Somedays you see the shot, other days just a ball

[Khamelion]

Do you have those rounds sometimes where you're faced with a awkward shot over a bunker, or a delicate greenside chip and you just see the shot, you just know what it is you want to do immediately and you pick your club stand over ball swing and it's a moment of genius.

But on other days, your mind is mush, you pick out a club and it may as well be a half brick tied to a broom shank and you swing in hope something good will happen, which more than often end up in you duffing the shot.

 

[Region3]

Not days like that, but definitely shots that I know are the right ones but don't feel like I can pull them off at that time for one reason or another.

The trick is to listen to your brain, and pick another shot that you CAN see.

Play the shot you know you can play rather than the shot you think you ought to be able to play.

100% committed to the wrong shot is better than 50% committed to the right shot.

 

[MashieNiblick]

I agree that "seeing" the shot is really important to executing it well. Sometimes when it's tricky there's only one option, which can help me focus on what I have to do. The ones that trip me up are where maybe I have a more straightforward chip or pitch shot that I can play in different ways or where I am not sure where I want the ball to land due to the contours of the green and I end up being indecisive and not committing to the shot even when I have made a choice.

 

[Hobbit]

Always see the shot but sometimes the execution is like an octypus having a fit!

 

[pokerjoke]

Do you have those rounds sometimes where you're faced with a awkward shot over a bunker, or a delicate greenside chip and you just see the shot, you just know what it is you want to do immediately and you pick your club stand over ball swing and it's a moment of genius.

But on other days, your mind is mush, you pick out a club and it may as well be a half brick tied to a broom shank and you swing in hope something good will happen, which more than often end up in you duffing the shot.

I suppose this is what pros call seeing the shot you want to produce.

Im the same as you mate but I believe its down to my lack of concentration on some shots.

 

[Paul77]

I do that mostly on my fave hole on my course. Pop the drive down the left of the fairway then a PW draw shot into the bank on the right of the green and it rolls down onto the green. Can play it everytime. Can't do it for toffee on any other hole. I just see the shots on some holes, but mind goes to pot on holes where I'd rather pick the greenskeepers toenails than play the hole.

 

[Khamelion]

The flip side to my OP is that on the holes where you know you play bad is that the shot you see is the one you hit as well, like you have OOB down one side onto a main road and you see a hook or pull, a golf ball embedded in a car windscreen and a car upside down in the farmers field wheels spinning. Then instead of just playing the shot you want, you do duff it but are happy to get away with a 150yd thinned shot that gets you away from the road.