"Being Patient - Don't force bad shots!"
Learning to relax is fine, but it won’t amount to a hill of beans if you don’t learn the other part of relaxation. Being patient goes hand in hand with relaxing. How you can really be relaxed if you’re getting all psyched up over your surroundings or outcomes?
You don’t.
To truly improve your game you need to put a little patience into each hole, each round of golf you play.
Being patient simply means that you’re not trying to go out with every hole and over extending your capabilities and skills. To always to try to do something more than you’re able to. This leads to even more discouragement with your score.
As I talked about above, I know that my weakness is a long putting game, and while in the middle of a tournament, to make up a few strokes, I tried sinking long putts. This only lead to adding more strokes.
Let’s say you hit a bad tee shot. It’s going to be rough just to make par. You’ve got a sand bunker on one side the lane you need to shoot in to make the green. On the other side a little further up there’s a pond. But, being impatient you try to loft the ball onto the green. And because this isn’t your best shot, the ball lands in the water. Ouch.
A patient approach would be to use your abilities and put the ball into a position where you could land it on the green and maybe save par. Even if it took putting the ball back onto the fairway for another shot at the green.
The impatient approach would only lead to being frustrated with that hole which can carry over onto the next whole and the complete round. But, being patient, maybe saving par, will give your game a little extra boost, maybe a little more confidence in your abilities, which also carries over to the next holes and lowering your score.
Being patient with what happens on the course, and staying relaxed can mean the difference between bogies or birdies. Giving you opportunities to make par, by using the skills you already have, will eventually lead to making birdies.
You might not always be able to make up for a mistake on the hole that you’re playing now, but later on in the round, there might be a hole that you’re better on and can make up a stroke or two.
Plus, think of this for a minute.
In the tournament I was playing in, if I had just done what I knew I could do, that is two putt the hole instead of going for a long putt and over putting, I would still have come out one stroke ahead on the hole. The two other people I was playing with also made mistakes, but because I put my head in the game and was impatient, I couldn’t capitalize.
I actually dug a bigger hole for myself that was impossible to come out of.
Learning to relax is fine, but it won’t amount to a hill of beans if you don’t learn the other part of relaxation. Being patient goes hand in hand with relaxing. How you can really be relaxed if you’re getting all psyched up over your surroundings or outcomes?
You don’t.
To truly improve your game you need to put a little patience into each hole, each round of golf you play.
Being patient simply means that you’re not trying to go out with every hole and over extending your capabilities and skills. To always to try to do something more than you’re able to. This leads to even more discouragement with your score.
As I talked about above, I know that my weakness is a long putting game, and while in the middle of a tournament, to make up a few strokes, I tried sinking long putts. This only lead to adding more strokes.
Let’s say you hit a bad tee shot. It’s going to be rough just to make par. You’ve got a sand bunker on one side the lane you need to shoot in to make the green. On the other side a little further up there’s a pond. But, being impatient you try to loft the ball onto the green. And because this isn’t your best shot, the ball lands in the water. Ouch.
A patient approach would be to use your abilities and put the ball into a position where you could land it on the green and maybe save par. Even if it took putting the ball back onto the fairway for another shot at the green.
The impatient approach would only lead to being frustrated with that hole which can carry over onto the next whole and the complete round. But, being patient, maybe saving par, will give your game a little extra boost, maybe a little more confidence in your abilities, which also carries over to the next holes and lowering your score.
Being patient with what happens on the course, and staying relaxed can mean the difference between bogies or birdies. Giving you opportunities to make par, by using the skills you already have, will eventually lead to making birdies.
You might not always be able to make up for a mistake on the hole that you’re playing now, but later on in the round, there might be a hole that you’re better on and can make up a stroke or two.
Plus, think of this for a minute.
In the tournament I was playing in, if I had just done what I knew I could do, that is two putt the hole instead of going for a long putt and over putting, I would still have come out one stroke ahead on the hole. The two other people I was playing with also made mistakes, but because I put my head in the game and was impatient, I couldn’t capitalize.
I actually dug a bigger hole for myself that was impossible to come out of.
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