Boy did I invoke the "good round" curse!

[Jack Lee]

I have heard that your best round will be followed by your worst round. The stinkiness of the bad round will be in direct proportion to the number of people you tell about the good round.

Well, I sure proved it today!

Last time I played a round with my dad, I broke 100 for the first time. Shot 99 and it was something like my 5th time playing a whole 18 and my 14th or 15th round of golf at all. Absolutely delighted, I proceeded to talk with all my golfing coworkers about it as well as posting it here.

Sure enough, today was horrible. Not to say I played completely badly, as I had some excellent shots. We played 9 holes and I managed a par, two bogeys and two doubles. The other 4 holes were a whole different game of golf. 7 on one par 4, 8 on another and two holes we didn't even bother to total up. (Both of us stunk those two up.) I had one drive where I smacked the snot out of the ball, but sliced it so badly that I lost the ball in the woods on the other side of the fairway of an adjacent hole.

Well, now I have it out of my system. I will likely spend some time tomorrow on the driving range trying to get some semblance of order back in my swing.

Y'all take care!
Jack Lee

[CG031]

Yup, it certainly happens...

First golf match of the season, started off terrible, went +3 on the first 2 holes...

Ended up shooting +2, 37...I went and told everyone about the round I had, I played really well and recovered, etc. etc....What do you know, next match it feels like I'm trying to replicate the previous round and end up shooting a 43.

I feel your pain - the best advice I can give you is to forget the previous rounds once you step onto the course. Good or bad.

[enduro]

Yup, you need a short memory to play this game for better or worse.

Don't be discouraged. You're just inconsistent. That's what separates the good players. And Tour level players have a level of consistency that is insane.

There's a lot of guys that could beat a tour player on any given day. But they couldn't do it over 4 days or even get close. Tiger often doesn't post the best rounds but he almost never posts a bad one...except for the Open just recently. And his bad ones are almost always not as bad as his good ones are good.

It isn't unusual for someone to break 80 for the first time and then shoot a high 80's later.

[c4m]

I know how this goes.. shot +6 on 9 holes, 3 pars and a birdie.. next day didnt even bother keeping score it was so damn bad

[Jack Lee]

On one particularly memorable hole, there is a creek cutting the fairway about 230 yards or so out. (Don't know the exact range) I pulled the 5 wood thinking to lay up rather than try to drive it as I haven't yet managed a clean drive across the creek. I put an excellent stroke behind the ball and dropped it clean as a whistle into the creek. As I couldn't see from the elevated tee box whether I had hit the bank and might be able to play it or dropped it in the water, I teed up another ball, declaring it a provisional. I pulled out my driver and proceeded to slice that ball so hard into the woods adjoining the fairway that I didn't even bother looking for it.

I can say that one reason that I had such a rotten round was that my 10 year old nephew was with us and I seemed to be able to either focus on helping him have a good game/good time (his second round of golf) or on my golf game. I can say with certainty that I think I made the more important choice on which to concentrate my focus on. The two holes my dad and I lost count of our strokes on were the two that my nephew did his best on.

Y'all take care!
Jack Lee