Keeping negative thoughts out?

[mddubya]

If you are letting negative thoughts creep in, and are unsuccessful with going with a positive thought, then you need something to keep your mind occupied so your body can swing freely.

Try thinking to your self "Free, easy swing" or imagine hearing an orchestra playing "The Blue Danube Waltz".

P.S. My next tourney is this comig Saturday.

Good luck with your tournament Siberian.

I think I hit upon this very thing yesterday playing a round here at home. I kept telling myself "smooth effortless swing", this and I started holding my shoulders back and what felt like poking my butt out, which helped me keep my spine alignment straight and correct. Between these two once I hit upon the combination my swing felt 100% better which gave me a lot more confidence in it and dramatically cut down on my miss-hits.

gwlee, I already do this, I'll cuss under my breath and take a mighty swing right after a bad shot, being careful not to take a huge divot out of the ground, to blow off steam in an effort to prevent it carrying over to the next shot or hole.

EddieC, my fun golf scores are dramatically lower, when I'm just hacking around by myself or with friends, I'll shoot in the mid 80's to low 90"s, so yes, I'm definitely suffering from some performance anxiety, I'm working on that and think it's slowly getting better. The last 2 tournaments I at least haven't felt like I was going to puke all through the tournament.

And Silver, as good as that piece of advice was, it's not worth the CT250 - Solutions combo, :laugh:, but I promise, if I do decide to part with it, you'll be the 1st to know,

And to everyone else, thanks for the advice and tips, I'll definitely keep them all in mind.

[Skiddlydiddly]

I've got an idea. A crazy one, maybe...

Play a few practice rounds wherein instead of keeping score of your shots, you keep a score of your mental state for each shot.

Give yourself a score of 0 for any shot where you keep your mind in the right place/state, regardless of the outcome of the shot. +1 for succumbing to a minor distraction, +2 for a negative thought that influences the outcome. (You could even play terribly and score well under "par" this way :P )

You're used to making your body/equipment/ball bend to your will. Now make a game out of making your mind bend to your will, as it were.

Who knows, it could work.

[DaGris]

sunday, I was playing well. One of my buddies said "you had a good front 9"...I said "ya, but I'm sure I'll screw up the back, I'm gonna hit this drive in the water"......and I hit my drive in the water!..........double boogie!



gotta keep a positive attitude!

[5iron]

Well i think it was in a Hank Haney movie, where he said that pros identify all of the places they dont want to hit it, and then they think about where they want to hit it. So maybe that could help with positive thoughts?