The only real way to make any kind of permanent change to the golf swing is through repetition. It sounds like a given, but often times we start learning something and achieve some success then move on to something else before going through enough repetition to commit it to muscle memory. It’s like rolling a boulder up a hill. If you stop pushing too soon, it’s going to roll back down to the bottom. Repetition doesn’t [...]
posted in Mental Game, Practice Tips, Putting Tips •
Within hours of my post yesterday about gamesmanship, I got a phone call and e-mail from my mom. She was quick to point out that the definition for the word “gamesmanship” according to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition indicates that it is a synonym for “cheat” or “trick”. She added, “It would appear that when you emphatically imply that you never cheat but suggest that [...]
posted in Golf Philosophy, Mental Game •
Golf is known as a “gentleman’s game” (ladies too, of course). That doesn’t mean that competition can’t get a little heated at times. I believe in sportsmanship and try my best to be a good, fair competitor. I’ve never cheated and never will. But my highly competitive nature forces me to employ a little gamesmanship at times. This is one of the great aspects of match play. I try to keep it subtle if [...]
posted in Golf Philosophy, Mental Game •
A common bit of golf knowledge is that high handicappers tend to under-club too often. All things being equal, this is a fix that can be made that will result in instant improvement. Many times, ego gets in the way. But in reality, most of the time it comes down to playing statistical probabilities.
Think of it like this: every golf shot we make that employs a full swing will either be perfect or will contain some [...]
posted in Course Management •
It seems like at times I get so mentally sloppy that I can’t be trusted to make course management decisions on my own.
Case in point: yesterday, I played at my new club for the first time since I joined (and for the first time there in a year or two). I wasn’t playing great, but the conditions were pretty rough. The course was saturated, there was a ton of wind, and the greens had recently been de-thatched [...]
posted in Course Management •
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