Phew - A new PB - Just

An 85 but could have been so much better.

Full report in the Blogs

http://www.golf-tuition-online.com/blog.php?b=53

Congrats on a PB, you seem to play ok looking at you blog.

I think you could learn to bump and run an 8 iron for instance, maybe save a shot or two on the short par 4s, like the first.

A little bit of bunker practice and a few less putts.

Finally.........all you can do is keep putting yourself in that position on 17 until you are focused on the shot in hand and not the score, remember next time your only there with a good score because your playing well.


Easier said than done I know.


Well done again

Ian.

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Good points Ian and thanks for the kind words.

I'll put the bump and run on my practice list along with the bunkers - putting is always there ofcourse in an attempt to keep under 30ppr.

My problem with bunkers is mainly where (like my pay and play) there is next to no sand and very small greens; I really don't know how to play those and therefore never really commit to the shot.

You're so right about repeatedly getting into that position as well. The thing that hurts most this time is that I got the tee shot away which is where the pressure would normally tell and played the hole sensibly before blowing it.

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The boys done good Slats. We will need to keep an eye on him, you may need to be passing over the sombrero soon.

Well done Robin, great effort

Always a great feeling to break a PB. Well done!

Having re-read your front nine, you could have gone round in 38 with some short game improvement!

Imagine that!!

LOL Scary eh, though as I've said before I can always find some new way to screw up a round so it would take some imagining

TBH Neil for now I'll settle for consolidating around that mark as a regular not one off score with the knowledge that something nearer 80 could pop up at any time - as of course could a 90+ like I did last week at a different course

The answer here is the 'chunk and run'. You open the face just a little and hit behind the ball as normal. The club digs into what little sand there is and the ball comes out hot. In other words, if you're short sided you'll like have some work with the flatstick.

good job robin!
and in winter conditions, bodes well for the spring/summer

Adds my Congrats to the list...

Understands your frustrations at the wasted shots across the round...

I'm tipping this new PB won't stand long......

Great stuff Robin.

Cheers

To mix a metaphor or two, after the Lord Mayor's show, putting pride comes before a fall.

The PB will stand as long as the British Empire if today's round is anything to go by

Not only was I spraying it everywhere but thats nothing new - mostly pulls but a couple of S****S to add to the fun - but had no short game and kept leaving putts short (when they weren't pulled as well).

I take some comfort that just not playing well at all I only sank to a 93 with 35 putts compared with last weeks 85 and 27 rather than 103 or 113 as once would have been the case.

Doing the maths just proves once again how the short game can save your round - or not in this case

Anyway enough of that and back to the question I meant to ask based on today's round.

Do y'all ever have a round where you just can't settle, the routine doesn't seem right, the set up feels off, almost every shot - including putts - is a bit of a fidget?

And, if so, what do you do about it?

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You forgot a fundamental golf law: Your score after a personal best will be directly proportional to the number of people you tell.


When I'm skanking it around the course (as I did when I shot 87), you just struggle through. For me, the answer seems to be to take one more club, shorten and smooth out my swing just a bit.

My next round should be a shocker then

A new milestone today; managed the back 9 in 40 dead (5 over), the first time I've been that low. The front 9 unfortunately was a 46 so I was one stroke outside my PB of 85.

On the bright side though that 85 only had 27 putts - including iirc a hot streak of 7 "singles" on the bounce today I had 33 putts - no threes though.

So ALL I've got to do now is put two of those together actually next time I'm quite prepared and expecting to be back in the nineties where a 20+ handicapper belongs as long as the long term trend is in the right direction.

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Nice shooting Robin, well done mate!

great shooting robin

long may it continue mate

Nice Robin... Nice...

The next low number isn't that far away...

Cheers.