Rowe Mental Game Tips
This newsletter is for golfers who
recognize that golf is at least 90% mental.
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More Club for Approaches
Review
your scorecards. Do you see a few good holes and a lot of big numbers on
others? Do you cancel out your birdies with bogies? Do you offset your pars
with double bogies? Let's look at one thing you can do to reduce the
big numbers.
Unless you're a pro, you probably
overestimate the distance you hit each of your clubs. Even low handicappers
tend to take less club than they need. Pay attention to your misses. Do you
usually end up in the greenside bunker guarding the green rather than on the
green? Do you end up on the front of the green when you were aiming for the
middle?
You have to pay close attention and even
make notes on your scorecard to track these tendencies. Our brains are not
very good at recognizing such patterns. Try keeping detailed notes on a
second scorecard to learn about consistent tendencies. Annika Sorenstam
would periodically review her statistics and make corrections to her game as
needed. Even as a pro and number one in the world for years she would not be
aware of some of her patterns without reviewing the data.
Your Mental Game Tip
Play a couple
of rounds and take one more club than usual for all approach shots into the
green. Notice that your shots are more accurate and you won't come up short
as often. The increased accuracy results from swinging easier and,
therefore, more in control. (You can control a 75% effort better than a 100%
effort.)
If your ego
gets in the way, you may need to tap on the feelings to neutralize them so
that you can make a rational decision rather than an emotional one. "Even
though my ego wants to show the others how far I can hit this club, I deeply
and completely accept myself." The reminder phrase would be, "My ego want to
show the others how far I can hit this club." "Even though I should be able
to hit this iron (hybrid, fairway metal, wedge) XX yards, I deeply and
completely accept myself." The reminder phrase would be, "Should be able to
hit this iron XX yards." "Even though my playing partners will think I'm a
wimp for taking more club, I deeply and completely accept myself." "They'll
think I'm a wimp." Or whatever is appropriate for you.
Remember, if
you don't want to openly tap on the course as shown in Chapter 4 - EFT
Basics,
EFT and
Golf: The New Mental Game Manual, you can employ secretive
techniques shown in Chapter 5, Shortcuts and Stealth Tapping.
Take a tip from
Annika. Keep detailed records of your shots -- club used, yards carried,
yards hit, left or right of target, putts taken, etc -- and review them
periodically. Look for your patterns and take corrective action as needed.
Consult with your teaching pro for help. (If you're stuck on a mental game
issue, call me for a session.)
Questions and Comments
I've had a
couple of questions about how to get my book,
EFT and Golf, if
you live outside the U.S. For a paperback version, you can order at
Amazon.com.
Amazon has international sites in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan,
France, and China. You can download an Ebook version. You have a choice of
two formats -- Option 1) the
Ebook version of the
paperback, and Option 2) specially
formatted to be printed on A4 or U.S. letter size paper.
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mental game, take the
Rowe
Mental Game Test for Golf or the Rowe Yips Test.
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