So I was all excited to go to Pleasant Valley Golf Course on Monday and redeem myself from the super-meet. Needless to say, that didn't happen. I shot the worst score I have ever shot since I started golfing, even more than my first year playing. It was AWFUL!
To start with, my swing is really wrong. Every girl I play with asks me how I even hit the ball because I guess it looks so funny when I do. I go up with my backswing and chop down at the ball, trying too hard. I need to learn to just let it go back and forward naturally, but it's hard to do when you learned how to swing really wrong.
Anyways, during this meet at Pleasant Valley I started playing horribly. The first couple holes were okay, because I shot a couple 6's I believe. No big deal. Then I started getting upset.
I shanked my drive and it went out of bounds so I had to hit another. This drive went all of maybe 10 feet. Then I tried to hit my hybrid which I can normally hit about 180 yards. This shot went another 10 feet. My next shot went straight into the sand in a fairway bunker. It took me two hits to get out of there, but then it went right into another bunker close by. By this time I was up to about 10 shots and ended up getting a 13 on the hole!
Okay no big deal right, I'll just shake that last hole off and go onto the next one. Not so easy because the next hole I shot a 16. At this point I basically started balling and Bush was watching me the whole time. She tried to come over and comfort me with some food, which to be honest ususally cheers me up, but it didn't work.
I feel bad because I kind of yelled at Bushy because I was so mad, well not yelled but I snapped at her. At the end of the meet I apologized and I apologized to my group members. This entire story proves that with my sports I need to work on my mental game. When I have a bad shot, I need to relax and know that I will hti the next shot better, not get down on myself and let it spiral and spiral in my head.
It seems easy to do, just be happy all the time but it is actually really hard. Everything I do I put 100 percent of my effort into it and I am dissappointed when I don't preform well. Crying was a little bit over the top today, but it was the worst golf meet of my life.
I am still hoping I don't get kicked off of the regional team and Coach Bush can work with me and fix my swing. It will be hard to do and take awhile to learn, but I think I will eventually work.
I can play a lot this summer and get better but I need to work on my mental game for now and pull it together for the last meets of the season.
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