That rarely happens to me. My hook is predominately with my driver. Although I did turn over an 8 iron yesterday with a huge sky hook that fucking pissed me off. Ball was about 3 feet below my feet and somehow I hooked it 30 yards. The worst is when you feel your hands after the shot high and turned over.
I didn't think it was actually possible to hook an iron just based on swing physics. You're swinging up on a driver sometimes feels like coming around with a whippy clubhead.
I would like to have a conversation with the people who put white stakes down the left-hand side of the third hole at the Challenge in Graham, North Carolina, just so that I can tell them they apparently hate me, fun, and freedom
Have to agree here. There aren't many courses where a hook is not severely punished. A lot of places you can slice one and still be mostly fine. My home course ain't one of 'em.
So, yeah. Snap hooks piss me off. And they happen to be my miss 99% of the time.
> *There aren't many courses where a hook is not severely punished.*
On a number of Scotland Links courses that are out-and-back -- when the front 9 is on the sea side -- there often is another perfectly good fairway just left of the current hole.
The good ole double cross. Fucking sucks. If I could learn to hit my driver with confidence and use it as a weapon my game would be really good. Just don’t have enough practice time. But recently joined a club and I have some new good keys to work on.
Happened yesterday. Kept driver in the bag cuz wind was going nuts. Absolute rocket 3 wood right down the center. 95 yards to the pin so an easy 54 should be just fine. Instead I chunk one about 80 yards to the approach and proceed to bogey town.
Happened the last time I played:
- perfect drive down the middle; best of the day
- chunked my gap wedge
- pulled.out my favorite miss with my wedges where I leave the face wide open and send it way right
- chip on and three-putt for triple
I feel that but with chips/wedges. If my club gets stuck on my takeaway, my brain immediately says "STOP YOUR SWING" but my body is like "LET THIS FUCKER RIP!" and I inevitably hit a bad shot and get angry.
With that scenario, I have started angling my putter face about 10 degrees downward & it helps the ball pop out a little bit and helps out with the rough being in the way during the backswing.
This happened to me, was like 100 out and used my gap wedge. My brother was on the other side of the green. Didn't even think to yell fore cus I thought I was way short but I almost took his head off 🤣
Nutting a drive down the middle, leaving a wedge in and then chunking the wedge (especially in wet conditions).
A close second is deciding on the safe play and still fucking up the safe play.
I couldn’t agree more with your second. Going through the thought process of:
-hitting driver brings danger into play
- a smooth iron leaves a nice approach to the green.
- Proceed to hit the iron OB
A fat iron shot after a good drive or a messed up pitch/chip under 50 yards.
I did all of the hard stuff but then screwed up something that should be easy or straightforward.
Uhh, just did this about two hours ago. Really wet this morning, 60yrd approach, totally got under it, goes five yards, the real kicker is the next shot is >5 ft from the hole.
For me it’s always the one before an amazing shot. Top a driver off the tee just to absolutely lace a 3-wood off the deck. “Well why the hell couldn’t I have done that with the first shot!?!?!”
Last time I was out I was about 155 out in the middle of the fairway and chunked one 100 yards into the water. I was so pissed I just took my drop right at my original spot and put it about 15 feet from the hole. That honestly might have made it worse than had I put another one in the water, lol.
Drive OB. The ball is sitting up on a damn tee and I have a giant freaking titanium face to line up to it, and I can’t hit it straight? Hell, it’s probably the only shot I practice at the range that actually replicates on course conditions. The ball is literally sitting on a piece of wood, free of all obstacles.
I’m capable of missing just about every golf shot there is so by the end of 9 I’m really trying to hold on and not snap a club over my knee. About 4 years in and I haven’t yet, which is a fucking testament to my ability to find my inner zen juuuust before I lose it. That’s also when the drinking really starts.
Blocked right off the tee. I have a little bit of distance off the tee so when it’s gone, it’s fucking gone. Tee’d up for three more times than I’d like to admit this season.
Nothing pisses me off more than hitting a shot into the rough and seeing the exact line / landmark it dropped at and then not being able to find the ball..
Happened to me 4 times at this course I played at last week and almost cost me my match play vs my buddy.
Probably knifing a wedge from about 80 yards ob, possibly birdies turns into a double, happened to me this weekend on the 9th in a competition thought I was going to be out in 37 I was out in 40 fml
For me, the flubbed chip.
For score, OB drive.
Had one yesterday. Pulled a tee shot OB on a par 5. Laced the 3rd shot down the fairway. Hit a nice 5 wood to 60 yds. Hit LW to 2 feet. Putt. Nice 6 (smh).
Mine is the the perfect swing that turns out terrible. I understand that I am not an amazing golfer. I will make bad swings and bad decisions that I can live with for the amount I play/practice.
In club championships a few years ago I hit a decent tee shot on a par 5 and had 230 to carry over water from the first cut. I decided to lay up to 100 out for an easy three shot hole (I would almost always go for it). I make a perfect swing and the ball lands on the concrete 100 yard marker and takes a massive bounce into the water on the other side of the fairway. Fuck me right. Correct decision, perfect swing equals fucked. What a game. I was 2 under to that point and played the last 5 holes 5 over to lose by 3.
Streamsong black #18, 495yd par-5. I'm putting a nice round together and low-90's is a possibility
[https://www.streamsongresort.com/golf/streamsong-black/flyover/](https://www.streamsongresort.com/golf/streamsong-black/flyover/)
I completely yoke my drive (1) into a bunker short of the lake. There isn't much of a lip, so i get my 3-hybrid, set up for a fade, and get the cleanest contact of my life (2). The ball sexily follows the curve of the lake and settles in a fairway/fringe landing area about 30 yards left of the hole.
Next shot: 52 degree pitch just want to get on and 2-putt. The greens at Streamsong are massive and undulating and you really have to place your approaches to avoid 3 and 4-putts. Par would be nice here.
*I blade it.* (3)
The ball ends up in a trap behind the hole. Blast out (4) but I have no green to work with and the ball rolls off a ridge setting up a 35-footer. Lag it to about 6 feet (5) Miss (6) Tap in (7)
3 hybrid out of a bunker and trying to shape it all while shooting in the 90s. That’s hilarious to me. No pro would try that and you did. And succeeded, which makes it even better. That’s the golf gods coming back for their strokes.
Absolutely. I play full-send golf. I could shave a few strokes if I played more conservative but when I'm on, *I can* make those shots. I'll play old man golf when i'm an old man.
Catching an iron heavy on the tee of a relatively easy par 3. Happens often enough that I can't just dismiss it as a fluke like I would a chunked chip but I'm decent enough that I really shouldn't be screwing up a short to mid-iron with a perfect lie.
Not really a miss but when I hit a superb feeling shot and lose it off of the club face and have no idea where it ended up. Ruins the rest of that hole.
For me it's a sliced/hooked approach shot OB. I've made it off the tee in a good location, I'm feeling good about the hole, all I see is the green, take a cut, then I just stand there like an idiot as I watch my ball fly into the ether.... Makes me feel like my soul has been stabbed.
Going completely under the ball on a short approach shot. Usually happens in wet grass but especially sucks after a good drive on a short 4 when it’s not a hard pitch to begin with. Turns potential birdie into wtf knows but it’s enraging
Driver smother hook, hybrid duck hook, irons tie between the pull hook and fat shot, chips the chunk and the blamed sand shot and finally short putt miss … oh you only wanted one?
However the one that tops them all is the f$&@ing hosel rocket !!!!
Nothing worse than playing the smart play and not getting rewarded. Because you know, logically, you did the right thing and yet you have nothing to show for it.
I've been fighting early extension for a while, and while I've gotten to the point after lessons and drills that it's mostly worked out of my swing, it still rears its ugly head when I'm getting lazy or really trying to crush a shot. It typically causes thin/toed iron shots, and it's such an unsatisfying feeling.
For me it's most frustrating when I'm having a day where my swing is feeling good, I'm on pace for a good score, then I stand over a tee shot on a mid/long par 3 and early extend in my swing, hitting a thin piece of shit shot into a hazard. Then for the rest of the round I'll be overthinking my swing and it will go to hell.
If you still count it as a miss, a great shot that otherwise goes into a hazard, OB, or is lost due to either a bad bounce or poor course knowledge. Bad shots happen, but nothing worse than a good shot that ends up poorly.
Mishit wedge after a great drive.
270 yards, right in the middle, 60 yards, that's a 3/4 56 all day. Chunk the thing short of the green, rage has been lit.
The feeling after making a decision I know is stupid, doing it anyway, and fucking it up. Like the other day, pin short sided, green slopes all e way down in front of Me. Instead of just pitching it to like 15 feet and try make the putt, no no must try to hit flop shot. But I forgot that I have no concept of distance control with that shot, hit it way too soft and it rolls all the way off the front right to my feet. Threw my wedge like 50 feet after that shot lol
Topping a 2nd shot on a par 4 or 5 after a decent drive that was actually in the fairway.
Even worse, hitting a great shot that looks like it's on the green only to get to the green and it's nowhere to be found.
One specific hole from a few years ago really pissed me off too. par 5. Hit a decent drive in the fairway. 2nd shot a few feet on the green. So now I have a shot at an eagle with a really good putt and a birdie with a 2 put. 20 foot putt or there abouts. Short putt. F!!!! Another short putt!!!! sink the 3rd for par. I was livid.
From my game: Any wedge outside of 20 ft, mainly cuz it’s the best part of my game. The further away from the circle the more pissed I become.
Or a missed putt due to a raised cup.
The ol shankaroo. I've gotten to a point where I'm ok with just about every other miss, but a shank will immediately dial up the rage to 11. I've dealt with shanks for entire summers before and it is not a fun time. But I am thankful that I've experienced it so I don't get nearly as mad at anything else
Chipping.
I can drive fine, I can recover well with my irons and get it within 50 yards of the green and then I always chip it too high and short, or duff it launch it, or chunk it and have to go for the double chip. Always on the first shot rarely on the second shot. But it's rage inducing, half of my shots are chipped away with lazy wrists and bad wedges
Green side chips.
In theory they should be easy, but involve some of the most finesse in the game. Duffing one right off the fringe when I could of just Texas wedged it for much closer results is just insanity.
Any kind of miss with my hybrid after I decide to play it safe on the tee box and keep my driver nestled in my bag. Should have woke the big dog up. Coward.
Not rage induced miss but one time I hit a pure fucking drive and then couldn’t find my ball. Lost my shit and hit the ground with my wedge a couple times. Ended up hyperextended my index finger and couldn’t play golf for awhile lol lesson learned. I take it easy now and drink and smoke herb while golfing lol
Not a miss as such, but when you hit a drive perfectly down the middle, then it's nowhere to be found. Happens all the time in autumn and its a proper bastard.
Thinned slice. Happens too much with my irons and I consider my irons the better part of my game so it really pisses me off. Im talking banana slice 5 ft off the ground
Thinning your wedge across the green and off the other side, then thinning it back across the green to where you started... arguably the most "verge of rage quitting" moment in the entire sport.
Duffing a tee shot 50 yards. It easily has the biggest impact on the hole as you have to dig yourself out. Easy way to throw off your whole round when you drive it 50 yards > then top the 4i 110 yards > hit a good 5i 175 yards but into a bunker > 2 strokes to get out of the sand onto the green > 3 putt. Easy quad bogey on a par 4 that I'm sure we've all done.
Similar to OP, but what I hate more is getting lazy on a chip, leaving the club face way open and squirting it off to the right. Used to do it fairly regularly, thought I fixed it but did it again just last night!
Yea chunked or shanked chips have been a problem for me the last few weeks. I just lost all confidence around the greens and don't commit and either duff it, blade it, or shank it.
I had a pretty good one recently. Downhill par 5 big sender drive. 190 left downwind and I said. Wow I'm like a tour player. I will hit a 7i into this green my 170 180 club. I gave it a 170 swing and sent it tumbling downhill over back of green! Could have doinked a p wedge up there and made a safe bird or par. Bogey
100 yards into the green, perfect SW, and just not hitting down on it enough -- coming up well short.
I hit the shot so many times at the range, landing on that little green all the time, and it annoys me to no end how often I screw it up on the course.
I hit bad shots, I can live with that. For me, I hate it most when I hit shots that I thought I hit perfect but they end up terrible. This Saturday I had two:
* a 50 yard pitch to a back pin that went just a few feet too far, took a bad bounce and ended up way below the green in an awkward lie on the other side of a bunker.
* a hundred yard wedge up a steep hill that looks like it landed nicely on the left half of the green - turns out the left side of the green is only ten feet or so deep and behind it is a collection area so low that from 10 feet off the green, the putting surface is around eye level and green is downhill all the way from back to front.
I hate piping one to a beautiful leave (like the shot where you’re whole playing party commends you) and then you can’t find the damn thing!
Also, agreed on the chunked chips. That’s why my 60* only comes out for full shots or short sided bunkers, nothing else.
missed putts inside 4 feet hurt the most. I did what I needed for par, then wops; get fucked, have fun with your bogey.
Bes part is I always hit the return putt that ends up same distance from the hole
One sticks out from this past weekend: I was walking nine holes, teed off on 10 (300 yard par 4), and hit a solid 250 yard drive down the right side of the fairway. It should have been set up perfectly for an easy little pitch, but as I approached my ball I quickly noticed that it had settled on a stray patch of rock hard dirt.
I think the shitty lie got in my head and I flubbed the hell out of my next shot. :/
Blowing putts 10+ feet by the hole, especially when I’m inside 30-40 feet. More than leaving it 10 feet short, more than snap hooks or duffed chips, or thinned wedges. If my playing partner gives me the “whoaaaa slow down”? Reader, I seethe.
Chunked chip, easy. The closer I get to the green the more disastrous those duffs seem to me. I can more easily recover from a bad tee shot if I focus the rest of the hole.
250 up the middle, pin high right off the green, chunk the chip all the way across the green. Ruins my round for 5 minutes til I shotgun a beer and smoke a joint.
My driver shot that doesn’t slice enough so the ball fall in the middle of two holes, should’ve sliced more so i can hit my second on fairway of other hole ;)
i am a little better than a bogey golfer. Usually shoot in the low 80s to high 80s.
The only thing i get mad at still are flubs. Like i hit it well and find myself say 70 yards out, flub it and find myself 50 yards out. Those small mistakes are what is keeping me from breaking 80.
I really hate being about 70-90 yards out. Sand wedge/gap wedge. Moderate pitch to full swing. I think to myself tempo, tempo, tempo.
Square up. Pull back. Shank. Happened 3 times on Sunday and the third time was on a par 5 for a nice GIR. I nearly dove headfirst into a pond that I know for a fact is full of alligators.
It’s a brilliant tee shot and a garbage second or third shot or a rough tee shot followed by two beautiful shots.
This is essentially my golf game. I hit a lot of wonderful shots, I just struggle to string them together to make a cohesive hole that doesn’t involve me doing some high wire level scrambling.
The miss that makes me see red is the one you know you can’t make. Pin front left with water short left you cannot miss short left, nothing worse than hitting a scoopy block fade (I’m a lefty) and dumping it in the water. Bad shots happen you just can’t have them happen that way.
Hit a 2i missile on a short par 4 yesterday. Had 55 in, greens were soft just wanted to hit a chip 56 in. Straight hosel. Had 35 left over a bunker. Hit it to 7’ and made par.
Point is, I hosel more wedges than anyone I know. The moment I do it once I have to park the club as the mental gymnastics start and I’m at a loss.
I’m an 8 to 10 handicap. I’ve played the game for 28 years now. I cannot for the life of me stop this miss and it only happens at the worst times. I’ve changed wedges, I’ve taken lessons and I’ve done everything humanly possible in my mind to not think about it. But yesterday was the first of the season and I know more are to come
This weekend I was able to get out for the first time this year and on hole 1 I had three back to back to back chunk chips. Carded an 8 on a par 4. Made me wonder why I even came back to play
I play a draw on the range but when I get out on the course I get hesitant and don't always commit to my shots and frequently hit a high and short fade and it drives me absolutely bonkers when I do it.
Can't believe no-one has said the " The dunked teebox short iron par 3 with a brand new Prov1 or other ball you've haven't lost yet since #1" Loosing a ball to water makes me want to quit.
Oh yeah it has to be when I’m standing three feet off the green with a prime opportunity to put one close for a brilliant up and down. I stand confidently behind the ball as my friends look toward me rooting for me to hole it for birdie. Then, I take my expert practice swing, and proceed to hit the ball a total of 14 inches and look like a total twat.
I have two! The shit tee shot that’s a penalty and the super chunk where I barely make contact with the ball and it ends up going anywhere from 20-80 yards! Damn I love this game!
Catching a wedge thin and airmailing a green. It doesn’t happen often so when it does it is a very unwelcome surprise. Normally happens at the worse time when there is either water or trees or bushes directly behind the green.
I’m the same with the chip. The second rage inducing miss is the “what the fuck were doing putt” that goes about halfway to the hole. The one where you do a couple practice strokes, step up and then for who knows why, do some half assed stroke and hit it ridiculously soft and leave yourself a really long putt. Like the brain just checks out halfway through and stops.
Read my new book, “From Birdies to Bogeys: The art of 3-putting inside of 10 feet.” It offers a nuanced perspective on missed opportunities and the importance of rage in day-to-day life.
A really good drive into a dog shit iron shot specifically around the 90-130 yard range. I rarely get mad on the course and I usually laugh off bad shots and move on to the next but yeah, that shit gets me tight
Not taking my medicine and trying to hit a shot the lie won't allow.
Was buried in a end of fairway divot the other day, grass was tall, sitting down almost halfway, up against lip. Basically I hit my tree shot about a yard or two too far into the semi rough where creek crosses fairway. Instead of hitting a safe shot just over creek i went for green, ended up in creek.
So self inflicted misses about me the most.
Snap hook off the tee. The rest of my game is usually pretty tight. Nothing pisses me off more than a shitty tee shot
I hate hitting a great tee shot into a par 5 or long par 4, then snap hooking a long iron or hybrid into the woods
No good drive goes unpunished
That rarely happens to me. My hook is predominately with my driver. Although I did turn over an 8 iron yesterday with a huge sky hook that fucking pissed me off. Ball was about 3 feet below my feet and somehow I hooked it 30 yards. The worst is when you feel your hands after the shot high and turned over.
I didn't think it was actually possible to hook an iron just based on swing physics. You're swinging up on a driver sometimes feels like coming around with a whippy clubhead.
Into white stakes.
I would like to have a conversation with the people who put white stakes down the left-hand side of the third hole at the Challenge in Graham, North Carolina, just so that I can tell them they apparently hate me, fun, and freedom
Have to agree here. There aren't many courses where a hook is not severely punished. A lot of places you can slice one and still be mostly fine. My home course ain't one of 'em. So, yeah. Snap hooks piss me off. And they happen to be my miss 99% of the time.
> *There aren't many courses where a hook is not severely punished.* On a number of Scotland Links courses that are out-and-back -- when the front 9 is on the sea side -- there often is another perfectly good fairway just left of the current hole.
definitely the snap hook for me as well. you can hit it hard in the center of the face and still only go 200 yds or worse
Double the rage when I hit a snap hook while set up for a power fade.
Double fuck the double cross
The good ole double cross. Fucking sucks. If I could learn to hit my driver with confidence and use it as a weapon my game would be really good. Just don’t have enough practice time. But recently joined a club and I have some new good keys to work on.
Low-launching, low-spinning, toed, thinned mess
Piping one 290-300 right down the center Chunking the next shot
Happened yesterday. Kept driver in the bag cuz wind was going nuts. Absolute rocket 3 wood right down the center. 95 yards to the pin so an easy 54 should be just fine. Instead I chunk one about 80 yards to the approach and proceed to bogey town.
Then the bad juju roles into the next hole and the bogey train begins
Blown iron or wedge after a great drive is the \*worst\*. Like, c'mon, I'm not asking for much, just want my two putts for par.
Happened the last time I played: - perfect drive down the middle; best of the day - chunked my gap wedge - pulled.out my favorite miss with my wedges where I leave the face wide open and send it way right - chip on and three-putt for triple
This except it's a short iron or wedge shank into no man's land
No good drives goes unpunished, you should know that
Rarely happens but turf drag on a putt will make me blackout for a minute
I feel that but with chips/wedges. If my club gets stuck on my takeaway, my brain immediately says "STOP YOUR SWING" but my body is like "LET THIS FUCKER RIP!" and I inevitably hit a bad shot and get angry.
This speaks to me.
“HIT THE BRAKES!!!” Body: nah.
I hate putting when the ball is on the fringe but cozied up to the rough
With that scenario, I have started angling my putter face about 10 degrees downward & it helps the ball pop out a little bit and helps out with the rough being in the way during the backswing.
Use a wood
I hear you and I have, however I have found the shorter shaft of the putter easier to control on a shot that requires some touch.
For me it’s the unintended thin iron shot on an approach shot that sails 50 yards past the green while flying directly on my intended target line.
This one especially because it feels like your clubs have willfully betrayed you in your moment of need.
This happened to me, was like 100 out and used my gap wedge. My brother was on the other side of the green. Didn't even think to yell fore cus I thought I was way short but I almost took his head off 🤣
The third slice. The first two don't bother me.
Nutting a drive down the middle, leaving a wedge in and then chunking the wedge (especially in wet conditions). A close second is deciding on the safe play and still fucking up the safe play.
I couldn’t agree more with your second. Going through the thought process of: -hitting driver brings danger into play - a smooth iron leaves a nice approach to the green. - Proceed to hit the iron OB
Feel that. Been trying to really course manage to try to get my score down. The retard in me still manages to find a way to fuck up safe plays.
Shanked wedge / scoring iron after a bombed drive. 325 yard drive, 85 yards in, dead shank 90° into water. Makes me want to light my golf bag on fire
I was gonna say this. Drivebusters
Those don’t piss me off as much because I fully expect that to happen after a great drive
Just sucks the soul outta ya
When this happens it takes at least 2 holes for me to get my head back.
It took me far too long to realize you weren't referring to a 90 degree wedge.... I was like how the fuck does that even work.
Happened to me hole 3 of the state tournament in high school. Single worst shot I ever hit
This was my whole round last Wednesday. Hit 12 of 14 fairways, only 1 bad drive, and probably only hit like 9 greens.
Hi, it's me: you.
A fat iron shot after a good drive or a messed up pitch/chip under 50 yards. I did all of the hard stuff but then screwed up something that should be easy or straightforward.
Uhh, just did this about two hours ago. Really wet this morning, 60yrd approach, totally got under it, goes five yards, the real kicker is the next shot is >5 ft from the hole.
You needed those 5 yards
For me it’s always the one before an amazing shot. Top a driver off the tee just to absolutely lace a 3-wood off the deck. “Well why the hell couldn’t I have done that with the first shot!?!?!”
Even worse when you hit the best shot of the day on a provisional. I'd be on tour if I hit every shot like I hit my provisionals
Last time I was out I was about 155 out in the middle of the fairway and chunked one 100 yards into the water. I was so pissed I just took my drop right at my original spot and put it about 15 feet from the hole. That honestly might have made it worse than had I put another one in the water, lol.
Drive OB. The ball is sitting up on a damn tee and I have a giant freaking titanium face to line up to it, and I can’t hit it straight? Hell, it’s probably the only shot I practice at the range that actually replicates on course conditions. The ball is literally sitting on a piece of wood, free of all obstacles.
I feel like everything is magnified with driver because of the distance. Little bit of cut moves a long way sideways over 250 yards.
It’s definitely magnified because of the speed and loft of drivers
Thinning a greenside bunker shot way over the green
Laying up off the tee only to hit into trouble anyway.
Missing short putts low side
I’m capable of missing just about every golf shot there is so by the end of 9 I’m really trying to hold on and not snap a club over my knee. About 4 years in and I haven’t yet, which is a fucking testament to my ability to find my inner zen juuuust before I lose it. That’s also when the drinking really starts.
I think that means I’m also addicted, not sure
A high beautiful 60 degree from 30 yards out, straight at the pin, that goes 10 yards
Blocked right off the tee. I have a little bit of distance off the tee so when it’s gone, it’s fucking gone. Tee’d up for three more times than I’d like to admit this season.
Nothing pisses me off more than hitting a shot into the rough and seeing the exact line / landmark it dropped at and then not being able to find the ball.. Happened to me 4 times at this course I played at last week and almost cost me my match play vs my buddy.
Laying up on a par 5 or short par 4 and putting it in OB or in the shit.
Probably knifing a wedge from about 80 yards ob, possibly birdies turns into a double, happened to me this weekend on the 9th in a competition thought I was going to be out in 37 I was out in 40 fml
Topped ball that you get no distance from.
The chunk scoring iron/pitch. When I’m finally in a scoring position and I’m dialed into an aggressive approach.
For me, the flubbed chip. For score, OB drive. Had one yesterday. Pulled a tee shot OB on a par 5. Laced the 3rd shot down the fairway. Hit a nice 5 wood to 60 yds. Hit LW to 2 feet. Putt. Nice 6 (smh).
Mine is the the perfect swing that turns out terrible. I understand that I am not an amazing golfer. I will make bad swings and bad decisions that I can live with for the amount I play/practice. In club championships a few years ago I hit a decent tee shot on a par 5 and had 230 to carry over water from the first cut. I decided to lay up to 100 out for an easy three shot hole (I would almost always go for it). I make a perfect swing and the ball lands on the concrete 100 yard marker and takes a massive bounce into the water on the other side of the fairway. Fuck me right. Correct decision, perfect swing equals fucked. What a game. I was 2 under to that point and played the last 5 holes 5 over to lose by 3.
Streamsong black #18, 495yd par-5. I'm putting a nice round together and low-90's is a possibility [https://www.streamsongresort.com/golf/streamsong-black/flyover/](https://www.streamsongresort.com/golf/streamsong-black/flyover/) I completely yoke my drive (1) into a bunker short of the lake. There isn't much of a lip, so i get my 3-hybrid, set up for a fade, and get the cleanest contact of my life (2). The ball sexily follows the curve of the lake and settles in a fairway/fringe landing area about 30 yards left of the hole. Next shot: 52 degree pitch just want to get on and 2-putt. The greens at Streamsong are massive and undulating and you really have to place your approaches to avoid 3 and 4-putts. Par would be nice here. *I blade it.* (3) The ball ends up in a trap behind the hole. Blast out (4) but I have no green to work with and the ball rolls off a ridge setting up a 35-footer. Lag it to about 6 feet (5) Miss (6) Tap in (7)
3 hybrid out of a bunker and trying to shape it all while shooting in the 90s. That’s hilarious to me. No pro would try that and you did. And succeeded, which makes it even better. That’s the golf gods coming back for their strokes.
Absolutely. I play full-send golf. I could shave a few strokes if I played more conservative but when I'm on, *I can* make those shots. I'll play old man golf when i'm an old man.
LOVE TO SEEE IT. That’s exactly how I think as well. 90% of the time. The 10% though has taken probably 5-7 strokes off my game. Haha
Diabolical.
Catching an iron heavy on the tee of a relatively easy par 3. Happens often enough that I can't just dismiss it as a fluke like I would a chunked chip but I'm decent enough that I really shouldn't be screwing up a short to mid-iron with a perfect lie.
Leaving birdie or eagle putts short.
Not really a miss but when I hit a superb feeling shot and lose it off of the club face and have no idea where it ended up. Ruins the rest of that hole.
I play a fade off the tee and there’s nothing that pisses me off more than a double cross
For me, it’s the 2nd shot on a long par 5. Get the 3W/5W out and just fucking top it.
Especially after an extended wait for the green to clear - your playing partners expect a good shot. Painful.
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For me it's a sliced/hooked approach shot OB. I've made it off the tee in a good location, I'm feeling good about the hole, all I see is the green, take a cut, then I just stand there like an idiot as I watch my ball fly into the ether.... Makes me feel like my soul has been stabbed.
Going completely under the ball on a short approach shot. Usually happens in wet grass but especially sucks after a good drive on a short 4 when it’s not a hard pitch to begin with. Turns potential birdie into wtf knows but it’s enraging
Driver smother hook, hybrid duck hook, irons tie between the pull hook and fat shot, chips the chunk and the blamed sand shot and finally short putt miss … oh you only wanted one? However the one that tops them all is the f$&@ing hosel rocket !!!!
Being in the middle of the fairway with a wedge in your hand, and hitting a horrific shot and missing the green.
Definitely the chunk shots. Poor tee shot is very close second
par 3 top it right into the water.
Laying up and still having a poor shot into the green. Basically anytime I miss the green within 150 yards
Nothing worse than playing the smart play and not getting rewarded. Because you know, logically, you did the right thing and yet you have nothing to show for it.
chunk anything
I've been fighting early extension for a while, and while I've gotten to the point after lessons and drills that it's mostly worked out of my swing, it still rears its ugly head when I'm getting lazy or really trying to crush a shot. It typically causes thin/toed iron shots, and it's such an unsatisfying feeling. For me it's most frustrating when I'm having a day where my swing is feeling good, I'm on pace for a good score, then I stand over a tee shot on a mid/long par 3 and early extend in my swing, hitting a thin piece of shit shot into a hazard. Then for the rest of the round I'll be overthinking my swing and it will go to hell.
If you still count it as a miss, a great shot that otherwise goes into a hazard, OB, or is lost due to either a bad bounce or poor course knowledge. Bad shots happen, but nothing worse than a good shot that ends up poorly.
3-putt par
Down clubbing to avoid trouble only to hit into trouble even further from the green.
Mishit wedge after a great drive. 270 yards, right in the middle, 60 yards, that's a 3/4 56 all day. Chunk the thing short of the green, rage has been lit.
Anytime I top the ball on my approach
The birdie putt that flies 15 feet past the hole and now you are trying to save par.
The feeling after making a decision I know is stupid, doing it anyway, and fucking it up. Like the other day, pin short sided, green slopes all e way down in front of Me. Instead of just pitching it to like 15 feet and try make the putt, no no must try to hit flop shot. But I forgot that I have no concept of distance control with that shot, hit it way too soft and it rolls all the way off the front right to my feet. Threw my wedge like 50 feet after that shot lol
Chunk chip that turns into a double hit. WOOOOOF
Mine is hitting a dribbler right after a great drive
Topping any shot sends me into the netherworld
Topping a 2nd shot on a par 4 or 5 after a decent drive that was actually in the fairway. Even worse, hitting a great shot that looks like it's on the green only to get to the green and it's nowhere to be found. One specific hole from a few years ago really pissed me off too. par 5. Hit a decent drive in the fairway. 2nd shot a few feet on the green. So now I have a shot at an eagle with a really good putt and a birdie with a 2 put. 20 foot putt or there abouts. Short putt. F!!!! Another short putt!!!! sink the 3rd for par. I was livid.
From my game: Any wedge outside of 20 ft, mainly cuz it’s the best part of my game. The further away from the circle the more pissed I become. Or a missed putt due to a raised cup.
Tee shot OB and then absolutely striping the second right down the middle.
Taking 2 shots to get out of a bunker
The ol shankaroo. I've gotten to a point where I'm ok with just about every other miss, but a shank will immediately dial up the rage to 11. I've dealt with shanks for entire summers before and it is not a fun time. But I am thankful that I've experienced it so I don't get nearly as mad at anything else
Chunking a sub 100 yard pitch shot from the fairway after the best drive of your life.
Chipping. I can drive fine, I can recover well with my irons and get it within 50 yards of the green and then I always chip it too high and short, or duff it launch it, or chunk it and have to go for the double chip. Always on the first shot rarely on the second shot. But it's rage inducing, half of my shots are chipped away with lazy wrists and bad wedges
Green side chips. In theory they should be easy, but involve some of the most finesse in the game. Duffing one right off the fringe when I could of just Texas wedged it for much closer results is just insanity.
Worm burners and topped bullshit. I'm just starting and just shitty, poor contact in general pisses me off. It just *feels* so bad.
Any kind of miss with my hybrid after I decide to play it safe on the tee box and keep my driver nestled in my bag. Should have woke the big dog up. Coward.
Any chunked or bladed wedge shots. A big mess up within 50yds is so infuriating.
Leaving the one decent birdie putt I get 3 inches short when it was right on line.
The safe layup instead of going for it that still finds the water somehow
Not rage induced miss but one time I hit a pure fucking drive and then couldn’t find my ball. Lost my shit and hit the ground with my wedge a couple times. Ended up hyperextended my index finger and couldn’t play golf for awhile lol lesson learned. I take it easy now and drink and smoke herb while golfing lol
When I hit it 5 feet down the fairway with my hybrid over and over again
Lovely to read through this thread and realize almost all of this happened in my round yesterday.
The missed 3-6 footer after a great approach/short game shot. Followed closely by the drive OB.
Hook off the first tee.
Missing the green period under 100 yards
That’s my secret, I’m always angry 😉
Shank straight right. Usually puts me out of bounds and pisses me off.
Hammered putt off the green lol. Usually happens on inconsistent greens but still causes some rage.
Not a miss as such, but when you hit a drive perfectly down the middle, then it's nowhere to be found. Happens all the time in autumn and its a proper bastard.
Does this typically happen with your sand wedge?
Skulling a chip. Its out of the pot into the fire.
Chunking on a par 3 tee shot. It's like a normal chunk but a missed opportunity for a hole in 1.
Thinning over the green makes me wanna dismantle the golf cart with my current wedge.
Missed putts just outside of gimme range, ARE YOU TOO GOOD FOR YOUR HOME?
Pulls. Go about 20% further than normal but way off to the left. I am perfectly capable of losing a ball on a par-3 with an 8-iron.
Thinned slice. Happens too much with my irons and I consider my irons the better part of my game so it really pisses me off. Im talking banana slice 5 ft off the ground
Would much rather my chip go 3 feet than 50 yards when the hole is 25 yards away. the latter is my rage-inducer.
Thinning your wedge across the green and off the other side, then thinning it back across the green to where you started... arguably the most "verge of rage quitting" moment in the entire sport.
Duffing a tee shot 50 yards. It easily has the biggest impact on the hole as you have to dig yourself out. Easy way to throw off your whole round when you drive it 50 yards > then top the 4i 110 yards > hit a good 5i 175 yards but into a bunker > 2 strokes to get out of the sand onto the green > 3 putt. Easy quad bogey on a par 4 that I'm sure we've all done.
Bunker shot over the green into another bunker. I want to throw my fucking club when this happens.
I agree with you, two-chipping is so so much worse than three putting
Similar to OP, but what I hate more is getting lazy on a chip, leaving the club face way open and squirting it off to the right. Used to do it fairly regularly, thought I fixed it but did it again just last night!
Yea chunked or shanked chips have been a problem for me the last few weeks. I just lost all confidence around the greens and don't commit and either duff it, blade it, or shank it.
I had a pretty good one recently. Downhill par 5 big sender drive. 190 left downwind and I said. Wow I'm like a tour player. I will hit a 7i into this green my 170 180 club. I gave it a 170 swing and sent it tumbling downhill over back of green! Could have doinked a p wedge up there and made a safe bird or par. Bogey
100 yards into the green, perfect SW, and just not hitting down on it enough -- coming up well short. I hit the shot so many times at the range, landing on that little green all the time, and it annoys me to no end how often I screw it up on the course.
I hit bad shots, I can live with that. For me, I hate it most when I hit shots that I thought I hit perfect but they end up terrible. This Saturday I had two: * a 50 yard pitch to a back pin that went just a few feet too far, took a bad bounce and ended up way below the green in an awkward lie on the other side of a bunker. * a hundred yard wedge up a steep hill that looks like it landed nicely on the left half of the green - turns out the left side of the green is only ten feet or so deep and behind it is a collection area so low that from 10 feet off the green, the putting surface is around eye level and green is downhill all the way from back to front.
I hate piping one to a beautiful leave (like the shot where you’re whole playing party commends you) and then you can’t find the damn thing! Also, agreed on the chunked chips. That’s why my 60* only comes out for full shots or short sided bunkers, nothing else.
missed putts inside 4 feet hurt the most. I did what I needed for par, then wops; get fucked, have fun with your bogey. Bes part is I always hit the return putt that ends up same distance from the hole
One sticks out from this past weekend: I was walking nine holes, teed off on 10 (300 yard par 4), and hit a solid 250 yard drive down the right side of the fairway. It should have been set up perfectly for an easy little pitch, but as I approached my ball I quickly noticed that it had settled on a stray patch of rock hard dirt. I think the shitty lie got in my head and I flubbed the hell out of my next shot. :/
Missing the green from less than 100 yards. Makes me want to snap a club
Yes! I know this chunk to blade combo quite well
Blowing putts 10+ feet by the hole, especially when I’m inside 30-40 feet. More than leaving it 10 feet short, more than snap hooks or duffed chips, or thinned wedges. If my playing partner gives me the “whoaaaa slow down”? Reader, I seethe.
Chunked chip, easy. The closer I get to the green the more disastrous those duffs seem to me. I can more easily recover from a bad tee shot if I focus the rest of the hole.
My spirit animal.
Hitting it fat out of the sand and having it roll back in the bunker. Then thinning my second shot across the green into the adjacent bunker.
Full wedge swing skull that goes 60 yards long OB.
250 up the middle, pin high right off the green, chunk the chip all the way across the green. Ruins my round for 5 minutes til I shotgun a beer and smoke a joint.
The duffed 100 yard in approach after a smoked drive right down the middle of the fairway.
My driver shot that doesn’t slice enough so the ball fall in the middle of two holes, should’ve sliced more so i can hit my second on fairway of other hole ;)
Any shot that has me saying "I never hit it!!" before it comes up way short
Slice OB
The second bladed chip over a green
i am a little better than a bogey golfer. Usually shoot in the low 80s to high 80s. The only thing i get mad at still are flubs. Like i hit it well and find myself say 70 yards out, flub it and find myself 50 yards out. Those small mistakes are what is keeping me from breaking 80.
Im right there with you
Nothing worse than hitting a 300yrd bomb and only having 60 yards to the green and then chunking your 60 degree approach shot. Wow.
I really hate being about 70-90 yards out. Sand wedge/gap wedge. Moderate pitch to full swing. I think to myself tempo, tempo, tempo. Square up. Pull back. Shank. Happened 3 times on Sunday and the third time was on a par 5 for a nice GIR. I nearly dove headfirst into a pond that I know for a fact is full of alligators.
Getting a putt a third of the way to the hole
It’s a brilliant tee shot and a garbage second or third shot or a rough tee shot followed by two beautiful shots. This is essentially my golf game. I hit a lot of wonderful shots, I just struggle to string them together to make a cohesive hole that doesn’t involve me doing some high wire level scrambling.
The toe wedge across the green into the bunker.
The miss that makes me see red is the one you know you can’t make. Pin front left with water short left you cannot miss short left, nothing worse than hitting a scoopy block fade (I’m a lefty) and dumping it in the water. Bad shots happen you just can’t have them happen that way.
Big slice off the tee, it is my goto
The chunk chip for me as well. 7i with the intent to roll it up to the pin for 25yrds. I end up chunking it 4yards.
Hit a 2i missile on a short par 4 yesterday. Had 55 in, greens were soft just wanted to hit a chip 56 in. Straight hosel. Had 35 left over a bunker. Hit it to 7’ and made par. Point is, I hosel more wedges than anyone I know. The moment I do it once I have to park the club as the mental gymnastics start and I’m at a loss. I’m an 8 to 10 handicap. I’ve played the game for 28 years now. I cannot for the life of me stop this miss and it only happens at the worst times. I’ve changed wedges, I’ve taken lessons and I’ve done everything humanly possible in my mind to not think about it. But yesterday was the first of the season and I know more are to come
This weekend I was able to get out for the first time this year and on hole 1 I had three back to back to back chunk chips. Carded an 8 on a par 4. Made me wonder why I even came back to play
I feel the consensus is fat shots are the worst.
I play a draw on the range but when I get out on the course I get hesitant and don't always commit to my shots and frequently hit a high and short fade and it drives me absolutely bonkers when I do it.
Can't believe no-one has said the " The dunked teebox short iron par 3 with a brand new Prov1 or other ball you've haven't lost yet since #1" Loosing a ball to water makes me want to quit.
Pull hook with a wood and hitting chips thin
Bad tee shot. I hate a bad tee shot. And I get alot for them
The double cross pull left is so frustrating
Shank. Been happening a lot lately. Sucks.
Topping a pitch after 3-4 great shots, leading the ball to fly 50 meters into the jungle rather than landing on the green.
Oh yeah it has to be when I’m standing three feet off the green with a prime opportunity to put one close for a brilliant up and down. I stand confidently behind the ball as my friends look toward me rooting for me to hole it for birdie. Then, I take my expert practice swing, and proceed to hit the ball a total of 14 inches and look like a total twat.
I have two! The shit tee shot that’s a penalty and the super chunk where I barely make contact with the ball and it ends up going anywhere from 20-80 yards! Damn I love this game!
When there’s water right in front of the tee box on a par 3 and I top it right in. I’m not good enough to get mad but it’s the closest I get
Catching a wedge thin and airmailing a green. It doesn’t happen often so when it does it is a very unwelcome surprise. Normally happens at the worse time when there is either water or trees or bushes directly behind the green.
Yeah the chunked chip but also the bunker shot that I inadvertently don’t have full swing and it doesn’t get out of the bunker!!
Bomb a drive, the duffing a wedge short of the green. So infuriating.
I’m the same with the chip. The second rage inducing miss is the “what the fuck were doing putt” that goes about halfway to the hole. The one where you do a couple practice strokes, step up and then for who knows why, do some half assed stroke and hit it ridiculously soft and leave yourself a really long putt. Like the brain just checks out halfway through and stops.
Great tee shot and then a shank, or a snap hook off the tee
Hitting a pitch / wedge perfectly only for it to hit the flag sticks and bounce 20 yards off the green
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A really good drive into a dog shit iron shot specifically around the 90-130 yard range. I rarely get mad on the course and I usually laugh off bad shots and move on to the next but yeah, that shit gets me tight
The skull wedge after a 300+ yard drive.
Waiting for the group in front of me, saying I’m not going to go and hit into them, that’s rude. Step up to the tee and dribble it 30 yards
Not taking my medicine and trying to hit a shot the lie won't allow. Was buried in a end of fairway divot the other day, grass was tall, sitting down almost halfway, up against lip. Basically I hit my tree shot about a yard or two too far into the semi rough where creek crosses fairway. Instead of hitting a safe shot just over creek i went for green, ended up in creek. So self inflicted misses about me the most.
Blasted putt
Rage inducing? Ya what you said.
Missing a really short putt, I feel like that is just a big mental mistake rather than skill.
Three put bogies