halifax_golfer
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- Jun 26, 2006
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nice little poem!.
I also re-live my losses/bad play OVER and OVER in my head. I have the drive to improve, and want to be what I consider a winner in golf (that doesn't mean winning tourneys) I just want to keep improving, and learning... When I dont learn or improve right now, it's a loss for that round for me.
I lost to the course yesterday in a short 9 hole battle, It beat me mentally and physically. I started off; Par, Bogey, Bogey, Bogey, Par,... Then along came an "8" on a VERY narrow par5, then I failed to carry a water hazard off the tee the next hole (I usually have no Problem carrying this hazzard) DOUBLE BOGEY, followed by a bogey on the par3 17th.. On the 18th, I couldn't hit a drive for my life, I was 5 off the tee, when I finally put one in the fairway on what felt like should have been a good drive, it ended up being about 100yrds shorter then my other "well hit" drives. From there I shot a 7wood into the trees. Then I hit a terrible wedge shot at the green and 2putt for a 10. Score of 19 over on 9 holes. Worst round of the year!. Comming off shooting 5 over on 9 holes the day before, I was pretty annoyed. And very unhappy with myself.
Was I ever sour at my play, It felt like I reverted back to how I was doing at the end of last season. I was PISSED at myself for the rest of the night, and went to bed early as I was just no fun to be around after that.
I also hate loosing, but learning to win and continue winning (every good shot is a small victory) IS SOOO hard to do. Being consistant at golf is SOOOOO hard for me, it seems even when I'm playing really well, I'll get an 8 pop up that will keep me from getting a nice score.
Sorry this didn't have that much to do with your life lesson on "winning" but I thought I was due to share my personall ass kicking, as I've shared my good shots and rounds... Its only fair to show how much I can stink aswell.
As soon as I can get my wife to film my swing I will, problem is that my swing seems to be changing around faster then the weather, I'm never quite happy with it, sometimes my grip feels funny, sometimes I'm unsure of where to end my swing and my clubs position at the top, sometimes I'm unsure of the path it looks like my club is taking through the hitting area on my practice swings. I really need to fix these issues if I want to continue my improvement. Somedays I can drive the ball 300yrds, somedays only 240. I have no idea why or what I'm doing differently. It's making it very hard to learn.
I think it might be time for me to take a lesson; My duck hook is mostly gone, but I put 2 balls OB on the 18th tee with a big old slice which I havn't hit in years (for a while I didn't think my body was capable of producing a swing with a slice).
Sorry for the extremely long post, but it's morning and I'm just chillin drinkin a cup of coffee debating going golfing right now (its gona rain soon), Majorly anxious to go and battle it out with my swing, my head, and the golf course!!!... GOLF IS CRAZY!!! AHAHAHAHHH!!
I hope I can succeed with this golf dream of mine as I want to be a winner if we ever have a kid. I want to show him/her that success from nothing is completly possible... I have to be winning at the things that are important to me first though so I can lead by example and feel good about myself.
Manavs, YOU CAN DO IT BUDDY!!! TAKE IT TO EM AT THE NY STATE OPEN!!!!.. YOUR GONA DO IT!.
Fr. Chris.
I also re-live my losses/bad play OVER and OVER in my head. I have the drive to improve, and want to be what I consider a winner in golf (that doesn't mean winning tourneys) I just want to keep improving, and learning... When I dont learn or improve right now, it's a loss for that round for me.
I lost to the course yesterday in a short 9 hole battle, It beat me mentally and physically. I started off; Par, Bogey, Bogey, Bogey, Par,... Then along came an "8" on a VERY narrow par5, then I failed to carry a water hazard off the tee the next hole (I usually have no Problem carrying this hazzard) DOUBLE BOGEY, followed by a bogey on the par3 17th.. On the 18th, I couldn't hit a drive for my life, I was 5 off the tee, when I finally put one in the fairway on what felt like should have been a good drive, it ended up being about 100yrds shorter then my other "well hit" drives. From there I shot a 7wood into the trees. Then I hit a terrible wedge shot at the green and 2putt for a 10. Score of 19 over on 9 holes. Worst round of the year!. Comming off shooting 5 over on 9 holes the day before, I was pretty annoyed. And very unhappy with myself.
Was I ever sour at my play, It felt like I reverted back to how I was doing at the end of last season. I was PISSED at myself for the rest of the night, and went to bed early as I was just no fun to be around after that.
I also hate loosing, but learning to win and continue winning (every good shot is a small victory) IS SOOO hard to do. Being consistant at golf is SOOOOO hard for me, it seems even when I'm playing really well, I'll get an 8 pop up that will keep me from getting a nice score.
Sorry this didn't have that much to do with your life lesson on "winning" but I thought I was due to share my personall ass kicking, as I've shared my good shots and rounds... Its only fair to show how much I can stink aswell.
As soon as I can get my wife to film my swing I will, problem is that my swing seems to be changing around faster then the weather, I'm never quite happy with it, sometimes my grip feels funny, sometimes I'm unsure of where to end my swing and my clubs position at the top, sometimes I'm unsure of the path it looks like my club is taking through the hitting area on my practice swings. I really need to fix these issues if I want to continue my improvement. Somedays I can drive the ball 300yrds, somedays only 240. I have no idea why or what I'm doing differently. It's making it very hard to learn.
I think it might be time for me to take a lesson; My duck hook is mostly gone, but I put 2 balls OB on the 18th tee with a big old slice which I havn't hit in years (for a while I didn't think my body was capable of producing a swing with a slice).
Sorry for the extremely long post, but it's morning and I'm just chillin drinkin a cup of coffee debating going golfing right now (its gona rain soon), Majorly anxious to go and battle it out with my swing, my head, and the golf course!!!... GOLF IS CRAZY!!! AHAHAHAHHH!!
I hope I can succeed with this golf dream of mine as I want to be a winner if we ever have a kid. I want to show him/her that success from nothing is completly possible... I have to be winning at the things that are important to me first though so I can lead by example and feel good about myself.
Manavs, YOU CAN DO IT BUDDY!!! TAKE IT TO EM AT THE NY STATE OPEN!!!!.. YOUR GONA DO IT!.
Fr. Chris.