Golf- Introduction

  

If you want to continue improving your game you have to be prepared to put in the effort needed to deliver success.

Can you remember when you’ve played some great games in the past, you might recall how you could do no wrong, and everything you were hitting went exactly where you planned...it couldn’t have got any better. But equally ever since then, you haven’t repeated those great games consistently…sound familiar?

Jack Nickalaus once said – “Golf is 80% mental, 10% ablility, 10% luck”…sound familiar?

Nowadays, its more common to teach the physical aspects of the game, with very little attention to the mental side of the game. Ask most golfers and they haven’t even thought about the mental side or even doing anything about it. Yet it has been proven through research and evidence that working on the mental side of the game can help improve focus, concentration, consistency, and remove external/internal distractions and limiting beliefs.

So why is golf such a mentally challenging game?

1.    Unlike many sports that are played under timed conditions, golf is an un-timed game.

2.  You have sole responsibility for your own actions on the course, and can’t blame anyone else or anything.

3.    You spend more time thinking of playing rather than playing, so it’s easy to lose your concentration, start dwelling on your mistakes, worrying about your next shot, your score card, the other players, the leader board, what you’re doing after the game etc. On a round lasting about 4 hrs, you could be spending around 95-98% of your time just thinking and walking.