How Often do you Quit?

[Travtex]

Between the interminable pushes and the consideration of what I could be doing with my limited budget rather than cursing at the stubborn insubordination of a little white ball, I have sworn off the game forever a couple of times in my short golfing career.

Hell, just this week I decided to pack it in. I put a half-dozen balls in the water (In my feeble defense, there's tight water in play on EVERY HOLE). Two days later, my friend wanted to play a round and I was all fired up and ready to suck.

Is there golf rehab?

[Zeph]

Golf
An ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill adapter to the purpose.

I want to quit after every bad round, but I always come back for more, it is like a drug. I would recommend you get some lessons. No need to go around and torture yourself if you can do something about it and enjoy your game more. I know the feeling you got, carrying 20 balls out on a round only to come back with 4, two of which you found while searching for your own ball.

The only thing that really helps in situations like that is to get better, so you avoid hitting the ball left and right. This forum can offer some limited aid, but lessons is the best way to go. Or possibly online lessons.

[Titleist Gibson20]

i wouldnt advise quiting forever maybe a week or 3 break from it helps. golf is the hardest sport to master. you only get what you put into it and thats the truth ask anyone. practice shipping a quarter swing shot with a quarter follow through and gradually work your way up day by day or week by week untill you get to a 3/4 swing or a full swing. having someone that knows alot about golf watching and helping you helps alot. just think if you quit now a year down the road you would wish you never have quit. in a years time working hard a few times a week will pay off i promise. get a lesson and maybe a few golf training/aids off of ebay and see if that doesnt help out quicker. golf is one of the few sports you can play untill you 80 years old. get ya some vokey wedges and some decent balls and start chipping your brains out till you find your game. thats how i start off every season. you cant hit a full swing swinging 100mph if you cant hit a bump and run 20yd chip shot. go to the range and start hitting 100 balls at 60% swing speed and work your way up and i promise you will get better over time maybe not in a week or 3 weeks but eventually you will see very noticeable gains in skill. you cant hit a good shot if you have a negative attitude, have a positive attitude when your over that ball,and know you can pull off the shot you want to hit. so much of golf is mental bub. i really hope you change your mind about quiting and i really hope this helps you out. i lose my swing all the time but its fun studying the swing and trying to get back to where you can hit great shots. every golfer has there bad rounds and weeks of slumps. no pga pro wins back to back events its not easy man. keep you head up and keep beatin on that white ball. sorry for the story i just want to help ya out. i shot a 75 the other day and only missed 3 fairways and today i only hit 3 and shot a 89 on the same course with way easier pins. shit happens in golf lol. it sucks when your not playin good, but you always one good shot away to start changin things around man. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE as Allen Iversone would say lol not related at all lol. my bad again for the novel lol

[Kingfisher]

I have never, thought about quitting, not even after a nightmare round. Quitting golf is the last thing I would ever do - I'd much sooner quit alcohol or quit meat (and become a veggie), but quit golf? Unthinkable.

If you have a bad round, you usually have nobody but yourself to blame, so after a bad game go home, sleep it off and forget about it. Get to the driving range and start working on improving before your next game.

[GolferDot]

after two months of not breaking 80, last round I had a fleeting thought to myself ....... why the %#*& do I play this game ........... then had a beer and thought no more of it until now

[uttexas]

I've never quit, but, I will stop playing rounds of golf and just practice if my swing goes south, or if I'm making big changes.

[TastyGreens]

I haven't thought about quitting for good, but I have taken time off. I have broken a lot of bad habits in my time, but I don't think I could give up golf for good. It's the only thing I have left at this point.

[jamo]

I want to quit once a year: winter. Then I get the itch a few weeks in and have to go the the range. It's addicting.

[BigMikey]

Every time I have the feeling of quitting I manage to pull off a tour level golf shot that simply erases all those fatso's, skullers and water hazard shots. That's what always keeps me going. I remember a score I had last fall of 103 (yep that bad), but I birdied 18 and shot a 86 the next day.

[Fourputt]

  Travtex said:

Between the interminable pushes and the consideration of what I could be doing with my limited budget rather than cursing at the stubborn insubordination of a little white ball, I have sworn off the game forever a couple of times in my short golfing career.

Find an easier course? Or at least one with less water in play? One of the things I like best about my home course is that although there is water in play on half the holes, it is mostly avoidable with a bit of caution. I have never cared much for courses where every errant shot is out of play in one way or another. I prefer a course which lets the player play golf. You may have bad lies, trees, deep rough, etc., to contend with, but you still have a chance to find and play the ball, even if that play is only a pitch out to the fairway.

[nevets88]

I quit a couple of times for a couple of years. Slow progression and awful learning conditions. in a big metro area even with quick and easy access to rental cars, it's a big effort even to get even to the range let alone a course - traffic and distance. Add to that the awfully slow rounds and dearth of practice facilities. Also add in some bad instructors, but I kept plugging away.

[sean_miller]

  Kingfisher said:

I'd much sooner quit alcohol or quit meat (and become a veggie), but quit golf? Unthinkable.

I love golf too, but nothing says summer to me like the smell of ____insert favourite cut___ searing on the grill. Every time I see a fancy vegetarian meal on the cooking channel, I think, "that would be great with a rib eye and pint of Rickards Red".

I could have quit golf a few times early on (and likely would have been happier for it by now), but there was always a bomb sunk from the fringe, a 9 iron one-hopping into the flagstick, or a high drawing 3-iron to keep me coming back.

[McGolf-Doggie]

  uttexas said:

I've never quit, but, I will stop playing rounds of golf and just practice if my swing goes south, or if I'm making big changes.

^

Like this. I have some injuries that flare up from time to time that keep me from swinging. An occasional case of the shanks coupled with a neck disk flare up have sometimes led me to take a few weeks away, and that can be a good thing; I've sometimes come back way better than I left. Other times, a bad day at the range hitting off mats can be followed by a great day on the course. So sometimes you're not as bad as you think you are (or as good). It's a funny ole game. I was hitting the ball terribly at the range a few weeks ago. But played an impromptu evening round a day later, and posted my best score yet, a 39. McGolf-Doggie at the practice nets last night: >

[enis750]

NEVER wanted to quit
when i play like crap, nothing gets me back into it like a good practice session
usually take a day off to get my mind clear, then hit the range or putting green and get to work

then im back

I never take fro granted that i am healthy enough to walk 18+ holes on a beautiful, sunny day and shoot whatever
there are far worse things in this world to stress about

[James_Black]

If I have a bad round, I have a bad round.
There's always the next day.
I love golf, I could never see myself quitting. I could play every day of the week if I could.

I think golf is starting to become a problem.....

[B-Con]

The thought of quitting never even crosses my mind.

I've had a few points where repeated bad games and bad driving range experiences have made me want to quit. But I'm far to obsessive to actually stop. I've only stopped for a few months at a time from a combination of discouragement and being too busy to play anyway. (My signature just pokes fun at the love-hate relationship many of us have with golf.)

  Zeph said:

Golf

Reminds me of the first half of this video by Robin Williams. (Contains R rated language.)

[Long_Ball_Bogey]

I once promised myself that I'd quit the day after my funeral, but realized I'd play golf in Hell if my arm were twisted....

[JML22]

i quit the golfing courses if i'm going through swing changes or shanks or something. Just means ill goto the range once a day or something
I'll never quit golf though