Can you shoot lights out one day and then can't hit the broad side of a barn or do you play steady boring golf, whats your make up?

I'm definately the Jeckle/Hyde type. It seems when I'm all relaxed and not really paying attention to score, etc. I will shoot a great game. The next time I go out, I pay close attention to everything trying to beat my last score and end up playing horrible.

Evil, Im right there with you. There are some days when I dont pay attention to my routine or alignment and it makes for a long day.

Most of the time, my golf is boring because I usually make lot of pars. I did use to be jeykll/hyde type of player back when I was an excellent putter. Nowdays, I do a better job of keeping the ball in play but unfortunately, I don't know how to regain my putting stroke & confidence in my putting stroke, still looking for it.

See, I'm just the opposite, if I do pay attention = a long day. When I'm relaxed and just swing, I seem to play much better. I guess it all comes down to if I am paying attention to my swing, I end up being too tight across the shoulders and think my way through my swing vs when I'm relaxed, it's more just a feel. Also, when playing relaxed I don't try and go 400 yards off the tee, I'm just trying to put it in play and will typically have some of my better drives too.

I guess I just need a Gin and Tonic before every round

Thanks,

Well, you may think that's boring golf, but it sounds like what you play is my 2 year goal. I shoot in the 90's now, and for every par I make, I tend to back it up with a double bogey so at the end of the day I'm normally playing Bogey Golf or worse. So boring for you is shooting the lights out for me

I'm right there with you buddy.

No doubt I'm Jekyll and Hyde. I can shoot even par for 4-6 holes in a row, then throw in a Triple Bogey, or worse.....snowman. This is the MOST frustrating thing about my golf right now. Ugh.

I bill myself as being the best 15 hole golfer there is...the king of 5 birdies, 3 doubles and 10 pars. I think that qualifies as Jeckyll/Hyde.

I'm definetely a Jekyll/Hyde. I can shoot even par one day, then the next day I am concentrating and will shoot an 85, it is ridiculous!

From tee to green I'm a steady eddie for the most part. My putting is Jekyll/Hyde. If I can get my putter hot I can go low, if usual then right around par, if it's off..........lord help me.

For example, last three rounds Par 72:
74 - 1 birdie, 16 pars, 1 double.........8 birdie putts lip out.
71 - 2 birdies, 1 eagle, 12 pars, 3 bogies,.... 6 birdie putts lip out.
75 - 1 birdie, 13 pars, 4 bogeys...... 6 birdie/par putts lip out / 2 chips lip out.

I'm just so close to making a breakthrough it's frustrating. And when I mean lip out, I'm not talking about going by the edge....I mean spin outs. This game is so damn cruel.

I can go holes and holes with just pars. This year managed to shoot 18 staright pars in a round. Definently a steddie eddy. Consectutive rounds only tend to deviate by 2 or 3 shots.

I'm the most inconsistent 3 handicap known to man. I can shoot 70 or 90 on any given day

7 birdies and I don't break par is not uncommon for me

Hot one day....... cold the next 2 weeks. But that one day keeps me coming back again and again.

I'm definately the Jeckle/Hyde type. Heres a prime example....

Last sat I am playing in our weekend skins game and while my GHIN is 7.4 it works out to a 9 at my course.

I par the first hole, then make 3 straight doubles, I eagle the par 5 5th, then bogey, double, bogey and par to finish the front. ( both bogeys are 3 jacks from 15-18 ft)

On the back, bogey, bogey (2 more 3 jacks from 15-18 feet) par, par, par, birdie, par, par

All this for an 81.....par is 72 - shot what I should have, but it was a trainwreck!

I'm with you there B! I swear I can shoot a typical BR61 boring round and the next day just completely all over the course. I know it means I should be practicing more, but who has tiime for that when you can play!

I'm a Jeckyll and HYde type. Last tournament I played I shot 69(-1) on the first day of a two day tournament (mybest score ever) and then the next day I shot 85.

I'm usually pretty consistent. Usually never out of the 70's. But everyone has those bad days where nothing seems to be working at all.

Dr. Jeckyll meet Mr. Hyde ... I never know which one of me will show up at the first tee and which one will finish on the eighteenth. Somehow it always evens out. No matter how many pars I shoot there are always enough doubles (or triples) to bring me back to the mid to low nineties.

I don't know if I should answer since I never shoot lights out.

Being a hobby golfer once a week at best and practicing less than I play, I can stay pretty close to my 13 handicap. I allow myself a couple of bad shots from the fairway usually knowing it's a result of poor pre-shot routine, and the tee shot usually takes four or five holes before it finds the fairway regularly.

The main factor that keeps me Hyde-like is the short game, mainly the pitch shot. I'm usually going to drop shots like crazy if I need to use a partial swing.

Ditto. And I then spend the drive home thinking about what could have been....

I'm pretty steady, but it kinda depends on how much I've been playing. If I haven't played in a while, I'll blow up the first day, then kinda get back to where I was the next day.

I think the major thing that has levaled me out was finding a consistant thought process and pre-shot routine.

No question, J/H type player.

im all over the place making liek 3 birds in a row and then following it up with a triple

im one of the most inconsistant golfers in the world.

a couple of weeks ago i opened birdie, triple, birdie, triple.

I too am the jeckle / hyde player. I can shoot a 39 one day and 50 the next on the same nine. With my job its hard for me to get out and play 18 so I normally settle for a quick 9.

I guess thats what makes the pros so remarkable is thier consistency.