Oh boy, been there. First, don't worry about what the others are shooting. I realize that this is next to impossible, but that's what will beat you in the end. My boss and I are ultra competative and he always gets out to a great start. If I am trying to play catch up, I start taking chances that I wouldn't normally take, usually getting me even further behind. I found that treating each hole as a seperate game I started scoring much better. Double bogey? Oh well, I'll par the next. I'm not thinking I need to birdie the next two to make it up, just stick to making par on each hole.
As I plod along making pars, my boss will fall into the trap I used to get in and get a bit aggressive to build up a lead. Tghis is where i usually pass him. Of course, he always tells me on the last hole that we a re tied or I am one ahead, which resluts in a bogey or a double.

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Gord

Quote of the month:
"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall