Spring Tune-Up: Better thinking leads to better golf
At Good Thinking Golf, we believe golf is a thinking game, played with a swing and a club. If you’d like better results this season why not skip mechanics and consider your mindset.
Performance
Chop some logs
When you raise an axe and let it fall, there’s a natural rhythm to it. Weight shifts. Hands release. Body follows through. You don’t have to think about any of it. It just happens. —Martin Chuck
Stop staying still: what the scales reveal about your short game
Here’s a great video from Martin Chuck about shifting your weight on short chip chots.
Make it your intention to play with intention this season
Intentions also foster heightened awareness of what we’re doing, thinking and feeling. They help us stay present. They remind us that when we react when we inevitably screw-up, we can respond by focusing on our intentions.
The performance heebie-jeebies: you get ’em, we all get ’em
Confidence comes from being under pressure, making mistakes and recovering from them. From these experiences, you learn that you can overcome the many vagaries of the game and those in our life.
My come-to-Bruce moment: How I learned to stop thinking and actually listen
Something was released in me that had always been there, but I had bottled it up behind a façade of reserve, a need to stay vigilant and protected.
Is chasing birdies the quickest path to lower scores?
Very few things in golf are more satisfying than making a birdie. A birdie always delivers a welcome dose of momentum to your scorecard.
Ack, we lost. Do we have another choice but to writhe in agony? Well, yes
Maybe this loss, which sucked and still sucks, will be one day be looked upon for the Jays, for the hard-core fans and everyone who jumped on board, as a gift.
Will our agony watching the Blue Jays be rewarded by ecstasy?
I coach highly aspirational golfers who are seeking to overcome their mental heebie jeebies when they most want to play well, which is what we all want—for ourselves and for the teams we root for.
