What a frustrating weeks golf

[rgs]

Had a team practise last Friday week for the away quarter final of the inter club fourball competition. myself and my partner played well and took the money from our team mates. In fine form for the match,or so we thought,never got going and lost 3&2 having been 4 down with 5 to play. Also our team played badly and we were well beaten.
Thursday played 3rd rd of club individual matchplay, great game, i played well and finally won on the 19th-most holes won with pars.

Today played weekly stapleford, weather dreadful, but i played like a donkey. This bloody inconsistancy is so annoying and frustrating.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

There is a simple explanation to your inconsistency - simply put it is something called GOLF.

Look at Fasth at the BMW - going along ok and shoots a score in the 80's today

 

[golfandmoregolf]

practice more and your inconsistency will eventually be a thing of the past!! trust me i was the same......

 

[brendy]

RGS I think im in a similar predicament to yourself this week, played in an Ulster interclub competition (Holt Shield) and was comprehensively beaten due to not finding enough fairways. Yesterday I was out started with a double bogey when trying to play the hole safely into a howling wind (it lashed down with rain and wind only clearing for a couple of holes mid round which at least has made our course playable again after a month long drought and scorched greens) had a few pars and another double bogey with a ball O.O.B. but still ended up level with my handicap gross after nine, then went and basically ran up another couple of double bogeys in the back nine at the par 3's and finished 3 over handicap, I was striking the ball well, putting well and was getting the ball away off the tee ok, just a little wayward when trying to shape the ball and each time put me behind trees.
Im playing 4 times next week, 2 match play (Holt Shield), monthly medal and a society outing to the big course at clandeboye so fingers crossed I have figured out what I was doing wrong off the tee. Good luck getting your own game back into the groove, my advice is stick it out, something will click in your game, it happens to all of us and suddenly you will be pushing your handicap lower again.

 

[RGuk]

Golf....eh? always the same.

I've had some odd rounds recently....somedays I'm hitting it well and straight and can't make a good score, other days I'm a bit ropey and go round with only bogeys and pars to my h'cap.

You've got to keep at it and WAIT for the time when everything goes in your favour. There is luck in golf and also days when you can scramble from seemingly nowhere.

As for losing games, well, sometimes there's nothing you could have done, and others when you can only blame yourself. That's what makes it all so addictive.

 

[rgs]

Thanks for teh kind comments--Played today in the medal-conditions woeful-driving rain combined with storm force gales-playing with the current Captain and we decided to retire after 7 holes, the 7th is close enough to the car park to come in-we were not the only ones to retire-players packed it in after the 7th and 9th due to the conditions. Played reasonably well given the conditions.

 

[brendy]

Frustration ends, satisfaction reigns! Played in the inter club competition tonight (holt shield, h/cap is 6 and above)in the home leg of the next match. It rained, then blew, then rained again, I managed to win 3 & 2 having been initially 1 down after 2, I think I ended up level par maybe +1 for the course and was very happy with my all round game, no bunkers and a few decent putts within 12 feet and plenty of good up and downs which left my oponent struggling to match. Going into the monthly medal tomorrow and the away leg on sunday with bags of confidence now.

The difference a week makes eh?