very disappointing!
obviously i expected to do much better but i learned a lot of valuable lessons.
most importantly, i learned how important the mental state is during a round. i tried to take reidlockhart's advice but i didn't apply it very well. for the first 29 holes, i was thinking way too much. i thought i was thinking the right thoughts, but the right thoughts are no thoughts at all.
like ship--it said in his q-school thread, the good pre-shot thought is "jordan". when MJ shoots a jump shot he just looks at the basket and shoots. he doesn't think of the mechanics of his wrist on the follow through or how hard to push his arm, he just fires. i need to save
all the thinking for the range.
it took me until the 12th hole today to realize what i had been doing so wrong. i was fed up and tired of trying and magically i started making good swings. the less i tried, the higher and straighter my shots went. i caught bad lies on 14 and 15 or i would have finished even better than i did.
on the bright side, my putting was really good. probably because i was already using the "jordan" mentality even though i forgot to apply it to my full swing. my long game was so bad that i only had four realistic chances for birdie the whole tournament and i made three of them. i also made a ton of 6-20 footers. too bad they were usually for bogey.