long one or a reasonable one but not a good one, the good ones stay on the fairway and as you said you only hit one fairway, for me that is a 6 h/capper not hitting good shots, sorry!

 

[GRAEMBO]

so when I knocked it back ont he fairway...then hit it into the centre of the green, that wasnt a good shot? or when I knock it under the branches onto the fringe that wasnt a good shot? If i could have gotten it off the tee, I would have scored!

 

[Robobum]

...........I bought a new driver that was recommended at my fitting and I hit it really well on the range, but not on the course...I dunno what that craic is. ......

Graembo - I had exactly the same driver fitted with a stiff NV proto for me @ Mizuno when I got my irons. All the numbers on the LM were spot on and it went beautifully on the range. It lasted about 2 mths back on the course, even when I felt as though I had hit one pretty solid it went nowhere as though I still had the headcover on (which is a shocker BTW!!)

£60 R7 in the bag with a stock RE-AX stiff that fits me nicely (for the moment!!)

 

[GRAEMBO]

I just got rid of my superquad, Im starting to regret it a wee bit now. Ill persevere, I know I can hit it well. Ill see what the pro has to say to it!!

 

[Parmo]

Bloody hell fella, all of us feel like that at times. I try and I say try to pick the best putt, mid iron, long iron/hybrid and drive of the day and think of those. Its all too easy to think of the negative things.

 

[StuartD]

No offence, however I hate people who NR, it should not be allowed and it fails to properly reflect on the CSS for the competition for the rest of the field. I had two 8's on Saturday and also three 6's which was an obvious point 1 onto my handicap. Despite shooting probably a 10 year worst ever score of 16 over par, 86 (playing off of 4) I still put my card in.

I had a bad day at the office, between my first 8 and my second 8 I played 9 holes in -1, the wheels then fell off as I lost interest however my card was still signed and handed in.

NR's are bad!

Not stirctly correct. The NR not counting to the CSS is a bit of a myth

For the CSS calculation your score falls into the SSS + 2 catagory. Any NR also falls into this Catagory.

Only if someone was going to shoot lower or on the CSS and suddenly NR'd would the calcultion be slightly off (even less off if the person involved is cat 2 or above). I would expect any match sec to discount a score like this and have a word with the person involved and cut him on general play anyway

 

[Parmo]

Thought if you NR'd you got 0.1 on your hcp and if you played over your hcp you still got 0.1?

I thought otherwise before as was ranting about players even Jr's NR cards just to keep their hcp down which is real terms is bandit country.

which is right?

 

[GRAEMBO]

parmo, yes NR gets you 0.1 on your handicap, so therefore doesnt keep it down! Im away to practice ....Im winning the champo this year!!(IF I CAN HIT A FEKKIN FAIRWAY!!)