What's with all the melancholy?

[Tiger]

You've changed........

.......to a much better outlook!!

I'm really glad that the thread has brought some mid winter cheer to some of you but I wanted to respond specifically to Robobum's comment.

I used to think that lots of practice + lessons + good equipment = improvement. But I now recognise that golf just doesn't work like that. Great expectations (not in the Dickensian sense) damages the most important component of your golf game: the six inches between your ears. The more I practiced, the more lessons I had, the more gear I laboured over buying, the more pressure I inevitably put on myself and the worse I got.

It is no coincidence that my handicap is often greeted with disbelief at my club because the mechanics are all there. So while I'll practice and still take lessons I have accepted that my handicap is what it is. If it goes up or down I'm not overly fussed anymore. I'll play and have fun and what will be will be.

PS Chris no drugs I'm afraid

 

[HawkeyeMS]

That's the spirit Tiger. I've just gone back up to 10 after a brief spell off nine but do I care? Not really (despite the mad sign in my sig) because I know it's only a matter of time before I'm back there. If I was playing badly I'd be bothered but I'm not. I even had something that looked scarily like a short game on Saturday, and I mean a short game that left tap in pars and not nasty 6 footers like usual.

I like a bit of positivity, mind you, that comment about doing bleep tests in the rain at footy training made every muscle in my body start to hurt, if there's one thing I don't miss about football, that's it.

 

[Mattyboy]

I thought John Cougar Melancholy sang a song about Jack and Diane?

Right, back to the wine!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I tried positive thinking on a golf course once. Almost looked like a golfer and scared myself and my partner so decided not to bother anymore. Maybe I need to change my user name to Marvin (brain the size of a planet and they never let me use it)

 

[Monty_Brown]

Forecast is for no rain and about 17 degrees in the South East this weekend. Oh, and rain in Scotland, but bit of sun there on Sunday

Let's get these new positive attitudes out on the course and enjoy ourselves on a lovely Autumn day...

 

[Robobum]

I'm really glad that the thread has brought some mid winter cheer to some of you but I wanted to respond specifically to Robobum's comment.

I used to think that lots of practice + lessons + good equipment = improvement. But I now recognise that golf just doesn't work like that. Great expectations (not in the Dickensian sense) damages the most important component of your golf game: the six inches between your ears. The more I practiced, the more lessons I had, the more gear I laboured over buying, the more pressure I inevitably put on myself and the worse I got.

It is no coincidence that my handicap is often greeted with disbelief at my club because the mechanics are all there. So while I'll practice and still take lessons I have accepted that my handicap is what it is. If it goes up or down I'm not overly fussed anymore. I'll play and have fun and what will be will be.

PS Chris no drugs I'm afraid

Good man Tiger.