How To Recover From A Bad Round??

We’ve all been there where we’ve had high expectations about how the round should go, only to walk off extremely disappointed, not knowing what went wrong. This round can come seemingly out of nowhere even after you’ve put consecutive good performances in or felt that you had finally made a breakthrough in your swing. So what happened? Well the answer to this question all comes from how we prepared for the round. Preparation involves the days leading into the round as well on game day.

Tour Professionals are often very consistent with their scoring as they understand the importance of preparing the same way each time. Also you are more vulnerable to a bad round if you’re someone who plays and practices infrequently. If you’re a monthly, fortnightly or once a week golfer, the chances are you will experience a bad round out of the blue versus someone who is practicing, playing and getting regular lessons. But of course even the most prepared person can still throw a bad round in once a while, it’s just their bad round usually won’t be catastrophic.

Now when analysing the aftermath of your bad round, the first element I would look at is whether you had a warm-up session before the round. This warm-up session is valuable as even if you’re not striking the ball well, it can lessen the anxiety when starting your round as you will generally feel more relaxed. This can be compared when you have a gym session at the start of the day, generally after you will feel more relaxed. This warm-up session also gives you a last chance to understand what you’re doing that day and if you need to incorporate any specific swing drills. For those who practice and get lessons, this will be a lot easier to understand what is happening in the swing and most importantly, how to fix it.

Now the days leading up to this round is the other aspect you need to assess when understanding what went wrong. You need to ask yourself if you have put the same amount of time in your game than in previous weeks and also whether you have kept up with lessons. There will definitely be an answer in there that you can use to bounce back for the next round. Also when assessing how to move forward, identify exactly what went wrong during the round. It could be something simple as every time you pulled a 5 iron out, you sliced it into the water. Therefore next time when at the range, make a plan to work more on your 5 iron.

If you need any further help in understanding what went wrong during your round, just contact myself at David Waters Golf.