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How is this possible?!?! Yesterday I went to play and I didn't hit a fw until the 18th..WTH?!?

All my drives were slicing. I usually hit a nice fade if not relatively str8 down the middle. I was so frustrated. I was hitting everything else fine.

Do you think playing to much golf can affect your game..? It was my 2nd day of back to back rounds.

Think I will be going to the range today.

the same thing happened to me - I'v ebeen consisently scoring 80-85 or so, and threw out a century on friday. I'm just the opposite - I'md oing too much range, not enough on a proper course.

Hmmmm, I've fallen off my game, too but I think it's because of lack of practice on the range. These days, I just go on the course and my game has slowly fallen off. I think the big problem is confidence. I don't have a good outing at the range to boost my confidence so when I step out on the course, I really have nothing to go off of mentally.

I'm assuming I, for some reason, was swinging out to in. I couldn't figure it out. Have been doing the "air" swing all day in the office and elevator..LOL

I had a mini thing like that today, shot a 44 on my front nine in my tourna,ment today and then on the back nine i shot 34...10 strokes lower in a matter of like 2 hours!! I don't know how it is possible butn i went from struggling to break 90 (which would have been my worse round all year) to breaking 80, i was like whoa, maybe not as crazy as yours but it was weird.

Your upper body was probably out of cink with your lower body. I think what happens to amateurs like us is that from time to time we encounter new problems and have no experience in fixing them. The best thing is that this problem follows you to the range and you learn how to fix it rather than just have it disappear. I would work it out by just hitting half 7 irons and watching the ball flight.

One day I was on the Front and shot 50. Worst all year. THen went on to the back and shot 40. Still managed to pull of 90. Weird.

Funny you should say that...I find myself getting worse when I play too much and I do my best when I play after several days of not touching a club. Don't know what it is...don't think it is endurance or getting tired, but more like perhaps feeling cocky on the good shots from the previous day and trying that much harder when I get another good ball lie or spot to hit from and instead flubbing them causing my score to get worse.

I find that if I play constantly and keep my head in the game I play better. If I start scoring poorly its because my head is slipping and my swing is too loose not staying down on the ball. Just stay focused and make your swing on the ball.

These kinds of wild scoring swings from one round to the next are maddening, aren't they? Just when you think that you've finally found your game, you lose it.

I'm convinced that there is a physical component to these collapses. Perhaps the exertions of one day cause a tightening up of the muscles that affects the path of the swing just enough to cause mishits--and we all know that golf is a game of fractions of inches, don't we? Even a slight increase in tension from one round to the next has an effect. I mean here we are making the same swing, using the same swing thoughts, the same set-up, grip, etc. and the results are vastly different. What is going on? Things have gone so badly for me at times that I've even thought I was afflicted with some neuro-muscular disease.

Thus, my theory that there is some mysterious physical change in my body from round to round that affects my game. I suppose that if we all played every day, these changes might eventually cease as our bodies became acclimated to the constant physical repetition and exertion of the golf swing. However, most of us just don't have the time or physical ability to play every day, and our game suffers.

It happens to everybody. A friend of my grandfather's (0.7 handicap index) shot one over on the front nine (35) at Linwood Country Club. He then got a nineteen over on the back (55).

I had the same thing happen this week....90 at one course---Won't tell you what the next course brought! The difference? Monday I went to a Certified Massage Therapist.....nothing hurt on Tuesday! By Sunday the effects of the massage were almost gone.....I'm a believer !

My two cents for what it is worth is that inconistency comes about through the tendency to focus on the ball rather than the swing to the target when we make an error. Any tension transfers itself to the hands and the ball and the target orientation tends to get lost as we 'concentrate harder' or 'try harder'. Golf is an effortless game but we cannot cope easily with that and feel we should be 'doing something more/better/faster and this means doing something to the ball. Usually we have all sorts of 'corrective things' that we do which tend to make the problem worse. It is only when we relax again or give up the 'corrections' that the swing feel returns. I am interested in your responses.