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Building Confidence  Email this Article to a Friend
David F. Wright, Ph.D., PGA You are driving home after a round of golf thinking about your round. You made birdies on a par three and a long par four. You chipped in once, hit one of your longest drives ever and rolled in putts of 40 and 35 feet. You hit good mid and long irons on four holes. You also hit drives out of bounds on the first and 18th holes, missed the green every time you had a wedge in your hands and missed four putts inside three feet resulting in three 3-putts and one 4-four putt. You skulled two bunker shots and pulled most of your short irons. What part of your round are you thinking about? Are you focused on the long putts you made, the hole you chipped in or your long drive? Are you thinking about your poor wedge play, problems with your short putts or your birdies? Confidence is an internal state that is acquired by how you talk to yourself about your past performance. This state of confidence becomes the foundation of your predictions of your future performance. If you have a habit of focusing on the negative events in your life, you will likely review a round of golf with a focus on your missed shots or mental errors and take your good performance for granted. If this is your thought style, you will gradually chip away at your confidence, call up thoughts and pictures of past failure when faced with a similar shot and set yourself up for repeated poor performance. You can start to build confidence by following a few wimple guidelines. Use the following strategies and you will see changes in both your level of confidence and performance, I have. When you practice these strategies use the same process to get into your set up every time you hit a shot. Your alignment, posture, grip and ball position will affect everything from swing path, to balance. Practice using the same strategies to set up every time you putt, make a practice swing or hit a ball on the range. The transfer of your practice performance to the course will be much greater if you duplicate your entire routine on every shot.
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