Herbie
Tour Winner
Have you ever had one of those rounds of golf where you hit the golf ball as good as you have ever done yet ended up with a bad score?
Any other day, the golf I played would have resulted in a mid 70's round of golf, but not today, yet, every drive but one I hit straight (neither fade nor draw)and down the middle or chosen side of fairway, yet only one finished down the middle. Every approach shot bar one, were very good golf shots, bang on target and 9 times out of 10 would have finished lovely, but not today.
Even my playing partner said he'd never seen so many good golf shots finish so badly. I must've caught every bad bounce location on the course today, and everything that followed the bad bounces made things worse, like kicking into bunkers, or ditches or ponds when really they should not have done so.
I feel like I played great golf today,apart from one hole, yet the score was rubbish. I had a question mark above my head all day today?
I started off with 3 pars today, all of which were near birdies, then a fourth straight forward par. Then the next hole, a massive drive 'straight' down the middle, that kicked right with every bounce, then rolled down a slope into a pond some 320 yds away, I have never hit this pond even with a fade that hit the middle before.Took a drop, hit a beauty straight for the flag, bad bounce in front of green kicked sharp right into bunker, finished with a 6. Next hole was another big drive into slight head wind par 5, but the ball flew straight, hit the deck, kicked right and tucked itself up against a sapling, leaving nothing but a left handed shot to get it anywhere, popped out on fairway, beautifully struck 3w heading straight for the desired spot, took a kick left into fairway bunker, leaving me no backswing, got out with a crafty shot straight into a divot hole, finished with a 7.
This went on for the rest of the round, no really bad golf shots, in fact some superb ones, yet the finish was unreal sometimes. I have never had this happen so much in one round before, especially when I am playing well
I can understand this happening with a draw or fade or worse, I can understand the odd one from a good shot finishing poorly but it happened from the 5th hole onwards today

Its a brand new experience for me after 30 yrs of playing.
Its just so wierd, I feel like I played lovely golf shots today with no reward
Back to the drawing board.

Any other day, the golf I played would have resulted in a mid 70's round of golf, but not today, yet, every drive but one I hit straight (neither fade nor draw)and down the middle or chosen side of fairway, yet only one finished down the middle. Every approach shot bar one, were very good golf shots, bang on target and 9 times out of 10 would have finished lovely, but not today.
Even my playing partner said he'd never seen so many good golf shots finish so badly. I must've caught every bad bounce location on the course today, and everything that followed the bad bounces made things worse, like kicking into bunkers, or ditches or ponds when really they should not have done so.
I feel like I played great golf today,apart from one hole, yet the score was rubbish. I had a question mark above my head all day today?
I started off with 3 pars today, all of which were near birdies, then a fourth straight forward par. Then the next hole, a massive drive 'straight' down the middle, that kicked right with every bounce, then rolled down a slope into a pond some 320 yds away, I have never hit this pond even with a fade that hit the middle before.Took a drop, hit a beauty straight for the flag, bad bounce in front of green kicked sharp right into bunker, finished with a 6. Next hole was another big drive into slight head wind par 5, but the ball flew straight, hit the deck, kicked right and tucked itself up against a sapling, leaving nothing but a left handed shot to get it anywhere, popped out on fairway, beautifully struck 3w heading straight for the desired spot, took a kick left into fairway bunker, leaving me no backswing, got out with a crafty shot straight into a divot hole, finished with a 7.
This went on for the rest of the round, no really bad golf shots, in fact some superb ones, yet the finish was unreal sometimes. I have never had this happen so much in one round before, especially when I am playing well

I can understand this happening with a draw or fade or worse, I can understand the odd one from a good shot finishing poorly but it happened from the 5th hole onwards today


Its a brand new experience for me after 30 yrs of playing.

Its just so wierd, I feel like I played lovely golf shots today with no reward

Back to the drawing board.

