{"id":644,"date":"2010-06-19T00:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2015-03-07T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T03:08:30","slug":"same-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Same Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A great writer once wrote, “If you keep making the same mistakes over and over again you will never change. \u00a0If you make different mistakes you are creating change.” \u00a0No truer words have been written when it comes to your golf game. The same mistake you make over and over again is not change but is the same mistake over and over again. \u00a0If you find yourself slicing the ball over and over again or find yourself in the same situation again and again on the golf course, then you are repeating history, playing on negative history. \u00a0Create something new, play the hole a different way, play from a different spot on the golf course, and create a new history. \u00a0Succumbing to the same old “same old” is what golfers feel comfortable doing. \u00a0I hear, “At least I know what is going to happen.” \u00a0Why is knowing what is going to happen so acceptable in golf? \u00a0Why do golfers accept that they are going to hit bad shots regularly? \u00a0Why do golfers wait for failure to rear its familiar head? \u00a0This is what I cannot understand!<\/p>\n

Every golfer, deep down inside, wants to get better but I think golfers are afraid of getting better. Afraid of success, they expect bad shots and accept those shots as what is supposed to happen. <\/em><\/strong>Why is that supposed to happen? \u00a0Why can’t something good happen? \u00a0Because golfers wait for failure. \u00a0 They are comfortable when things go bad and uncomfortable when things are going good. \u00a0I spoke with a golfer today who was less than excited about shooting even par for nine holes. \u00a0He mentioned that he had his best round ever the other day when he shot 94. \u00a0He then went out and shot 84 the next time he played. \u00a0But his comment was, “That is not me, I will not keep it up, I’ll be back to shooting 100 soon.” \u00a0I am thinking to myself through the whole conversation, “but that is you,” you are the one who shot the 84, you are the one who shot even par for nine holes, why not do it more often? \u00a0Why wait for failure?<\/p>\n

I was told once, along time ago, by an old pro who is now in the golf hall of fame, that I had a “nice” game. \u00a0He then told me I had to learn how to score, how to be comfortable playing good golf. \u00a0I never really understood what he meant until I began to teach. \u00a0He meant that I had to get comfortable playing good golf and get over the emotions that come with playing out of my element. \u00a0I had to create a new comfort zone! \u00a0This is true for every level of golfer that plays the game. \u00a0Instead of wondering when the good fortune is going to end, one must learn to accept the change and embrace the new golfer. \u00a0Sure you’re not always going to play better, sure the bad shots will come, but don’t wait for them. \u00a0When you play better golf, whether for a hole, a round or two, tell yourself this is what I want, this is what I work for, this is my new game.<\/p>\n

This, my friends, starts on the range. \u00a0Instead of hitting, slice after slice waiting for that one good shot, do something different. \u00a0Make a swing that is comfortable, make that comfortable swing again and again. \u00a0Find a balanced finish; create a different miss, a consistent miss. \u00a0Check your alignment, there are too many golfers that aim incorrectly and make a beautiful swing only to have the ball end up right of the target. \u00a0They then precede to breakdown a somewhat nice golf swing to find that fleeting “good shot<\/em>.” \u00a0Golfers will hit shot after shot that is not acceptable to be satisfied for that one good shot. \u00a0I ask you to set up an alignment club, find a balance finish and create new misses. \u00a0These new misses are going to come from the performance mind trying to satisfy you by creating the result you desire. \u00a0If you aim correctly and find a balanced finish position you will create a new swing, but only after creating new misses. \u00a0Now these misses will be frustrating and ugly at first, but if you allow your performance mind to “declutter” all the bad habits that produced the “fleeting” good shots, your new misses will then be “fleeting,” creating a better swing. \u00a0The end result is a better golfer. \u00a0So change your golfing history on the course by playing a nemeses hole differently and by creating different misses on the range. \u00a0Create different mistakes to create a change.<\/p>\n

Then play golf…<\/p>\n

Golf Your Way.<\/p>\n

JB<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n


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A great writer once wrote, “If you keep making the same mistakes over and over again you will never change. \u00a0If you make different mistakes you are creating change.” \u00a0No truer words have been written when it comes to your golf game. The same mistake you make over and over again is not change but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,24,16,23,11,7,31,32,8],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rx-fundamentals","tag-golf","tag-golf-blogs","tag-golf-news","tag-golf-swing-analysis","tag-improve-your-golf-swing","tag-livegolflessons","tag-mental-game","tag-new-post","tag-online-golf-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}