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Daily Post: Perspective
Until recently, Scottie Scheffler had been happily telling the world that golf was only the third most important thing to him in life. behind his wife and his religion. But after the birth of two childern, we can confidently bump golf down to number four.
This is not to say golf is unimportant to Scheffler; but by placing the game in its proper context, he is giving himself the perfect mindset to perform.
Whether we are the best player in the world or the 200th best player in our club, we know about golf - how it tests our mettle, our patience, our fortitude.
Because of this, we can easily start to identify ourselves in terms of how we cope with the game. We start to tie our self-worth, our sense of wellbeing, into how well we play. Golf becomes something we are, not something we do.
Performance-wise, this is so dangerous.
If you go out with everything riding on what a golf shot does, the golf course becomes a place of threat. Your physiological response to creating golf swings changes; you become anxious, agitated, tight. Organising your body and club becomes harder at best, impossible at worst.. and performance suffers.
Even though he is playing for his wife and family, Scheffler's sense of perspective allows him to avoid this trap.
It enables him to play with a rare sense of freedom, one we see every time he tees it up. It allows him express himself, to use his talent to capitalise on good swings and save bad ones.
If you want to play this freer, more enjoyable and more effective game, find some perspective. Get your head around the fact that your golf does not define you, and develop your sense of acceptance. Above all, work on the idea that whatever happens out on the golf course, you will be OK. You can deal with it. The more you feel this, the less you will have to deal with.
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