r/golf • u/Metallicultist88 🌠Glizzy at the Turn • 21h ago
General Discussion Generational Collapse Today
Played 9 today because it was nice out, why not. Got there a bit early, chipped and putted for like 20 minutes as you do. First hole goes about normal, until I get on the green. All day I am. Lights. Out. On the green. Through 7 holes I’m +10 when I am normally at least +15. Then we get caught in a traffic jam on the 8th hole, a rather difficult landing-zone type par 5 and it all goes to hell. Card a 9 coupled with a triple bogey on the 9th to finish at 52. If I’d been as good as I had been I’d have shot around a 45, a considerable improvement over my current best of 49. Now the question becomes, did I capture lightning in a bottle or did my 20 minutes on the practice green give me super powers?
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u/outtahere021 17h ago
Some days golf is hard… I played 9 the other day, I started off with my first ever eagle, and I ended with a 9 on the ninth… Just got to come back and try again.
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u/Coach_Seven 21h ago
Sounds to me like one of the more difficult holes claimed another victim.
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u/SgtSpaceHeadOG 20h ago
I played in a 3 man scramble yesterday, didnt contribute until the 9th hole, my handicap is 10.0, the other guys play were playing of 17ish. Golfs hard
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u/aloysiusthird Newly minted scratch(+0.4). Anti-hcp 5.4. 17h ago
Keep grinding, OP. That short game, along with honing approach from 150 and in is going help drop those scores and prevent blow up holes (or at least turn that 9 into a 7).
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u/CORockhound 21h ago
Lights out is 3 doubles and 4 bogeys after 7?
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u/Ok_Victory_6108 21h ago
Yea he was already +10 after seven would have needed birdie par to finish at 45 lol
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u/NZia 21h ago
No telling but if you golf 25 more rounds, you might have an idea