Drown You Bitch!

Setting the scene

I stood on the edge of the water hazard, ball unplayable, half sunken into the silt on the shoreline of the small pool, being 4 under nett with 2 to play, well I wasn’t best pleased.

Drown you bitch! Just seemed to involuntarily spring out of my mouth as I glared at my ball there in the shallows. A guy, playing with what I assume was his son, was looking for his ball in the small copse next to the pool, they were playing the adjacent hole coming the other way, well if looks could kill, I had to apologise for the language..

Why don’t I ever lay up? Even when my telegolfic wisdom tells me I’m going to screw it up!

Taking your medicine

I’d got the minutest inclination to play it, but with thoughts of Jean van de Velde (1999 British Open – Carnoustie) in my mind, and apart from the fact it would be outright cheating I decided to recover it and take a drop.

I hate taking my medicine on the course but I also know it’s the only way not to make things even worse. After some reflection, it was this particular incident that gave me the inspiration for a series of posts that are loosely related: (including this post)

• Manager or Mangler
• Divot or Landscape Gardener
• Punch Your Lights Out

Hopefully one of you readers will impart their ‘qualified’ view into this series at some point and give the rest of us a glass full of wisdom. See my normal approach is to be observational about watching your game and rhetorical about my own. That’s what I want to do with these planned posts – ask your opinion – your advice – how you do it, no matter whether you are qualified or not.

One thing I won’t do in this blog anywhere is try to give anybody the impression of that I’m qualified to advise, or anything similar – because I’m not – but I think that learning your own lessons out loud can sometimes sound like qualified advice, when in reality it is just from the school of life (which is a school I’m a big believer in).

So this post is an introduction to the forthcoming posts mentioned above, they will be published over the coming few days and need your insight to be completed.

So if you have a viewpoint then tee it up below, and rip one.