Is it difficult for you to stay confident when you’re not doing so well on the course? It’s no doubt hard for anyone to keep up their confidence when they’re not doing so good in any sport. Poor performance time and time again can make you think you will just never get the hang of a game or that you’re just not cut out for it.
So how do you get over this thinking? What can you do to regain your confidence on even your worst of days? Here are some things to keep in mind:
Each Course is Different
Do you know how Olympic swimming pools, tennis courts, baseball diamonds, and football fields are all different from golf courses? The answer is that these types of fields or structures are exactly the same – the same size, the same distance between markers, the same everything.
But think of golf courses for a minute. Not only are all the courses different but every single hole is different as well. They may resemble one another in many ways but no two holes or courses are exactly alike. There are so many variables you deal with at each hole that whatever it is you’re having problems with for one hole or one game, this may not ever come up again with any subsequent holes.
So what does this have to do with confidence? Simply put, if you do very poorly at one hole you have an entirely new chance to try again at the next hole. A baseball runner might not do well in stealing bases because they’re all evenly spaced, a football quarterback can only throw the ball so far, and so on. But for a golfer, each hole is like an entirely new game and what went wrong on the last hole has nothing to do with this next one!
A lack of confidence often springs from the idea that if you have a problem once, you’re going to continue to have that problem no matter what. If you strike out once in baseball this must mean you’re a bad hitter, so you dread your time on the plate. And if you have one bad round of golf or one very embarrassing hole, you assume the problem is you – your swing, your approach, your stance, something. This just compounds the problem of having no confidence.
So remind yourself that every hole and every course is just too different for you to assume that your performance with one is going to set the tone for your performance overall.
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