Goldy wrote:

pyl wrote:

For someone who still is fairly new to ISG/L4G can you please explain what the hell this is about????

As OB explained. We’ve been running these things since 2011. Essentially The Best Player To Have Not Won An Order Of Merit. Those that perform well…but not well enough to actually win. Based on their average stableford scores in the games they have played.

We have a minimum games played criteria, 15 at the moment. Obviously over almost 10 years, the number that are eligible to win tends to decrease as new winners cross themselves off the eligibility list.

And just to make it amusing, we started listing the Worst player to win, the worst player not to win, the best and worst NAGAs, etc.

Post building, essentially 🙂

Ahh that clears things up.

deege wrote:

keg wrote:

deege wrote:

The plan

So apart from the round, the other stuff I have been working on. Chalked up a fail to the practice this week – I had the opportunity to get out to the range but just didn’t bother. I did purchase a copy of the Strike Plan by Adam Young, which is a really interesting approach to practice which works on actual skill improvement trying to improve your strike patterns rather than changing your swing. So I watched several of his videos and will plan to use that for my range practice, but need to watch a few more times to make sure that I understand the drills correctly.

And I have been reading a couple of golf books. This week I read “Every Shot has a Purpose” which is about a mental approach to the game and practice. It actually lines up very closely with the practice plans I have purchased, so that’s good.

There is a bit focus on pre-shot routines and the other sorts of things you can control in the round. One of the messages was that for each round you should be having a golf focus which is not a swing thought. So something that you are looking to achieve in the round. I think I already have a pretty good pre-shot routine, but I identified two places I want to improve. First, once I have decided on the shot, I spend too much time over the ball before I pull the trigger. They warn that once you are in the “play box” or the mental and physical place to play the shot, you should just move instinctively through the shot. Pausing over the ball allows other thoughts to come into the shot and ruin it.

Secondly was the idea of a “post-shot routine”. This is the idea that you have a way of thinking about a shot afterwards and filing it away so that it doesn’t infect the rest of your game if it were bad, but taking a moment to enjoy and acknowledge it if it is a good shot. So yesterday my golf focus was only having positive or neutral reactions to shots. I did okay with it (except for on the 9th which was a real brain fade). And I don’t know if it was because of this or not, but I spent less time thinking about the score and more time just reminding myself that the only thing that I could control was the shot in front of me.

Will be interesting to see how I go with it during a stroke round on Saturday.

I can see what it’s talking about, when you get on a roll your not really thinking about your score you can get to a run of pars and think gee that seemed easy. Alternatively if your struggling your thinking of what your doing wrong what swing thought can I try next!

Well a great example was my meltdown on the 9th on the weekend. 30 feet away from the pin on the green. I left the first well short which I got annoyed at because I had been leaving putts short all morning. My second was makeable but not a gimmie, and it rolled past to 3 feet. So far so normal. When I missed the 3 footer is where things really fell apart – I was so mad at myself for stuffing up a good chance. I really should have marked my ball and let someone else putt while I got out of the headspace. But I stepped right up and slammed the ball at the cup for a power lip out and a wipe.

It was a complete mental escalation just because I was getting progressively angry with myself for each poor putt and not allowing myself to let it go before stepping up to the next one. It was really the only occasion that I lost my golf focus on avoiding negative thoughts. So, while I don’t want to dwell on negative outcomes, I think the memory of that hole will be a little reminder when I get into that kind of spot. Maybe I will write a little reminder on my stats card “Step away from the ball before you five putt”.

yep I stood over my tee shot on 2 and all I could think about was shanking it and yep hossel rocket!! Usually happens with 3 putts?

Just got home!! Thanks to my playing partners Mick(27),Bully(38) and the sneaky master Muzz(41) for the game today we all played some nice golf in the group. Even Mick come home like a freight train after Ghettos abuse 4 holes from home! haha . Oh yeah Mick put that hybrid away when in the rough buddy!!!!!!!!!

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