Your Inner Golf Guru by James Ragonnet

Your Inner Golf Guru by James Ragonnet

Author:James Ragonnet
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781683583998
Publisher: Sports Publishing
Published: 2020-09-16T16:00:00+00:00


A Yardstick for Failure

If you can hit only six or seven good shots for every ten, you’re hindered by flawed thinking and bad habits. If so, consider inventorying your shots over several rounds. Determine what percentage of your shots is acceptable. Your percentage of bad shots constitutes your yardstick for failure. The higher the percentage of bad shots, the more work you need to do.

Don’t expect some golf guru to put your game together. Put yourself together. Stop sugarcoating your golf mess. If you think your game is as smooth as a ball bearing, you’ll never grow.

Dramatic growth doesn’t begin when you’re reading a book, viewing a video, meditating on a yoga mat, or walking alone on the beach. It happens after a bad round in the throes of anger, frustration, disappointment, and failure. It happens when you resolve to change what you’re doing. Appointments for growth arise from chaos and despair.

All behavioral and cognitive changes entail risk. A major issue facing golfers is risk-assessment. You need a measured, balanced, logical, and scientific approach to change what you’re thinking and doing. Growth depends on your ability to select the best swing methodologies among many options.

Your mindset determines your thinking. Your thinking determines your swing. Your swing determines your game. And your game determines peace of mind.

Before you can assess your swing, assess your cognitive framework. If you’re satisfied with your game—distance off the tee, greens in regulation, putts per round, and ball-striking ability—don’t change a thing. However, if you’re dissatisfied with your game, change your thinking and doing.

To initiate change, assess your risk-propensity. In sum, weigh the potential gains and losses associated with making swing changes. Are you patient and persistent enough to see your game get worse before it improves? Do you want a swing-change in the form of a major breakthrough or a swing-adjustment in the form of a quick fix? Establish a context for your swing changes.

Dr. Amos Tversky, a Stanford University researcher, studied the risk propensities of decision-makers. Tversky found that most people avoid making changes to avert negative results. In sum, people tend to change their habits to avoid losses rather than to achieve gains.

“The threat of a loss,” Tversky writes, “has a greater impact on a decision than the possibility of an equivalent gain.” No wonder stymied golfers cling to flawed methodologies.

Don’t be risk-averse or risk-prone. Be risk-balanced. Assess the risks associated with making swing changes. To foster growth, you must take calculated risks.



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