Ok, so, if any of you guys have read my previous article about slow play, you’ll understand my frustrations about this.
I was playing a couple of weeks ago, and I was held up on a couple holes and couldn’t figure out why. I tried to walk up into position so I could maybe see something that was going on. And there it was. The ass hat of the week was at the edge of the lake with a ball retriever trying to find his ball or any ball I guess that had been lost that decade.
At first, I didn’t know where to start this rant but let’s just get it going with…
1) If your ball is in the water, forget about it. You’ve already sacrificed it to the gods of crappy golfers.
2) You’re holding the whole god damn course up right now so you can look for a pinnacle and not feel bad about yourself for hitting this same lake everytime you play here.
I know it can get frustrating – trust me. There’s a lake at Chevy that eats my golf balls, and I can’t stand it. But you have to let it go because by dwelling on the fact you always hit into water hazards, which is why you have the retriever in the first place, is setting you up for failure. Everytime you look at your bag, you get reminded that you’re going to put it in the water because you see the retriever with you. So when you get to those water holes and go to pull that 9iron to hit over the water, and your hand grazes the ball retriever, you have no chance to get over the water. You might as well just throw your ball in yourself and quit forever.
Or you change up the mindset get rid of the ball retriever and start going into your rounds knowing, “I’m going to stick it close, and the water isn’t going to intimidate me anymore.” By making the water the enemy, you’re putting negative thoughts in your head that can negatively influence your game. So on those water holes, only concentrate on your target and nothing else, and see if that helps.
So get rid of that ball retriever and take dead aim and start playing better golf.
lifetime looper 