Kevin Coleman
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I just finished a round of golf with a coworker and my brother in law who is my regular playing partner.
He and I played together just about every time we went out for probably two to three years... He was always a much higher handicapper than I was and so I always won any head to head rounds from a gross score perspective.
I think I just got used to this dynamic, but recently I have watched his game trend upward and his scores trend downward.
Today, I probably played one of the worst rounds of golf of my life... Every aspect of my game from the top down was helpless. I could not prevent myself from drawing every full shot I took (regardless of the club) and any shot <3/4, I hit fat. My putting was no better as I routinely knocked it past with no apparent feel for why I was doing any of these things. It was as if my game had left me overnight. Not to inflate my skills but only to illustrate my point; I felt like Patrick Ewing or Muggsy Bogues from Space Jam.
Admittedly, this loss is hard to swallow as he and I have always had a bit of a friendly sibling(-in-law) rivalry. That being said, I can't wrap my head around such a catastrophic loss of game.
Have any of you experienced this type of round? Further has anyone dealt with this type of dynamic, in which they lost to what has historically been an automatic W?
How do you deal with such a loss as both factors are weighing on me heavily at the moment...
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He and I played together just about every time we went out for probably two to three years... He was always a much higher handicapper than I was and so I always won any head to head rounds from a gross score perspective.
I think I just got used to this dynamic, but recently I have watched his game trend upward and his scores trend downward.
Today, I probably played one of the worst rounds of golf of my life... Every aspect of my game from the top down was helpless. I could not prevent myself from drawing every full shot I took (regardless of the club) and any shot <3/4, I hit fat. My putting was no better as I routinely knocked it past with no apparent feel for why I was doing any of these things. It was as if my game had left me overnight. Not to inflate my skills but only to illustrate my point; I felt like Patrick Ewing or Muggsy Bogues from Space Jam.
Admittedly, this loss is hard to swallow as he and I have always had a bit of a friendly sibling(-in-law) rivalry. That being said, I can't wrap my head around such a catastrophic loss of game.
Have any of you experienced this type of round? Further has anyone dealt with this type of dynamic, in which they lost to what has historically been an automatic W?
How do you deal with such a loss as both factors are weighing on me heavily at the moment...
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