Here's a goo video from golfing teacher Mike Hebron at the missing piece to one's golfing potential.
It's thrilling that Mr. Hebron mentions this as this is part of the exchange in mindset that I had which was in part sparked with the aid of this video from retired Navy SEAL, Don Shipley:
It was interesting to hear Mr. Shipley's take on trying to become a SEAL. There is a documentary on YouTube showing the BUD/S training that the SEALs go thru and it's a real eye opening experience. But, part of the eye opening experience is that the training doesn't come off so much like your 'typical military training.' There is not nearly as much yelling or getting in the face of those going in the training. And if a person is legitimately injured or catches pneumonia or bronchitis, they are allowed to sit out for a while and come back when they are healed (although there is a certain time limit or they get rolled back to another class) and when they come back, the instructors do not begrudge them for having to sit out. As one instructor said "there is nothing you can do about getting pneumonia."
This brings me back to Shipley's comments inside the video. When asked having the mind-set of 'refusing to stop' and 'refusing to fail', Shipley doesn't pretty like that mind-set due to the fact in his mind it's an awesome thing to recognize while to cease and realise when regardless of what you do, you ARE going to fail at instances. And as Mr. Shipley put, he would not give a rattling about failure.
Failure is going to happen. Get used to it and in case you need to prevail, forestall being concerned about failing.
This brings me to sports psychologist Dr. Bhrett McCabe. One of things he mentioned (I'm paraphrasing) is that "good focus is when you focus on one thing and nothing else matters." If you have a 150 yard approach shot and water on your left and a bunker on a right, good focus is focusing on your target and the shot you want to hit and the water and bunker don't matter.
Instead, maximum golfers are dividing their attention among the target and the water at the left. So they 'hedge their bets' and purpose towards the right facet of the inexperienced. And now the focal point turns into extra divided among water at the left, the flag stick and the right facet of the green. And always, they hit bad photographs because they have no longer centered on that 1 factor and not anything else subjects.
Why?
Because they may be too fearful of failure and place too much significance on it.
What helped me get over the worry of failure and being capable of get 'properly consciousness' is from looking countless PGA Tour players play both stay or on ShotTracker. Here is the only aspect I got here away with....Tour gamers hit a LOT of awful photographs. In fact, they hit a few surely putrid pictures sometimes. I've visible shanks, snap hooks, sky balls, cold tops, and many others. Mind you, they're now not doing it as often as amateurs, but they do happen. And they do manifest a long way more than human beings suppose.
One of factors I typically see on Tour is a participant will start off something like this:
A. They will hit it extraordinarily for the primary five holes and play them three over par.
B. Then they may hit a vulnerable drive into the tough at the sixth hole. Hit a wonderful shot from the tough to 3-toes and kick in for birdie ( 2).
C. Then they get on the par-five 7th hollow, hit 3 super pictures and make an eagle (E)
D. Then they hit the ball mediocre at the 8th hole, however save a par. (E)
E. Then on #9 they hit it k, but make a 25 footer for birdie (-1).
After the the front nine, you spot the score of -1 and think that the Tour participant is gambling alright, if no longer pretty properly. But the truth is that they have got hit greater bad photographs (by using Tour standards) than desirable shots.
What good mental game Tour players do is that they have the confidence to know that they can always make up a bad shot with a good shot. They can take a drive hit into the woods and hit a great recovery shot or make a great putt to save par. Or they come away with a bogey after that bad drive and then birdie the next hole to break even. That's what I call 'True Confidence'...understanding you are going to fail at times, but that you have the ability to make up for those failures.
'False Confidence' is the golfer that believes they can hit every shot perfectly. Inevitably, they can't and then doubt creeps in their mind in the following shots. "Well, I just hit that one terribly, what makes me believe I will hit the next shot well?" is what their attitude starts telling them.
Moe Norman was a great example of True Confidence on the golf course. As he said, "I have nothing to lose but a stupid golf ball. And I can get plenty more them." And "a bad shot will not hurt my game, it will only hurt my vanity. And vanity is the luxury of fools." Moe hit great shots because that is what he wanted to hit and that is all he focused on. But, if he did hit a bad shot, it didn't bother him a lick.
It's why I feel the theory of "what separates Tour players from the rest is that they hit better bad shots" is extremely detrimental to the game. It creates a false sense that you can't fail miserably from time to time if you want to play at a high level.
What really separates the Tour players from the rest of us is that their properly/extremely good photographs are typically better than the relaxation and they hit greater precise/notable photographs greater often.
We should remember that from a physics perspective, being off by only 1 degree or 1 dimple could be the difference between a good shot and a horrendous shot. So, as Mr. Hebron alludes to, accept the fact that you're going to have failures in a round of golf. You're going to hit bad shots, even in great rounds of golf. If you can accept that, you can start to not care about failure and have True Confidence so you can then start to have good focus and you'll start to hit some amazing shots and shoot better scores than you ever imagined.
3JACK
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