It's dear rick i am a big fan of the channel so i hope this doesn't come across as a troll comment um when watching the recent breaks on your five and the scores that you shot i can see you have paid played badly. And then.
Putting brackets for your standard i'll be very happy with those scores you also don't very happy when you're on the golf course and you're playing and he's put again in brackets i get that you've been playing badly so i'm not expecting you to be really happy when you're playing the golf that you've played my question is though when i play badly. And i've really thought about quitting and actually i've had two stints in the last 15 years where i've stopped playing for a couple years each time have you ever been close to actually quitting playing golf i get that you can't really because you make golf videos but deep down whenever you've played bad have you considered quitting so my question rick well the question from this guy is have you ever went to quit golf rick shields um there's the one time which i've definitely alluded to in the past it made me quit tournament golf was that horrible event that played in spain not the event wasn't horrible the way i played at lumina in spain was horrendous. And really really bad um but no i don't i i don't think. So because what's bizarre when i've played badly and hopefully people have seen it it's actually it's not every single go it's not as if i've absolutely chopped it like by the two shanks i hit come where i didn't actually lose a ball i only lost balls on those two shots yeah. So like my driving was not far off my putting wasn't great mind play was obviously sketchy with a couple of shanks in there my shotgun was shocking. But it wasn't as if i couldn't hit anything so i think because i've got a bit of light at the end of the tunnel it doesn't really ever make me want to quit um tournament play yeah i'm not fussed about playing in tournament play as you know it's been documented over the last few years. But no i don't i don't think i'd ever quit do you get why people do quit though. Or should no one ever quit golf i i no i i kind of get it i i hate when i see it. But i kind of get it because let's say you work monday to friday your busy job you know you might get home late you might leave early in the morning you might get home late in the afternoon or evening you've not seen your family that much you know you're not seeing your kids or having a chance to take them to school and you want to commit to you know going out. And playing golf on a saturday morning every saturday morning because you're playing we mates you've not really had time to practice you're not really had time to put any dedication in and you're out there for four or five hours and you've played crap and you've actually not enjoyed it i can kind of get why you might go why not just go. And pick up a bike and go and cycle like rickshaws because like other sports certainly individual sports that you know jokes aside cycling like i never feel like i've had a bad run no i never go after a run i go oh that was that was such a bad run like my technique was bad sometimes i don't feel as fit as i could do. But i can almost like put it back till i had a heavy night last night. Or run loads this week like i can put it i can um contribute it to something that's more than because you're often doing the runs. For pure exercise where if someone was actually a fairly competitive runner. And they went through like a saturday park run and they did it. For 27 minutes i should have been 24 today.
They might get that feeling yeah definitely because the score isn't it what he's saying there as well. And this i saw this in loads and loads of comments by the way the comments have been amazing this this last week considering i absolutely chopped it round but it going off that topic what what he said there going on a similar line to what he said is that yeah it's about it was a really bad round. For me you can noticeably say i played bad. But so many people said oh my god i'd like i'd i'd sell you know my wife to shoot shoot a score that low do you know the first thing you thought of was his wife well i've still had some you know mid-80s. So it's it is all relative like you look at some of the times when these guys have played on tour we we went to the british masters last week which we'll talk about in a second like they'll be walking off absolutely fuming at themselves. For shooting at 75 or 76. but that's one of my friends when i played yesterday says something along the lines of wanting to be more consistent or wanting to be consistent or whatever and i said the thing is though you never engulf achieve consistency you can if you look at like we've said this before. But some of the tour pros might go 75 65 or ever all the way around like i suppose the number of shots might get closer together which could determine consistency i guess but it's not really if you're shooting 66 and 72 that's quite a long way off whereas a higher handicapper might be shooting 100 and 122. 100 it's still kind of the same thing isn't it again it's similar like say to tor pros they can go out. And shoot 65 and 75s 10 shots different massive massive huge like and we saw a bit that this weekend i didn't watch loads of the pga tour this weekend at the well wells fargo but i read a story where i think makarov managed to hold a really good putt on the last hole on friday to just make the cut he's been struggling thursday friday he goes outside this sunday i think he'd finish tied fourth he's the one guy i always think of yeah he can go 77 67 like that can he. And then.
You look at thornborne olison this weekend he was leading by substantially i think two. Or three shots going into the final round playing with marcus armitage he had him. And marcus both have pretty stinking rounds pretty much you know for that at their level you know i'm sure they would say that as well yeah thornborn goes on eagles 17 bird is 18 to win it yeah like that put on the last was outrageous. But for 16 holes he's probably been playing pretty crap like he's thinking i had this in the bag how have i lost this and there's suddenly a few of the leaders dropped down like richie ramsey should have been up there doubled the last he dropped down and allison would just happen to be in the right place at the right time and sink two ridiculous puts to win a tournament like um you know we went to the british masters and how many times this i think the biggest standout. And we talked about this when we we were having lunch i think the fact their bad golf is they make a scrappy par don't they obviously they'll drop in a bogey every now. And again and sometimes very rarely a double bogey but they're bad golf sometimes they can hit a couple of terrible shots on a hole. But they scrap it in on a apartment that's the thing it's it's it's more that they can hit a terrible shot. And they'll kind of they're that good at every aspect of the game they could miss a green but which is a bad set say seven iron. But the chipping's that good they'll put the chip fairly close or very close and even if they kind of don't quite put it that close the putting is that good they probably think they're putting anyway. So yeah they're scoring. But it's an element as well i think something that lee west would talk about the other day was like it's grit. And determination and there's something i just don't have when i'm playing if i hit a bad shot and i just like walk up to cheer have a quick look and then.
Maybe put it nowhere near they missed the point going. For the bogey they take a little bit more not even more time it's more attention on each of the shots and that little bit more attention that little 10 more over all your shots it makes a big difference doesn't it big time didn't i bring up a quote a couple weeks ago that i heard something like tour pros have really short memories yeah like because how many times i carry i'm sure you do a lot of people listening carry bad shots we've hit throughout the round into the next.
Shot well you look at tour pros. And they'll hit a bad shot and have a bit of a whinge and like we saw a torpor a good friend of ours no i don't want to kind of discredit on the hits. But he had a little bit of a hit on the 18th uh second shot into going into the green kind of did something that i wasn't massively a big fan of. But next.
Shot he had a really tough chip he got up and down yeah like nowhere. And he's forgot that bad shot it's gone out the way it's like forgotten about um also people because this has gone out tuesday would have seen my match against lee westwood now yes now i don't need one. But i don't want to rule ruin the results well yeah okay if you've not watched it. Yet maybe just skip forward a minute or two um but that's another example where like sometimes if it's not going your way like the front line. For me i just couldn't literally couldn't make the ball go in the hole it was. So frustrating i was kind of nervy. And just not not i didn't have a nice feeling about me it just takes a couple of nice shots on the back night steady the and like the whole round turn around he wanted to destroy you i asked him on the 17th degree i think again i said last week. And he was adamant he was going to win that match he was going to leave no stone unturned i like it. But that that is the difference i don't i don't know if i've got that in me i feel like i'm quite competitive. But i've not i've not got it in me to the level that like these real elites that's how they get to where they get to is next.
To practice it's that obsession with being the best like they could do anything they would want to win wouldn't they like you look at it with like even we talked about formula one a minute ago like those guys at the front they have to win like you know it's. So like ingrained in their kind of um personality you look at again all the celebrities that were at the um the f1 this weekend like you look like michael jordan he had to win you look at serena. And venus williams they had to win david beckham to the greek had to win like it's just it's in built i wish i could inject it i wish i could inject that kind of steroids.
