Need some more help

Hey everyone,

first off thanks for all the advice earlier. I played today and shot a 47 on the front 9 and a 39 on the back. My problem is that i always seem to play bad on the front and then shoot pretty low on the back. I have done this for about 2 years now.(it used to be the other way around).
On the front i feel all "jacked" up. my mind is racing a mile a minute, my swing is very sloppy, and i get down on myself easily and it kinda builds upon itself until about the 7th or 8th hole, then it subsides and then i feel disappointed and just want to finish that nine. but when i am on the back, i am focused, clam, and my swing is good. this problem has ruined many a good score and i can't figure it out. can anyone help?

You already know the answer when you said that you get down on yourself and want to finish the 9. You have broken your round into 2 separate round in your head and have 2 years of reinforced "negative front" and "positive back" differences. It will take you to simply think of the round as 18 separate holes. Each one is different, one not depending on the other. It's the ability to live in the moment where you don't think about if you are on the first or last hole, but that hole is the one you are one and that is the one you have to play as well as you can.



That is the goal. Work on getting there in smaller chunks. The next time you play, break the course into 3 6 hole segments. On your card before the round, draw 2 heavy lines after the 6th hole and 12th holes. And see what your score does for those 6 holes. After a while, break it into 6,3 hole segments. What will happen is that you start to narrow your focus. Then after a few of those rounds, breaking the round into 18 single holes will seem a little more manageable.

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