Help!!

[golf hungry]

My mental game is SHOT!!!
Here are my last 4 rounds-
37-44
36-49
39-41
38-45

This is on 3 different courses, so it's not that the front sides are easier.

I seem to have started to loose it after 9. Any clues?

[Drennen13]

Forget about the front after your done and try to play your best ball on the back.

[Marinemike]

Take a week off. This happens to athletes all the time. Particularly runners, but anybody who trains with their bodies. I think you might be doing something equivalent to "overtraining."

So take some time off before you go completely Charles Barkley on the course.

[wrx_junki]

Easiest solution would be to play 9 and go home and be happy.

Are you sure it's mental and not getting tired after the front 9? If it is mental, are you losing focus or are you trying too hard on the back 9 to equal or better your front 9?

No one on here can help you unless more details are given on what is causing the score differential.

[Zeph]

Don't think about front nine and back nine. It is one course, 18 holes. You're not done until the last putt drops on the 18th.

[Kingfisher]

  golf hungry said:

My mental game is SHOT!!!

Any chance you may just be running out of gas? I live in SE Asia and play in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia - needless to say it gets pretty damn hot. During most games, I'll go through at least a couple of litres of water plus some snacks. If you don't hydrate and snack along the way you may not feel it physically, until it's too late and then it just feels like you've got no more wind in your sails!

[cbetofop]

  Kingfisher said:

Any chance you may just be running out of gas?

I'd go along with this.

You are a much better golfer than I, so don't take it the wrong way, but I have always struggled over the back 9, hitting between 9-13 more shots than on the front, so I experimented and started at the 10th a few times......and still shot more on the "back" nine! Could be just a bit of tiredness and the mental watershed of the 9th hole, moving on to ANOTHER 9 could be doing it....play the course from the 1oth and see what happens

[golf hungry]

I don't think it's physical. I am in good shape. I think I start "protecting" my front side score, instead of keeping the momentum.

[iheart8.0]

i play on the golf team at my highschool, i noticed that it helps if i think of one shot at a time and dont think of what could go wrong, if you hit a bad shot you can always hit it again

[Kingfisher]

  golf hungry said:

I don't think it's physical. I am in good shape. I think I start "protecting" my front side score, instead of keeping the momentum.

I understand you may be in good shape, but tiredness and hunger can manifest itself in different ways.

I'm not saying by not eating and drinking throughout the round you're going to keel over from exhaustion. What I am trying to say is that if there's no fuel in the tank, the mind is the first thing that gets affected which may impair your judgement and/or co-ordination. If you're playing golf which does require a good deal of concentration, then a tired mind is not going to be as effective.