Does Fear Prevent You From Having A Proper Way To Swing A Golf Club?

Fear in making mistakes in life is a big part of being human . This I profess, that I’m not an expert on and therefore can’t give advice. You can do a google search and find millions of pages on this information. What I can give to you is my experience with regards to fear when playing the game of golf.  Golf and reality have a way of blending into one another. I’ve seen all kinds of different attitudes from the most generous and forgiving to those you wouldn’t want to get near with a 10ft pole. Who are arrogant, frustrated,  mean spirited, nasty and their outright ugly on the outside. I have a saying,”the better golfer you become the more of an asswhole you become!” Although I do know many golfers amateur and professional who are the kindest people and I’m proud to be their friend.

Playing in a mens club for almost 30 years, you do form a bond with the golfers your playing with. It’s like any other social function where you do get to know them and their families. Where you attend events and golfing get away trips. Playing collegiate golf I’ve had the opportunity to play on some of the finest golf courses in the Northeast.

Only one thing that hasn’t changed in the hundreds of years since the sport began, and which can momentarily turn grown men and women into frothing, enraged lunatics who have seemingly lost all sense of decorum and reasonable behavior. That is the simple mistake of not knowing how to have the proper way to swing a golf club. The golf club failing to connect and striking a small white ball properly. Sending it not on a straight true path but on a wildly curving arc into the woods, or even worse out of bounds. It has turned more than one Dr. Jekyll into a seething Mr. or Mrs. Hyde, hurling golf clubs into the air, breaking them like matchsticks over their knees, bellowing obscenities into the air instead of yelling fore.

For most golfers overconfidence and nervousness does play a major factor in the psyche of a players game. After hitting a well-placed shot most average golfers will become overconfident and cocky in a way that harms their performance for their next shot. When it comes to nervousness golfers tend to value making birdie putts more than they value shooting par. That is why most golfers become very nervous and choke when aiming for a birdie. Nervousness cannot explain these short comings but, rather the mindset of the golfer when the pressure is on.

After I shot my 71 in the club championship, and don’t get me wrong it was my best day ever. I reflect back to the 17′th hole! As I was looking over the downhill slider of 20ft, I should have been thinking to myself that I had a chance to win,  and I still was one under par.  I’ll admit, nervousness did play into my thinking behavior and making birdie should’ve been eliminated from my golfing mindset. For 16 holes, I worked hard to this point to be under par and one mistake would eliminate all of my dreaming state that I was in.  When bogey did happen and it was the end result from taking the chance or risk in going for it. What it felt like was one big balloon being popped. Reality struck me across the face and it hurt.  Knowing I may never have this chance ever again to be under par or be in position to win the club championship.

All golfers will avoid the possibility of loss by playing conservatively when they have the opportunity to score big by eliminating the gamble or risk.  Golfers will play it safe by making a putt that ends up just in front of the hole, in order to set up a sure two putt. It does demonstrate that players sacrifice success when putting for birdie in order to avoid difficult follow-up putts.

If you fear making big mistakes in playing then your not alone. –-Tiger Woods and other great superstars who stand to win big paychecks from making or losing on short putts have this same fear as a weekend golfer.  Taking the safe route has its own costs. Even the best golfers will miss the opportunity to make birdies by taking the safer route to put themselves in best position to not make bogeys. This is done out of fear, because the agony of having to lose a stroke to par outweighs the thrill of a birdie and the loss in thousands of dollars.  Finishing second is sometimes better than first in regards to where you finish on the tournament money list.

How to bounce back from failure? It’s based upon your perceptions and mindset when making the decision to go for it or not.  Most golfers will avoid the temptations in order to avoid losing.  However, when it comes to competition and the stakes are much higher it’s best to build your decision making on experience.  Where to place the ball on the green, what is the best club to hit, adjust for wind,  rain or temperatures.  These are all decisions that have to be made before you can commit to your shot.

Golf is like a fine art. It’s like a dance that you need to have rhythm and tempo. You need the proper mindset of being patient and allow for the fact that most of your hits are going to be misshots. That the percentages of hitting perfect shots is 1 in 10, maybe 2 or 3 in 10. However, get it out of your head that you need to remain focused and precise or you’ll pay the price.  It doesn’t help that golfers in your group are whispering while your teeing off about negative things like don’t miss it or look out for out of bounds. Golf prides itself on sportsmanship, honor (what other sport requires players to turn themselves in after a rules violation?), and above all else good conduct. It can have the exact opposite effect the angry, outraged, the yin to the sport’s gentle seeming yang. If anyone can describe these fractures of personae, it is the local golf pro. Odds are he or she has seen it all before. They have witnessed the breakdown of a happy go lucky golfer into an enraged, bellowing course malcontent.

I’ve personally seen the same emotions and behaviors with the golf professionals I have caddied for. I have seen it with doctors, lawyers and business men. I have seen it with everyday folks who would never act this way at home. People who are well rounded in life,   meticulous and perfect at what they do in the real world.  They come out to play and want to be automatically perfect and shoot par are the same ones who fail miserably at this game. They can’t be this bad and it drives them insane. I mean completely wacko! Instead of looking at the root cause of their problems.

The most overlooked areas of golf instructions in regards to cause and effects is the mechanics of your golf swing. In order to improve consistency golfers need to develop the knowledge of how to have the proper way to swing a golf club, and what the club head is doing at impact.  These same golfers get out there after spending hours on the driving range and putting green, and they just flat out hit  terrible shots.  Man, they become flat out angry. It becomes a game to see who can blow up first. You could be a real nice person, really mild mannered but, that’s golf.  It’s a game you play but you can never beat it,  and that drives the same golfers insane.  They figure they’ve put in the time and money, and this kind of thing shouldn’t happen to them.  Then they go out take five perfect practice swings, then dump it right into the creek.  But you know what? That’s golf! It’s not real life!

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Alright, let’s talk a little more about this DVD and why I am so
excited about it… Too many people neglect their putting game.  I’m
guilty of it; I’m sure you are too.  Too many times we spend hours
on the range perfecting our full swing and just don’t quite have
time to stop by that putting green on our way out.  But aren’t you
tired of hitting the perfect drive and the perfect approach shot,
only to 3-putt for a BOGEY!?  Isn’t it time you gave your putting
game the attention it deserves?

As you can tell, I’m passionate about this DVD because I KNOW its
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green and stop being nervous about your putts and embarrassed when
you miss a short one.

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- The #1 mistake that most golfers make when putting and how to avoid
it
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- The one simple key to accuracy
- The proper stance
- How to roll your ball the exact distance you need to go
- How to know exactly how long your stroke needs to be for every putt
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Thanks and have a great day!

Bobby Eldridge and  Scott Kowalski

The Proper Way To Swing A Golf Club Starts With Your Putting Touch!

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