[golfgnome]

Jeff,
I'm sure this doesn't happen to you too often, but what do you do when you have 2-3 bad holes in a row. I sometimes have a great round going and then have 2 or 3 really crappy holes, and then seem to get it together again.What do you do or tell yourself when this happens??

I have faced this situation in the past and I found a great way to get past it.

Think of a round of golf as a marathon. If at the start of the race you told yourself "only 25 miles left" how daunting would that feel? However, if you broke that race down into smaller segments, say 5 miles, then you would only have 5 miles left then start a new race.

What worked for me was playing three 6-hole rounds (3 holes for the front - 3 holes for the back). I would play a mini tournament with myself and see which match I could play the best. I would even take a "mini-break" at the end of each round. Even if I shot 3 under on each of the 6 hole matches I was trying to shoot 4 under on the last 6. This really helped me when I got in contention because I was no longer worried about a certain score or what someone else was doing, I was only competeing with myself.

Try this and maybe create your own mini tournament routine