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Originally Posted by Fourputt
You're placing way too much importance on a round of golf. It's a GAME. It's meant to be enjoyed, and if you can't find anything to enjoy, then it's time for a re-evaluation. Jack Nicklaus took 3 to get out of a famous bunker (that the language filter won't let me name  ) in the Open one year at St. Andrews. I'm sure that it didn't exactly make his day, but he didn't go all suicidal over it either.
Stop worrying about the score or your handicap. That is not a productive labour. Instead, figure out what caused you to fail to extricate yourself from the bunker and what you need to do to ensure that it doesn't happen again (practice, strategy, swing thought - whatever it takes). |
You know what, you're totally right.
Last evening I went to my course and played about 50 bunker shots from that same bunker, all came out first time and the worst shot was about 20 feet away, about 10 were gimmes and I holed 1.
So, I've got that bad experience out of my system (which was the aim) and I worked out what I did wrong - I was scared of the shot, and so quit on it. If I attack a bunker shot, it comes off, so that's my mindset from now on. Oh, and that it's only a game
