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Golfing With A Confident Golf Swing Mindset
George Gabriel
You're just about ready to make the first step up onto the
tee box and you're feeling great. Golf shoes are looking good
and comfortable. Freshly new pressed golf pants and shirt,
and you're feeling loose and limber, then all of a sudden
this big dark cloud appears out of nowhere. You look down
the fairway and all you see is water and trees and your asking
yourself; how am I going to get this golf ball in the fairway?
I think we have all been there before. The all-important golf
shot of the day. This all important golf shot typically sets
the pace for the rest of the round mentally. Nobody wants
to start off with a bogey or double bogey. Par or better is
so important on this first golf hole. The thoughts of anything
else keep racing through your mind. The fairway becomes narrower.
The trees look like the branches are reaching out into the
fairway. The small running creek looks more like a lake before
you. The bogeyman is near! If you stand on the tee box any
longer at this point, and even in the sweltering heat you
may visualize a snowman. Yikes!!! The worst possible start
of a long eighteen!
How do we overcome this big shadow of fear that seems to take
over our golf swing from time to time? Do you tee it up and
hope for the best? Maybe your golf buddy will stand up tall
and go first if he's any kind of friend? Just maybe the easy
way out through this jungle would be take a 7 iron and punch
it down the fairway. At least you don't have to take that
big ugly swing that may put you in the thick woods of no return.
With three good punch shots you might just able to get it
close enough to save par?
Let's not kid ourselves. The golf swing has to happen. The
golf club selection is an important one at this point, especially
if your knees are feeling weak. You may want to take your
favorite wood or long iron that you're more confident with
on this important golf shot.
Walk away from this monster looking view and regain your composure
by looking the other way. The most important thing to do when
feeling negative is to step back off the tee box and gather
your thoughts and hold onto the positive pictures, perhaps
by taking some deep breaths and swinging the opposite way.
I find that by swinging in the opposite direction, my mind
does not pick up any negative thoughts, possibly because I
know that there is no hazard in front of me, because I'm golfing
the opposite direction. Make any sense?
After you have released all the horrible pictures you have
visualized earlier, step back onto the tee box and take a
deep breath and release it slowly standing behind the ball.
Look down the middle of the fairway and look for a spot on
the fairway that you want the ball to land. Visualize the
ball landing on that particular spot that you picked out.
Step up to the golf ball and take one more look and start
the golf swing with a smooth takeaway and accelerated swing
through the ball as if you're playing with a crowd watching
along the sidelines.
Your mind will create the golf swing to make the golf shot
happen, only if you are relaxed and focusing on the golf swing
you are creating mentally. It's a phenomenon that I cannot
explain, but it works.
I guess it goes with the old saying. Whatever the mind can
conceive and believe. It will achieve! Positive thoughts bring
positive results. Step away from the golf ball when having
negative thoughts. It could be too late, halfway through your
golf swing.
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