Golf Physc :-(

technodub · 27-07-2014 09:37PM

Ciaranra wrote: »

2 were playing 140+ and 2 playing 180+ dont know what tee you were playing off.
But if you can reach 180 with a 8 iron you should be playing off 6 or lower

the 2 140+ were wedges . The 14th is froman elevated tee and thats a 9 but the other was down wind and it was an 8! I would usually hit an 8 about 165yards

Tones69 · 27-07-2014 09:41PM

technodub wrote: »

Golf is a game of confidence
Golf is not a game of perfect
Putting out of your mind
Golf of your dreams

I had shots on 2 of them but just because I have shots doesnt mean they are tough holes none were that long I think I hit an 8 iron a 9 iron and 2 wedges so to play them +4 was blasphemy!

Golf is not a game of perfect is a great book

technodub · 27-07-2014 09:47PM

Tones69 wrote: »

Golf is not a game of perfect is a great book

Ye I got the ebooks and they are very good i must admit!

Jazzzman · 28-07-2014 12:10PM

Get confident, stupid!

GreeBo · 28-07-2014 12:34PM

Lads lets try to keep this to Golf Psychology only, we have threads for how you are playing already...

G1032 · 28-07-2014 12:37PM

technodub wrote: »

Maybe but I know my game and I didnt hole anything outside 6 foot today and to play the par 3's in +4 was shocking as they aint that hard. I believe im a solid 6/7 handicapper so lets see how the rest of the year goes!

Firstly, good luck with the rest of the year...

Golfers can believe they should be this handicap or that handicap and as someone posted earlier most think they are better then they actually are.
IMO you're only a 6/7 handdicapper if you can get there and stay there for an extended period of time. Doesn't matter what one thinks they should be.....

Taking myself as an example......... for 10 years or so I played off 4 or 5. Got a few lessons and was told I could/should be off a lower handicap. I, like you, thought I should be playing off 2 or 3. I played with people off 2 or 3 and thought I was better. But at the end of the day I wasn't. If I was good enough I'd have gotten down to 2 but the fact is I never was. 5 was my handicap. Simple as!!

Anyway, hope you go one better than me and get down to 6/7 or lower and realise your believed potential. It's nice to see good golf and nice to see a good swing and good mental game come together.

technodub · 28-07-2014 01:21PM

G1032 wrote: »

Firstly, good luck with the rest of the year...

Golfers can believe they should be this handicap or that handicap and as someone posted earlier most think they are better then they actually are.
IMO you're only a 6/7 handdicapper if you can get there and stay there for an extended period of time. Doesn't matter what one thinks they should be.....

Taking myself as an example......... for 10 years or so I played off 4 or 5. Got a few lessons and was told I could/should be off a lower handicap. I, like you, thought I should be playing off 2 or 3. I played with people off 2 or 3 and thought I was better. But at the end of the day I wasn't. If I was good enough I'd have gotten down to 2 but the fact is I never was. 5 was my handicap. Simple as!!

Anyway, hope you go one better than me and get down to 6/7 or lower and realise your believed potential. It's nice to see good golf and nice to see a good swing and good mental game come together.

I hear what your saying but my belief is that when im swinging well im better then my handicap so iv set myself a target of 7 this year as im playing once a week for the most part
Only time will tell! Anyway thanks for all the help and comments folks!

TheDoc · 28-07-2014 03:07PM

I'd the same problem as yourself, a streak of two bad holes and I've lose interest and the wheels would come off. While there is a certain aspect of accepting at our level that bad holes will happen, it is frustrating.

I was REALLY having beef with our last 4 holes. I consistently come into the 15th teebox with a good score and it would go belly up. Lost count of the events I've lost on the last four holes.

Someone here mentioned try taking, in your head, the course in sections of three. So I've been doing that a while. Can't say if it works exactly, but I've been scoring better for sure, and don't feel issues with the back four holes anymore. I guess partially because I always changed my strategy in playing them, I find I have a different mindset when I take it in chunks of three.

I'm only thinking ahead about the next set of three, or thinking back at the last set of three. And I'm only thinking about the current set of three. Makes a different in that I don't take bad scores reflecting on a whole round, but just on that segement of three. I don't know, might be a load of bollox, but it's helped me a little.

spacecoyote · 28-07-2014 11:29PM

TheDoc wrote: »

I'd the same problem as yourself, a streak of two bad holes and I've lose interest and the wheels would come off. While there is a certain aspect of accepting at our level that bad holes will happen, it is frustrating.

I was REALLY having beef with our last 4 holes. I consistently come into the 15th teebox with a good score and it would go belly up. Lost count of the events I've lost on the last four holes.

Someone here mentioned try taking, in your head, the course in sections of three. So I've been doing that a while. Can't say if it works exactly, but I've been scoring better for sure, and don't feel issues with the back four holes anymore. I guess partially because I always changed my strategy in playing them, I find I have a different mindset when I take it in chunks of three.

I'm only thinking ahead about the next set of three, or thinking back at the last set of three. And I'm only thinking about the current set of three. Makes a different in that I don't take bad scores reflecting on a whole round, but just on that segement of three. I don't know, might be a load of bollox, but it's helped me a little.

yep I look at the round similarly. Think I've heard it referred to as super 6 before, ie break the round into 6 sets of 3, instead of 2 9s as of you have a couple of bad holes you don't just write off the current 9.

I use it for tracking my stats too to see where I'm losing shots during a round

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