That "Hamlet Moment"

[billyg]

Off the back of an earlier thread about favourite shots I thought it might be fun to ask what shot is the one that has you look to the heavens, suck in a deep breath and wonder where it all went wrong and why aren't you doing something more rewarding with your time like painting a bookshelf?

Mine at the moment is either the duffed tee shot which knocks the ball 30 yards along the ground , buries the tee into the ground so far you need a JCB to get it out and makes you feel like Rodney Trotter at The Grange grouse shoot.

Either that or the putt before stepping off the first green realising that you've already dropped four strokes against the course and it's going to be a long afternoon.

 

[madandra]

40yd chip from a downhill bare lie just infront of a bunker or water. That tightens the old star fish !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Basher]

For me it has to be this scenario.

You hit a majestic tee shot, long and straight. With a magnificent sense of satisfaction you stroll down the fairway. With the green well within reach you select your club, set up and address the ball. A well balanced swing and "kerlunk!", you hit it fat, take a divot the size and depth of a housebrick then watch the ball land 20 yards away and a long way from the green.

Grrrr! Happens to me regularly!

 

[John_Findlay]

Easy one for me, this.....the duffed chip. What a waste. Kills the confidence on every chip for the rest of the round.

 

[madandra]

The booming drive that flies 270 in the air and lands OUT OF ******* BOUNDS




chi-chik ... RELOAD !!!!!!!

 

[medwayjon]

When you have a chip from the edge of the green and catch it with the sole and whack it 30ft by.

 

[Atticus_Finch]

Got to be the duffed chip for me as well I'm afraid.
It's just so demoralizing when it happens.
I'm depressed just thinking about it now.

 

[madandra]

One minute you could be soaring like and eagle and after a duffed chip you question your reasons for even trying this bloody game.

 

[Dormie]

You're playing well, on a decent round, and come to the mid length par 4 that should give no problems. It's oob all the way down the left, so you take an iron of the tee to ensure good position in the middle of the fairway and avoid the danger. You tell yourself take it easy, nice swing. be clever....
I step up, only half swing, don't turn properly, turn my hands right over, and watch the ball sail 20 yards oob, round ruined right there and then!
Unwrap, spark, inhale, puff and walk on......

 

[HTL]

When I rush and top the ball.

 

[DCB]

It's got to be the putt on the first green when you're above the hole and only just realising that the green bears no resemblance to the practice green's speed.

 

[geronimo]

For me it has to be this scenario.

You hit a majestic tee shot, long and straight. With a magnificent sense of satisfaction you stroll down the fairway. With the green well within reach you select your club, set up and address the ball. A well balanced swing and "kerlunk!", you hit it fat, take a divot the size and depth of a housebrick then watch the ball land 20 yards away and a long way from the green.

Grrrr! Happens to me regularly!

Yip hate that.
Done that after hitting my best drive of my life hit it just behind two players who had just played there 2nd shot.

Got to it, just a little 40yd pitch to the green, looked up to see the blokes in front on the next tee watching me, fell to bits hit it very fat(if at all) and it trundled about 10 yrds.

felt a right plonker

 

[The_Squire]

When your set up over your tee shot knowing that your uncomfortable and should walk away and start again, you take the shot anyway and it's bounce bounce bounce, roll roll roll, bo**ocks.

 

[ianmc]

for me its got to be when youve reached the green in regulation with say 25ft to go a you leave your 1st putt well short to leave a tricky par and then end up missing that one too hasnt happened since i got my new odessey but no doubt it eventually will.ian mc

 

[MVP]

Im not going to read this post. i like positive thoughts. not wanting to tee up on the first and slice it behind me in the pond

 

[Toad]

Not taking enough sand and sending it straight into the bunker on the other side of the green.

 

[brendy]

For me its the pushed tee shot on a par 3, all our par 3's have treouble right and the old nudged push usually rears its head once a round.

Just remember ladies and gents, some holes you're the pigeon, others you're the statue.

 

[hopeful]

For me it's more a series of moments..........when I'm 40yds from the green in two on that long par four, joyously anticipating a par, a bogie at most.......then take five more to get down.

 

[Gasp]

This happened last year so it's painfully fresh in my mind. 17th, par 5. I'm 1 under playing really well. after a good 3-wood I'm 10 yds from the pin in two, the ball lying just to the right of the green side bunker. I'm thinking birdie. Lift my head on the chip, duff it in the bunker. Thin the bunker shot 30yds over the green. O.B. Drop another in the bunker- Plugged ball. Leave the next in the bunker. Manage to get the next one on the green..... Three putt. As I wrote the 10 on my card I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

 

[MVP]

This happened last year so it's painfully fresh in my mind. 17th, par 5. I'm 1 under playing really well. after a good 3-wood I'm 10 yds from the pin in two, the ball lying just to the right of the green side bunker. I'm thinking birdie. Lift my head on the chip, duff it in the bunker. Thin the bunker shot 30yds over the green. O.B. Drop another in the bunker- Plugged ball. Leave the next in the bunker. Manage to get the next one on the green..... Three putt. As I wrote the 10 on my card I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Serves you right for thinking birdie. you should be concentrating on where you want your shot to land not what score you want!!! then let the score talk for itself