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Improving Your Golf Happens With Confidence
Craig Sigl
If improving your golf was all about the swing, then why do
we have balloon-score rounds right after taking our lessons
and spending hours on the practice range? Because golf is
a mental game right?
The meaning of the word "confidence" and how it applies to
golf is everything for improving your golf and what happens
to us on the course when we're playing. The greatest shot
killer is not bad mechanics, it's DOUBT!
Also remember Brad Faxon's words: "most golfers just suffer
from too much doubt when it comes to putting."
If you haven't experienced doubt on the putting green before
and seen its ugly effects, then you are already the greatest
putter in the world and I want to know your secret.
So many top pros have recounted in interviews that the best
putting they ever did was when they were in their teens. Why?
Because they had their best mechanics? Because they have a
more steady nervous system in their youth? No, it's because
they are full of confidence and have reached a basic fundamental
skill level. They have very few past failures and disappointments
that cut into their natural cockiness. And that's all you
need! The best putters in the world have long recognized this.
Do you remember being a teenager and you felt invincible?
Like you could do anything and nothing bad would happen to
you? As we get older, things happen to us and we become more
afraid to try things and we get closer to our own mortality.
When I was a teenager, I can remember being unafraid to go
swim out to 10 foot waves in the ocean so that I could ride
them in with my little blow up raft! Getting rescued by the
lifeguard one time cured me of that real quick. I went river
rafting once and after running a class 3 rapid, walked back
up to the beginning of the rapid and SWAM it! I can also remember
jumping off a 50 foot cliff overhanging a lake without knowing
what was under the water. I look back at those times and think
"how in the world did I ever survive being a teenager?"
Could you go back to that time, in your head and create that
state that is stored in your unconscious mind for confidence?
Of course you can, just call upon your memories of those events
and re-experience them right there on the course.
And that's all there is to it. They are just feelings you've
had in the past and your memories can bring you there again.
Those memories are your most powerful weapon to managing your
mental state when you are improving your golf game. Manufacture
confidence and remove doubt and watch your scores drop!
Craig Sigl, the Golf Anti-practice expert, is a Master
and Trainer of Hypnosis, NLP and Time Empowerment techniques.
He plays to a 5 handicap and teaches his methods worldwide.
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