So let's get started .......
Taking Your Head Out Of The Game!"
It's not a matter of "if" it will happen, but a matter of
"when" it will happen.
Of course, it happens to all of us so you don't have to feel
like you're alone. Maybe you're even going through it right
now.
We all go through a period when we start defeating ourselves
instead of the golf course.
When we start to second guess, or over analyse, every shot,
every approach, every club choice or trying to "improve" our
swing.
The monster hit you when you are trying to, ironically
enough, lose a few strokes off your game and get ready for a
local community tournament. You spent every minute you could
be practising to shave off a pesky two to three strokes.
Nothing too drastic then!
But, you start to evaluate every single aspect of your game.
You just knew that there was something that you were doing
wrong that I could easily take off a couple of extra strokes.
You become so obsessed with what you think you are doing
wrong that you start believing that everything you are doing
is wrong. After all those days of practice, when the day of
the tournament comes around, you play the absolute worse
three rounds of golf in your life. You end up a +18 and
finished almost last.
But, that is a good thing.
You realize a few things about this game we all love so
passionately. It's what I call my five-point process to
getting your head out of the game.
Why Do You Need Your Head Out Of The Game?
To answer that, let's go back to the tournament.
To get ready, you are spending all your time practicing
parts of your game that you have severely over analysed. You
didn't think your initial tee shot was good enough to get
you the distance you thought you needed. You did not think
that your putt was good enough so you practiced with a
different putter and from long distances to help lower your
score.
You didn't trust the abilities and skills you already had
and tried playing with your head rather than with my clubs.
You really thought that the only way to lower your score was
to completely change the way you played. Hey change is good
right? `
Not always.
Until the Next Post
Prakash
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