[UJRonald]

How do things go for you guys and gals when you happen to be on a course that you really do not like or more specifically don’t know anything about but as the round unfolds you simply find yourself disliking.

I have been making the rounds of courses that I either have not played yet this year or ever and in some cases courses that I had played a bit when I was playing sixteen years ago. So in truth I have been more or less leaving myself open to issues of the sort that I have been running into lately, more than anything preparing for next season.

Today I played a course that was interesting to me because of its location. It is not that close to me but it is close to places where there are service providers for the kids. So I could get in a round and get over to where I needed to be to pick up the kids as an example.

I absolutely grew to dislike the course I was playing for a number of reasons. The layout was nonsense. The course condition was substandard. You could easily lose balls right in the middle of fairways and it was clear to me people were doing so. There were numerous ruts and furrows right in the middle of fairways and if you were on one side of a furrow or a series of furrows and your ball was on the other it was very easy to lose it right in the fairway. If you did find your ball getting into any sort of a reasonable address position was difficult again right in the middle of the fairway as you often found one foot at the bottom of one furrow and the other foot on top of a different furrow with the ball anywhere in between. It is pretty easy for me to grow to dislike courses that punish you for hitting the ball right down the middle.

At any rate, my game disintegrated today as my interest in the course waned and my dislike for the course grew. I was just wondering if anybody else has had a similar experience of a disintegrating golf game under those sorts of circumstances and what tends to happen. Walk off the course.......watch the crooked numbers pile up on your scorecard.......make the best of it.....any comment you would like to make at all. My putting turned out to be the only thing that survived the experience as everything else went way downhill including my iron play (usually the strength of my game). I began trying to drive to parts of fairways that looked safe from where I was standing and that was the end of my driving for the day.