This is the way but boy is it hard to remember in the moment! I just try to turn on some music or have a fun conversation with partners not about the golf. Anything to not bring the group down really.
Days You Just Don't Have It...
I will try a quick fix to see if I can get it back. After 2 holes, I will just play with what I got. Huge slice, play way left. Can't hit fwys, they are out of the mix. Approaches suck, thin them up there and chip up to the green. I have struggled with my swing enough that I am used to not have "it" a lot.
Just keep grinding. Some days you just won’t have it. Trying to tinker with your swing mid round in the hopes of finding something just makes it worse.
BTW, a little story about "one of those days". I was playing a new-to-me course, which I don't think exists anymore, but it was a really nice course and I was playing like trash. I lost a ton of balls that day as nothing went right.
Until the 18th tee. Where I bombed a drive, then hit my 5w directly at the pin and it stopped about 15 feet short (par 5) and I made the eagle putt.
That made the day!
Oh, and looking, it is still there (one of the drought's had basically killed it) but only 9 holes, Rancho San Marcos Golf Course in Santa Barbara.
Until the 18th tee. Where I bombed a drive, then hit my 5w directly at the pin and it stopped about 15 feet short (par 5) and I made the eagle putt.
That made the day!
Oh, and looking, it is still there (one of the drought's had basically killed it) but only 9 holes, Rancho San Marcos Golf Course in Santa Barbara.
That is a great attitude. Easier said than done lmao
For sure... much easier to type on here than it is to do in real life.
As a general rule most times I make an overdramatic thread here on THP about it.
I'm sure there are several more but I don't feel like going through 13 pages of my old threads you get the idea.
When is the last time you had an aggravating round of golf?
I'm not talking about getting aggravated at a few shots. I'm talking frustration with the whole round, everything about it. I had one today. Let's start with the weather. It only got up to 55° today but it was sunny and figured it would feel warmer. Nope, felt like low 40s since it was a...
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I just had the best front nine of my life. I couldn't miss a shot. Every putt was seemingly dropping. I felt like I had it on a string. Then the back nine happened.... I hate this game. 🤣😭
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Have you ever had a round of golf so bad….
That it makes you think about just giving up the game? I had that thought briefly after my round today. Nothing felt right. There wasn’t a single swing that felt good. Terrible deflating shots all afternoon. Putting was terrible. The only redeeming qualities from the round were being outside...
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I'm sure there are several more but I don't feel like going through 13 pages of my old threads you get the idea.
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I read something a couple days ago about what to do when you are having a bad round, just remain calm, slow down, shake it off, focus on what went right, keep it simple, and get back to your basics, blah, blah, blah, yak, yak, yak. That bunch of hob glob has never worked for me! I wished it were that easy. I am glad that those bad days don't happen very often, because if they did, I would definitely find something else to do 
great advice. get it in play and keep it in front of you.
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OOFAH...I had one of those on Sunday myself...
It wasn't one specific thing.
....Hit 2 good shots on a par 5 and 1 bad shot that resulted in a lie that got me an 8 on the hole
....Hit a nice drive that the wind drifted over a tad and clipped an small pine tree that the branch was overhanging about a foot into the fairway. Dropped straight down into a depression in the rough.
....3 putted from 15 feet for bogey
....duffed my 80 yard approach first time in 20 rounds on a hole that I could have tied the match
I resorted to ribbing my opponent for laughs. Sometimes it's more fun to break your opponents chops when you're playing bad and have fun in the loss!
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That was my problem on Sunday - no real single issue that I could point to and work on mitigating - just a perfect storm of bad golf.OOFAH...I had one of those on Sunday myself...
It wasn't one specific thing.
....Hit 2 good shots on a par 5 and 1 bad shot that resulted in a lie that got me an 8 on the hole
....Hit a nice drive that the wind drifted over a tad and clipped an small pine tree that the branch was overhanging about a foot into the fairway. Dropped straight down into a depression in the rough.
....3 putted from 15 feet for bogey
....duffed my 80 yard approach first time in 20 rounds on a hole that I could have tied the match
I resorted to ribbing my opponent for laughs. Sometimes it's more fun to break your opponents chops when you're playing bad and have fun in the loss!
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Yeah, that's what made it so frustrating - my regular coping mechanisms did nothing to slow the burn...lolI read something a couple days ago about what to do when you are having a bad round, just remain calm, slow down, shake it off, focus on what went right, keep it simple, and get back to your basics, blah, blah, blah, yak, yak, yak. That bunch of hob glob has never worked for me! I wished it were that easy. I am glad that those bad days don't happen very often, because if they did, I would definitely find something else to do
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Usually I just need my wife to make the grave mistake of asking me how my round went when I get home.As a general rule most times I make an overdramatic thread here on THP about it.
When is the last time you had an aggravating round of golf?
I'm not talking about getting aggravated at a few shots. I'm talking frustration with the whole round, everything about it. I had one today. Let's start with the weather. It only got up to 55° today but it was sunny and figured it would feel warmer. Nope, felt like low 40s since it was a...www.thehackersparadise.com
I love golf.... I also hate it.
I just had the best front nine of my life. I couldn't miss a shot. Every putt was seemingly dropping. I felt like I had it on a string. Then the back nine happened.... I hate this game. 🤣😭www.thehackersparadise.com
Do you ever think about shoe midsole size and low point control?
^ Question ^www.thehackersparadise.com
Have you ever had a round of golf so bad….
That it makes you think about just giving up the game? I had that thought briefly after my round today. Nothing felt right. There wasn’t a single swing that felt good. Terrible deflating shots all afternoon. Putting was terrible. The only redeeming qualities from the round were being outside...www.thehackersparadise.com
I'm sure there are several more but I don't feel like going through 13 pages of my old threads you get the idea.
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I can almost always point to something positive to take away from a round...I had to dig deep to find one.
And of course, that's exactly when JB wanted to know something good from our last round...lol. I literally had to pull up my scoring app and dig to find something, because there was no one good shot or hole...it was pure dumpster fire.
I finally saw that I wasn't all that bad off the tee - as terrible as I played, I only had two bad tee shots on par 4s/5s - most of the suck ensued after the tee shot...which is usually the opposite for me.
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Surprised you didn't say "I just play against you on the front 9 at Lake Tansi and everything gets better."
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I was told once that golf is a game of perseverence. There will some really good days, and some really bad days. Most of the golf played will be some where in between the two.
I just write off the bad days as nothing more than just that. Just a bad day, and move on from there.
Im the same way when I hit a bad shot. Its an "oh well" moment, while moving on to the next shot.
I just write off the bad days as nothing more than just that. Just a bad day, and move on from there.
Im the same way when I hit a bad shot. Its an "oh well" moment, while moving on to the next shot.
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Those rounds are tough. I've had lots of them lately unfortunately. I have gotten dealing with the really bad rounds and try to plug away and maybe figure something out or end on a few good holes.
I’ll always have Lake TansiSurprised you didn't say "I just play against you on the front 9 at Lake Tansi and everything gets better."
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Same here - I felt like that round was sort of the culmination of the struggles I've dealt with on the golf course the last couple of months.
Hoping I can sort of wipe the slate clean to finish out the year.
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My handicap has gone from a low of 1.6 to my current high of 4.7 in about 4 months. If I were playing The Grandaddy, there would be a Congressional investigation into it. It's been frustrating not playing well, but I'm not hitting the ball that bad--just a few bad decisions or swings per round getting things off track.
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Totally feel that - I was red-hot in June and July and got down to 6.5 in early August - now I'm at 9.9.
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That's tough. Has it affected your enjoyment of the game? I think I have accepted that I'm just not playing as well right now and need to get my mindset different and be more focused on the course.
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Not really. I might frustrated by certain shots or whatever, but I still enjoy the time I get to spend out on the course.
I think if anything, I need to reduce the swing thoughts and focus more on making smart decisions...I think that might get me back on track.
I'm grateful I can now answer this a bit differently than I could even just last year. If I just can't find it during a round I try to shorten my swing down, simplify my approach, and focus on all the other positives involved with the day knowing it's only one round of golf. Tomorrow will be a new day and I'm so erratic that tomorrow might be best round of the year.
Having said that, I am not quite yet to the same level of being able to accomplish that mindset when the round is competitive and means something. In those moments, even if the swing doesn't eventually show back up during the round, I'm going to push a bit harder to find things and salvage the round in any way I can .
Having said that, I am not quite yet to the same level of being able to accomplish that mindset when the round is competitive and means something. In those moments, even if the swing doesn't eventually show back up during the round, I'm going to push a bit harder to find things and salvage the round in any way I can .
I try not to get too excited over the better than average rounds so it seems logical to not freak out over the crappy rounds. It’s not as easy to have fun during those rounds but it is possible.
I might go into a slump or I might play pretty well for a while, but my game is not likely to change abruptly. My normal game will eventually return.
I might go into a slump or I might play pretty well for a while, but my game is not likely to change abruptly. My normal game will eventually return.