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Failing to Perform To Your Ability in Competition
IS NOT Because You are Not Trying!
If You Don't Have an Effective Mental Game, It is Practically Guaranteed!
Hi, I'm Jon Stabler, CEO and Co-Founder with Dr. Deborah Graham of GolfPsych.
After over 25 years of Tour level research, work with over 360 Tour Pros and hundreds of competitive golfers like you, this conclusion is undeniable:
You have an ineffective mental game if you are not playing your best in competition most of the time.
If you have Golf Goals like these:
- Lower your competitive stroke average
- Make the team
- Win a tournament
- Play college golf
- Play Div. I college golf
- Get a full ride college scholarship to Div. I school of choice
- Make it on Tour
- Win on Tour
- Achieve #1 Ranking- Be Best Golfer in the World
Then you have to play your best in competition. You have to do it consistently and you have to do it NOW.
The Popular Golf Model for competition and improving emphasizes working on your swing and physical skills not Your Mental Game.
The model for learning and improving has you focussed on your swing and short game techniques. The golf industry has told you relentlessly that you must have a great swing and use the right equipment to play better. They use video and fast cameras to capture the swing and analyze it in infinite detail. Then they have you working endlessly to perfect your swing and buying the latest technology. They do not emphasize training your mental skills. They don't know how.
A Strong Mental Game is your key to consistently performing to your ability and progressing faster. This is the part that is missing!
You have probably been suffering poor performances and thinking it is your fault. It is Not! You have been following the standard, typical coaching to practice hard and swing like this. Work on your short game and use your statistics to identify weaknesses. Think about this or that when you are playing. Things like: one shot at a time; stay in the moment; focus on that target or these swing keys; relax; do a consistent pre-shot routine.
Unfortunately, while several of these ideas are good generally, they don't tell you how to do them, how much or how to practice them to make them stronger. The "must be consistent pre-shot routine" emphasizes carefully executing every step. This makes you very Left-Brained and less consistent, not more.
Here are some of the Key Performance Problems in Golf that a GolfPsych Trained, EFFECTIVE Mental Game Solves.
The Arousal Problem-
Your personality, your experience, the comments of others and the importance for you of performing in this tournament, this round, this shot all tend to raise your level of arousal when you are competing.
Based on our research, there is an optimum level of arousal for the long game and a lower level for your short game. When you exceed those levels your physical skills decline. Your swing will change. Your touch and feel will not be as good. Your mind will be busier. Your decision-making will not be as good and you will second guess those decisions. Your focus will open. Your intuition will not work as good as normal.
In addition, you will be more emotionally reactive than normal. If you are naturally dominant, then you will get more aggressive. If you are naturally submissive you will get more defensive.
The higher the arousal above optimum the more obvious these changes are.
Just a little above optimum and the changes are subtle. You may be miss-reading your putts slightly or lipping out a lot. Your ball striking may be off a bit, and you cannot figure out why.
This is just the impact of arousal above optimum.
If you do not know what optimum arousal feels like then you don't know why things aren't working right. This leaves you guessing and probably trying to fix something in your swing or technique. It certainly reduces your confidence.
After the round or the tournament, your swing may be fine, your ball striking often is back, your putting may be better. This can make you crazy because you don't know what to work on or why it is happening.
The Left Brain Problem-
Another big problem is trying to play with your Left Brain in control. The Left Brain is thought to be good at logic and math, at memorization and calculations. It is not very athletic. Think of it as the nerd or the computer.
Your Left Brain is useful and helpful in golf for doing all the calculations before the shot or putt. It is good at getting the yardage and considering all the variables, picking the club and the shot. But it must never try to do more than that.
You must use your Right Brain to play your shots. Your Right Brain is athletic and has great feel and imagination. Let it play.
If in your pre-shot routine you are being careful to do the physical aspects and checking or judging how well you are doing them: checking your alignment, checking your swing and your swing keys, checking to make sure you are doing everything you are supposed to, then your Left Brain is trying to play the shot. This is a big problem because your Left Brain is a lousy golfer.
If over the ball you are making adjustments of line or target, aiming your putter, then your Left Brain is engaged. If you are paying careful attention to the way you are moving the club and your body to hit the ball, then your Left Brain is trying to control your swing.
A really good mental pre-shot routine will have you using your Left Brain at the beginning for calculations and your Right Brain to play the shots. It will work really well when your level of arousal is optimum for that shot.
The Wrong Thoughts Problem-
Then we have your thoughts between shots and before the round. The wrong thoughts or memories will trigger emotions and raise arousal. Remember the problems with arousal above.
This is another big problem area.
When you are playing, what are you thinking about between shots? If you are thinking about your score and what you need to do or how you are matching up and what it means, you are wasting energy and may be raising arousal.
You may be on the outcome thoughts and emotional roller coaster. If you get good outcomes then you may get excited, raising arousal. If you get bad outcomes, then you may get frustrated or angry or try to press, raising arousal. This means You are being affected by your outcome thoughts and out of control.
If your thoughts before the round are anxious or fearful or excited, you are probably raising arousal before you get to the course. When you do get there you will go even higher in arousal. Remember the problems with arousal above.
You cannot just breath and relax to lower arousal, if you are not dealing effectively with these arousing thoughts. So you need awareness of your thoughts and ways to control them. You also need to get good at breathing and lowering arousal to the optimum level.
These first three mental game areas are fundamentally important to your ability to perform in competition.
The Eight Traits Problem-
Of equal or perhaps greater importance are the 8 Champion Personality Traits. These are the personality trait scores that the Champion Group of Tour players, the frequent winners, have in common and that are a lot different from the other Tour players. We detailed these through our scientific studies of the Tour players on the PGA, Senior PGA and LPGA Tours. Dr. Graham discovered them with her first study in 1981.
If you don't learn how to emulate the 8 Champion personality traits when you are playing they will sabotage your efforts to do your mental skills well. They will make it harder for you to handle the three big problem areas above.
Obviously you need to know how you measure up to the 8 Champion personality traits and have coaching to know how to do this. Our online personality assessment, the same one the Pros take, will measure your personality and generate a report with recommendations that will help you do this in competition. You can also work with us or one of our Certified GolfPsych Instructors for further refinement after you have taken the online assessments.
These three problem areas and the 8 Traits are a big part of anyone's mental game and ability to perform. Other mental areas that also contribute are course management, game plan, preparation to play, nutrition and hydration and wellness, effective practice and enough rest.
But here is the biggest Point I want you to take from the Mental Game discussion above:
The coaching you are getting on your swing and short game may be fine but without a good Mental Game, it doesn't matter. Your swing will change and your short game will not work as good in competition if you do not have an effective mental game.
Now that you know what the problem has been, it is time for you to get serious, to take responsibility for your improvement.
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If you want to reach your golf goals, You Have To Do It Now!
You have to change the way you are operating too. You must demand results from your efforts. You cannot afford to waste time. Don't accept mediocre performances, when you know you are better than that.
Start by using every competitive round as a test of how well your efforts to develop your Mental Game and your Mental Skills are working.
Start evaluating your mental and physical performance in competition. Our Online Coaching System membership is included in the Mental Game Builder Package and has our Tour Developed Post Round Evaluation System included to make it really easy for you to do this.
You will be able to set Mental Goals for your rounds (the only kind of goals you should be thinking about on the course!), track how you do on them and record the results. This will help you learn from your rounds and prepare mentally for the next round. You can generate Mental Game Scorecards from the system to make it easy to track your mental goals on the course.
The Post Round Evaluation also enables you to record and track your physical statistics (Fairways, GIR, Putts, etc.) with overall averages calculated for you. These will help you create goals for your physical practice.
Use this evaluation to guide your efforts to improve. Adjust your mental goals and methods after each round. Adjust your physical practice plan and goals after each tournament and at the end of the season.
Don't judge your progress by your scores. Judge it on these evaluations and how well you control everything you can control, like doing a really good Mental Routine for every shot, managing your thoughts and controlling your level of arousal.
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The knowledge you gain and the methods you learn will reduce those mental errors and help you get the most from the advice you are getting on your physical game. The Post Round Evaluations will help you move forward effectively and more quickly.
If you have really high goals and want to progress in the fastest possible way, you should work with a Certified GolfPsych Instructor and/or attend a GolfPsych School.
No-one will know you are using these techniques and knowledge. All they will know is that you are playing a lot better, a lot.
I know you are here to improve your ability to perform in golf and this system will definitely do that, but there are more benefits for you.
Developing these mental skills and greater awareness will work well in every part of your life. Lowering arousal and controlling your thoughts will help you lower your stress levels and be happier and healthier. Learning how to manage your emotions can be great for your relationships and your work. Mentally preparing yourself for presentations or exams will help you perform better there too.
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Please Believe Me, you cannot afford to wait to develop your Mental Game where you want to go.
Let us know how we can help.
Good Luck and Great Rounds!
Jon Stabler
CEO and Co-Founder GolfPsych
Co-Author, "The Eight Traits of Champion Golfers"
Inventor of the Mind Meter and Zone Training System
P.S. The most important mental skill is an effective Mental Pre-Shot Routine.
Just fill out this form and we will give you access to our Mental Routine Video for FREE with all of the principles of a good mental routine and add you to our newsletter list.
Please understand that this is just one part of a good mental game. Do not try to simply add it to your current physical pre-shot routine. It should be the only thing you are thinking about when playing any shot.
The routine on the video is the one Steve Veriato developed for his game with our coaching. Your routine must meet the same principles but can be quite different.
Contact us or any Certified GolfPsych Instructor to help you develop your routine and make it very effective.
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