How To Stop A Golf Temper Tantrum

Golf is a fine touch sport. We don’t throw our bodies at each other. We don’t have to be on alert most of the time. We can take our time and initiate our action at our own time and pace and none of it depends on anyone else playing with us or against us.

…Therefore, we need a finely balanced level of energy and relaxation in order to allow our fine motor skills to work to potential.

After fear, the 2nd most destructive thing to a golf swing or putting stroke is anger or frustration.

In today’s video, I’m going to give you my best tips for how to deal with this so that you don’t carry your frustration from playing poorly over to the next shot. Pretty basic, but we often forget the basics.

Greens and fairways,

Craig

Title: How To Stop A Golf Temper Tantrum

How many times have you missed an easy putt or duffed a simple chip shot and gotten really angry? I mean REALLY Angry with yourself, angry at your ball, your putter, the world and you are just dying to throw your club or take a chunk out of the green with your putter right?

I’ve seen it a lot and in my old days, experienced it myself and it’s not pretty. It’s bad form to act like these guys and nobody is going to want to play with you if you do this too often…

What are you supposed to do? First off, if you are a hot head like Sergio Garcia, prepare for it in advance.

Now, I’m going to go against conventional wisdom here by saying that if you find yourself in that rage state, you’ve got to get that excess energy expressed out of your body otherwise it’s likely to cause you to carry tension over to the next shot. Suppressing it is not always the best strategy.

And therefore, for those golfers who are prone to temper tantrums on the golf course, what you need to do is find a way to get that energy out without being a jerk.

Yelling is a great way to get the anger out. Why not grab your towel and put it over your mouth and yell into it? This would be much more acceptable to other golfers and might even get you some sympathy. We all know what it feels like and they would appreciate the courtesy of you muffling it…and you get it out!

How about getting one of those stress balls and squeezing it while walking between shots? The point is to Get away from other golfers and do your thing in an acceptable way.

You could run to the next hole, your partners would appreciate that a lot more than you throwing your club or cussing out loud now wouldn’t they?

Let me sum up the message here for this video…the point is to accept that you are angry, get the energy out of your body and then put the whole thing behind you.

Once you are done with the excess energy, the way to clear it is to FORGIVE yourself. Make a statement to yourself that it’s over and done with and say these words out loud or to yourself: “I forgive you Craig”

This is a magical sentence and our body can trigger into a much better golf state from just that. It’s much better to Master your emotions than suppress them.

greens and fairways,
your swing is good enough to go low.