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Another miserable failed weekend.... four 6s on front 9...:pound:

I am supposed to be getting better. I felt good yesterday going in with a great warm up. Just felt completely out of sorts as soon as got on the course and took my address for the 1st tee shot which I usually play with a lot of confidence. 

Only good - had only 2 par 4 bogeys and all pars on the back 9, but had already blown it by then.

 

 

Vishal S.

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I love this challenge. It is my goal in life.

I have felt all season that I was getting close, and was 8 holes on the way Saturday, until a lost ball on 9. Blind second shot- I heard the ball hit what I thought was green or fringe. When I got there, there was a ball, but not mine! Wouldn't have mattered as the back nine was a roller coaster.

I will post again when I actually claim it.

Don

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7 hours ago, GolfLug said:

Another miserable failed weekend.... four 6s on front 9...:pound: 

Just felt completely out of sorts as soon as got on the course and took my address for the 1st tee shot which I usually play with a lot of confidence.

 

 

The challenge was "in your head"!

I know it was in mine, but after a six on the very first hole the challenge went away, I was able to relax and play my game, and shot fairly well the rest of the round.

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Last four rounds I've gone without having a 6 on my card.

Played today and never put myself in a position where 6 was much of a possibility. Hit the driver really solid.

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Just now, mvmac said:

Last four rounds I've gone without having a 6 on my card.

Played today and never put myself in a position where 6 was much of a possibility. Hit the driver really solid.

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10 hours ago, Buckeyebowman said:

The challenge was "in your head"!

I know it was in mine, but after a six on the very first hole the challenge went away, I was able to relax and play my game, and shot fairly well the rest of the round.

@Buckeyebowman, that is absolutely fine. All goals/challenges are 'in your/our head'. If challenges 'make' me hit bad shots then I might as well give up on this challenge now. I don't know about you but I don't plan for brain farts. If I lose my swing, I just gotta find it.

There's another 'mental game' thread for this type of stuff, so back to topic for me now..  

 

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Played 3 rounds this last weekend. 

79-76-72 (Par 72). All of the rounds have at least one 6 or more. 

On the 72 round i was 2 under thru 16, bogied 17th and on 18th I 3 putted from 30 feet.
But i also bogied 2 Par 5´s before, both with 3 putts from 25 feet.
From this distances i always try to lag the putt, never try to sink them, this weekend the greens were slow, maybe that´s way i couldn´t lag well. 

This challenge it´s getting hard to achieve.  

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Played this past weekend and took a 9 on the second hole par 5.  Oops. The challenge did not last long that day.

 

 

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Played another round with one six on the card: on #17, a par 5, I pushed my second shot into the next fairway right and the third shot was a tad short going over the tallest tree in line with the flag, ricocheted right across the cart path, hole high. A good pitch left me about 8 feet short and still hole high, and the putt barely missed on the low side. I shot 79 (+9) with 9 pars and 9 bogeys...

This challenge is not that easy and I am glad I already claimed the award: I still thrive to succeed in that challenge every round as it is improving my course management and overall likelihood of a lower score. 

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For the first time in a long time played without a 6 today. Wasn't my lowest score of the season (81, wasn't even close to lowest), but played with the no sixes mentality and prevented any big numbers.

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79 with 2 sixes last week, 80 with none this week.  Go figure.  Just a bunch of bogies, but never even close to a 6.

 

 

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Shot a 76 this past Saturday with 0 6s. Nothing really spectacular. The biggest highlight I had was making 3 successful punch outs (with my 6i). I got some lucky bounces with my driver (still fighting some demons with that club), but everything else was pretty boring golf...haha. I made a birdie on 7 and gave it right back on 8. I never could really get my approach shots close enough to have good birdie putts.

With all that being said, this was from the white tees where I play with Jacob sometimes. I try to vary my tees from round to round..

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My best round this week didn't win the challenge.   81 with 2 holes that missed.   That's about as good as it gets without much more practice.

 

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Another fail. Today's round, second hole I remembered the challenge. Par five and I was 78 yards from the hole in 2. Got a flyer from the semi-rough and went over the green and failed to get up and down. Made another one on the 3rd hole and then again on the 10th. Shot 77 on a course I didn't know and the pins were cut pretty tight to the edges a lot, so the rest of it wasn't awful. Next time maybe!

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22 hours ago, hilmar2k said:

For the first time in a long time played without a 6 today. Wasn't my lowest score of the season (81, wasn't even close to lowest), but played with the no sixes mentality and prevented any big numbers.

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5 hours ago, David in FL said:

79 with 2 sixes last week, 80 with none this week.  Go figure.  Just a bunch of bogies, but never even close to a 6.

Congrats.

5 hours ago, TN94z said:

With all that being said, this was from the white tees where I play with Jacob sometimes. I try to vary my tees from round to round..

So do you want the award, or are you waiting to do it from your normal tees?

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3 hours ago, iacas said:

So do you want the award, or are you waiting to do it from your normal tees?

I’ll wait until I play the back tees again. 

Edited by TN94z

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Missed the no sixes challenge by one hole both my Friday fourball and my Saturday match. The Friday one was a hole I picked up on ... I would have easily made an 8 if I had finished. On Saturday, my 6 was a hole I hit a poor drive on, but got onto the green for a par putt. Which was probably 60 feet away from the hole. So I 3 putted, which isn't awful from that distance. But, it was still an ugly 3 putt because I was nowhere near the hole after the first putt. I came up probably 15 feet short. Bleh.

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Avoided making a 6 my previous two rounds. Didn't do it today but still shot 69 ;-) Hit it OB on a par 5 and made double, only over par hole of the day.

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