This game still baffles me!

Last weekend play at Hill Valley in Whitchurch on the Emerald and basically had a bloody nightmare.  Drives everywhere, lost umpteen balls, short game - terrible, putting - terrible.  Carded my worst score for a year!

Then last night I managed for the first time in ages to get home early enough to play 18 holes on a Friday night.  Not worked on anything during the week or though I was playing.

What a round!  I shot a 79, on a par 69.  Unbelievable!

It got me to thinking as I am playing in a few hours at Hawkstone park, will I continue the amazing form found last night or will it all go wrong - big time!!  

Has anybody else had this happen?  No practise, no thought to the game and then go out and shoot an amazing score?

It just goes to show how difficult it is to be consistent in this game, whatever your handicap.  I guess if we could all be that consistent, they game would fail to excite.

As I have been in the Fantasy Golf league this year it has made me pay more attention to the scores individual pro's card from event to event.  Tiger aside, you would expect to see far more consistency than they ctually acheive.  One event top ten finish, next event they don't make the cut.

Our expectations of consistency should be lowered, me thnks...

Yep, it happened.

Played at Hawkstone on the Championship course and you guessed it - Driving everywhere, short game to pot - Shot a 94!  

A 79 to a 94, bloody hell!  What can change in a matter of a day??  Anyway the Inspectors are in at school this week so no practise mid-week. Just ready my society competition on Saturday

Will keep you posted!!

I can only agree that the mental side of the game is as important as the Physical and technical side.

I recently had a classic example of this. About 2 weeks back i took delivery of a new (second hand) set of TM 300 irons, now these are the same clubs as my current ones apart from the Shaft flex on the new ones are Reg as opposed to the Stiff flex on my older set. So on the day of delivery I decided that I would go down the local 9hole course and see how well they played. I’m my mind I wasn’t expecting anything amazing and wasn’t even going to bother to score (thankfully I did), as in my mind the new clubs were going to need a bit of getting used to. However when I finished and totted up my scores I found that my round was the best I had played on this course all year.

Now fast forward 2 weeks to last Sat, when i played my 1st 18 with the new set, (this is after being to the range twice) and I was buoyed with confidence....but as I’m sure you can all guess that I was truly woeful in fact I couldn’t even score my card properly as i picked up on 2 holes (once after losing 2 balls and then taking another 6 to the green!!!!). By the time I had finished I was down 5 balls (4 of which were lost with shots off my new irons) and was thinking that Lawn Bowls seemed a less stressful alternative.

Of course I know that by getting a new set of clubs or a driver etc isn’t going to make you a scratch golfer overnight and that usually your game suffers a bit while you get used to them. I of course know that we all have these days, but after some contemplation I’ve come to the decision that I think I put myself under to much pressure (especially if my playing partners are doing well). This thing throw's me off balance and my game goes out the window.

Anyway, I’m out again 2night and I think I’m going to try to remember Arsenals entire starting XI for the 2001 season.... anything to keep me stressing over my next shot!

Danny