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Observations from today’s round
I am pretty happy with the progress I’m making. My handicap is steadily going down, my consistency in scoring is much better, and my swing feels like it’s on solid ground. Some things to still bug me.
I don’t get up and down enough. I know that I have to improve my short game. I need to leave short game shots close enough to easily one putt but it’s tricky. This is my next challenge. I feel like I’m plateauing around the 79-81 range. And yet walking off the course I know where I left shots on the table. Today I had an 81, which is one under for my course handicap so again, it was a solid round. Although I do feel it could easily have been 4 or 5 strokes better.
I had a thought that was helpful on the golf course today. The image of the inner workings of a clock, seeing all the gears moving, synchronized, no one gear speeding up. It seemed to keep me much more synchronized and helped with the long game. I had a really good driving day and I had a lot of good shots. It does get to me when I have a wonderful tee shot, and a bad approach shot. It’s a nice drive wasted and it drives me crazy. I had two of those, with the approach shots coming up way short (I had enough club but actually hit the ball fat). I’m pretty sure that is just a mental game thing.
A couple of things were interesting. I really felt comfortable driving the ball, and I also felt really comfortable with my fairway woods. I’m not sure why that was but it was nice. On 18 I hit my drive off the toe but still got it out with pretty good distance and in the fairway. I had about 230 up hill and I hit a nice 4 wood, pin high, but in the rough on the left side of the green. I ended up 1 putting for a par 5 but could easily have had a birdie if I had chipped it close.
I burned the edge on so many putts today. Had a few of those gone in it could have been a stellar round for me. I realized that I was reading 1″ too much break on each putt. I didn’t correct that until the 17th hole but it made a difference once I figured that out.
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