Are You Boring?

[PlaidJacket]

I read an article this morning over on Practical Golf  about being a boring golfer. I think it makes sense and many of us should strive to become more boring with our approach to the game. I know I should. 

I also know when I shoot some of my lowest scores It's because; one - I avoided trouble, two - I'm playing from the fairway mostly, and three - I chipped and putted well. But overall I'd also say I played a rather boring round. Fairways, greens, two putts. No fancy cuts or draws, no flops or spectacular sand saves. ZZZzzzzzzzz.

 

It's not easy to do. But I think the next time I'm out I'll try and play as boring a game as possible and see what happens. 

 

[Shankster]

I need to take this approach. Might try it on Saturday.

[Wedgie]

I play with that guy. We call him boring Bernie.

 

 

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[JudgeSmails]

on and off the golf course....yes 

[perseveringgolfer]

I can hit most fairways with 70% swing....

 

I can be on or very close to most greens with overclubbing, swinging easier and aiming at the middle only....

 

 

 

BUT WHERES THE FUN IN THAT!       

[dmcm33]

I enjoy the challenge that my current golf game presents. I like taking the hero shots, when my previous shot is errant. I don't play golf to be the guy who always chips out of trouble and goes for the middle of the green. I much more enjoy the risk/reward of being aggressive.

I do like what he's saying though, and I think it's absolutely necessary if you want lower scores. I just don't care I'm out there to have fun.

 

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[Big money]

I was very boring when my whole life was golf.Now that I'm experiencing other hobbies, I'm actually quite fun to be around. But on the course I played boring golf.I was so short that I would bunt it down the middle.Than bunt one up by the green, chip and make the putt or miss it.That was my game for a long long time

[palvord]

I think that we need to change our mindset around this style of golf being called “boring.” Playing good golf shouldn't be considered boring.

 

 

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[cnosil]

I try to stick to playing a boring game and when I do I play pretty well. My problem happens when I try to recover from a bogey or worse, I exit boring golf.

 

I think people also start thinking about an aggressive or conservative approach when tho king about playing this way. Often people switch to conservative mode and try to steer the ball. Even with a conservative/boring strategy you have to make aggressive swings.

[DaveP043]

I think that we need to change our mindset around this style of golf being called “boring.” Playing good golf shouldn't be considered boring.

 

I'm on board, although I have no problem being called boring as my opponents hand me the cash I won.

[PING Apologist #9]

I'm far from boring in many aspects and golf for me is no exception. My rounds could be described as; Excitable. Terrifying. Nail-biting. Scary. Surprising.

 

I like the surprising ones, but they are unfortunately rare compared with the rest...

[GB13]

Yes.... ohh wait you mean golf. Well, still yes.

 

Well kind of. I am really working on it and it is helping me a lot. I went from a driver swing that can go 290 and hit 3 fairways a round to a swing that I thought would lose distance and hit 8-10 fairways a round. The interesting part is that I make much more solid contact, that my distance stayed the same, while hitting 6 more fairways. I have been making more repeatable swings and things are really looking up.

 

It is interesting, that as a general rule, our lower caps play more boring golf.

[tony@CIC]

Funny we were just commenting to our group yesterday about one of our partners and how boring the game must be for him. He consistently drives onto the center of the fairway. Second shot regardless of lie, etc is always spot on and he's a pretty good putter.

[MattF]

I wish I was more boring.

[Kenny B]

on and off the golf course....yes 

"People don't say that about you... as far as you know."

[JudgeSmails]

"People don't say that about you... as far as you know."

Of all the nerve...

[Har in the Hat]

Ever since I took my driver out,

I have become very boring and scores are dropping.

I love being boring.

I have also become more at peace with my game as a result and hence more relaxed while playing.

 

😴😴😴

[EthanSterlingPrice]

I read an article this morning over on Practical Golf about being a boring golfer. I think it makes sense and many of us should strive to become more boring with our approach to the game. I know I should.

I also know when I shoot some of my lowest scores It's because; one - I avoided trouble, two - I'm playing from the fairway mostly, and three - I chipped and putted well. But overall I'd also say I played a rather boring round. Fairways, greens, two putts. No fancy cuts or draws, no flops or spectacular sand saves. ZZZzzzzzzzz.

 

It's not easy to do. But I think the next time I'm out I'll try and play as boring a game as possible and see what happens.

I think I'm fairly boring aside from having to lean on wedges at times. I think you played pretty solid last we met up though.

 

 

 

In the bag

Driver: Callaway Rogue Subzero 9.5 Stiff flex

3 wood: Callaway Rogue Subzero 15 degree

Hybrids: 17 degree titleist 816 h2

Irons: Ben Hogan Ptx 22-46 degree (4-pw)stiff flex standard lie

Wedges: Callaway Mac Daddy 4 50,54,58 degrees

Putter: Odyssey EXO seven

 

Gig'em Aggies!

[NiftyNiblick]

My golf game was far too dangerous to be boring.

 

Personally, though, I'm probably boring as hell.

[Kor.A.Door]

Ha, Boring is that word used to describe me on the golf course. I have several friends that donplay boring golf, and they are good. I have to many highs and lows in the round to call it boring. I wish I could have a boring attitude toward the game though

[THEZIPR23]

Boring is the best type of golf. Par is always your friend and bogeys suck. 

[srooch2]

I'm a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant

 

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[SteddyGolf]

Given my screen name do I really need to answer this question??? Lol

 

Actually Steddygolf is a play on words of sorts. The obvious is simply consistent or boring golf. The not so obvious is my middle name is Stedman as is my fathers and his fathers as well.

 

My mother didn't call my father Stedman, she called him Steddy (his nickname). When I decided to venture into the golf profession Steddygolf was born.

 

Without that being said I like boring because shooting 70 to 76 on a regular basis is not so boring to me. It's also not boring picking up all that “skins” money at the end of a round

 

 

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[NiftyNiblick]

I think the secret is to get "exciting" on a considered basis, not often, but when it's actually worth trying.

 

That being said, if you have less than a 50% probability of pulling the gamble off, .that will probably drop to 10% in a "must" situation unless you're completely composed. 

 

Take a breath, take a sip from your water bottle, and then just address the ball and hit the shot--don't linger over it.
 

[revkev]

When I'm on I have the most boring game ever. Par is my friend and I don't stray from him very often.

 

 

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[MomoMan83]

I'm a terrible golfer so my rounds are usually pretty eventful.  I look forward to one day playing a boring round.

[Kenny B]

I'm a terrible golfer so my rounds are usually pretty eventful.  I look forward to one day playing a boring round.

I used to play "eventful" golf; sometimes I still do!!  Just think of it as practice that the boring golfers don't get to do.  

[MomoMan83]

I used to play "eventful" golf; sometimes I still do!!  Just think of it as practice that the boring golfers don't get to do.  

 

In that case, I'm really good at practicing.   

 

Last night was actually the first time I ever played the same ball for every stroke over nine holes.  I should have retired the ball then instead of losing it in the creek on my 10th hole tee-shot.   

[bluesmandan76]

I was really boring today. Only 2 birdies. Nothing worse than a bogey. Only hit 6 greens. But one of my birdies was the last hole. So I won the money. ; )


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