Another Day, Another Eye Opener

In the previous post I mentioned how fickle golf was.  I need only point to today's round for further confirmation of that theory.

I shoot 36, 37 for one over 73, the second best round of my life.  I'm not playing off the tees I did in my youth, but still a personal accomplishment.

I chipped in on one, which is a hole that has a lot of double bogeys to its name.  Then made a 20 foot down hill slider from the fringe to start birdie, birdie.

I managed to add a couple of bogeys on the next 7 holes along with 5 pars to come out with the 36.

I found myself being quite cautious as I played, which was probably not the best attitude to have.  I find it leads to tentative putts and other errors.  I didn't get up and down from a bunker on 3 and three putted on 7.  Otherwise it was pretty much tap in for pars.

The back nine was more boring as it was 8 pars and a bogey.  I missed a 3 footer on the bogey on an up and down attempt after a crappy drive.

But what I wanted to talk about with this post is not my small bit of personal glory, but as I came up 16 I found how to aggressively go after a shot and not get off plane.

 I read somewhere that no one can teach you as well as you can teach yourself.  I agree with this, but it's not quite that simple.  Firstly you need to understand what you are trying to do; where your hands and body should be.  Then you can try to find a means that you can use to accomplish that.

Some wag mentioned that being a golf teacher was saying the same thing 14 different ways until you get through to the student.  While I am tempted to do some teaching, the repetition would drive me insane in short order.

I'd also make the statement that everything all coaches and articles have mentioned are true, it's just that you have to assimilate that into your perceptive mass and then to your aperceptive mass.  Finally finding a "key" to allow yourself to perform and it's all over.

I would share my "key" with you, but I think everyone needs to find their own.  I believe that I can trust and rely on mine (Ha! we shall see what tomorrow brings!).   I rattled off 6 very good consecutive shots on the last three holes using it.  That was three GIRs and 3 good 12 foot birdie opportunities.

I concluded a couple of years ago that if I were to go back to school, I would like to research how a person makes changes to a physical activity.  I think if you can do that easily, you are by definition an athlete.  A life long struggle seems to be the definition of an average golfer.