Cluttered thoughts

If you want to play your most consistent golf, you are going to have to clear your mind when you play.

That seems like a simple idea, but I coach dozens of players on the course each month and one of the things I see that hinders their performance is their lack of ability to stay focused when they play.

Of course if you are an avid golfer you have heard all top players say they are taking golf 'one shot at a time' or 'being in the present moment'.  Really nifty phrases and if you are an avid golfer you may even try to do that.

You may try to visualize the shot.  Great!
You may have a good pre-shot routine.  Awesome!
You may work at trying to stay focused totally while over the ball.  Good.

Those three topics and others are needed for you to find true new potentials in your play.  However new potential outcomes arrive because you are not attached to the past or future too much and you can control your emotions well when you play.

Finding the new potentials in your game is an art and science proves how that art works,  This is what I love to coach players.  If you want to know how, contact me and we can begin the process.  

But for now one of the biggest obstacles I see almost every player do while on the course is check their phone constantly!  Your smart phone my be giving you yardage or you may be using an app to track your score......not recommended but allowed IF you do not look further into that little device.

So many of my students run businesses, or are account managers and have a constant stream of emails coming in, or they simply cannot get off their need to check Social media.  

Every time you go to the phone to do one of those things (or others) you are disconnecting yourself to your golf game and connecting yourself to what I would call past/future thoughts (those company emails)and emotional reactions from the emails or Social Media posts you see.

Every time you REACT to an email or social media post you are charging your mind to go to that place, which of course is not in the NOW like you see a tour player tries to do.

Being in the present moment is an art and it can be fast tracked at an enormously accelerated rate to get you to reach your new goals.  Any thing that creates cluttered thoughts in your mind in your game generally will not help your performance.  Emails, texts, Tic Tok app....you get the idea.

I have players that are reaching their new potentials because yes their swing is improving but also because now they are discovering the power of their mind to help reach their goals.

The surest way to delay your desired outcomes on the course is to get wrapped up on the phone and get tangled up in all the thoughts and emotions you have as you see emails, or social posts.  

Do yourself a favor, turn the phone off or put it in your bag and commit to not check it until after the round. If this was 1984 you would laugh and say 'what are you talking about...check my phone on the course'?  Naturally back then the phone was connected to your wall in your home or office.

Today it is in your back pocket, so move it and do not open it on the course.  Keep your mind clear and open and then try to become more consistent.  If you cannot, you are just delaying your dreams of lower scores.  ​