Wednesday's Golf...

Well I played 36 holes today in extreme heat and to be in honest I wasn't very happy with how it went. I shot 79 (+7) at Hollingbury in the morning and then 76 (+6) at Singing Hills in the afternoon for a lame +13 total. This standard simply isn't good enough for where I want to be.

In terms of ball striking, I was pretty good really. I struck a lot of solid shots, it was just the directional element that was bad!! Damned if I couldn't rid myself of the bloody hooks and pulls again!! I was tearing my hair out by the end of as I just couldn't find a fix. I worked on weakening my grip a bit but I was terrified of err-ing in the opposite direction and considering I haven't worked enough on this at the range, I simply couldn't trust it. My driving was great, but to be honest without being arrogant, it always is. But my irons were inconsistent and my shortgame was downright abysmal.
On the back 9 of my second round I actually shot -1 and hit a lot more decent shots simply by making sure my address position was good.

With regard to my short game, well how do you like these figures:
- 0/7 for up and downs on the morning round &
- 4/11 for the afternoon.

A total of 4/18 up and downs over two rounds is simply unacceptable. A lot of was down to terrible putting in the morning. 37 putts in a round is disgraceful!! Urgh, I hate to read it. I was blocking putts all morning, just couldn't hit the damn thing on line and it was very frustrating. I worked on turning my body through the putt a little bit more at lunchtime in an effort to release it a little better and had 29 putts in the afternoon on some tricky greens. However, I only hit 8 greens in reg which in itself is not a very good number.

So, the tale again lies within inconsistency. I set myself a goal to make no double bogeys the whole day and only made 1. This wasn't a bad start. At Hollingbury in the morning I managed this but I also had 9 bogeys. This is too high. At this point, I only want 6 bogeys at an absolute maximum! A lot of my stupid bogeys came hitting TERRIBLE pitch shots. Oh my god, at times it felt like a miracle that I even hit the green. I seem to do this stupid thing where my hands seem to want to steer the ball!! This is not what I want as it an absolute killer under pressure and can make me look very silly indeed!! 50 yards and in needs work urgently. But, I am not sure exactly what it is that is causing my problems. Therefore how can I honestly aim to improve. Hopefully through trial and error I will figure it out.

We will see. Anyways, I'll leave it there for now....