A colleague is going off for a good two week vacation tonight..lucky dude! He was telling me of his plan bla bla bla which I do not really be envious of though. But one thing that got me is the get-together-for-a-good-round-of-golf-in-KL, that our KL buddy has planned for him! Damn…we both laid-off golf for quite sometime now, for a reason that we are no longer working in a country blessed with courses here and there.
Hope he’ll enjoy the game, and the evil part of me wishing him blessed with OBs…muahahah..
Well…..remind me of old days, bunch of us lazy ass, just waited until 4.30 before we slip out and hop in our cars driving 120Km/hr to the golf course which was not even 1 km away. Driving with one hand while another busy unbutton and changing office smart-shirt to Golf T shirt. And me, I had my CLK golf-geared! (Cute Little Kancil with clubs, used balls, shoes and shirt readily spared in it)
Another friend of mine has this mental strategy that hardly works even with him though. Before any game, he will read the scorecard and set target on each hole to match his handicap, so that he can go par or under eventually. Which hole to enjoy and which hole to struggle are all written and planned for. In a way, when he plays, he will have to stick to the plan. That’s like putting unnecessary pressure on him to meet the target, no matter how relax and compose he'll get.
Hope he’ll enjoy the game, and the evil part of me wishing him blessed with OBs…muahahah..
Well…..remind me of old days, bunch of us lazy ass, just waited until 4.30 before we slip out and hop in our cars driving 120Km/hr to the golf course which was not even 1 km away. Driving with one hand while another busy unbutton and changing office smart-shirt to Golf T shirt. And me, I had my CLK golf-geared! (Cute Little Kancil with clubs, used balls, shoes and shirt readily spared in it)
Another friend of mine has this mental strategy that hardly works even with him though. Before any game, he will read the scorecard and set target on each hole to match his handicap, so that he can go par or under eventually. Which hole to enjoy and which hole to struggle are all written and planned for. In a way, when he plays, he will have to stick to the plan. That’s like putting unnecessary pressure on him to meet the target, no matter how relax and compose he'll get.
Imagine if he blows the set target, he will get upset and try to recover from the next hole, and if he fails again, more pressure to recover from the next. And when it goes to the extend of having to get the impossible eagles for the next three holes to recover; he will have to give up the game. I say his strategy is useless (stroke play or system 36) no matter how hard he is trying to preach others to embrace his self-invented strategy!
Another is “playing your best at each hole” and let the score be consequential in nature. Forget about the bottom line, focus on matter at hand, so to say. So if you hit par at index 1 and blow at index 18 in system 36, be it – its your day! This strategy drives you to be more focus, as you are not going to be much distracted by other factors. Its like going along with your games naturally.
Another is “playing your best at each hole” and let the score be consequential in nature. Forget about the bottom line, focus on matter at hand, so to say. So if you hit par at index 1 and blow at index 18 in system 36, be it – its your day! This strategy drives you to be more focus, as you are not going to be much distracted by other factors. Its like going along with your games naturally.
Bet there are many more that you may hear or may have heard from your fellow golfers. The point is, yes, mental tuning strategy is damn important in this beautiful game that we all chose to play. Stick to what you believe is your best mental tuning strategy. We are not invented equal, physically and obviously emotionally. So no one formula can fix all or boleh diguna-pakai by all of us.
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