Frustration

The journey to a better swing will always be a bumpy road. I have hit a major pothole. This weekends round was a total disaster. When I went back to look at my swing on video, I have slipped in multiple areas back into my old bad habits. Now, I need to start from the beginning and work on the fundamentals I learned in my first lesson that I last posted. 

I have to realize that this is not going to change overnight. I am only able to practice once or twice a week and that is going to make this change take time. Old habits are hard to break, especially when referring to a golf swing. My patience is being tested.

Part of the reason I am so worried is I have a tournament coming up in 2 weeks and having this bump in the road is not great timing. I have to realize that I need to work on my short game more to compensate for the lack of full swing quality. Part of the reason my round was so terrible was my short game was awful. I actually putted decently, I made a couple of nice birdie putts, but my chipping and sand play were downright terrible. I also got some bad breaks. On the first hole my ball buried so deep in the bunker I could not play it out, on the 7th hole I got another terrible lie in the bunker leading to a double bogey. I did have some bad swings, probably 5 that I can recount that were awful, but mainly I would charge the terrible round to bad course management and some bad chipping.

Fairways:             7/13 (all 6 fairways missed were in the right rough/trees)

GIR:                     5/18
Putts(GIR/total):   1.60/30
Scrambling:          3/13
Score:                   84 (+14)

One big big positive was the par 5 scoring, I was 4.3 average on the 3 par 5's, with 2 birdies.