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    I hope you continue to improve DD. 

    When I started playing again I thought I'd just pick up my clubs & instantly return to the same player I was when I was younger.  It took me longer than it should to realise that it wasn't going to happen.  I kept saying ''couple a rounds to get into it & then it'll come'', but it never did.  It wasn't until I left the past in the past & just went forward with the attitude ''this is where I am, lets improve'' that things started to get a wee bit better, however, like you've described above, I would get to about the 12th/13th/14th in very good shape, have a bad hole & it would all go to pot.  1 bad hole would completely ruin my day, I got so angry, frustrated & couldn't put it to the back of my mind & move on.  Sometimes my temper would ruin my round completely. 

    It all came to a head one medal Saturday.  I started off with an eagle 3 at the first, chipped in from off the green.  I followed this with a par at the 2nd, par at the 3rd, birdie at the par 3 4th, par at the 5th & tap in birdie at 6.  I then began to think as I approached the 7th tee ''well even if I have a couple of bad holes today, surely this first 6 holes will stand me in a good position.  All I need to do is hit a straight drive here & even if I get a 5 that's it out the road''.  The 7th at the course I describe is a dog leg with an elevated green.  The medal tee is in an elevated small patch of ground surrounded by trees on the left, trees on the right with a pedestrian path & a burn.  The trees on the left stretch right down to the dog leg & there is very little room on the right until after the bend either & as the laws of gravity go, everything kicks right off the sloping fairway too.  Conservative players chip a 5 iron to before the dog leg, chip it over the dog leg hill with a wedge or 9 iron & then go for the green.  However, if you are playing well you can drive it off the tee, carrying the dog leg.  Of course, as I was playing well, I get the driver out, think I was playing with a Ping G5 at the time, loved the shaft in it.  Anyway, I slice the first drive right & into the burn.  I then tee it up again & do the same.  So I go off the tee to my bag, get my 6 iron out & decide to just knock one onto the fairway, the conservative approach.  However, by this point I was boiling, absolutely boiling.  Hands were soaking with sweat, I could barely look up as I had the other 3 players in my 4 ball looking at me.  That much time had passed the 4 ball in the group behind were also waiting.  So I keep my head down, walk to the tee, tee it up &.........grip slips out my hands, ball goes straight left into the trees, club releases from my hands & nestles in the long grass/tree area to the left too.  I tell the 3 guys to go on, swap score cards etc & walk the pedestrian path from the woodland area, heading in the opposite direction from the clubhouse, but a route that would eventually lead to my home.  I had a brief look for the 6 iron, but never found it, might even still be there. 

    I was absolutely embarrassed beyond belief.  ''I used to be no bad at this game, really quite gid actually.  I f*cking hate it now, I'm never playing again, that's me finished, I obviously don't have it any more''  (I muttered stuff like that to myself all the way home).  It took me about a fortnight until I picked up a club again & afterwards I told myself that I would not take the game so seriously ever again, would just enjoy it & see where that led me.  I can honestly say, the moment I adopted this attitude was the moment that my game began to improve.  If I have a bad round I don't really bother anymore.  I get upset, but I then put it into perspective.  Could be that I've not played regularly leading up to the round, haven't practiced etc.  However, when I prepare for a tournament or whatever, put the time in & take 1 shot at a time, I tend to do ok.  And any time I ever find my blood reaching boiling point I try to just laugh & think ''that's golf, it'll try and do that to you, you've just got to smile''. 

    This season I hardly played at all, but I've done enough to maintain a handicap, that's slightly went up.  I have began Caddying full time at Turnberry, have a 3 year old daughter & play Football a couple of times a week, so I haven't really had as much free time to dedicate to golf.  I've told myself that I'm really going to knuckle down next season & see where that takes me.  My football/futsal career is hanging by a thread (knee is like glass) so I think I'll pack that in at the end of the season & make golf my only past time. 
    The 7th at Dalmilling has wrecked many a score card especially from the medal tee [emoji24]
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    P&b Running Club

    in The General Nonsense Forum

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    Was really disappointed in the route especially when it finally got into Musselburgh, got a bit bored running along that round only to turn back the way you came,

    Also, what was with the walk to the buses? 5k in itself!! Was the last thing I needed after the race

    On the plus side the yoghurty almond biscuits in the freebie bag was magic

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