Golf is hard for everyone!

[Javs]

Found this article on Justin Thomas and it shows how golf is hard for everyone! Thomas is the only player in three decades to post a 10-shot variance between every round at a major championship. 

https://golf.com/news/justin-thomas-weird-open-week-culminates-quirky-record/?utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_content=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&amp=1

[cksurfdude]

Yeah talk about being streaky...

But "golf is hard" totally applies to all of us - on any given day - as per that other article you linked to, "The Big Lie".

Driving the ball straight is hard, flushing an iron is hard, catching a crisp wedge to the right distance is hard and oh yeah putting is hard!!

 

[Lefty11]

39 minutes ago, cksurfdude said:

Yeah talk about being streaky...

But "golf is hard" totally applies to all of us - on any given day - as per that other article you linked to, "The Big Lie".

Driving the ball straight is hard, flushing an iron is hard, catching a crisp wedge to the right distance is hard and oh yeah putting is hard!!

 

As I've mentioned before, golf is like a toilet seat—full of ups and downs.

[Erin B]

1 hour ago, cksurfdude said:

Yeah talk about being streaky...

But "golf is hard" totally applies to all of us - on any given day - as per that other article you linked to, "The Big Lie".

Driving the ball straight is hard, flushing an iron is hard, catching a crisp wedge to the right distance is hard and oh yeah putting is hard!!

 

I really liked the article “the big lie” and now I think about it while playing. 

[mongo312]

I find that driving is easy, irons are easy, chipping is easy and putting is easy.  The problem is only a maximum of one of these is true during a round except when none of them are true.  Also liked "the big lie" article.

[chisag]

... I am always reminded of Chip Beck shooting a 59 then losing his card because he couldn't make a cut. Yea, the game is hard. 

[Javs]

23 minutes ago, chisag said:

... I am always reminded of Chip Beck shooting a 59 then losing his card because he couldn't make a cut. Yea, the game is hard. 

That’s a great reminder. Look at the fall of David Duval. Many stories and we think we have a chance….ha ha

[ShimmyCocoBop]

"Golf is popular simply because it is the best game at which to be bad."

A.A. Milne

[Paul Hedrick]

Oh good... I was thinking I was the only one.....LOL

[Gangles914]

Played in a member guest this weekend with my Dad. Game just evaporated for stretches. Was playing the best golf of the season leading into it. Back to the drawing board. 

[Skrizan]

Some days it feels like you have it all figured out.  (Spoiler, You don't!)  Then you come back for the next round, using the same swing thoughts that were working the last round and it is gone.  

Getting it all working at once seems to be the hardest thing.  You may be putting well and making up for missed greens with one-putts, then you start hitting greens and you can't sink a putt over 3 feet.  Yes, golf is hard!

[chisag]

16 minutes ago, Skrizan said:

Some days it feels like you have it all figured out.  (Spoiler, You don't!)  Then you come back for the next round, using the same swing thoughts that were working the last round and it is gone.

 

... Good stuff. After winning a tournament the week before and in the booth after a solid opening round Andrew MaGee talked about finding a key the week before that really worked for him on the weekend. The announcer asked what it was and is it still working and he responded "Heavens no. That was last weekend". The announcer was a little shocked and said he didn't know PGA Pros search for swing keys and Magee said Pro's are just like Am's, just much better at it. When asked what was the longest a swing key worked for him Magee said "One tournament I had a swing key that almost lasted the entire 4 days before falling apart". 

[GolfSpy_KFT]

5 hours ago, Gangles914 said:

Played in a member guest this weekend with my Dad. Game just evaporated for stretches. Was playing the best golf of the season leading into it. Back to the drawing board. 

This happened to me mid tournament this year at the member/guest my uncle and I play in. I had one of the best scoring days of my life on Saturday, won multiple holes for us in each of our three matches and closed out the first match that morning (I'm a 16 hdcp, my uncle a 7).

Severe storms hit Saturday night so the two rounds Sunday got cancelled and they moved straight to the alternate shot shootout. When it was my turn to hit our tee shot on the second hole, I fanned it so massively far left it wasn't even funny. That after not losing a tee shot left all day Saturday and really not having that miss to that point in the summer.

Golf is, and always will be, the hardest sport I will ever have played in my life.

[Rico_de_Gallo]

Growing up, my dad would always tell me "Nothing is automatic" ... ok, he still tells me this even in my 30s. 

But it was so true and applied to nearly everything I did including sports.

For golf, it really applies....

Last couple rounds have had moments where I am all over the place, but several times even with things seemed to start well on a hole,

Good drive....fairway lie, wedge in hand ..... big green   

A great reminder that even with "easier" shots ....results are not guaranteed:

• Chunk
• Chunk followed by another chunk
• missed way left and into the forest
• Over the green
• Bladed over the green

 

Such a good reminder to myself to stay committed to every shot cause this crazy fun game is hard

Good Topic @Javs