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Isn't it amazing
how the spouse of a golfer can tell how well the other
played the minute they walk in the door, without exchanging
so much as a word! They exude joy after a good game,
and droop after a bad one. Some golfers die a hundred
deaths on the course. Every shot is life and death.
Hit a good one and you're on top of the world. Duff
and you feel like a bum....... What a struggle!
I thought it was supposed to be a game! This approach
is problematic, and one that I was guilty of my own game.
That is, until my wife Donna stopped me in my tracks one day
with a simple phrase, in her beautiful Jacksonville accent:
'Don't get too high over the good ones, or too low over the
bad ones'.
The trick is to be able to focus, then let go. Focus,
let go. Focus, let go. People are so impressed
when they see a great golfer at the top of his game,
commenting on the incredible concentration. What they
fail to notice is that when the shot is on it's way, there
is a gap, a space in the intensity. Without that
letting go, the focus gets fuzzy. You need both sides
of the coin. Without tails to throw heads is
meaningless.
One way to learn letting go is to enjoy the scenery between
shots. This is a well known technique, one that Walter
Hagan used to parlay mediocre ball striking ability into
being one of the successful golfers of his time. His
quote 'Don't forget to smell the roses' pretty much says it
all.
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