Golf Tips

To play your best golf, you have to be in the moment. In other words, you have to be in the present tense, focused only on the shot at hand. That is the essence of "Golf InThe Now." Letting go of a previous bad shot and not getting ahead of yourself allows you to focus all of your energies on the shot at hand. This is vital if you expect to get the most out of each shot, and ultimately, your entire round.

The most common mistakes I see golfers making on the course which ultimately sabotage their scores include the following:

1- Adding up their scores prematurely, or speculating ahead to a possible personal best score. This would involve saying something like: "If I can just par out, I will have my best 9-hole score of the entire year!!!"

2- Hitting a tee-shot out of bounds, 3-putting from 6 feet, or missing a green with a sand wedge. Making one of these frustrating mistakes often leads a golfer into all kinds of negative self-talk. "You are such an idiot: I can't believe I just did that!!!" is just one example.

Example #1 shows how we often get ahead of ourselves.

Example #2 shows how easy it is to want to beat ourselves up, so to speak. Being angry in this fashion makes it so difficult to concentrate again on the task at hand, which quite simply is picking your next target, and swinging confidently toward it.

So, try to focus on the shot at hand. Stay in the present, be your own best friend, and add up your scores at the 19th hole. More than likely, your score will be lower there than if you start doing it during the round.