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The Key to Successful Golfing
Topic Started: Nov 3 2012, 03:01 AM (132 Views)
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The secret of success in golf lies in temperament and that is true whatever grade of golf you may aspire to play. Tournaments are not always, not even usually, won by the greatest stylists. They go to the men with the best balanced outlook on the game. How frequently we have seen the fellow with a rank. Bad swing takes the half-crown off a man who looked far better on the tee.

I suppose we might say that a man's style at golf is evolved from the reactions on one another of his temperament and his physical make-up. We may all learn to write from the same copy-book but we will grow up to sign our checks differently, and, though I have been teaching golf for thirty-five years now, I have yet to find two people who play alike. No matter how much you tried to teach two people to play alike with the same scotty cameron putter , the results would be surprisingly different.

To get as mad as the proverbial meat-axe we miss a shot is the sign of a young golfer. The experienced golfer does not get mad when he misses a shot because he knows that if he does so the chances are that he will miss the next one too even with the best scotty cameron putter for sale on the internet, which he brought for his game. And I doubt if it is any more difficult to build up control of your temperament in golf than it is to build up control of your swing once you appreciate the need.

Many big business men and men in public life have told me how great a relaxation they found golf to be. Nothing takes your mind so completely off the daily worries as does a round of golf. Each of us, whatever his rating as a golfer may be, has to pay attention to the job in hand; so much attention that for a couple of hours we are in a new world and the problems and tensions of our normal world are forgotten.

Temperament is pre-eminently important in putting because good putting is so largely a matter of confidence. You can only stroke the ball when you are quietly confident; otherwise you jerk it.

You can always drive or play big shots reasonably well, because that is done more with the grosser muscles, but the finer touch required for putting is a much more delicate matter and so is much more liable to be put out of gear and jerked by nervous tension.
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