Sports/Golf Psychology

[pokerjoke]

Being stressed about poor shots stopped me getting to single figures sooner
than I should have.
Ive never been a club thrower,my worst anger is torettes.
When I got calmer my handicap fell,now im 100% calm on the course.
In fact I love playing with someone who gets angry,to me that's one less opponent.

 

[CMAC]

A couple of years ago I saw a wonderful example of golfing psychology.
Because of a mess up in a draw my daughter and I were drawn with a 36 handicap lady in a mixed foursomes. Her husband was single figure.
My daughter was playing off 2 and this lady was absolutely petrified of spoiling our game.
We were chatting on the first tee and reassured her, telling her off 36 she was allowed 18 bad shots, one a hole, whereas my daughter was only allowed one bad shot.
She played the first 12 holes brilliantly and we joked along with her, counting her bad shots, which were few.
As a couple they were in a good position to win the competition. She then hit a poor drive on 12th and her stupid husband had a right go at her.
After that they both played very poorly.

probably something like this.....

Par 5
He screams a 300 yd laser straight drive, :thup:
she duffs the 2nd shot 10 yds,
he screams a 245yd 3wood to 3 feet from the pin, :thup:
she putts over the hole leaving the ball 6 feet further away,
he holes a snaking downhiller for a par. :thup:

"we really must do better than that" he says, to which she replies "what do you mean, you hit 3 of em"

da boom boom tish

true story