Please comfort me (wah!!)

[devinbrumley]

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Don't feel bad I was playing yesterday and it took me about four shots to get it about a 100yds, I even sliced it so bad it hit a tree about 20yds away horizontal to me.

[BrianW]

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I was playing with a friend in a competition recently and he was about to take his swing when a Course Marshall came over and said "you should be playing off the white tees today not the yellows". I had to tell him that my mate was about to take his second shot!

[Vongreenback]

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It was my first time on the nine hole course and I thought I'd use my wood - which I'd never really hit before 'in anger' - to drive straight down the fairway and onto the green.

Well, it went straight - but me and my partner watched it sail over the green onto the next green which backs onto it... FORE!

"Sorry fellas", I said sheepishly to the three pro-looking golfers trying to concentrate on their putts. I walked around their green and picked the ball up: I could feel them staring at me hard as I walked off, my head in the air, trying not to look embarrassed. I muttered under my breath: 'I'll get my coat.'

What happened to them has happened to me since - I was able to look back and laugh it off.

Our mistakes now will make us understand what newbies go through when we're more experienced...

[Robert O' Keeffe]

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Hi jeffers,

I remember my first ever game. Par 3 about 160 yds. with the club house toilets on the left of tee box. I proceeded to hit a hook which bounced off a concrete path and proceeded to flu in the top vent window!! To make it worse a guy came out and gave me my ball back. With about 12 guys waiting at the tee box I needent tell you how I felt!! Glad to say I now hit that first green more times than not.

Cheers,
Robert

[vp27519]

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What about that poor duck from a few posts ago

Anyway we all have **** rounds. Some rounds more disheartening than others. However, there is always one shot that brings us back.

[vp27519]

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I can't believe they won't print c r a p

[richrf]

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Hi,

If it is of any comfort, I heard recently on the Golf Channel, that three million new players try it each year, and three million leave. Golf, for better or worse, is more a mental game than a physical game, and I have yet to find a way to create a repeatable "state of mind". Watching some of the pros blow their shots make this statement all the more real. And so it goes.

Back to the driving range for me.

Rich

[drbob]

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Dood,

I have to say, I'm an expert at meltdowns. I must say that if on the first hole, I wack some poor schmo in the head whose hitting balls in the driving range, it's far better than experiencing an on the course meltdown as you have experienced. At least when you mulligan the first hole, you can say to yourself, "I just wasn't ready". But when I start making bad shot after bad shot, it gets pretty hard not to make it worse.

Golf is as much psychology as it is personal skill. It's why all of us here seem to be addicted to it. Nonetheless, I ask myself if those sharp points on my wooden tees aren't there to gouge my eyes out after a bad round. Ever watched Tiger? The ball can go in the hole and he will look disgusted if this shot didn't excecute the way he "willed" it to. For something that looks so simple, it is so difficult.

Several lessons from a pro are well, well worth the money. Learning the fundamentals of the short game and analyzing your swing will allow you to compose yourself when mentally, you just aren't focused. To wit, one only needs to look at a pilot's checklist to know that when you absolutely have to get it right the first time, it helps to know exactly what do do, when you need to do it.

So, how to deal with the mother of all meltdowns? Dood, it's a game. We all can't be Tiger Woods, and even if we were, we can't execute the perfect shot at the perfect time and the perfect place. Take a deep breath, because golf will cease to be fun if you are placing this much pressure on yourself. Relax, enjoy the green grass and the fact that you have something other than the pressures of real life bugging you.

And if that doesn't work, there are other options!

http://www.golfcaddettes.com/
http://www.badgolfer.com/beer-cart-girl/

And always remember... The average handicap for men in the USGA is about a 14. That means that the average male golfer who keeps a handicap...sucks.

Bob

[puttinone]

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And we play this game why?

[Mox]

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And we play this game why?

WHat game?

[APMonk]

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I played one fantastic shot the other day. 9 hole course, finshed on 76 (which is quite annoying as I only had one 3-putt and 8 2-putts; just couldn't find the green!) Anyway, 3rd tee, I swing the 3 wood fairly hard. Must of teed up too high, as the ball went about 25 feet in the air, about 6 yards forward and 3 yards right. Straight into the bunker next to the second green.

Thankfully I wasn't playing a serious game (or with my normal partners).

Got to the par-3 eighth. Using the 5-iron, slice it into a ditch (full of nettles) about 10 yards in front. Put down another ball, try again. Exactly the same place. Get another ball out - same result. As I said, friendly game, so I dropped next to the ditch. 6 Iron - landed on the fringe.

And I do this why?

[LowPost42]

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I'll jump in on the comfort thread.

12°C today and sunny - so naturally I abandon all plans to get 18 in.

I play to 'personal par' of 90 (having not broken that barrier). Standing on the tee to #16 (a par 5), I am +1 to 90. I have the current par 5 (470 yards into a headwind), a par 4 (340 with a tailwind), and a par 3 (crosswind). I shot 48 on the front, so am really doing well on the back. I limp in with a 98 - +8 to 90... taking a 12 on 16, and a 6 on 18. (managed a fancy 4 on 17, though).

[slater170]

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ill get in on the act!
been playing well recently till saturday morning past
at the 1st left the driver in the bag and took "trusty" 3wood full of confidence 4ball waiting behind us couple of nice practise swings then top the ball 50 yards into the pond.
i tee up again and lo and behold my second shot dives in the pond so im now 5 off the tee i finally manage to get a 5iron away and start to leg it down the fairway.
suffice to say i was that bad over the next 4 holes and was tempted as we passed the car park going to the sixth to make a run for it but carried on and finally gave up marking the card on the 9th!