Barriers and Commitments

Barriers to Overcome

The 90 scoring barrier is on that resonates for so many
players.When you can consistently shoot in the 80's,
you feel you're a good player.The desire to break that
scoring goal can do some damaging things to your thought
process.Instead of focusing on score and outcome,you need
to break it down to a smaller set of decisions that are
actually under your control.

When training yourself to execute shots according to your
plan one needs to let the results take care of themselves,
and you'll be real surprised by the outcome. Anxiety
about the scoring goal will melt away.

Line of Commitment

If you want to break par,when you're on the course you have to
be a player,not a student of the swing.One thing to consider
is this lesson here.

First place a line or club on the ground behind the ball for
every practice session.For each swing,decide what shot you
want to hit,visualize accomplishing that shot and go over
any swing thoughts.Once you step over the line and get into
your setup one needs only to be thinking about the target.
Try this during your next practice session,if a mechanical
thought creeps in when your over the ball,step away,behind
the line and start again.