Causes and Cures to Poor Mentality and Bad Golf Shots (Video) - by Pete Styles
Causes and Cures to Poor Mentality and Bad Golf Shots (Video) - by Pete Styles

This one area of the golf that’s meant to look like pros but I think people often suffer from and it’s not necessarily down to lack of confidence or lack of actual skill or ability but it’s down to lack of committing to the shot they actually see. So when you’re looking at your golf shot, you’ve worked out your distance and you’ve worked out where the danger and the trouble is; Then you’ve got to sort of picture the shot you want to hit and really commit to the fact you’re going to hit it. And often the sort of issues revolves around the club selection that people are making, if you’ve got a distance and it’s maybe just between clubs, it’s not quite a seven, it’s not quite an eight, people get a bit too hung up on that decision and then they half hit the seven or they try and over hit their eight iron.

What you got to understand is that each club is only different to the next one by about ten yards. So if you’re aiming for the middle of the green and the green is lets say 30 yards long, maybe 20 yards long if it’s a tight green. You got at least two clubs that will land on that green and possibly even three clubs that would land on the green. So I’d much rather you went ahead and hit the seven irons with commitment or the eight iron with commitment rather than sort of second guessing yourself. So if you’re going to make a mistake, make that mistake with a decent committed golf swing and the mistake won’t be so big. Even if you’ve picked the right club, if you don’t commit to the right shot you’re trying to just baby the ball upon to the green. That won’t work out for you either.

So once you’ve picked your target line, commit to that, once you’ve picked your golf club, commit to that. Setup over the ball and then forget all the decisions that you’ve made, you’ve made the right decision, let’s go ahead and commit to it. And even if you haven’t made the right decision, your mistake won’t be so bad but don’t stand over the golf ball still second guessing yourself right up into the last second, trying to steer the ball out on the green. That’s not going to work for you, so make your decisions, commit to those decisions, tell yourself you’ve got it right, knock it out there onto the green and even if the decision wasn’t correct, your mistake won’t be too bad.

 2012-06-06

This one area of the golf that’s meant to look like pros but I think people often suffer from and it’s not necessarily down to lack of confidence or lack of actual skill or ability but it’s down to lack of committing to the shot they actually see. So when you’re looking at your golf shot, you’ve worked out your distance and you’ve worked out where the danger and the trouble is; Then you’ve got to sort of picture the shot you want to hit and really commit to the fact you’re going to hit it. And often the sort of issues revolves around the club selection that people are making, if you’ve got a distance and it’s maybe just between clubs, it’s not quite a seven, it’s not quite an eight, people get a bit too hung up on that decision and then they half hit the seven or they try and over hit their eight iron.

What you got to understand is that each club is only different to the next one by about ten yards. So if you’re aiming for the middle of the green and the green is lets say 30 yards long, maybe 20 yards long if it’s a tight green. You got at least two clubs that will land on that green and possibly even three clubs that would land on the green. So I’d much rather you went ahead and hit the seven irons with commitment or the eight iron with commitment rather than sort of second guessing yourself. So if you’re going to make a mistake, make that mistake with a decent committed golf swing and the mistake won’t be so big. Even if you’ve picked the right club, if you don’t commit to the right shot you’re trying to just baby the ball upon to the green. That won’t work out for you either.

So once you’ve picked your target line, commit to that, once you’ve picked your golf club, commit to that. Setup over the ball and then forget all the decisions that you’ve made, you’ve made the right decision, let’s go ahead and commit to it. And even if you haven’t made the right decision, your mistake won’t be so bad but don’t stand over the golf ball still second guessing yourself right up into the last second, trying to steer the ball out on the green. That’s not going to work for you, so make your decisions, commit to those decisions, tell yourself you’ve got it right, knock it out there onto the green and even if the decision wasn’t correct, your mistake won’t be too bad.