Originally Posted by deronsizemore

Every golfer feels your pain and knows what it's like. Even Tom Watson has said that he only hits maybe 2 shots per round the way that he invisioned them. The others are just decent misses. You will have your bad shots, it's just a matter of how you recover. That's where your shortgame comes in. Good golfers don't worry about bad shots as much because they know the work they put in on shortgame will back them up. A not so good golfer looses all concentration once they hit a bad shot because usually know if they duff that tee shot, then they've got no shot at all at par and probably no shot at all at bogey and it's all downhill from there.

It's really mentally tough, but what happens in the past is the past. You can't control it anymore, so you have to take what's been handed to you. If you dwell on a shot from two holes ago it will tear your game up.

I think the next time you play, think about your round like this...you might surprise yourself. What you do is try to take as much of the pressure off of yourself as possible. Instead of going out there and seeing par 3, 4, and 5's. Go out with the mindset that every par 3 is a par 4, every par 4 is a par 5, and every par 5 is a par 6. That means that you are shooting for bogey on every single hole, so if you hit a bad shot, you'll still be able to make bogey, or "par" in your eyes. May seems stupid, but if you think about making bogey on each hole (your par), on a par 72 course you will shoot 90. Thinking about it like that, you've still got 9 shots to spare and you break 100. So technically you could bogey every hole and even throw in three triple bogey's and still break 100.