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Keeping Score – One Shot at a Time
If you have played for any length of time, chances are, you have experienced “getting ahead of yourself” i.e. counting your score before you finished the round, then all of a sudden something happens to derail what could / should have been. You are not alone. Golf journals are full of stories of touring pros momentary lost of focus and losing the lead or worst the tournament. Conventional wisdom indicates that staying in the moment improves the chances of playing our best. But, how do you develop a ONE SHOT AT A TIME mindset? When I first started getting serious about beating “Old Man Par”, the way I was taught…
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New Swing for an old body
The first thing I noticed, upon my return to playing golf after 16 plus years away, was how much things had changed. “Well duh !”, you say. Well, yes, but it was not what I was thinking it would be. My thoughts were about how much the technology had changed. However, it soon became apparent I could still score with my 1995 model of Golden Rams; front nine of 42, 5 pars, 2 bogeys, a double, and a triple. Not too bad considering the time away from the game. And, the back nine started off okay, bogey, par. Then reality set in! Two plus hours of turning, twisting, swinging, bending…
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Shooting my age, totally delusional?
Merriam-Webster defines delusional as something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; as in believing “they will finish on schedule” or in the case of shooting one’s age; “delusions of grandeur”. And, I must admit the first few times I had the thought of “How cool it would be to shoot my age”, the next thought was “YOU ARE TOTALLY NUTS”. However, as I am now in the mid seventies age bracket, perhaps “delusional moments of grandeur” can turn into reality. Now, way back while playing to a plus 3 or better, I did shoot mid seventies or better most of the time, the only problem, I was in…
