Let’s get it out of the way….bearing in mind it’s now three days after the event…..I finished the second Tartan Pro Tour Winter Series at Panmure feeling so, so angry, frustrated and embarrassed.
The story….my second to the first was to 15 feet. The birdie putt shaved the hole and my 12 inch tap in hit the wire ball lifter and bounced straight back to me….bogey! Then 12 straight pars to sit one over after 13 – playing well and feeling comfortable. I guess at that point I was around top 10 on the leaderboard. My thought was: attack and let’s squeeze two birdies out of the last 5 holes.
I then put an awful swing on a 3 wood and almost went out of bounds! Then, at the next, an equally awful swing on a driver. So that was that and I ended up signing for a 7 over 77.
This experience showed me that I am not yet close to good enough and having a long game swing that can flip from great to awful needs to be addressed – so that is the task now and through the winter. Build a more solid, dependable foundation and repeatable swing.
However, as always in golf, there are positives – my new putter is behaving and confidence levels are increasing again.
So now on to Richmond, Pro am today then two days of competition.
Will let you know how we go…..
Calum
Hi Calum, there still sounds like a lot of positives to take from Panmure. The putt could have so easily have gone the other way. As far as the long game swing goes, you are spot on with building more stability in the lower body to achieve optimal consistency. We will work on that when I see you next week. Good luck in Richmond and don’t forget to say hi to Gary Ley if you bump into him!
Thanks Lesley – yep what we’re working on regards strength and stability will help I’m sure.