Face Reality When You Play

The reality of golf is that you are not as good a golfer all the time as you are when you shoot your lowest scores. You get in your way if you don’t accept that.

Given the 9 handicap that I played to once, these are the scores that handicap was based on:

88, 88, 86, 85, 85, 84, 83, 83, 82, 82, 81, 81, 81, 81, 81, 80, 79, 78, 75, 74.

That’s quite a range. I was good enough to shoot those low scores, but also bad enough to shoot those high scores.

Every Tour pro can lay down a 63 sometime. If they couldn’t, they wouldn’t be on the Tour. But they can also shoot a couple of 76’s and miss the cut huge. They’re no different from us in that regard.

Bring your round down to just one shot: the shot you are about to hit. Try your best to make that a good, playable shot. Keep doing that, over and over, then add ’em up when the round is over, because that is all you can do.

Accept that some days you got it, some days you don’t. Golf is a lot easier that way.

One thought on “Face Reality When You Play”

  1. Very good advice, Bob. We should execute one shot at a time, focusing on the shot at hand, but not being overly focused on the “final results”we want.

    When I focus on the result, especially “looking to see if I did it,” my overall results tend to add to a higher number than I wanted.

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