Shot 79 and feeling pretty good.
Something felt a little bit off from the beginning while I was hitting balls but I didn’t really sweat it too much. Again I made some crappy mental mistakes early on. I started writing down on the card what the errors were, and each time it was the fact I didn’t decide what I was going to do before I pulled the trigger which is kind of ridiculous. For example I had a 9 iron into the 4th green, I lined it up, got over the ball and realized the ball was above my feet so it was probably going to move left. Instead of getting out of the shot and starting over, I just nudged my alignment a little right. Occasionally you can get away with crap like this and end up hitting a half decent shot but it’s still ridiculous. I was out of control for about the entire round, hit 1 or 2 shots I was happy with which is weird based on how I’ve been playing lately. I started getting really upset, didn’t care, and didn’t want to be out there anymore. This upset me even further since there’s nothing I’d rather do than play golf, it was a vicious cycle. After I blasted my tee shot 8 zillion miles right on 16, I realized my grip was coming off of the club at the top. Once I realized that I started hitting it much better, had a lot more confidence and felt like I was in control again. 79 is obviously terrible and my worst score of the year but I’m glad it happened, had I gone around shooting 70-72 every day I probably wouldn’t have noticed the grip issue. Bad things are good.