I played a full round at Turnbull Bay today. My round started as Cink and Watson went into a playoff at the Open – the two guys I was pulling for ended up battling for the win. Great story.
Anyway, overall, I’m not happy with the results, but throughout the round I had moments of excellent play, which is exciting. For instance, I had a number of approach shots everywhere from 90 to 170 yards that landed within 10 feet of the hole. On the flip side, I had a number of shots that were downright bad.
Right now it seems my rounds all come down to consistency – can I focus on every swing of every hole? I’m sort in the process of retraining my swing, so focus is going to be key to any success I might have.
My total score for the day was an 89. I suppose that’s an improvement from the other day, but it’s not where I’ve been and nowhere near where I want to be. I believe my two issues for today were swing plane and timing – basically the two things I started working on at the range Saturday morning.
I started the round off with pulling my irons and pushing my driver and 3-wood. After a few holes I seemed to go the other way – pulling the woods and pushing my irons. I attribute this see-saw, back-and-forth type swing issue to my timing being off. I’ve been noticing this more and more with every round I play. Even if I warm up at the range my timing seems to be off when I get on the course. I’m all ears if anyone has any ideas on how I might be able to address this.
Halfway through the 13th I started to figure out my timing and showed consistency with a string of better-played holes and some great shots. Of course, by then it’s kind of late, so I focused on finishing strong with a 4 pars and a bogey on the last 5 holes.
A slightly frustrating part of those last 5 holes was that I had four birdie chances, almost all with 10 foot or less putts that I missed. While I’m happy that I had 34 putts (1.9 per hole), I recognize that 34 putts is not good enough if I want to get lower scores. 34 putts is only good because it means that I had less than two putts per hole, which is a current goal. It may be time to make that goal more difficult and aim for 1.5 putts per hole.
You can check out the round’s scorecard on my oobgolf profile: http://www.oobgolf.com/golfers/score.php?id=561610.
I’m going to try to figure out a practice schedule for the week. I have the 9-hole Tuesday golf, but beyond that I need to figure something out. I definitely need to get a few workouts in too.