Scared of the winter... and the driving range :(

[dufferman]

With the weather showing it's dark side (I'm currently at work with a plugin heater on under my desk...) the prospect of evening golf is now well on the decline. Got out last night for 9 holes on my own, played well, could have done 13/14 but got hungry.

However, I hit the range twice last week and couldn't hit a damned thing. It was like I'd not played the game of golf for a year. At 2 separate driving ranges too!

I always try to 'play a round' at the range - hit my driver once or twice, then hit a short iron, then a 3w or 5w, then a long iron, then a PW etc - to mix it up and keep it fresh. However, after 10 or 12 balls, I end up just swinging for the sake of swinging, and lose my concentration which leads to losing my patience!

Now the mid-week 9 will be impossible to play, I fear my new handicap and general game will be in decline!

Anyone else have this feeling of deep dread creep over them every time they look out the window and see the dark sky at 8pm??

 

[Slab]

Maybe you 'teed off' on your round too quickly

The first 10-12 balls are my warm up balls and are not part of my practice (other than to warm up)

 

[Duckster]

I've actually quite liked going to the range on the way home from work recently (I have a spare hour from me getting home to our peg getting home). So long as I have something specific to work on as I've never been one to take loads of clubs and swap and change.

But... I'm not one who likes to hit the range in the winter months when it's dark at 4pm, cold, dreary with slight drizzle. Not looking forward to that at all.

Needs must though, game improvements to be made over winter and brought through to next season.

 

[rksquire]

I've sort of stopped using the range, certainly the mats, as any adjustment I made didn't translate too the course - practice now consists of using the grass area if allowed and maintained and using my own tees in the grass area or honing in iron shots on a couple of holes at the course if its quiet.

 

[garyinderry]

for once I am not fearing the onset of the winter. I am viewing it as a time to finally sort out my driving demons. I've booked a lesson with our pro for next Monday. I've told him we have to get the driving sorted. the rest of my game I can live with.

it remains to be seen if we can change my driving without having an impact of the rest as I suspect we will have to change my grip for starters. that is bound to bleed into the rest.

anyhow, nervous, excited and everything in-between. needs must, as I just cant shoot decent scores regularly fighting it off the tee. it puts too much pressure on getting up and down.

 

[DCB]

Can someone get the Samaritans number please. If this is for real, and it's only the 13th August, the number will be in great demand

And as for an electric heater on... in August.... no wonder you get called southern softies

 

[Rooter]

no wonder you get called southern softies

don't tar us all, i am sat with the door open in shirts and t shirt. i would go to the doctors adam, you must be ill.

 

[DCB]

don't tar us all, i am sat with the door open in shirts and t shirt. i would go to the doctors adam, you must be ill.

ditto and I'm up in sunny Scotland. No heating on 'til mid October...at the earliest

 

[cookelad]

As I put in my thread yesterday, the lack of evening golf does depress me a little, although the rest might do me and my game good!

I'm always loathe to use driving ranges, especially since I've been down here where it's 50 balls for touch under a fiver, when I've got a bag of practice balls sitting in the boot of the car! (starting to worry I'm about to start pining for the North!)

 

[Rooter]

ditto and I'm up in sunny Scotland. No heating on 'til mid October...at the earliest

my dad used to refuse to light the fire until dec and is was off again by march, think my dad must have some Scot in him...

 

[duncan mackie]

Anyone else have this feeling of deep dread creep over them every time they look out the window and see the dark sky at 8pm??

probably, but certainly not me...

 

[dufferman]

don't tar us all, i am sat with the door open in shirts and t shirt. i would go to the doctors adam, you must be ill.

I'm just born and bread in the 'Sauf 'Eeest innit.

Seriously, it's cold in here today!

The range mats are what do me - that and the lack of direction. No real targets, just flags & distance markers. I do struggle to maintain my head when there's no variety or direction!

 

[socky]

think my dad must have some Scot in him...

Scott of the Antarctic ?

 

[Rooter]

Scott of the Antarctic ?

Thats who i was named after! due to excessive snow on the day i was born, mum got diverted to another hospital to have me, as the roads to reading were not passable!

 

[CMAC]

Thats who i was named after! due to excessive snow on the day i was born, mum got diverted to another hospital to have me, as the roads to reading were not passable!

could've been worse, you might have been called snowy

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Bit breezy but no need for a heater. What you going to do when proper winter arrives. I don't mind the range as I'm usually working on a drill or having lessons. To be honest, anything that keeps the swing ticking over is fine for me and the range is the best place for me especially with one five minutes away now

 

[chrisd]

You don't get much more sarf east than where I am, nearer to France than London, but only a golf t shirt on, ready for this afternoons bounce 4 ball. Heater on Adam? Made of money!

 

[Fish]

Heater on, your having a laugh!

I've been working (yes I know its hard to believe) outside in shorts and a vest for weeks, even yesterday when there was some drops of rain, which was quite refreshing :smirk:

Doubt I will use a range much this winter now I've moved to a heathland course, all the old beggers won't be out so its millionaires golf for me :smirk:

 

[dufferman]

I regret the heater comment