So I finished part 2 of how to get over a bad round of golf.

I actually had a bad streak of rounds…4 out of 5 in fact until I finally broke through with a 77 on a championship course.

Like everything else in golf, contrary to the golf industry, this is 90% of the time, a mental problem and not a physical one. Golfers go crazy trying to “fix” what they think is wrong and create more problems in the process.

…can you say David Duvall?

I give you 2 techniques in the video below to come back and ride the see-saw of you playing this game back up to the top. As usual, I say things in this video that many golf instructors would never teach.

You watch and see and make the call yourself. I might just save you a bunch of time and money.

Transcript

Hi Craig Sigl here. This is part 2 of “How To Get Over A Bad Round”

Getting right to the point here, there are 2 things you need to do in order to wipe out a bad round from your psyche.

1. and this is the most important. You’ve got to come to some sort of a resolution thought about the whole experience. In other words, come to a conclusion that you can accept and live with about what happened that allows you to move on. For instance. After my bad round, I just tell myself that I have those bad rounds every once in awhile to remind myself that you never master this game and that is why it is so addictive and also satisfying when I do have a great round. It’s the contrast of high scores that make the low scores I shoot such an awesome feeling. Part of the deal!

We don’t need to understand what mechanically went wrong with our game necessarily in order to come to a conclusion. If a mechanical flaw in our game is obvious, then sure, go ahead and get some instruction or work it out on the range if you know how to deal with the issue.

What you don’t want to do is walk around with an endless thought stream of “Why did this happen to me, I need to fix it” It happens to everyone like I mentioned in the first video. And here’s the key: More than likely, there’s nothing wrong with your game. There’s often nothing to fix! Don’t go trying to fix something that isn’t broken.

Golf is a weird game. One day, you go out there and you hit every fairway off the tee and a few days later, you can’t hit a one. And then a week or two later, you’re back to hitting every fairway! Be patient because more than likely, this is going to be the case for you if you take my advice here in this video

Because your golf swing or putting stroke isn’t necessarily like a machine where parts get broken and have to be replaced like a car. No. Human beings cannot be reduced to their parts like a machine. Sometimes all you have to do is wait it out…

which brings us to the 2nd thing you need to do to get back on track.

2. Distance yourself from the event. When we think of our choke or bad round, it’s like an object taht seems like it’s right there around or in front of us. We sense it being close to us. Maybe that it surrounds us! What you want to do is some kind of imagination or mental intention to get away from it…literally.

You can think of the choke and then “push it away or behind you” You can walk away from it yourself. You can drift off to sleep at night and “breathe it out of your body” There’s lots of ways to do this. Be creative. Your way is best for you. Just get some distance between you and that round. It’s a mental intention.

To make this easy, I recommend that you not play any golf for awhile. Give it a break. Allow those overall good feelings you have about the game come back on their own without being contaminated by your latest round. They will. They always do if you give yourself some space to clear it.

It isn’t too often that I have such “universal” tips that I think can help everyone. Most golf advice needs to be taken with a grain of salt and decided by the golfer if it’s going to work.
I think you will agree with me on this video, but more importantly, will you do it.
Click the video below to see what I mean

The One Best Golf Tip Of All Time

Transcript

Do you want to score lower? No really, I mean it because I’ve got a strategy here in this 2-minute video that if you adopt it in your game, your scores WILL go down and you will probably agree with me that it’s true when you hear it. The issue though, is that very few golfers will actually do this even though it’s so easy and here it is:

Every round that you go out there and play, dedicate that round to working on ONE thing that will make the biggest difference in your game. Did you hear me…ONE item that if you ingrain it, will really contribute to your consistency. Most golfers are just flat out, overwhelmed with advice and tips and tactics and all it does is cause tension and ruin their swing.

Instead, as you walk the fairway when you have time for spare thoughts, think about that one thing. When you’re going through your preshot routine with all your focus, bring in that one thing.

This is not only going to help you adopt that one thing into your body’s intelligence, but it will crowd out all of those negative thoughts and voices you normally have running around in your head.

Here’s some ideas to get you started on the ONE thing that can really make a difference for you. How about:

Rythm and tempo
Accept every shot as it is
Play in the present moment, one shot at a time
Target-focused
Easy, calm, and fluid
Smooth
Slow backswing
Solid foundation
Swing or play within yourself

Are you getting the picture here? We’ve heard all of these types of tips and tactics before, magazines and books are filled with them, but how often do we actually give any attention to any of them out on the course? Very little, I know. If you actually want to lower your scores, take a longer-term approach and work on ONE THING AT A TIME. Think of yourself like the stock market…on any given day you could be up or down but over the long haul, always getting better.
Your swing is good enough.