Background - picked up the game last spring from a long layoff. Shooting over 100 in March 2013 so I starting taking lessons and broke 90 last July (over two weeks shot 92, 88, 81, 91). My lowest score since that week was a 91 two weeks ago at a very tight local CC (lost one ball otherwise played pretty well).
I have a range plan at our local muni. and go 2-3x a week and hit a bucket and sometimes chip/putt.
But I just can't seem to find a rhythm on the course lately. When I broke 90 last summer, both times I was in a grove and just struck the ball really well (putting cost me a least 4 strokes both times). Felt confident, drives hit the fairway, got on the green with a chance a par on almost every hole.
Now, when I do get a good drive, my iron shot goes errant and I have to get up and down...or worse I'm behind a tree and have to get back on the fairway and I'm putting for bogey. And I always seem to have a least one, but usually two, blow up holes (+3 or +4) where everything just goes wrong. When I shot the 91 at the CC, I had a double and two triples (none of which involved a 3-putt)...holy hell that's 8 friggen' stroke).
So you <10 handicappers...when did you get to the point where you felt confident and stopped having those blow up holes on the course and how did you get there?
Do you find you still have a terrible game every now and then?
I have a range plan at our local muni. and go 2-3x a week and hit a bucket and sometimes chip/putt.
But I just can't seem to find a rhythm on the course lately. When I broke 90 last summer, both times I was in a grove and just struck the ball really well (putting cost me a least 4 strokes both times). Felt confident, drives hit the fairway, got on the green with a chance a par on almost every hole.
Now, when I do get a good drive, my iron shot goes errant and I have to get up and down...or worse I'm behind a tree and have to get back on the fairway and I'm putting for bogey. And I always seem to have a least one, but usually two, blow up holes (+3 or +4) where everything just goes wrong. When I shot the 91 at the CC, I had a double and two triples (none of which involved a 3-putt)...holy hell that's 8 friggen' stroke).
So you <10 handicappers...when did you get to the point where you felt confident and stopped having those blow up holes on the course and how did you get there?
Do you find you still have a terrible game every now and then?