Now where did I put my mojo?

 As I have documented previously in this blog and, for those of you who follow me, on Twitter, my golf has been a bit ropey of late. To be perfectly honest, I've been less than happy with it since Easter although I've only truly acknowledged the scraping of the barrel over the last couple of months. Prior to that, I was writing off bad rounds as one of those things and the next one will be fine whereas, in reality, I was in significant danger of falling out of love with the game. To paraphrase Austin Powers, I'd lost my mojo.

 

Thankfully, it would appear that I have taken a bit of control and, if the evidence of my last two rounds are anything to go by, my mojo was actually at the bottom of my bag all along.

2012 golfing goals - how am I doing?

With only ten weeks or so left of 2012, I thought I would do a long-overdue update on my 2012 golfing goals. It's been a long time since the last update and a lot has changed since then, so it will be therapeutic to document what has happened and, realistically, what more I can do before 2013 arrives.

A lyrical genius

OK, that's probably pushing it a little bit, but I had a flash of inspiration today having read a tweet by @mattholbrook86

6 things we learnt about the Ryder Cup

Well, that wasn't very exciting now, was it? Having climbed down off the emotional rollercoaster that was watching the Europeans overcome a considerable final day deficit to win the Ryder Cup, I thought I'd offer up my thoughts as to what we can take away from it

That's enough Monty. Please give it a rest.

The waiting is nearly over. In less than two days, the 39th Ryder Cup kicks off at Medinah, Illinois as Europe attempt to continue to exert their stranglehold over their cross-pond opponents in the premier team event in the world of golf. Unfortunately, one person in particular appears to have forgotten that he's not actually involved...

Return to Part-Timerness

Having enjoyed the unprecedented frequency of seven rounds of golf over two weeks at the end of August, causing me to question the validity of calling myself a Part-Time Golfer, I am pleased to report a return to normality and the moniker can stay. The clubs have lain untouched in the shed for the best part of a month and will be dug out again this weekend.

Nobody needs to see that

It's been a while since I posted anything on here but, having played twice in the space of ten days at the end of July (pushing me nicely over the line to complete a 2012 goal of playing ten rounds) I've got a fair bit of food for thought. I also wanted to go through the cathartic exercise of writing down my thoughts about a particularly unpleasant bout of dummy spitting which marred my round at Chesfield Downs GC this week.

Crystal ball? Cubic zirconia, more like

Back in December, I made some predictions as to how the 2012 golfing calendar might pan out for the majors, Ryder Cup and world rankings. As we are halfway through the cycle of majors, I thought I would do a quick progress report.

My Bethpage experience

I have previously written about the presence of Bethpage Black on my golfing 'bucket list' and, luckily, I was able to tick this item off just over a week ago. I was also fortunate enough to play more than just the Black course, so this documents my whole Bethpage Experience - the Black & Green courses on the Saturday and the Yellow on the Sunday.

The Avoidable Injury - the rant continues...

One of my biggest bugbears about golf and, indeed, professional sport in general, is the curse of the avoidable injury. I have previously written about this issue when Paul Casey popped his shoulder whilst snowboarding back in January and, since then, there have been further instances of this which really winds me up. So much so, in fact, I feel compelled to write it down.