You hit some terrible tee shot into the cabbage, so you play a provisional ball and it goes straight down the middle, always followed by the exclamation "Why couldn't I do that the first time?" Any explanations for this?
Why do provisional balls always go straight down the middle!
- Thread starter delc
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LIG
Q-School Graduate
Your original statement is False - provisionals don't always go straight down the middle. I find they invariably head for the opposite side cabbage!
chrisd
Major Champion
And Lig knows cos he's the "King of the Provisional"
Dan2501
Tour Winner
Maybe you are over-compensating!Your original statement is False - provisionals don't always go straight down the middle. I find they invariably head for the opposite side cabbage!
chrisd
Major Champion
Maybe you are over-compensating!
Lig doesn't over compensate, he just hits provisionals cos that's what he does :lol:
WinBase
Medal Winner
Why not take a bag of provisionals onto the tee and hit them first?
I've tried that and it doesn't work. Somehow the balls know that they are not really provisionals!
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Because you don't try and smash it,instead you just try to keep the ball in play?
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
i thought that was Slasher Nash?
chrisd
Major Champion
Aren't they twins?
richart
Major Champion
I would call it practicing on the course.
chrisd
Major Champion
I would call it practicing on the course.
It's a flippin lot if practice, he'd be better off with a range membership
SugarPenguin
Challenge Tour Pro
Mine go down the middle and are perfect or I hit the exact same shot that caused me to hit a provisional in the first place !
Pants
Challenge Tour Pro
The rules of golf should allow you to play your provision first ....
Ads749r
Head Pro
My pro shop is always sold out of provisionals.
ScienceBoy
Money List Winner
I think it is because I know enough about golf to recognise the fault and instigate the fix.
Today I blocked pushed a drive into the trees, clearly I came a little out to in.
Provisional I just took a few practice swings to feel a shot from the inside an tonked one down the middle. Thankfully found the first and stuck the second greenside. For the rest of the round I hardly it a good drive right as I came from the inside more.
Today I blocked pushed a drive into the trees, clearly I came a little out to in.
Provisional I just took a few practice swings to feel a shot from the inside an tonked one down the middle. Thankfully found the first and stuck the second greenside. For the rest of the round I hardly it a good drive right as I came from the inside more.
ChrisB0210
Assistant Pro
It's of the unwritten rules of golf, in the same category as always smacking one in the bunker or water after you've told your pp that you're not going to do that and finding a top-flite or pinnacle when you've lost something better than that in the jungle!
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
One of two things will happen. You'll either nut it miles down the fairway or hit it the opposite direction to the first leaving a 150-200 yard walk between searching for the original and having to play (if necessary) the provisional.
FairwayDodger
Money List Winner
In a medal I'm just as likely to knock it miles in the opposite direction but in matchplay I seem to always hit pretty good shots with provisionals. My theory is that I think I'll lose the hole anyway unless I find the first one so just relax and hit the provisional nicely.Trying to incorporate that philosophy into every shot!
