Popeye_Card wrote:
The 3-putts on seemingly simple greens kill me. Only thing that makes me madder is muffing a short chip and still not being on the green.
One of my golfing buddies has a small phobia about this.
The easier the chip, the tighter he gets. Sometimes I
can't bear to look.
The ones that seem most simple end up being the hardest. Like being ~3' off the green, with the hole 3' into the green. Easy, right? But then you grab a high loft wedge and really try to throttle back, and end up sweeping right under the ball. Or only hitting it 2'. I hate those chips. I'd rather be 20 yards away. Or have the hole way on the other side of the green so I can chip and roll.
A club pro I was playing with said "Sometimes you just have to put it 10 feet past the hole and give yourself a decent putt at a par. Sometimes you'll make the par sometimes you don't, but you avoid the double that way."
Words I always remember when I'm thinking about getting too "cute" with a chip.
Sutter'sBeard wrote:This year my playing partners and I agreed to start holing every put to stop gimmie arguments. Missed a downhill-fast foot and a halfer to take an 11 on the 2nd hole. Kind of hard to dig out of a +6 after two holes. I think it was my 1st 4 put and 1st 10+ hole in quite a few years.
We started that last summer. You will find that your putting really improves. I think there is something to knocking in all those one-foot putts that builds your confidence.
As for mulligans, I never take any. We only allow one on the first hole but I never use it. I would feel awful if I did, then had the round of my life and broke par. Just wouldn't feel right.
My game has been pretty terrible for the last two years or so. But all it takes for me is a good iron shot or two and sinking a long putt and I'm happy.
Has anyone had good results from any of the training aids on the market? I am not serious enough/willing to spend the money and time for a bunch of lessons.
cardsfansince82 wrote:My game has been pretty terrible for the last two years or so. But all it takes for me is a good iron shot or two and sinking a long putt and I'm happy.
Has anyone had good results from any of the training aids on the market? I am not serious enough/willing to spend the money and time for a bunch of lessons.
One lesson might do it if you find the right pro. I had one lesson when I was 15 and immediately knocked 10 strokes off my game. A good teacher can keep it simple and give you something that may help every club in your bag.
How does that happen? Went from thinking I was going to break 80 to worrying about not breaking 90. Damn near coughed up a ten stroke lead on my buddy also.
Sutter'sBeard wrote:Saturday I shot:
38 Front Nine
48 Back Nine
How does that happen? Went from thinking I was going to break 80 to worrying about not breaking 90. Damn near coughed up a ten stroke lead on my buddy also.
Was it a relatively constant number of bogies or did you
blow up on one hole?
With me, I maintain my calm for the round but every once in
a while, one or two holes end up being my Waterloo.
My pars turned to bogies and I had a couple triples. The course I played had very tall rough and I let a couple shots go wayward. Also had to hit a shot left handed that was butted up against a tree.
Sutter'sBeard wrote:Saturday I shot:
38 Front Nine
48 Back Nine
How does that happen?
It's called golf. I feel you pain man.
Amen. What is the most frustrating is that I've struggled more this year than any year in the past ten. I thought I'd turned the corner the round before when I was 1 under my last 6 holes. Then I started so hot, only to crap down my leg the back nine.
