Fire walker
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- Aug 15, 2015
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I would like to get down to scratch. I lowered my handicap by 3 this year. Hopefully I can lower by another 3 next year and see from there.
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That's what I'm working on the most. I'm taking less big numbers, but they're still there. Its nothing for me to shoot 78 with 4 birdies,4 bogeys, and 3 doubles. Gotta get rid of those doubles!That's something that I've become much much better at. Taking my medicine and playing for par or a good bogey that is. It's hard but it pays off.
What is in your Secret Sauce?It was my goal for the year. I got down to 0.1. That .1 is a little disappointing. 1 good score away from achieving my goal.
Golf is a maddening but fun game!
I think scratch is a very mental thing. It's fascinating to play with two guys who are 5ish index players, one who is infinitely optimistic, and one who is infinitely skeptical about what he can achieve.
My money is on the optimist getting to scratch first. It's all about a belief of success. Missing the green is an opportunity not an error. That, plus a tremendous amount of time focusing on avoiding the big miss. Three pars are a hell of a lot easier to manage than two birds and a double. Mentally more than anything.
I think scratch is a very mental thing. It's fascinating to play with two guys who are 5ish index players, one who is infinitely optimistic, and one who is infinitely skeptical about what he can achieve.
My money is on the optimist getting to scratch first. It's all about a belief of success. Missing the green is an opportunity not an error. That, plus a tremendous amount of time focusing on avoiding the big miss. Three pars are a hell of a lot easier to manage than two birds and a double. Mentally more than anything.
I miss plenty, personally. It's all about having misses that are genuinely playable. Straight instead of wayward. Short instead of sideways.I generally agree. Once you get to a certain level of ball striking, the game is mostly mental and about confidence. The one thing I noticed in playing with great players is... if they do hit a rare bad shot.... their recovery shot is always great. They never compound a bad shot, with another bad shot.
It absolutely baffles me how people expect to get better anticipating bad shots before they even swing. I understand how beautifully mental this game is, but talking oneself out of a good shot can be done in many ways before they hit the ball.I love this post. It is exactly what I have been working on, and coming from a person with plus handicap experience is valuable.
I think that's what is great about THP. We have threads about breaking 100, 90, 80, 70, etc.I probably look at getting to a single digit index much the same as a lot of people on THP look at scratch.
I miss plenty, personally. It's all about having misses that are genuinely playable. Straight instead of wayward. Short instead of sideways.
All these pics on insta/twitter or whatever that show perfect dime sized wear mark on their irons is like a 0.01% of golfer thing. I think people shouldn't worry so much about 'nutting' it every time and worry more about manageable misses.