WHY?!?

[Matty]

Why oh why can I go to the driving range on a Monday night and hit every single ball in the bucker as sweet as you can imagine - long and straight with every club I pulled out of the back...

And then hit the course on a Sunday lunch and slice every single ball into oblivion?

The only memorable part of the game was hitting a GIR on a par 4 - not that usual for me!!

 

[Basher]

There are loads of "scratch" driving range golfers mate. Get them on a course and they flounder.
Possibly due to the fact that they are not driving/shooting from a perfectly flat stance.
Think of the shots you make on the course where the ball is below/above your feet, uphill/downhill lies. Get my drift?

 

[Alex1975]

There are loads of "scratch" driving range golfers mate. Get them on a course and they flounder.
Possibly due to the fact that they are not driving/shooting from a perfectly flat stance.
Think of the shots you make on the course where the ball is below/above your feet, uphill/downhill lies. Get my drift?

Also there is no pressure, no one to make you feel you need to hurry up, no score to chase, no card to hand in. I love the range, but its fake, it’s like an F1 driver using the simulator, easy to push when clipping the wall will not break your legs.

 

[Nikki]

Probably because your telling yourself on the course that you need to do this and need to do that and therefore you get tense (anyone get the pun??? ).

Out of my own experience you should just chill out and pretend it's just you on the driving range...



You will then become tense free...










So just Chill out man!!!

 

[HawkeyeMS]

First, no pressure.

Second, you're more lenient in your definition of a good shot.

Third, there are no hazards. I've hit untold numbers of good shots on the course that have come up a foot short and caught a bunker, got a bad bounce or landed in a divot or bad lie. On the range you don't know or care exactly where the ball finished and you don't have to hit a shot from where it stops.

Fourth, you don't have to chip or putt.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

At the driving range my official handicap is +5. I can hit any shot you like, wherever you like.

When I'm in my front room I've regularly completed the 'Auburn slam' - that's every major, the race to Dubai and 5 points out of 5 in that years Ryder Cup.

Get me on the course with a card in my hand and I play like a cu....

 

[JustOne]

When I'm in my front room I've regularly completed the 'Auburn slam' - that's every major, the race to Dubai and 5 points out of 5 in that years Ryder Cup.

Weird, your mum describes the 'Auburn slam' as when you come home from golf after shooting less than 20 stableford points and SLAM your bedroom door as you disappear off for a MAJOR sulk.

 

[AuburnWarrior]

When I'm in my front room I've regularly completed the 'Auburn slam' - that's every major, the race to Dubai and 5 points out of 5 in that years Ryder Cup.

Weird, your mum describes the 'Auburn slam' as when you come home from golf after shooting less than 20 stableford points and SLAM your bedroom door as you disappear off for a MAJOR sulk.

How do you know my Mum??

 

[Matty]

Thanks for the comments - I'm a little reassured now that it's not only me

One of the things I've considered in my post road analysis (read wandering around muttering about this shot and that shot) was that the round too over 3 and a half hours for 9 holes!! I normally clip around in less than 2 hours so to be totally honest I think I got bored and switched off!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

3 1/2 hours for 9 holes????????????????????????? I'd have been out of there by the 5th. That isn't anyones idea of fun and no wonder your game went to pieces. Try and relax on the course though and trust the work you've done on the range when it comes to the real thing.