What one aspect of your game, when on, makes your round a "good" one, despite score?

[Stretch]

Hitting the ball solid. I would almost rather miss the green with a shot that came right out of the sweet spot than, say, thin one that eventually scuttles up next to the stick.

[jcm011]

Catching clean shots (ball striking) definitely has to be it for me. I'm a pretty good putter (for my handicap) and ball striking really brings confidence to my putting game. It seems like if I get on the green and need a 1 putt for par I'm probably going to get really close or hole out a lot of the time. But if I'm spraying everywhere my anger affects my short game BIG TIME.

So, yeah. Clean contact on the fairway (And tee, of course)

Jacob

[lumpuckeroo]

Originally Posted by Deryck Griffith

Ball striking but more specifically, off the tee.  If I'm confident and succeed in smashing my driver, 3 wood, etc. onto the fariway consistently, I feel confident that I will hit more greens and make birdies.

Exact same for me, when I am hitting the driver well off the tee, the rest of my game seems to follow suit.

[ghalfaire]

Without a doubt it is putting.  When I'm putting well it takes the pressure off the rest of the short game and I play and (usually) score well.

[TN94z]

Ball striking with my driver.  If my driver is in play, I score well.  When my driver acts up, I lose strokes from the tee box.  My irons don't usually miss bad and my putting is always desecnt. The tee is what decides my score lately.

[sean_miller]

Assuming that one aspect was "on", yet I scored poorly, then I'm assuming other aspects were "off".

I suppose tee shots then. If nothing else, the round would go quicker for everyone involved if we're not wasting time looking for my ball.

[vbb2]

Originally Posted by sean_miller

Assuming that one aspect was "on", yet I scored poorly, then I'm assuming other aspects were "off".

Yes, that is what I mean.  The feeling of hitting solid mid irons makes me feel good about my play even when my putting or driving aren't working well.  Of course there are limits to this, but when my irons are on I feel like I can improve the other things by taking less club off the tee, lagging putts instead of trying to make them, etc.  When my iron game is off, I feel like there's nowhere to hide.  I've played rounds where my irons were so bad, that I'd just hit my hybrid for any shot from 150yds-190yds because it was the only club I could get to fly straight.  Those round suck.

[JoelCochran]

Getting off the tee is the big thing for me now.  When I'm driving well it seems to trigger the rest of my game and sets me up to play well.  When I drive poorly it adds tremendous pressure to my game as I am trying to recover from a bad start on every hole.  Scoring wise, I *can* score OK when I'm driving poorly, but it wears me out both mentally and physically to spend an entire round grinding.

[Sandman88]

For me I would have to say hitting fairways consistently and not 3-putting. I absolutely hate when I hit an amazing drive, good approach shot and then when I get onto the green to putt I can't seem to get it to the hole. When I have my putting tuned in propperly it makes those bad shots a little less antagonizing.