Knows this is an oldish thread, but the title of it jumped out at me because I was just sitting here looking at my last 8 scorecards and wondering why I'm not getting any lower......???

For the record, my gross scores for my last 8 rounds have been (in order from oldest to current) 92, 88, 92, 91, 89, 90, 90 and (yes, you guessed it) yet another 90 last saturday......

My long standing habit is to just write each number on the card after each hole and do not even consider the total until after I've walked off 18, (I will add them up after 9 if my marker asks me too) because as is mentioned in other threads, scorecard pressure has effected me over the final few holes in the past. You know, the old "wow!!! two more bogeys and I'll have had 66 nett!!!" then you promptly have 2 triples, hitting the next tee shot out of bounds and 4 putting the last...

All I try to think about each week is to simply try to enjoy myself and not let anything that might occur bother me too much... That said, last Saturday, I did have a scratch (a triple bogey for no stableford points) on the hole immediately after the "didn't you count the airy" incident...

Clearly I am not as mentally wired as I might like to think I am...

I am wondering if I was to try to play bogey golf, given my 18 h/cap, might I shoot a lower number....

I guess we are all looking for some secret or other to lower numbers, I just haven't found mine as yet...

Cheers

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