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The Golf Gods Giveth, the Golf Gods Taketh Away

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11 hours ago, iacas said:

Don’t hit it in the hole.

I remember you tried that once and still only made par 😉

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On 3/8/2020 at 7:52 PM, Buckeyebowman said:

Wait a minute! According to your info your HI is 12.4, and you've never broken 80? You must be spectacularly consistent, or breaking 80 would have happened a couple of times by accident! 

He probably plays at a difficult golf course in NJ, we have a handful of courses with slopes over 140 and ratings over 74.  A 12.4 index wouldn't break 80 on such a course.    A scratch would do well to break 80 from the tips at Pine Valley or a couple others.

 

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25 minutes ago, dennyjones said:

The Golf Gods just blackened the eyes of all golf watching fans!   dang!

It's a bummer. Hopefully I will be playing this weekend, and with any luck, the courses won't be as croweded and I can get in 36 each day. 

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Last week I was 'bragging' about my best round ever.  I should NOT have done that.  Last Friday I played around and it was a disaster.  By the 8th hole I stopped keeping score.  WTF???

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1 hour ago, phedrick said:

Last week I was 'bragging' about my best round ever.  I should NOT have done that.  Last Friday I played around and it was a disaster.  By the 8th hole I stopped keeping score.  WTF???

One of those unwritten rules of golf. The gods don't like it when you brag about what they let you do. Offer a sacrifice, learn from your mistake and move on. 

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On 3/8/2020 at 3:34 PM, billchao said:

I no longer believe in the golf gods. I’ve made many offerings of brand new golf balls at their altar and still I have yet to break 80.

We have a golf god that lives in a creek. He (She?) demands a sacrifice of 2 balls for every 9 hole round. Usually at holes 2 and 6. 

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Not too long ago, I was bragging that I hit my best score ever; an 81.  The next time out was a disaster. Such a disaster that I stopped keeping score around hole 7 or 8.  It seems I had offended the Golf God's by my bragging. Most people would have learned their lesson, don't you think?  Well, it seems I didn't! LOL. Last Friday I played a casual round with a good friend at one of the courses around here that is still open and I hit a 79!!!  I was elated. I realize that for many of you a 79 is nothing, but for me it was a major accomplishment. Having learned my lesson, I thought, from the last time, I did not brag.  However I was 'bragging in my heart' LOL. It seems the Golf God's noticed….Today I played with another group of friends, and just KNOWING in my heart that I am going to be awesome….WRONG!  The front nine was an utter disaster; it was embarrassing. It wasn't until after hole nine, where I made a sacrifice of a really nice ball into the water hazard in front of the green, did things turn around.  The front nine I really do not want to remember. The back nine saved my arse. Praise be to the Golf Gods.

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12 minutes ago, phedrick said:

Not too long ago, I was bragging that I hit my best score ever; an 81.  The next time out was a disaster. Such a disaster that I stopped keeping score around hole 7 or 8.  It seems I had offended the Golf God's by my bragging. Most people would have learned their lesson, don't you think?  Well, it seems I didn't! LOL. Last Friday I played a casual round with a good friend at one of the courses around here that is still open and I hit a 79!!!  I was elated. I realize that for many of you a 79 is nothing, but for me it was a major accomplishment. Having learned my lesson, I thought, from the last time, I did not brag.  However I was 'bragging in my heart' LOL. It seems the Golf God's noticed….Today I played with another group of friends, and just KNOWING in my heart that I am going to be awesome….WRONG!  The front nine was an utter disaster; it was embarrassing. It wasn't until after hole nine, where I made a sacrifice of a really nice ball into the water hazard in front of the green, did things turn around.  The front nine I really do not want to remember. The back nine saved my arse. Praise be to the Golf Gods.

Phedrick... I think your experience(s) are almost universal.  Years ago I'd shoot a great round, with great feel and consistency... I just knew I had arrived, that I had achieved a new level, that I had it all figured out.  Two days later I'd go out, full of enthusiasm for my newfound game, and play awful. 

As we progress in this game it is not a one-way door.  Death, taxes and going backwards in golf... all universal truths.

Now, years later all I can say is that my good and bad days/scores stay closer to my mean.  I think that is all you can expect.

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One of these topics is enough, @phedrick.

I also don't know how much of that is the "golf gods" and how much of it is just normal fluctuations of a golf game that could use some work.

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Sorry I offended you iacas.  I will stop

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11 minutes ago, phedrick said:

Sorry I offended you iacas.  I will stop

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It's not offensive at all, and I don't know why you'd say that.

It's just forum moderating: you don't need to start three similar topics, particularly when they don't even get > 1 page of replies.

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