Golf summed up in 7 days and 2 rounds

[burnabao]

So, 21 handicapper (currently), usually shoot somewhere around the mid 90s. Last weekend I had the single worst round of golf I have ever experienced. I couldn't contact the ball for love nor money, I mean it was Shanksville. Resorted to trying to chip my way round the course just to get it over and done with, but even that was beyond me. Gave myself two hands full of blisters, shot 126 and was thoroughly fed up. Blisters equalled no practice for me all week, and then this afternoon I go out and shoot a personal best of 90 round my home course, with some of the purest ball striking I've ever produced. No physical differences this week from last, but it was all just "working" today. And that, for me, is what this game is all about. Days like today where golf seems like the easiest thing in the world - what a great feeling. Stupid game... ;-)

[xxsoultonesxx]

I can relate...haha. I palyed some of the worst golf of my life a few weeks ago, and now the temps are getting a little bit more comfortable around here in Washington state, my scores are dropping and the game is getting fun again. Golf is a cruel mistress.

[Snowman80]

i hear that as well,i thought i was going to shoot the best game..i was only 6 over after the first nine.being a player that shoots mid 90's as well i was thinking hey this is going well.Then BAM alllll went downhill..lol..i shouldnt have thought about it and kept playing.O well maybe next time

[PaulMVR]

Originally Posted by Snowman80

i hear that as well,i thought i was going to shoot the best game..i was only 6 over after the first nine.being a player that shoots mid 90's as well i was thinking hey this is going well.Then BAM alllll went downhill..lol..i shouldnt have thought about it and kept playing.O well maybe next time

I have had this happen to me many times.  I was a 26 hc before I changed my swing(now I hit the ball like a 2 year old). And at that 26 hc last year, I had a few rounds at a fairly difficult course that I started out with 3 pars in a row.  Once that happens, you start to think "wow, 3 pars... I only need 15 more pars to shoot 72".  Once you start thinking like that, it's over.

[Gerald]

Many golfers think that a golfcourse consists of two rounds of 9 holes, not rare for a midcapper to play the first nine in 6 over and shoot 15 over at the second nine ....... I actually see this a lot !!!

I play in a weekly tournament with a group raging hc. 4 - 30, its is more like a social event, mostly I am coupled with some of the midcappers and some how I always think a few holes, sometimes even for 9 holes, wht don't these guys play from hc. 15-18 instead of from 24-30 ...... I even know a few that don't want to know what they shot on the first nine......... golf is a mental game, think a golfcourse to be 18 holes and don't make a new start after nine holes.