How to Stay Positive on the Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles
How to Stay Positive on the Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles

Doesn’t matter how experienced you are on the golf course. Definitely there’re going to be times when you have that bad round of golf. But just try to be positive about the bad round of golf. Try and minimize the impact let’s say. So if you have had a couple of bad holes lets try and minimize the impact of those couple of bad holes. And if we’ve had a bad experience let’s try and learn from that bad experience and try not to determine negative into a positive. So let’s say you are standing on the third tee you’ve had a great big slice and it’s gone out of bounds. The natural reaction is to pick the drive rope and wallop it on top of a tee marker and storm off. Well that’s definitely not going to do you any good and it certainly not going to win you any friends. The positive thing to do here is to take a step back, relax, deep breath what can I learn from that. What did I do to make that happen? What I’m I going to do with my provisional ball? Tee up another one think about the right connection and knock it down the middle.

Then go and have a look for your first one. If you can’t find it great carry on with the one that you’ve put in play. If you can find it let’s set ourselves a challenge now. The challenge is how can I get this back in play and make a boggy rather than knocking into the bad position over there. Finding it over there still mad and frustrate with yourself, getting worse and worse and worse and making one bad shot cause a whole bad round. So stop, step back, learn from the mistake, correct the mistake. Then set yourself a challenge of, ‘This is how I’m going to get the ball back in play.’ Make a boggy, make a double whatever it might be and then move on and learn from it. Try and be nice and positive when you are playing. You will have bad days and good days but in a way that’s the frustration but that’s the enjoyment with golf. If every time you went out and played you knew what you were going to score you had probably given the game up a long time ago. So stay in the moment, stay positive and if you’ve made a mistake you set yourself the challenge to recover for the fewer shots.

 2013-04-03

Doesn’t matter how experienced you are on the golf course. Definitely there’re going to be times when you have that bad round of golf. But just try to be positive about the bad round of golf. Try and minimize the impact let’s say. So if you have had a couple of bad holes lets try and minimize the impact of those couple of bad holes. And if we’ve had a bad experience let’s try and learn from that bad experience and try not to determine negative into a positive. So let’s say you are standing on the third tee you’ve had a great big slice and it’s gone out of bounds. The natural reaction is to pick the drive rope and wallop it on top of a tee marker and storm off. Well that’s definitely not going to do you any good and it certainly not going to win you any friends. The positive thing to do here is to take a step back, relax, deep breath what can I learn from that. What did I do to make that happen? What I’m I going to do with my provisional ball? Tee up another one think about the right connection and knock it down the middle.

Then go and have a look for your first one. If you can’t find it great carry on with the one that you’ve put in play. If you can find it let’s set ourselves a challenge now. The challenge is how can I get this back in play and make a boggy rather than knocking into the bad position over there. Finding it over there still mad and frustrate with yourself, getting worse and worse and worse and making one bad shot cause a whole bad round. So stop, step back, learn from the mistake, correct the mistake. Then set yourself a challenge of, ‘This is how I’m going to get the ball back in play.’ Make a boggy, make a double whatever it might be and then move on and learn from it. Try and be nice and positive when you are playing. You will have bad days and good days but in a way that’s the frustration but that’s the enjoyment with golf. If every time you went out and played you knew what you were going to score you had probably given the game up a long time ago. So stay in the moment, stay positive and if you’ve made a mistake you set yourself the challenge to recover for the fewer shots.