Editor's Note: This post is best read while listening to Guns N' Roses, "Welcome to the Jungle." So cue here.
Welcome to the Puke Zone
It gets worse here everyday
Ya learn ta live like an animal
In the Puke Zone where we play
The Puke Zone is different for every golfer, but it is the area in front of the green that you missed with your approach shot. This is the part of the course where many golfers (including myself) have a tendency to throw up all over themselves.
In the Puke Zone you must get up and down for par and avoid the hazards. It really is like navigating your way through a dangerous jungle.
When you first arrive in the Puke Zone you are confident. The hole is not only in sight, it actually appears close. You just need a simple chip and a putt. Then you skull the ball and land on the other side of the green. It's still okay. After a deep breath, you convince yourself it's just another chip and a putt for bogey. You can live with that.
Then you start thinking you might actually be able to chip this shot in and save par. So you get a little too cutesy with the shot, hit a sprinkler head, and pop into a green side bunker. At this point, your confidence begins to wane. What just happened? One minute you are plotting your par putt, the next minute you are praying for double bogey.
As you walk off the hole you glance a few yards off the green and remember how close you were to hitting that green in regulation before everything went wrong. You think, "Wow, I was here in two and then took four more strokes to get in the hole."
Welcome to the Puke Zone my friends.
Monday, May 18, 2009
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6 comments:
We have identified the 'throw-up zone'. It is the distance of a putt in a match play that is just out of concession range. The 'throw-up' factor increases the moment that term is used. I keep crying, "Either concede the damn putt or don't, but don't call it the..."
Puke zone is better. Consider it stolen and now being used in Catonsville.
you're so right! My quote is "wow, they add up fast", referring to strokes around and on the green.
Every time I play lately I decide it's time for a chipping lesson.
Yes, indeed! I find it amazing how many different ways my hands, arms, and body can spasm on a short chip shot from just off the green (grin)
Then, of course, there is the T C Chen "double strike" of the ball which I have been known to do more than once while chipping from the rough.
I didn't know you were a metalhead, Heather. Do you have any pictures of your hair parted down the middle and feathered?
Puke zone? It's more like the DTs. If I was a member of AA I'd be placing a call on my cell to my sponsor. Can't stop shaking and projecting horrible things happening to the little white ball.
Apparently I've spent copius amounts of time in the Puke Zone and didn't even know it. Now I can at least call it what it is.
I just recently bought a chipper/putter to try on my short game, but they are very tricky and need lots of tweaking before incorporating into a real game, but I'm hoping it can eventually help me to avoid the Puke Zone...
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