Brody Fischer experienced such a round at the U.S. Open Qualifier at the South Bend Country Club on May 15.
Fischer carded eight bogeys and one double bogey in finishing the tournament with a nine over par 80.
“Nothing was consistent,” Fischer said. “On the range I wasn't really feeling it. I had a couple of errant tee shots that got away from me. On the fourth hole I hit one in the water, that was the double, and I was just not committing to the golf shots all the way through the round from drives to approach shots.”
For Fischer, who swapped drivers earlier this month, the struggles began on the tee.
“My misses are usually on the left side, so I try to take the right side of the golf course out of play,” he said. “You kind of draw an imaginary line down the hole. You know where your misses are usually going to be and I missed right all day. I usually do not miss right.”
Part of the problem stemmed from his indecision in choosing the proper club.
“It's a shorter golf course so you don't really need to bomb it off the tee,” Fischer said. “I hit a couple drives and I think I tried to lay off instead of letting the club and the ball do the work. I let the golf ball get in the way of the moving club. I was trying to steer it and guide it around there. I was just having a hard time committing to the golf shot.”
He also had issues with many of his approach shots, again related to second-guessing his club selection.
“You get your number and you get your club, you know in your head what you've got to do but it comes down to execution,” he said. “If it's a 135-yard shot with the pitching wedge, I came up 10 yards short. It's standing over the ball not entirely sure that's the right play instead of saying, 'This is it, let's go,' and pulling the trigger. You've just got to swing it and do what you're taught.”
Fischer and his father/coach John Fischer, a PGA Professional, responded to the disappointing round by refocusing on many of the fundamentals of the golf swing.
That approach will help Fischer to regain his confidence heading into the Rex Hospital Open Web.com Monday qualifier in North Carolina on May 29.
“It's getting back to the basic stuff,” Brody Fischer said. “It's nothing that is out of the ordinary, but you have to make sure those are honed in before you swing the club. If you're setting yourself up poorly it only gets worse from there.”
Fischer’s work over the past week included drills to ensure proper alignment in the stance and on the fundamentals of his swing path.
“It just comes back to the basics,” Fischer said. “When you have a round like that it comes down to the basics of the posture and the swing path. You have to crawl before you can walk.”
Fischer will leave for Greensboro, North Carolina on Friday and will compete on Monday at either the Grandover Resort or the Greensboro National Golf Course.
“My preparation is going to stay the same,” he said. “We're not going back to the drawing board. It was just a weird round. I had been playing really well the week before and played two good practice rounds there.”
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