E-Guide to Golf

Golf is as physical or technical and how much is mental? Most professional golfers, instructors, teachers and experts in golf will tell you that golf is a mental game to 80-90%.

Many do not know the history of American Colonel George Hall, skillful golfer, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for 5 years, in conditions of captivity far from healthy. Confined in a tiny cell, to keep the mind occupied and to keep the psychological balance, mentally George played a round of golf at least once a day. Imagined playing with his friends in his favorite field, I saw all the details, holes, possible obstacles, even small deformations of the ground. It regularly imagined playing well and winning. Recently returned to America, played a round with some friends and, despite the physical and health tutt 'altro che best, managed to play at the same level of skill (professional) who had first to go to Vietnam. His friends were surprised because they knew well that for five years he could not have played. His answer was that, in fact, that game he had played and won many times in his mind: almost every day over the past five years. In the case of George, the body was weakened and no longer had the prestanza when played by professional, but in this case, the mental visualization done with a detailed and prolonged, led to obtain an amazing result.

Most professional golfers, instructors, teachers and experts in golf will tell you that golf is a mental game to 80-90%. They are right.

At the same technique and physical preparation, the difference between a champion player and a mid-level depends on the ability to handle the game mentally. A sample can maintain the status of the area and concentration for much longer, then less wrong and when wrong, because a sample is wrong, he manages to recover much more quickly and fall more rapidly in the state of mind suitable to a game best .

The mental part of the game to be considered at various levels. The levels that I consider here are:

Learning, even learning the basics is a mental as well as physical and technical, perhaps you're still refining the technique and you will need to accelerate learning and strengthen your confidence in your ability to learn.

Practice: Six at a good level, but you need to consolidate the technical and strengthen your confidence in the ability to grow further in the game.

Game Journal: Practice in your game is great but when you race, you can not do equally well. Or have times when the big games alternating with periods not meet you.

Many players have already run at least one perfect shot with all the sticks in their bag in various more or less favorable. Their mind-body system has already stored the optimal way to execute these shots.

Many players have already tried the experience of playing at most of prorpio technical and physical potential.

Many players have already experienced moments of excellent play. Being able to concentrate those moments of excellent play in 18 consecutive holes and repeated on a regular basis ...

Because the number of people who do that is much less than the number of people who would (and could) do?
The answer lies in the negative interference, which create the gap between the potential that a player has, based on its physical and technical preparation, and the actual result obtains. Interference for negative mean performance anxiety, tension, nervousness, doubt, insecurity, nervousness on the first tee or other negative anchors along the route and the resulting types of physical symptoms such as tremors, restlessness, muscle spasms, nervous tics, pains and so forth. For example, anxiety may benefit from determining the difference between the best game in training and a disappointing performance in the race, and this difference is even more pronounced as more important is the outcome that you want to achieve. One of the main objectives of training for the mental golf, and more, is to eliminate the negative interference to the movement and the game fluiscano in a natural way and that the best game becomes more consistent and regular. And more fun for the player.

In conclusion, the Mental Training can be very useful for those players who
- Results of the game less than their potential physical and technical.
- Wish to improve their level of play more quickly.
- Feel that it is difficult if not impossible, to overcome their limitations
- Are notice of one or more aspects of their game they can not even express the way you want, and want to do something about it.
- Are considered strong but already know that they can still improve.