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Golf is a Dramatic Sport
One’s golfing career is a series of personal challenges and the associated sense of achievement (and frustration). Golf has a rich history of playing for prizes, money or simply glory. Nick Faldo battles with Bernhard Langer on a world stage but there is a contest fought with equal vigour every day on your local golf course. Thanks to the handicap system, players of different talent and proficiency can still compete against each other on equal terms.

Of course, the individual golfer is always fighting the personal battle of lowering one’s handicap with the holy grail of becoming a scratch player the ultimate achievement. Perhaps more realistically, the average golfer is striving to complete a round of their favourite course on par.

Contrary to popular belief, golf makes for great spectator viewing especially if one makes the effort to actually attend a tour championship. One can walk the course with the great champions and share the high and lows – sometimes listening to their expletives ! When the Ryder Cup is played, golf takes on international importance with teams from opposite sides of the Atlantic not only playing golf but playing for the reputations and egos of their continent.

In recent years, increased TV coverage of the tours, especially on SKY, has brought the drama of golf to a wider audience. Of course, the ever increasing wealth of golf information on the Internet can only further promote the sp
Golf has something to offer everyone. It can be played as a gentle form of exercise or as a professional sport. There is a wealth of backup in the form of countless equipment manufacturers, an ever increasing number of courses plus a wealth of information in every conceiveable form. Like the best pastimes and hobbies, there is a substantial social element.

So if you were wondering what the fuss was about, then hopefully you can appreciate the game a bit more now. But at the end of the day, there is no substitute for first hand experience so why not contact your local club today !

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A Game for All
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Golf can be enjoyed by people of all ages and both sexes. Approximately 20% of golfers are women. In recent years, the abolition of the class system in society has been paralleled in golf thus opening the game to people of all social backgrounds. More recently, largely due to the Tiger Woods phenomena, there is a growing interest amongst ethnic minorities.
The social aspect of golf is sometimes as important as actually spending time on the course. Joining a club or society is an excellent way of socialising, of making new friends and of course, business connections. Clubs vary tremendously from the casual and relaxed to the almost regimentally administrated with the associated pecking order and formalities.

Many clubs organise both social and playing events with a calendar spanning the whole year. It is not unusual for a club to stage a competition every weekend during the summer months. Societies often travel as a group to clubs around the country. These can be as much as excuse for a day trip as they are an opportunity to play golf or to secure that important business contract. It is nonetheless tremendously enjoyable especially as one usually associates with people of a similar background.

In a sense this sees golf as coming full circle. It was originally played by the working class on the east coast of Scotland. Only in later years, largely due to cost, did it become the preserve of gentlemen and royalty.

A round of golf is both physical and mental exercise without being too strenuous. It is therefore healthy and safe especially as one can play at a comfortable pace, be it fast or slow. Surely there is nothing more invigorating than spending a few hours walking a links course with the fresh sea breeze to accompany you. Golf is also good for the soul as it invariably brings one closer to nature.

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There were some amazing golf and putting psychology lessons on show with Phil Mickelson’s stunning win at the Tour Championship at East Lake this weekend. Yes I know Tiger won the FedEx Cup and the $10 million with an amazingly consistent series of results. But given Phil’s year, both on and especially off the course, his victory on Sunday was a simply joyous and breathtaking turnaround. Phil had looked out of sorts in recent weeks and after his quadruple bogey 8 on the 14th hole in the first round, I had sadly anticipated him failing again over the weekend.

You’ve probably heard about Phil’s putting woes and his comments about how “I’ve hit the ball so well and yet my scores haven’t reflected that.” You’ve probably also heard about how “Bones” Mackay, Phil’s longstanding caddie, urged him to get help the week before the Tour Championship from Dave Stockton, one of the best putters in golf and twice a major winner. As if those weren’t sufficient reasons, Stockton also putts a bit like Phil does when he’s at his best.

So what major flaws did Dave Stockton notice in Phil’s putting stroke and what major changes did he prescribe? You’d expect them to be fairly severe given Phil’s recent comments about the inconsistent putting that has plagued him off and on over the last two years. He’s also talked about how his poor putting has detracted from the progress Butch Harman’s been making with his swing over the same period.

Well, Phil described the change in an interview as a “minor tweak” and went on to say “No, it’s very minor. It’s very minor. But [my] hands are back ahead like I used to putt, and the ball is just rolling much better.” In another interview, he talked about Dave Stockton’s comments just “reaffirming the way I’ve putted since I was a kid.”

So what golf psychology lessons can we learn from that then, Andrew, I hear you say? Well first of all, it confirms that if you’ve hit a particular shot well in the past, then you already unconsciously know how to hit it that well again – without changing your technique. All you need to do is to vividly recall one of those earlier successful shots and allow your unconscious golf mind to get on with the job as you get back into your comfort zone. I’d certainly include this type of visualisation in your pre-shot routine.

All that probably happened to Phil was he missed a few putts, lost his confidence and started to fear putting rather than enjoying the challenge. When that happens with any part of our golf game, we stop enjoying ourselves as much as we did and we start consciously analysing things. It doesn’t take too long before we start thinking there’s something drastically wrong with our swing or putting stroke and we start changing things, even though we seemed to have a perfectly effective method before.

This doesn’t just happen over a long period of time. For many of us it can happen in the middle of a round. Have you ever had the experience of playing a series of shots quite well and then hitting a bad shot, maybe a big slice? Did you badly pull or hook the next shot? If you did, you probably consciously thought you needed to make a swing correction, despite already knowing how to hit the ball quite well unconsciously. Well, you did say that you’d hit a series shots quite well, didn’t you.

Another golf psychology lesson was written on Phil Mickelson’s face all day on Sunday, not just when he won. He was clearly enjoying himself immensely, even before he started scoring well. After the round, he commented that, “Today was a lot of fun” and that’s not the way he’s been talking in recent weeks. Isn’t it odd how golfers seem to play so much better when they’re enjoying themselves, even if some, like a certain future Ryder Cup captain, have a hard time convincing us of that fact.

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