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How to know you're having a crappy putting day

• madden0001 59 Posts

  Tue, Apr 26 2011 4:25 PM

  Rather than blame the lag today (it was awful this evening), I thought I would share some levity.  Since I've had a good run at Ready Go's already today, I can let it slide.

  9 holes at Kiawah and my total putt made distance was 18.2 feet.  Yes, my average putt distance made was 2 feet.  That's a sign of a quality putting round.  *sigh*.  -1 35 for me.  Hopefully, I can at least get 30 or 40 cents back from my dollar.

• Boomerboy44 1,514 Posts

  Tue, Apr 26 2011 5:44 PM

  madden0001:

  Rather than blame the lag today (it was awful this evening), I thought I would share some levity.  Since I've had a good run at Ready Go's already today, I can let it slide.

  9 holes at Kiawah and my total putt made distance was 18.2 feet.  Yes, my average putt distance made was 2 feet.  That's a sign of a quality putting round.  *sigh*.  -1 35 for me.  Hopefully, I can at least get 30 or 40 cents back from my dollar.

  Do we care how many cents you get back..............NO  !!!

• madden0001 59 Posts

  Tue, Apr 26 2011 6:04 PM

  Really.  That was your takeaway?

  I averaged 2 feet of putts made over 9 holes.  That's really hard to do because you have to be really bad to do that.  That was my point.

• tiffer67 1,764 Posts

  Wed, Apr 27 2011 10:01 AM

  I appreciated the thread, it's always nice to know others are experiencing the same frustrations as I am :^)

  I had a similar putting day a few days ago, no matter what I did the ball seemed to miss the hole by the smallest margin. By the end of the day it actually became funny, it was as though the ball was taking the piss out of me....

• PRIESTESS 10,721 Posts

  Wed, Apr 27 2011 11:45 AM

  This is exactly why WGT is so life like,How many competitions on the PGA tour boil down to miss putts  made putts  and putts that looked good but lipped out,Putting should always be the toughest part of WGT,In my opinion 

• DarSum 1,440 Posts

  Wed, Apr 27 2011 1:03 PM

  tiffer67:

  I appreciated the thread, it's always nice to know others are experiencing the same frustrations as I am :^)

  I had a similar putting day a few days ago, no matter what I did the ball seemed to miss the hole by the smallest margin. By the end of the day it actually became funny, it was as though the ball was taking the piss out of me....

   

  You mean the rounds where if you added up what was left over in all your missed putts it would be under 6 inches? I have 3 or 4 of those rounds a day. : (

  One of these days I'm going to learn how to putt on WGT and then YOU'RE ALL IN TROUBLE! lol

• zelg 332 Posts

  Wed, Apr 27 2011 1:51 PM

  when you learn how to putt you can teach me .

   

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Wed, Apr 27 2011 1:53 PM

  Maybe there could be an award for the nearest misses? So if the total by which you missed putts in 9 holes was 10 feet or less you would get one of those goofy 'tin water boy'-type prizes that no one wants to get.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Apr 27 2011 2:01 PM

  zagraniczniak:

  Maybe there could be an award for the nearest misses? So if the total by which you missed putts in 9 holes was 10 feet or less you would get one of those goofy 'tin water boy'-type prizes that no one wants to get.

  Heh-Icon and Bollox would be racing to see who got it first.  :-D

• LizzieRossetti 1,545 Posts

  Wed, Apr 27 2011 2:31 PM

  madden0001:

  Really.  That was your takeaway?

  I averaged 2 feet of putts made over 9 holes.  That's really hard to do because you have to be really bad to do that.  That was my point.

   

  I read your original post and I thought,"hullo,this person man is very equitable and a handy dandy with the putting stick no less". Then in a rare moment where I wasn't thinking of something else,possibly with my eyes shut and like those colours you get across your eyelids when you do that,sometimes with me they change through the whole spectrum and people tell me I smile when that happens,but then I would because its ever such a groovy feeling,but any way up,I started to work out the mathematics and it occured to me that after all,it wasn't as good as all that,which by its very definition neatly encompasses my own putting.

  Thats when I became sympathetic with your plight and also grateful that I wasn't alone,because when you're alone,you're alone,when you're alone you aint nothing but alone,which I now know I am not and I hope you realise that also you too are not alone,which is very special,very so much like those colours you see when you close your eyes.I think Richie Blackmore said something similar and by coincidence that was when he was in Rainbow,which has all the light spectrum dooblidips,and this now,has opened so many doors to other paths which can lead absolutely anywhere but in any case he was talking about closing eyes when making love.I always thought Love was already there,you didn't have to make it as such,only reach into your lovers heart far enough to feel it and let it become a part of you,a part that will never leave without saying adieu and batheing you in a sprinkle of fine mist much like as if you stood at the base of a waterfall and watched in wonder as what had fallen went on its way like so many letters in the night.

  I shall set up a scientific experiment soon enough,to do with such limerance,but also putting to within an inch of the cup.Putting.Putting the putting into putting.

  Ah well,Moderation in Moderation,as I always say.

   

  Lizzie xx