For the second tournament, i score -8 for front 9, yet on back 9 (which i've never scored less than 5 birdies in previous rounds) i was getting the usual "score blocker" deviation effected round where your R11's have gone from superior club to starter club.
135 iron on #10 going 132 yards with no spin in tailwind and down-slope, where usually i would get 140+, next hole my 135 iron with full spin in headwind and UP-slope goes 139 yards! Add in another short hole where my dinged drive lands in 50% rough???, and playing safe on 18 with a dinged wood, that too flew left into 50% rough. from shots turning out how they should on front 9, to reacting nothing like they should on back, it was clear i was getting deviation to block scoring better than my average. Instead of getting 57 or better i end up with a 59 due to clear deviant, erratic shots. Please when i'm playing a good round, let it continue not bring it to a halt, with clearly strange shots, especially when there's a $100 gift card to win. I bet my house that there will be a cluster of people who wont get bad deviation on their rounds and score 56's.
(sorry for the moan,especially when 59 is a o.k score but it bugs me when i know there was 4 birdies dropped for shots that were out of my hands, that's the element of so called LUCK on this game, whether deviation stings you or not, and me being a total perfectionist! & had a chance to do well until deviation got in the way)
oh, by the way, the same shot which landed 7 yards past hole i mentioned above with 135 iron just landed 1 yard short of pin in a matchplay round..