The inconsistency of my rounds

Today I went out golfing, finaly after a long winter, I had already been out but not where I live. Ok so I start out my round beatifully, I hit every green in regulation for the first 4 holes and parred 3/4 but then my game began to get sloppy, my irons were not as accurrate, my drives were weak, and my my short game was mediocre. With these mistakes came the bogeys and double bogeys. So my question is why do our rounds fall apart sometimes in the middle of a good round? Does anyone else have this problem, and what to you do to combat it?

Thanks

How many times have you heard or seen this chris,yourself or a freind gets a new set of clubs and suddenly they are the best clubs you ever had,they feel great play great look good etc etc but then suddenly 6 weeks down the road somethings happened,all of a sudden the balls not coming of the face the way it used to and the confidence you had slowly slips away,I swear my freind goes threw 2 and sometimes 3 sets a year due to this and its always the same thing.


I liken the above to what happens on the golf course to what you spoke of,I know as I have and sometimes still do suffer it badly,my solution chris and this is from a 14 handicap(incidently what is yours)I treat every bogey as a par and par as a birdy,this is how I should be playing and is to my handicap(apart from par 3s)

In order for you to play like consistently chris and not double or worse triple bogeying you also would have to think like this,and to think like this you must do several things from each tea.


Firstly decide the best shot from the tea that will get you safely on the fairway without risking to much trouble(at this stage do not worry about distance)if you have played a decent tea shot and as a rough guess chris you have 200yds left to the pin on the par 4 what might be your next club.

Most people automaticly pick out the fairway wood or long iron and go for the green,but this cannot be the correct choice all the time especially for the 10+ handicaps,somedays depending the weather my confidence the green or the risk involved I would go for the green,but mostly why not just play a 5 iron right down to the edge of the green 160-180yds(note in doing this and you are relaxed in good conditions with bounce etc you can still make the green)it is this kind of thinking and shot saving what adds to consistency especially at the start of the year,make realistic goals chris think about what you would like to shoot before you set out.

yesterday i wanted to shoot 84 and came home with an 83 this was despite 2 bad holes.
there will always be mistakes bad choices and shots in golf but just try not to add to them
Unnecessarily
So why do the new clubs stop working for some players after a set piece of time,my answer is simple there expectations of them grew and from this they push themselves harder in trying to achieve what they are not capable of,instead of shaving 2 strokes of there handicap over the year there trying for lot more than they could possibly hope for

Chris,
I like Andy Capp's answer, he touches on the reason we fall apart (commitment and confidence)

Find a good golfer and you will find confidence, then commitment to every shot not just the easy ones!!!

Andy, reading between the lines touches on course management, this is the best way of not falling apart,

Think every shot through as you walk down the fairway to your ball, play with wind, slopes,fade or draw,distance etc thinking about all of these and you will forget how well you are doing(which is what I think your problem is) concentrate on each shot as they come, not how well you are doing, thats fatal.

P.S take a drink of fluid after every tee shot, can't explain why it just works.

Hope this helps

Ian.

Demons! its Demons. they protect the greens and haunt the t box. there out there hiding behind every tree and bush. in addition, trolls, lots of trolls hanging out at the water holes.
they send zap type energy and hex/s to the ball to make it drop in the water and the worst possible lies.

then there are the grave ghosts that hide under your feet that purposely adjust the ground to keep you off balanced.

i play with my special ghost busters gear and plaster green stuff on em. it doesnt work all the time, casue sometimes they win, but its a constant battle to feel in control, cool, confiendent and having thoughts that place you in a position to make them look foolish, instead of the opposte.

pat