This Is Becoming a Problem Now

[DCB]

Homer,

Thats why we are handicap golfers. We cant produce the magic all the time.

last saturday I had a good round going, I was looking at a probably cut as I stood on 16th tee. One smothered hook later, I was in tatters. Next tee, I'm thinking about a par, birdie finish to play to handicap. One shanked 6 iron later, I'm looking at missing the buffer by two.

Its a silly game really, but we'll all be back trying again next saturday won't we.

We've just got to get on with it.

 

[Andy]

Do you check your blood when out on the coure Homer?

Maybe your needing a boost come the latter holes?

I always have a bottle of lucozade per round to keep me going.

Andy

 

[Smiffy]

All this talk about "being in the zone" "putting practice" "short game practice" "working on my leg action" doo bee doo doo bee doo.
Just stand on the tee and fecking hit it!!
OK nobody likes to play like a knob, I know I don't. But don't beat yourself up over it.
Too much thinking going on.....I think

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I will get a leccy trolley at some point but finances chez Simpson are extremely tight and HID may be out of work by the end of June as her company are looking to get administrators in and searching for a buyer. I don't do my bloods on course and I'm not suppose to drink lucozade/powerade because of my diabetes but do have one anyway. I'll always have a banana after 4 holes and another after 11 and I've just bought a pack of lucozade tablets so I'm going to give them a go at the weekend.

I have no problem with the back nine mentally. I started on the 10th in a roll up last weekend (went out on my own about 5.00pm) and played the nine to my handicap without striking it well. I have to be honest and say because it was better ball I wasn't thinking about what I needed to do because there is always what your partner will do to add in. In fact to be honest after making a great par putt on 14 I was ready to rock and really confident. I wasn't even too fussed when we both blobbed and easy par 5.

I'll put it down to one of those things. I found out 46 won and so as I didn't have shot on 2 of the last 4 holes my partner would have needed to either par (net birdie) 3 of them to win anyway.

 

[Cernunnos]

I assume you do dring water during the round ?

Simple hydration with water is probably one of the best things we can do & something its so easy to not do. I'll attest to that one.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I do. I carry 500ml of water and 500ml of lucozade and alternate them making sure I drink at every other hole. In hotter weather I'll take a larger 750ml water as well as the lucozade. I always eat muesli or porridge (as part of my diabetic diet!) for breakfast so have a good slow burning meal inside me plus my bananas during play.

I don't think its a case of dehydration or dropping sugar levels that is too blame. I think after throwing away the monthly stableford there was an element of trying too hard to win the medal which probably resulted in becoming too tense in the swing over the closing holes. Yesterday I think was a case of reacting to my partners error and trying too hard to recover lost shots.

 

[Herbie]

Well if you had spilled your lucozade over him instead of drinking it you might have done better!

 

[Cernunnos]

Could have made it a very sticky situation though

 

[thecraw]

You are getting into the correct positions Homer, just keep knocking at the door and it will open one day, you need to be in that position that you are in in order to experience it and overcome it.

Just keep plugging and take the positives from your early round play. The more you get yourself into the position the more comfortable you will become.

It may be frustrating just now, but keep the chin up and dont let it get you down, we all know how bad we feel after a bad finish!

 

[CrapHacker]

The thing that gets me is that when you post about these nearly scores, it feels to me that they normally begin with how you're not hitting the ball cleanly, but you're scoring well. This round you were 'swinging ok' - not brilliantly, or out of this world, just 'ok'.

Well god help us when you start striking it well then