cyoung2ty
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I played my first tournament of 2016 on Saturday... and I use the term 'played' very loosely in relation to this round.
Last season, I joined the Golfweek Amateur Tour in Charlotte... played in 14 of the 17 tournaments, including all 4 of the two-day tournaments... qualified to go to Hilton Head and finished in a tie for 33rd out of 167 entries in the three-day C Flight Championship. I played well... but I didn't win any tournaments.
Coming in to this season, I felt like I was going to be able to post some nice scores and possibly get myself a win. I'd kept swinging clubs throughout the entire 'lay off' between late October and the first tournament of 2016. I played a round at the course we were going to be playing a few weeks prior and I posted a 93, which is about average for me. With a few weeks to prepare... I primarily swung clubs in my garage, hitting 'almost golf balls' into a tarp... sometimes with Optishot to give me a visual... sometimes just hitting the ball off the mat.
I had high hopes... and then Saturday arrived.
I'll spare you the details of each shot, but... I absolutely bombed. I posted a 115... next to last in the flight... and felt like nothing went right.
I made one par, and that was ONLY because I skulled a bunker shot into the pin and it settled 8 inches from the hole. I made 12 triple bogeys, including a stretch of 6 consecutive holes at one point. I needed 40 putts. It was just ugly all-around.
I've always had a fade with my irons... but I had been playing a tiny draw with my driver since March of last season. It was all horrible, horrible slices the entire day. I'm talking 50+ yards off the tee and 20-40 yards from the fairway and rough... with EVERY club.
I came home... left the clubs in the trunk... and they're gonna sit there until next week. I need to figure out what I was doing wrong because I can honestly say I've got ZERO idea what was going on. I've always had an over-the-top move with my irons... but my swing didn't necessarily feel different. The only thing I can think is that maybe my swing was all arms that day and it made my OTT move worse and helped to keep the face open at impact, resulting in the slice I was dealing with.
I've never had a round like that before. I've posted some worse scores when I first got back into golf in 2003 and 2004... but I at least had SOMETHING to hang my hat on at the end of the day. After this round... not a single stroke of the 115 I took was worthy of looking back on and saying I had something to put in the mental bank for another day. I need to erase this one from my memory entirely.
Last season, I joined the Golfweek Amateur Tour in Charlotte... played in 14 of the 17 tournaments, including all 4 of the two-day tournaments... qualified to go to Hilton Head and finished in a tie for 33rd out of 167 entries in the three-day C Flight Championship. I played well... but I didn't win any tournaments.
Coming in to this season, I felt like I was going to be able to post some nice scores and possibly get myself a win. I'd kept swinging clubs throughout the entire 'lay off' between late October and the first tournament of 2016. I played a round at the course we were going to be playing a few weeks prior and I posted a 93, which is about average for me. With a few weeks to prepare... I primarily swung clubs in my garage, hitting 'almost golf balls' into a tarp... sometimes with Optishot to give me a visual... sometimes just hitting the ball off the mat.
I had high hopes... and then Saturday arrived.
I'll spare you the details of each shot, but... I absolutely bombed. I posted a 115... next to last in the flight... and felt like nothing went right.
I made one par, and that was ONLY because I skulled a bunker shot into the pin and it settled 8 inches from the hole. I made 12 triple bogeys, including a stretch of 6 consecutive holes at one point. I needed 40 putts. It was just ugly all-around.
I've always had a fade with my irons... but I had been playing a tiny draw with my driver since March of last season. It was all horrible, horrible slices the entire day. I'm talking 50+ yards off the tee and 20-40 yards from the fairway and rough... with EVERY club.
I came home... left the clubs in the trunk... and they're gonna sit there until next week. I need to figure out what I was doing wrong because I can honestly say I've got ZERO idea what was going on. I've always had an over-the-top move with my irons... but my swing didn't necessarily feel different. The only thing I can think is that maybe my swing was all arms that day and it made my OTT move worse and helped to keep the face open at impact, resulting in the slice I was dealing with.
I've never had a round like that before. I've posted some worse scores when I first got back into golf in 2003 and 2004... but I at least had SOMETHING to hang my hat on at the end of the day. After this round... not a single stroke of the 115 I took was worthy of looking back on and saying I had something to put in the mental bank for another day. I need to erase this one from my memory entirely.