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Just recently I've been trying to focus/sharpen my shot making ability. What that boils down to is trusting not only your swing but your decision. I'm sure many of you, like me; get out and practice. During our practice we start grooving our swing and shot patterns. Pretty easy stuff to do when you have a pile of mulligans setting beside you. However, out on the course there are no mulligans. We all have a pre-shot routine, setup, and a swing of some sort. Some of us (very few) swing like Adam Scott while most of us swing like a damn amateur. LOL What I'm getting at and trying to focus more on is actually "Trusting" what I have planned for each shot. It's not easy is it? I'm sure you - like me sometimes; you try to "Guide" your shots around the course instead of executing a plan. The guiding strategy seldom is successful.

My golf swing is fairly repeatable and reliable most days. My problem (one of them anyway) is me not trusting the shot or plan. Yesterday I flirted a bit with truly Trusting my plan. Decision, swing, execution. After my round I decided to start trying to focus more on just letting it happen. It's all very basic and fundamental really. You've all probably heard it a thousand times.... I just need to get out of my way and let it happen. Right?

You may have also heard this one.... Easier said than done.

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I was playing really well on the back nine yesterday, so we'll that I was -1 heading to the 16th tee, the shot was 167yds, par 3, he wind was helping from back right to left pin was back left of the green, I wasn't sure what to hit, if the wind was up I can hit 9i, if the wind was down it was 8i, the problem was that anything over the green would likely run into the woods down the hill, so I went with 8i and didn't trust it, made a poor swing hit 50 yards and into a gulch full of mud and water, tried to get up and in for 4 but ended up with 5, it was a case of not trusting what I had done all day, and this is to just swing and worry about one shot at a time. I did birdie 18, so even par 36 on the back.

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To be honest, I don't TRUST anything I do on a golf course anymore. I've become a very streaky player over the past couple of years. This goes beyond the occasional bad round or the driver not working one day, irons not cooperating, or having a bad day putting.

 

I will go for a few weeks of shooting low 80's to high 70's, then, the wheels fall off and I can't seem to do anything right. It's like I'm a new golfer. A few weeks of that and it's back to being able to play again. I have no answer for it, so no..... I don't trust any shot, let alone the next one. :(

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When I'm playing well yes but it really is a chicken or egg scenario.

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 After my round I decided to start trying to focus more on just letting it happen. It's all very basic and fundamental really. You've all probably heard it a thousand times.... I just need to get out of my way and let it happen. Right?

You may have also heard this one.... Easier said than done.

 

"I'm going to give you a little advice. There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball."  :)

 

I can tell you that I can do this for a few holes, maybe even 9 holes.  Then for some reason I lose the focus on a shot and mishit or it just doesn't go like I planned and I get in trouble.  That's when I start thinking about what I did and what I need to do so it doesn't happen again.  The round is lost. It's not easy for me to forget that last shot.

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I always find that I play better in pressure scenario's.  Match play, league play, money on the line etc...

 

The reason is you concentrate more and your head is in the game.  You have to trust the next shot and forget about the last one.  You can relive all the shots you want when you get to #19, but dwelling on a past shot and letting it affect your next one is a sure recipe for disaster on the course.

 

Plaid I'm betting if you can get good at trusting your next shot you will take 2-3 strokes off your handicap.  Especially if you can make yourself forget about a bad shot and continue to trust in the next one.

 

I usually find when I'm not playing well I'm trying to force it instead of letting it happen.  I'm trying to bite off too much or play the hero shot.  Late last season I switched to my K.I.S.S. version of golf.  Off the tee just try to get it to a place where you have a shot at the green.  On the next one don't worry about where the pin is, just hit to the biggest part of the green.  Draining putts is fun, and I try to make everything.  But...don't give yourself the big miss.  I'd rather have tap in par's all day than blow it by 6 feet and three putt.

 

All that is much easier said than done, but you are spot on with the trust aspect.  If you can trust your next shot it makes the game so much easier.

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I've really tried hard to concentrate on one shot at a time, one swing at a time, if I hit a bad shot, hit a good one the next time, really concentrating on not having 2 bad ones in a row. Don't let one bad shot turn into a bunch of bad shots because I got angry from the first bad shot. You have to Trust that you can make a good shot. You've done it many time before, you can do it again, trust yourself

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I didn't trust myself today.  Guess what... I shot the exact same bad score as yesterday.  This is  getting old.

We don’t stop playing the game because we get old; we get old because we stop playing the game.”

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Yes, I finally have a swing that will hold up under pressure.

 

The key is simple. A pre-shot routine that instills trust.

 

My faults are tension and not completing the back swing.

 

Tension kills distance and not taking a complete back swing kills the tempo and accuracy.

 

If I am not feeling comfortable with a shot, I will take at least three practice swings, and reevaluate at that point. I have never timed it but I doubt this adds 10 seconds which is a lot less time than having to drop or go find the errant shot.

 

My bigger problem lately, is simply not concentrating and doing a proper pre-shot routine.

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