Would You Like to Learn to Trust Your Swing and Shoot Lower Scores Today?

Would You Like to Learn to Trust Your Swing and Shoot Lower Scores Today

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If you don't trust your swing then you are going to be doing a lot of analysing and attempting to make your swing happen on the course. This is fundamentally wrong when it comes to peak performance.

For the sake of simplicity we divide our thinking, or brain function (the mind) into two divisions, the conscious and the unconscious. It is your unconscious that performs at peak levels. It is only your unconscious that can beautifully co-ordinate your muscles to produce the best possible performance at any given time.

Unfortunately (most especially in the Western world) we have been taught to consciously analyse and in many cases over think things instead of trusting the infinite intelligence which is the unconscious.

Swing thoughts are the realm of the conscious. Useful if you need to learn something by analysing performance, getting feedback and making adjustments but really bad if you are trying to play your best golf.

Your conscious mind is not capable of properly controlling a very complex set of muscle moves such as those necessary to perform a golf swing. Your conscious will attempt to control a small part of your body in order to try and complete the swing adjustment you are trying to make and your unconscious will try to pick up the slack. The problem is that the interference in muscle groups from those the conscious mind is using really messes with the rest of your swing.

This is why any coach worth their salt will tell you that you simply cannot have loads of swing thoughts going on in your head while you are trying to score on the course. Swing thoughts, swing changes and grooving a body move are for the practice ground.

There is some debate as to whether one swing thought that is not really related to the biomechanics of the swing is beneficial to some golfers. If a player absolutely has to have a swing thought then I will strongly advise ONE ONLY and that it is not a mechanical interference. In the long term I would like to see no swing thoughts while playing and getting the golfer completely target focussed.

When you walk on the course you go there to score and the only way to do that is to leave your swing mechanics alone and keep focussed on the target and playing one shot at a time so that your unconscious swings your body.

In other words you have to learn to TRUST your swing. Now I know that's all well and good when you're playing well, then there is no concern and you just trust and swing away, but what about when you're not playing well?

When you believe you have a swing problem and you have to play golf you have two choices.

Try and consciously control your swing with swing thoughts and risk a really bad round.

Trust your swing anyway.

My advice is that you just say "to heck with it" and trust your swing anyway. Here's why. If you trust in your unconscious to swing your body and get the ball moving toward the target, it will do this a lot better than you can consciously trying to run your swing mechanics, rhythm and timing, weight shift, squaring the club face, etc

I am in no doubt what-so-ever that you will always score better in trust mode no matter what you believe about your swing.

The hard part is to trust a swing that you have doubts about, and this is one of the classic times when strong mental game training kicks in to help you. It's about developing all aspects of your mental game and becoming "mentally tough."

There is no shortcut or magic pill. You need to get a program and work it but the dividends a good mental game pays can be extraordinary. Most amateurs end up being quite amazed at just what the mental game of golf entails and how well it delivers on all aspects of their game. It's like an iceberg, the more you learn about it the larger and more beneficial it becomes but on the surface there was not a whole lot to see.

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