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Daily Post: Mental myths - What the mind can do... and what it can't
"Competitive golf," said Bobby Jones, "is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears."
"Don't ever try to tell me golf is not 99.9 per cent a mental game," said Jack Nicklaus.
"I believe my creative mind is my greatest weapon," said Tiger Woods.
Despite golf's greatest players queuing up to validate the importance of the mind game - and despite a recent growth in acceptance - there remains a widespread general scepticism
surrounding its value.
There aren't many club golfers who, given a spare half-hour, would use it training their brain instead of their swing.
It must be said that much of the reason for this comes down to a series of persistent myths that dog the mental approach.
These myths pull many golfers away from pursuing an element of performance that can make just as profound a difference to their scores as any technical swing change. So, over the next four days, I’m going to post 4 Myths around the mental game to help you understand its importance to improving your golf,
Myth #1
Working on your mental game is admitting a weakness
For many golfers, the mind game echoes psychology in general as a tool for exposing and rectifying some perceived deficiency of character. But the mind game is not about delving into your past, or searching for pathology.
A much more accurate and healthy interpretation is of building skills, no different than learning the skill of being a better bunker player or longer driver.
Take for example the skill of staying present to the task you are performing.
The human mind is constantly looking into the past or projecting into the future, but in golf the game requires you to be present to this task; otherwise you miss the clues the golf course is giving you to produce the shot.
Becoming more focused on the present is just one of a host of mental skills that can be trained and learned. It's nothing to do with tackling 'weakness'
Tune back in tomorrow for Myth #2
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Daily Post: Mental myths - What the mind can do... and what it can't
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This is for all levels of golfer to learn how they can perform better on the course without swing changes, using better mental and practice strategies
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