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It's a mystery?
Many golfers come to me and say, “ I am so discouraged! I am going to quit if you can’t fix my ailing golf swing or game.” Statistics show thousands of golfers start golf with only a few remaining in the sport. Golf is quite the mystery. One day you have the magic and the next day you don't. All golfers at one time or another can't believe how quickly the golf game can evaporate. Hence we go on the mad search and really mess up our game through erratic golf fix theory. If we would just remember that as quickly as our game can go south it can come back as fast, usually when we relax our bodies and have a lovely 'cuppa' tea or a beer. Then we can comfortably visualize our swing and have a quiet mental ponder so we can unjumble our brains once again.

Golf is a mystery that for my lifetime I don’t believe will be solved. Yeah! That’s ok with me; I thrive on the challenge. Now to be honest, this challenge has at times gotten the better of me. I have had two major mental meltdowns while I was on the LPGA tour. Another Aussie, Ian Baker Finch, who won the British Open in 1991, has yet to recover from his mental meltdown. Perhaps he will sort himself out by age 50 and make a bundle on the champion’s tour.

New Golfers, playing less then 1 year
You too will have mental meltdowns grasping the fundamentals. Why? Watching golf on TV makes the sport look so nice, relaxing and easy. In reality golf moves are awkward and clumsy, intellectually challenging to grasp and very humbling. The new golfer often forgets this dramatic truth. Accepting the reality of your golf skills is humbling. The picture in your head does not match the picture of your body. 

Weekend golfers or newly retired businessperson playing for 1-3 year
Mental meltdown mania abounds with many in your group. Often you just plain quit. Why? Golf theory has become the predominant power to improving your game. The little known fact that ‘brains learn fast, bodies slower’ is not a power idea. You gobble up all the information on the golf channel, learn about golf clubs and hit a couple of golf schools or lessons. Then you mentally put your playbook together and oops, the actual playing golf becomes reality.  Crash…followed by the dreaded ‘I #?*! … QUIT’ statement.  I am #?*! … moving on. There goes another golfer.

Golf for life
Golf, and all sports at the elite level, challenges the very fiber of our ego. Dealing with myself, my ego unfortunately resides in my head more often than my soul. When I left the LPGA tour after 18 years, I could tell you all about what was wrong, right and any other miscellaneous crap about golf and my game. To me I sounded intelligent, but oops, I forgot that I was an athlete not just a talking brain wave spewing head knowledge.

What I couldn’t do at that time was athletic thinking. Athletic thinking allows no one body part more power than another. We need to blend our whole body to perform effortlessly to create greatness within ourselves; blending physical body, mental attitude, head knowledge . . and on and on. Letting go and going with the flow baby, yeah; Hmmm It’s all there . . . Sigh and fly . . . Ah huh, hit that shot. 

My tip for a successful and long life of playing golf:
      Laugh at yourself. Challenge yourself with attainable goals and have fun finding the flow baby.

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excerpt, The Wisdom of Women's Golf, Dr. Criswell Freeman

Thanks for reading, have a lovely day of golf!

Coach Penny                                              
 

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2 Time LPGA Champion, 
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