As you become more and more competitive in golf, there greater are the opportunities for you to take over your fears. Fear is the one that controls your mind. This is the main reason why you drive off the first tee. You are not creating a comfortable, fluid golf swing, rolling with it. What actually happens is the wandering of your mind. You feel so much disturbed with the people watching you as well as the pressure placed upon your shoulders. Each of the boos and yells now start to ring a bell in your ears~These boos and yells coming from the people now start to disturb you~The boos coming from the people, this time, will now disturb your concentration}.
As your competitive spirit arises, youor obligation to deal and control your fear increases too. When you a 35 handicapper and your goal is to simply play for the sake of exercise, then there is definitely nothing to fear about. You just have to play, enjoy all things, and that’s it. But since you came across this article, this means that you want to go beyond just being an average player. You actually want to view results!
However, when you are the competitive type of player, or you have the strong desire to be more competitive, even if you are just beginning in golf, you have to do all your best to keep on improving on your game. By doing such thing, you increase the opportunity of fear to enter your mind.
Experts when it comes to stress management agree with the fact that if you want to deal with the fear felt during the game, there must be an acknowledgment on your part that you are situated in a very stressful atmosphere.
Take time to talk to yourself. Say these words;
“Yes I am nervous as of the moment, but everything is under control. Each one in the game is nervous. Its’ just fine for me to have this feeling.”
By doing this, you recognize the fact that you are nervous, thus you can find means to right there and then solve your fear. Knowing for a fact that what you are to go through is never that easy, it will help a lot if you relax your mind.
When you have done this already, you can now take fear aside and be in full control of your emotions. Treat the sounds running through your mind as unnecessary. Just imagine tha these are insignificant distractions such as a plane flying over the field or things catching your eyes, but are of no value. Regard fear as little as these other factors and you will soon see the difference.
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This post was written by admin on August 29, 2010
