Friday, December 23, 2011

Harnessing Your Mind Yo Help You Play Better Golf

By Alex Kelly


Each year golfers around the world spend millions of greenbacks on golf clobber, instructional aids, and devices of all types in an effort to boost their game and perform better on the course. Most newbie golfers focus their efforts on bettering the physical part of their game but overlook an easy fact that all execs golfers know: Golf is a mental game.

Golf is one of the many sports that's actually more challenging psychologically than it is physically. Every golfer can think of examples where they lost focus and concentration at a critical moment, second guessed themselves into a poor shot or club selection, or just fulfilled their own expectancies for failure. Mythical golfer Arnold Palmer once related the hardest contestant he ever had was himself. He was talking about what each great athlete knows that how you perform is decided by your mental approach. Your mental golf game is very crucial to your general success as a golfer.

So why do golfers regularly overlook improving their mental golf game? The answer is easy. Most golfers accept that getting out on the course and practicing the most obvious path to improvement. While this may improve the physical part of your game, it is less effective at improving your mental game.

Even the simplest of mental golf techniques can help a golfer to remain relaxed and calm on the course, improve their focus and concentration, and help them to play with extra confidence and expectation of success. For a golfer at any level, these capabilities contribute greatly to overall performance and delight in the game. Golfers inexperienced in mental golf methods are sometimes skeptical until they discover that pro golfers have been using these methods for some years. All professional golfers use them on a consistent basis to help them keep their edge so they can perform at the very top of their game.

To improve your golf and get more delight out of each round you play, improving your mental golf game is a useful and often overlooked method of doing this. While practice does make perfect, practicing your mental game is as important as practicing your physical game. With a little effort you can literally improve your golf without touching a club.




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