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Played last Sunday and had a legitimate chance to break my best score of 87, until I ran into "Those 2 holes". Had a birdie and a double on the front and the rest were bogies, for a 44. Started the backside par, par, bogey and than played the next 2 holes in 7 OVER. Perfect drive followed by my only chunked iron of the day, folloed by flying the green, followed by coming up short on my next shot, ending with an 8. Totally duck hook my next drive OB and have to scramble for a 7. Round trashed. I pulled it back together to shoot a 48 on the back but it was too little too late. I would normally be very pleased with a 92 but those 2 holes will live in infamy for the rest of the week.

This game is hard!

Rant over, thanks for listening.

my get up and go musta got up and went..
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Getting back in the game after a 3 year Hiatus I find my ball striking coming back,  but my touch around the greens GONE.   One bad shot will destroy a hole for me.

I shot a 90 last time out,  and third time out this year....    that was with a couple of birdies,  a handful of pars,  then a few doubles, a NINE on a par four,  and a triple.....

My card screamed "inconsistent"  because it wasn't like I fell apart on the back,  or took awhile to get going.....  it was  Par, Bogey, Par, NINE, birdie, Bogey, Triple  etc.....    just ALL OVER the place!

But,  at least I enjoyed a nice 95 degree day!

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That's been my issue this season as well, two holes that blow an otherwise good round. Typically end up with the same result, what could have been low 40's pushed into the high 40's by costly mistakes on two holes. Though it's a good way to measure progress. I know I'm a few tweaks away from better scores. The birdies and pars are starting to be more frequent and the doubles less frequent. I think it's in my head because it's the same two holes at the place I play the most.

Dave :-)

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Originally Posted by Dave2512

That's been my issue this season as well, two holes that blow an otherwise good round. Typically end up with the same result, what could have been low 40's pushed into the high 40's by costly mistakes on two holes. Though it's a good way to measure progress. I know I'm a few tweaks away from better scores. The birdies and pars are starting to be more frequent and the doubles less frequent. I think it's in my head because it's the same two holes at the place I play the most.

The bolded part is what I tried to take from the round. I proved to myself that I can play this game better.

my get up and go musta got up and went..
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Golf really is such a humbling game lol.

Same thing happened to me last week - started the first four holes with 6, 6, 6, 6 (one was a par 3 too!!). Needless to say it was hard to get into the rest of the round when I knew i had no chance of putting a good score up after a start like that. O well, best way to look at it is that there is always the next round

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Two weekends ago I start off +5 and +4... carded 52 on  the front. #10 another +5, carded 48 on the back... 3 holes of disaster! Even if I could have just bogeyed each I would have been low 90... /sigh

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That's the bitch of the game. I started off double, single, double, then had 2 bogeys and a double on the back. Damn doubles!

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You got in your own way. You started thinking about breaking records.

Play the course in sections of 3-6 holes, dont think about anything but your game, and you will have less of those blow-ups. Concentration is a huge key.

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Yep totally understand the frustration here...

Few weeks ago I started with par, par, par, birdie after 4 holes (best feeling ever!!)

Then I put down 9 on next par 3........WTF!!

The rest of round was ....oh well.....

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Once you start getting into breaking 90, that shows you can strike the ball well, and from there on down through the 80s it's always going to be the occaisional monster hole that holds you back.  Anyone at this level can string together a bunch of par/bogey holes, but not many can put together 18 of them in a row.  I play consistent par/bogey golf, but it is always the snowman or 3 doubles that keeps me in the 80s rather than the 70s.

It's a hard game, but that's part of the beauty.

dak4n6

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I like ApocG10's advice.  I think that I've kind of been doing that already, but I'll make a more conscious effort of it.  I'm really close to bogey golf and my blow up holes are 7's now, not 9's (although it wasn't long ago).  Keep up the effort, concentrate, make your practice swings feel right before stepping to the ball and you'll limit the damage.

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Its tough to keep things from going down hill..

I remember anika talking about shooting her 59, she was on the 10th tee and told her caddie, "Lets get a par here". Now you got to think, she just went like crazy on the front nine and most people would think, lets keep it going, but she steps back and looks at a goal she knows she can do. It refocuses her, and she ends up shooting a 59.

I think the same can be applied when things go bad. If you fly a the green after chunking a ball, don't think about making a perfect up and down. Just try to get the ball on the green. Do something you know you can do. If your on the tee, even if its not the club you would normally hit, hit a club you know you can hit. Just do something the refocuses you, sometimes you have what looks like a good round or the start of something bad, you just need something to mix it up, to get yourself back on track, or keep yourself going.

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That's a huge part of the game, overcoming those big numbers. You have to develop the consistency to be able minimize your bad holes. My typical rounds now are me being right around par or even sometimes under par on 14/18 holes, and then on the other 4 holes I might have 3 doubles and a bogey, possibly even a triple on occasion.

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Originally Posted by ApocG10

You got in your own way. You started thinking about breaking records.

Play the course in sections of 3-6 holes, dont think about anything but your game, and you will have less of those blow-ups. Concentration is a huge key.

I really wasn't paying attention to where I was scorewise, I just knew I was having a good round. You are right about me getting in my own way though. As I'm standing over my approch on the first blow up hole, the thought flashes through my head "Hey, I haven't chunked a shot all day". Instead of backing off, I go ahead and hit, of course, chunking it 50 yards. Standing at the next tee, frustrated, thinking I need to crush it to give myself a good chance at par, I overswing and rip it dead left.

my get up and go musta got up and went..
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Another observation: When I do play a good round and card a good score (< 80 for me), I always recall that I focused on each and every shot completely, and nothing else. It actually takes a lot of discipline to go through all the details of every single shot - distance, lie, wind, trajectory and shape, > club selection, and whatever swing key(s) you have downloaded for that day.  I am always amazed at the number of people I have seen that pull a club without considering all the variables. (Player hits an iron to a 3 par and comes up 25 yds short, and I ask 'What did you hit?'. He says, '7 iron'. And I'm like, 'Um, the pin is back on an uphill 159 yd hole that is straight into a 2-club wind. WTF?)

I tell my boy all the time that playing good golf is actually hard work.

dak4n6

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I'm with ya!  Scored a 9 on a par 4 last Sunday to ruin a potential best round on a tough course.

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Irons:  Wilson Ci
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Boy is it good to not be alone in the struggle. I have been lamenting over the very same thing for about a month now, usually the front nine with snowmen or double bogies which throws me out of the running to break 90 on a couple of holes, I get it together in the back nine but its too little too late. There is some good swing thoughts and mental notes in this thread that I will try to use to restructure my attempt to reduce the impact of a bad hole(s) I have the same issues as listed by others; chunked shots, over flying a green, thin shots, the occasional water seeking ball are a real pain in the butt. good luck in the quest to all.
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I was on my way to a 41 which would have blown my previous best out of the water and took a ball swimming twice on the last two holes and took an extra stroke on the last hole as well as the 4 penalty strokes and ended up with a 46. Still my best game ever but I was really butt hurt over the 4 freebie strokes I took.

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