Temper Control your emotions control your golf game (Video) - by Pete Styles
Temper Control your emotions control your golf game (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now if you're honest with yourself and you analyze how many times you felt like you had a really good golf score going and then suddenly the wheels fall off and you start playing worse and you end up getting quite angry with yourself. You analyze how many times you've done that and you realize that you're probably worried the really good number of opportunities for you to play your best round or to reduce your handicap. And it's really that you let your angle get the better of you not to self-perpetuate and think. Because when you realize that you're getting angry, you get more angry. You get more angry, you play worse and you really have a bit of a downfall.

So here's a great little tips trying to help you just control your emotions. What I'd like to see you do is just break the golf course down into lumps of three holes or rather than playing nine holes only one go or 18 holes all in one go and setting yourself one big maybe even unrealistic target of shooting level par. Just break it down into little three-hole chunks. And for these three holes, I want to score this many. And for these three holes I want to score this many. Make sure that target is realistic. If you achieve that target, give yourself a pat on the back and move on to the next hole. If you don’t achieve that target, don’t get too round up, don’t get too angry. Play three holes, forget it about it move on to the next holes and carry on.

The next thing would be to just make sure that you have a sort of process-driven results or process-driven feeling on the tee rather than outcome feeling. You don’t want to stand on the first tee and think, "If this ball goes in those trees I'm going to throw my club again." You got to stand there and think, "If I do X, Y, and Zed, I know I'm going to hit the ball on to the fairway." That's how you practice. You practice by getting the processes right and producing nice results rather than standing there getting yourself to sort of call top in where the balls going to go where the danger is. If you do everything right as you know you should do on the practice ground, you're going to hit much better results out on the golf course. So set yourself realistic target. Don’t get yourself to round up with your own temper because that's the self-perpetuating problem. And make sure you're focused much more on the process than the outcome. Work on the principles that you've practiced hard on the driving range that will produce really good results for you're out in the golf course too.

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Now if you're honest with yourself and you analyze how many times you felt like you had a really good golf score going and then suddenly the wheels fall off and you start playing worse and you end up getting quite angry with yourself. You analyze how many times you've done that and you realize that you're probably worried the really good number of opportunities for you to play your best round or to reduce your handicap. And it's really that you let your angle get the better of you not to self-perpetuate and think. Because when you realize that you're getting angry, you get more angry. You get more angry, you play worse and you really have a bit of a downfall.

So here's a great little tips trying to help you just control your emotions. What I'd like to see you do is just break the golf course down into lumps of three holes or rather than playing nine holes only one go or 18 holes all in one go and setting yourself one big maybe even unrealistic target of shooting level par. Just break it down into little three-hole chunks. And for these three holes, I want to score this many. And for these three holes I want to score this many. Make sure that target is realistic. If you achieve that target, give yourself a pat on the back and move on to the next hole. If you don’t achieve that target, don’t get too round up, don’t get too angry. Play three holes, forget it about it move on to the next holes and carry on.

The next thing would be to just make sure that you have a sort of process-driven results or process-driven feeling on the tee rather than outcome feeling. You don’t want to stand on the first tee and think, “If this ball goes in those trees I'm going to throw my club again.” You got to stand there and think, “If I do X, Y, and Zed, I know I'm going to hit the ball on to the fairway.” That's how you practice. You practice by getting the processes right and producing nice results rather than standing there getting yourself to sort of call top in where the balls going to go where the danger is. If you do everything right as you know you should do on the practice ground, you're going to hit much better results out on the golf course. So set yourself realistic target. Don’t get yourself to round up with your own temper because that's the self-perpetuating problem. And make sure you're focused much more on the process than the outcome. Work on the principles that you've practiced hard on the driving range that will produce really good results for you're out in the golf course too.