[healty-back]

If I play with my regular group, I am usually around a 36 or 37 on our little par 35 9 hole course.

If I am with my friends that like to golf but don't golf regularly, for some reason I shoot mid to high 40's, sometimes low 50's.

I find its based on routine and tempo. I know how fast my regular partners play, and where they are generally hitting the ball. Walking as a 4some, we take about 1hr 45 mins for 9. If I am with the "non-regulars", we regularly top 2hrs, sometimes 2:15. My play is terrible, my playing partners are all over the place, and for some reason I follow suit..

Nothing screws up my game more than having to search for people's golf balls. A good round can go in the tank by having to look for balls 3 times on a hole. If I lose one in the bush, I accept it. I don't jump a fence into a pasture to try and find my ball. Its OB, deal with it. Non-golfers, in my opinion, stress out about losing their golf balls too much. Take your medicine, get up and down for a bogey or a double and move on. Odds are you aren't going to be better off if you try and hit it out of the woods/reeds/swamp. Accept it, and try to make the best of it.