Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
If you're a golfer that struggles with the psychology and the mental approach to the game of golf and let's be honest there's lots of people that do. Then that practicing that sort of mental approach might be affecting the way you actually practice the game of golf. So the psychology and the mental approach that you have on the golf course needs to change. If you're going to get better but you also need to change the way you think about the game full stop so the way you think about the game Monday to Friday might actually affect the way you play on a Saturday we sometimes see that golfers they go to the practice range on a on a on a Wednesday night before the weekend game and they go with a negative attitude from the previous game. It kind of follows them into everything they do so they turn up and they throw their clubs on the floor and they loosely so whack balls away almost thinking I don't what the point of being here is because I'm never going to get any better at this game well if you have that attitude clearly your practice isn't going to get better and therefore you game isn't going to get any better so we want to approach every every game but also every practice session with a real sort of air of confidence. A real good ere of this is going to be my day and this is going to be my day on the Wednesday night on the practice round ready for the game that we have on a Saturday we can't just switch on the Saturday morning we've got to practice in a good state in a good frame of mind so a lot of golfers have a limited amount of time to practice we're not talk layers where we can all have sort of five six days a week to play golf it might just be the one session in that week another one round of golf that week and that session of the week is fundamentally important.
So I want you to take a positive practice attitude to the course and to the driving range so when you go to the driving range you've got. You've got a set number of goals that you want to try and achieve rather than just pounding balls at a flag and hoping that you get better you think right tonight I'm going to work my fifty yard pictured I'm going to work on the contact of my six signs I'm going to work on driving the ball straighter and then when you get there you section out the number of golf balls that you've got in. Three groups and those are the three things that you focus on so the first thing would be picking at a target quite close in hitting balls with real purpose real good visualization imagining you on the golf course and thinking about how positively hitting the shots ready for the game at the weekend once you finish that section of balls you move on to the next section and have little goals all the way through your practice session can I get five in a row on that green can I get three good contacts with this six iron then with the driver Mark out of fairway how many can I get into the fairway be positive about your results seven out often in the middle of the fairway that would look good for the weekend then when you turn upon the tee Saturday morning hopefully the positive practice session that you had the Wednesday night the positive mindset you had will follow you through to the round of golf and you'll be able to pull out some positives from the practice put them on the golf course and improve your score by having positive practiced mindset.
2018-08-21 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
If you're a golfer that struggles with the psychology and the mental approach to the game of golf and let's be honest there's lots of people that do. Then that practicing that sort of mental approach might be affecting the way you actually practice the game of golf. So the psychology and the mental approach that you have on the golf course needs to change. If you're going to get better but you also need to change the way you think about the game full stop so the way you think about the game Monday to Friday might actually affect the way you play on a Saturday we sometimes see that golfers they go to the practice range on a on a on a Wednesday night before the weekend game and they go with a negative attitude from the previous game. It kind of follows them into everything they do so they turn up and they throw their clubs on the floor and they loosely so whack balls away almost thinking I don't what the point of being here is because I'm never going to get any better at this game well if you have that attitude clearly your practice isn't going to get better and therefore you game isn't going to get any better so we want to approach every every game but also every practice session with a real sort of air of confidence. A real good ere of this is going to be my day and this is going to be my day on the Wednesday night on the practice round ready for the game that we have on a Saturday we can't just switch on the Saturday morning we've got to practice in a good state in a good frame of mind so a lot of golfers have a limited amount of time to practice we're not talk layers where we can all have sort of five six days a week to play golf it might just be the one session in that week another one round of golf that week and that session of the week is fundamentally important.
So I want you to take a positive practice attitude to the course and to the driving range so when you go to the driving range you've got. You've got a set number of goals that you want to try and achieve rather than just pounding balls at a flag and hoping that you get better you think right tonight I'm going to work my fifty yard pictured I'm going to work on the contact of my six signs I'm going to work on driving the ball straighter and then when you get there you section out the number of golf balls that you've got in. Three groups and those are the three things that you focus on so the first thing would be picking at a target quite close in hitting balls with real purpose real good visualization imagining you on the golf course and thinking about how positively hitting the shots ready for the game at the weekend once you finish that section of balls you move on to the next section and have little goals all the way through your practice session can I get five in a row on that green can I get three good contacts with this six iron then with the driver Mark out of fairway how many can I get into the fairway be positive about your results seven out often in the middle of the fairway that would look good for the weekend then when you turn upon the tee Saturday morning hopefully the positive practice session that you had the Wednesday night the positive mindset you had will follow you through to the round of golf and you'll be able to pull out some positives from the practice put them on the golf course and improve your score by having positive practiced mindset.
