AggieDruggist89 said:
Post ur swing. Let me look.
There are 2 related but different aspects to golf, how to hit the ball and how to play the game. Most golfers focus so much how to swing and hit the ball, they don't think much about how to play the game.
When I see high handicapper who doesn't improve, it's typically they don't swing well and they don't know how to play. You can improve one aspect and score better. But to get good at golf... It requires a solid swing and a level headed mind. Yeah. F Golf... I went 43 37 for 80. Quad and Double. But I was able to recover
I know how to play. Learned a long time ago to play withing my own abilities. As in, I'm not trying to hit out of the rough 200-yards to a narrow elevated green with trees left/right and a creek in front of it. That's a VERY low percentage shot for me, and unless I'm playing in a scramble, I never "go for it". I lay up every time and try to get close and save par. Or if I'm buried in the trees I'm not trying to thread a 5I through a 2-foot gap between 5 trees and get on the green..I take the easiest path to the fairway every time and get a better shot at the green.
It's my swing..just can't seem to find it constantly. And it's not the missing targets left/right/short/long that kills me. I'm generally pretty happy if I strike the ball well even I miss my target a little. It's the crap swings that shank, toe, top, thin, fat that drive me nuts and add 10+ strokes to my rounds. It just appears in the middle of my round...and I'll take 10-strokes on 3 holes...then suddenly back to par/bogey golf and finish 20+ over. So instead of an 85 I'll shoot a 95 or higher (depending on if my swing suddenly leaves me again for a few holes). It's just crazy that I can't find any kind of consistency. I honestly have ZERO confidence in any of my clubs right now except my putter (which oddly has been great the last two summers).
Writing that out it's probably the bold part...one bad hole I can usually just say, whatever, happens...it's the 3 or 4 in a row, or being 115 out in the middle of the fairway and taking 3 more to get to the green...then 3 putting...that's what sends me over the edge.
Last fall I played in Arkansas with my son on a course I'd never seen in my life. It was about the same rating/slope as the courses I play at home. I shot an 84. I think I had one double and one three putt the entire round. So I know I can do this, it's why I keep playing.
