What is currently your biggest frustration with your swing and golf in general?

[GoingfortheGreen]

Duck hooking shots with 7, 8, 9, PW, and Gap W!!  Can't explain it - last 2-3 rounds I've been driving the ball great (in the fairway a lot), short iron in is WAY LEFT of the green.

Frustrating...

[Ernest Jones]

Finally getting consistently (more or less) good contact (thanks SnT) but have developed a dead-straight push with almost everything

Killed me on the course today.

[Topper]

That's easy.  My long game.

The driver - It's almost an automatic one or more strokes added to my score due to hitting OOB, into hazards, into rough/trees, or duffing it 50' to the front tee.

After that....Fairway Wood.  Just not consistent.  Much better than the driver but I have a tendency to top my fairway shots with my 5W.

[Maverick]

eliminating blow up holes..I'l make a quadruple or triple..then go par for the next 6 holes..then another blow up..if I eliminated these blow up holes I'd be a semi-decent player.

[joutland]

Biggest frustrations are slow play and people that do not take care of the course-repair ball marks,replace divots, etc.

[Cajun83]

Started hitting my irons and driver fairly decent but my 56 and 60 are giving me fits. Blading around the greens and on full shots, I tend to hit way fat.

[HoleIn3]

Pace of play! I wish rangers would enforce this more.

[joekelly]

Hole in 3.  You would never survive in my environment.  Here the rangers are despised and almost threatened. PushPushPush...not too pleasant.  Even playing at twilight, all alone on the course during a slight drizzle, the ranger was pushing me.   No one in front, no one in back. But hey, i signed up for 9 holes at 2 hrs 4 min and was not permitted to deviate.  At US$50.  But the only option in town.

[phedrick]

Originally Posted by goodatgolf

Hi there,

I'd like to know what currently your biggest frustrations with your swing and golf in general are.

Mine is performing under pressure. I'm not a scratch golfer by any means (yet :) ) but when I walk from the practice tee to the first hole especially in a tournament I seem to leave my skills behind. Under pressure I perform things I wouldn't even consider possible and I don't mean that in a good way

So what's yours?

As for me, I tend to do what happens to goodatgolf.  While there doens't seem to be a number high enough to reflect my handicap, I get so much worse when I leave the practice tee.  I know that there is no difference, but my 'head' knows there is.........

[Bullitt5339]

My largest frustration right now is not being able to play my game when I'm paired with others.  I typically don't tell people what "I normally shoot" because when I'm playing in a group, I have no idea what I'll shoot.  I have this mental block going, I guess.  84-87 is my typical score when I'm playing alone or with my usual playing partner, but get me with a group of people I don't know, and I can just as easily shoot 100 as 87.  And I don't feel any pressure playing in a group, no nerves or anything, I just don't strike the ball well.  Maybe the conversations and such take my mind out of the game, maybe I'm trying to kill the ball without even realizing it.

I've really been trying to work on this.  My buddy and I play with bets on the line to put a bit more pressure on every shot, and when I walk in the evenings, I always try to get paired up with someone because I want to get used to being around people I don't know while playing.

[Laws of Woo]

My mental game/consistency. For some reason, I seem to play much better when I'm playing a solo round. If I'm paired with someone, my game seems to deteriorate. Almost seems like stage fright so to speak. [quote name="Bullitt5339" url="/t/57084/what-is-currently-your-biggest-frustration-with-your-swing-and-golf-in-general/90#post_713565"]My largest frustration right now is not being able to play my game when I'm paired with others. I typically don't tell people what "I normally shoot" because when I'm playing in a group, I have no idea what I'll shoot. I have this mental block going, I guess. 84-87 is my typical score when I'm playing alone or with my usual playing partner, but get me with a group of people I don't know, and I can just as easily shoot 100 as 87. And I don't feel any pressure playing in a group, no nerves or anything, I just don't strike the ball well. Maybe the conversations and such take my mind out of the game, maybe I'm trying to kill the ball without even realizing it. [/quote] I'm having those same issues. When paired with strangers, my scores hover in the 95-105 range, but when playing solo or with my brother, I'm typically in the low-mid 80s.

[Pworld]

Not mentally wrapping my mind around my Hybrids (hitting a wood shaped object like an iron) I rather just hit a fairway wood or an iron. Next would be my putting. I need to spend time and find what putter works best for me. Not what looks cool to me (right now a odyssey black tour blade style putter)

[bunkerputt]

Biggest frustration:  holding back the urge to hit it hard from the top.  Everything else I can control, but that.  It takes a mental shift, recognizing that it is going to happen even before I address the ball in my current mental state and with my current club selection.  Picking enough club and committing to a yardage and a standard swing is the thing that helps it the absolute most.  Trying to get 250 out of a 4-iron is the thing that usually makes it go 180 off the toe.  It's a lot more complex than just "Don't swing hard."  Tough demon to fight, but getting better.

[Dohaney]

By far the thing I hate the most is 3 putting! I normally never do it, usually range at 25 putts a round but in random rounds I Can turn into the worst putter in the world...putting really is all about feel.