Mental Golf Lesson - Listen to Your Favourite Record

Listening to your favourite record

I am not talking about Mariah Carey or Sting or the Beach Boys, although their records are OK.

I am talking about your golf records and how you use them to track your performance and lower your golfing handicap. This golf tip aims to help you.

If you keep and record golf records you will be able to tell which part of your golf game is in good shape and which part needs to be polished up a bit, this will help you in playing better golf.

Keeping golf records can also help to improve certain parts of your game. If you think about a round of golf the main set of shots you will play are:

1. Drives
2. Irons to the Green
3. Chips
4. Bunker Shots
5. Putts

These are the key areas in which you will want to record your performance. If you keep records on each of these then you will know the exact faults that need practise.

So let’s help you to do this in a structured and easy to follow way.

Let’s start with the driver. For three rounds you need to be keeping a record of where your drives go, are they in the fairway, off of the fairway to the left(pull or hook)or off the fairway to the right (push or slice) (Reverse this if you are a LEFTIE)

You will usually have 14 or 15 Drives in a round and it is important to see what percentage of these are on the fairway, and if they are not on the fairway, which side they miss on.

Lets take the example below

7 drives on 50%
2 drives left 14%
5 drives right 36%

Now that’s a big percentage that are going off to the right which means you are pushing or slicing the ball.

You can see immediately where your problem lies and where you need to focus. Remember the drill about “Practising a Bad Shot”

Lets look at another example:

To get down in two from off the green you need to be pretty confident with your chips. You should always keep a record of how many of your shots are chips around the green and how many fall within 8 feet, 4 feet and 2 feet from the pin.

Lets take the example below if you have 8 chips onto the green

2 chips within 8 feet of hole 25%
5 chips within 4 feet of hole 62.5%
1 chip within 2 feet of hole 12.5%

Now if you look at it like this, I don’t know about you but I would think that looks very bad and it is definately a part of the game that needs serious improvement.

If you take some time to do this for every part of your game then you will soon see what mental golf thinking can do to improve your game.

If you would like some ideas on how to measure your performance for different parts of your game, just drop me a line to biggolf@biggolflesson.com

Enjoy this one

Richard