Stroke of misfortune

Again, 3-putts on the last green. Maybe it's pressure, maybe it's tiredness, maybe it's just incompetence. Anyway, it's quite annoying.

But that's not all that's annoying. With my new one-plane swing, I seem now to have re-developed a fade, having for weeks been drawing the ball. It's not a major problem, or a major fade, but it has complicated things, especially as my distances are still all different.

The last round was, however, characterised by inconsistency in all aspects of the game, long and short, including putting. The only thing that helped me with my full swings was the Adam Scott key thought about starting the downswing with everything moving together. Somehow, it helps smooth the swing, takes away some of the technical thoughts, and for me that's important.

Having shanked a couple of chips early in the last round, I had that to contend with as well as the other long game inconsistencies that seemed to emerge. To make matters even worse, I seemed to find a lot of bunkers, maybe as many as seven, which is unusual for me.

So, all of that added up to a very ordinary score, including 36 putts, which is definitely too many at my level. Playing a couple of different courses in the next few weeks, so that is going to be interesting - maybe disastrous - maybe fortunate, we'll see.