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Wordle 1,055 3/6 ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟨⬛🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Back on track.

In your first shot of every hole you have 4 balls. If you like your 1st ball, you can just play from there your 2nd shot. If you don't you can hit a 2nd ball but first ball is now lost. Same procedure for 3rd and 4th ball. On the 2nd shot, you have now 3 balls. On the 3rd shot you only have 2 balls, and on the 4th shot you only have one shot. He doesn't say anything beyond the 4th shot.  Example: Hole 1.. For his first shot hit ball 1a. Don't like it, hit ball 1b, don't like it. Hit ball 1c, he like it so he don't hit the 1d. He walks to the 1c ball and hit his 2nd shot with ball 2a. He likes it so he don't hit balls 2b or 2c. He plays his 3rd shot with ball 3a, he don't like it. Hit ball 3b to a worst place than 3a. He would love to play 3a but he can't. he is stuck with 3b. He plays his forth short with ball 4a and get the ball into the hole. That's a 4 in the scorecard for hole 1. Hole 2... again you tee off with ball 1a... an have 3 more options if you don't like the shot. I think that this game is going to show us how unrealistic we are about our game. We are going to not choose decent shot in hopes to hit better ones and we are probably going to get stuck with the last ball in most shots that is going to be worst that the previous shots.  Even Padraig is so unrealistic on the last pitch he attempted. From the video I can figure out that he is in two shots on a Par 5. So he have 2 balls for the 3rd shot. He hits his first pitch to 4..5 feet from a really difficult place but because he thinks he should chip-in from green side he ditch that shot and proceed to hit another ball, now he is stuck with the 2nd shot from a tough place. He goes and hit a poor shot leaving him with a long put for birdie. He is lucky enough to make it but in reality he is going to score a lot better in average from 4..5 5 feet for birdie than from 20 yards, from the hazard for eagle.        

Day 554, May 9, 2024 Practiced a bit downtown at Golf Evolution. Would have loved to get more work in, but oh well.

I think if I could hit a 2nd shot when I did not like the result from the 1st I am sure I would get some lower scores.  I guess the idea is to mentally put yourself in a position where you need to make a really great shot, not just a good shot.  For example, hitting from the lie next to the creek his 1st chip was, in my view, pretty good but it was not "Great" in his opinion so he tried to do better on the mulligan, but he failed and was farther from the hole. I see myself doing this more on the range.  For example, after a period of practice I will mentally say I need to hit 4 good shots in a row.  I start with a Driver and if that is good then I do a 3 Hybrid followed by a pitch with a wedge and finally by a short chip.  If any shot is "Bad" I have to start over.      

That’s how I interpreted it. You’re giving yourself two mulligans on every shot. Yea it’s just a variation of getting used to scoring low. I’m curious how valuable that practice is. I guess for some people they feel mounting pressure from playing a string of holes well? I’m kind of the complete opposite TBH. Once I start putting together good holes, I get a little swagger and if anything I get overconfident. I start thinking I can hit the green from anywhere, I can hit my driver to the smallest of targets, and everything inside of 10’ is going in. None of that is true, of course, and I inevitably will hit a miss that brings me back down to earth.