Consistency in your mental game

Until you have learned to control your mind in a positive way, your golf will be characterized by untapped potential.

A few weeks ago, I put up a guest post about building consistency into your game. That post addressed your technical skills.

What I want to say today is, your mental game needs to be just as consistent, and you need to practice it just as much, and in the same way. Please read that earlier post before you continue this one, if you haven't already.

I would guess that if you wrote down the shots that didn't turn out well in the last round you played, that the cause was most often a mental lapse of some sort. Your mind was distracted, you were worried about something, over-analyzing the situation, forgetting to consider some variables, and so on.

The point is that you haven't yet built up positive mental habits. A habit is something that you do reflexively, without thinking; you just do it.

All the time you spend at the range is meant to build up positive technical habits, so when you play a stroke, proper technique comes out automatically.

There are, unfortunately, no "mind ranges" where you can practice the mental skill of consistently staying focused so you observe everything, make good decisions, and execute the shot with confidence.

My new book, The Golfing Self, shows you how to build up a focused mind and how to make that focus habitual.

I wrote this book because I want you to play better. Buy it, read it, apply it, and you will.

It will change everything about the way you play.



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