2nd guy state of mind

[Chieflongtee]

2nd guy is always better than 1st guy How do you duplicate the 2nd guy's mindset?

[Kiwi]

What am I missing here?

[Chieflongtee]

If you miss a putt 2nd guy i.e your other self will make the 2nd putt. Same deal with just about any bad shot. Why is that????

[Golfbum]

If you miss a putt 2nd guy i.e your other self will make the 2nd putt. Same deal with just about any bad shot. Why is that????

2nd Guy does not give a crap, that's why!

[Chieflongtee]

2nd Guy does not give a crap, that's why!

show me how not to give a crap

[jvincent]

Lobotomy?

[Chieflongtee]

Lobotomy?

Doesn't work

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=PQHtBjoPMB8

[Indio]

Lobotomy?

I can vouch for that !

[Kiwi]

What Golfbum said! Pressure is off, you missed the putt, no tension in the second stroke as it does not count. Just proves the theory that golf is a mental game, just relax and let the club do the work and the result will be the best it can be. Hold your putter at address, then tighten your grip, just a bit, watch the toe move in/out. How many times do you tap in from 2 feet from the other side of the hole, one handed, without lining up? If you can take the mind out of the game, you'll do better. Try no score card (I tried and cannot do it).

[rezadue]

Smoke a doobie before your round?

[bobblehead]

Smoke a doobie before your round?

I've joined golfers who actually smoked up during a round...not sure if it helped their game...Gunja golf

[Foddz]

The modern equivalent of a cigar during the round, perhaps? More than a few people I've been paired with have lit up mid-round while I've been golfing. If only I smoked!

[leftylucas]

Player B is always better, just like when you screw up a tee shot the provisional is almost always down the middle.

[Kilroy]

As we say... "Player 'B' Rocks"

[big mac]

Ya---and how come you can step up to a 4 ft putt and not even set up-hit it with the back of your putter and in it goes!!!!!! Go figure

[bobblehead]

Brad Faxon says he putts like he doesn't care...that's why he is a great putter. Easy to say...hard to do.

[Golfbum]

Player B is always better, just like when you screw up a tee shot that means something the provisional is almost always down the middle.

Witnessed that today. Playing a casual round with one of the members at the course I work at. Toughest hole on the course, long par 4, narrow. Water left, trees right.
He hits it way left, I hit it way right.

We reload. I hit it dead centre, he hits it on the right side. Both made par on the reload balls!

Go figure

[Kilroy]

Par - "net double" that is.

[MusicMan]

Smoke a doobie before your round?

yup.

[Golfbum]

Par - "net double" that is.

Net bogey actually, we each get a stroke on that hole

[BC MIST]

2nd guy is always better than 1st guy How do you duplicate the 2nd guy's mindset?

1st guy = your conscious mind
2nd guy = your subconscious mind

Conscious includes using mechanical swing thought or swing keys when you play, fear of missing, making a big score, being too short on a putt, negative imaging, "Don't hit it in the water," target thinking, which is a stress inducer, and so on. Subconscious golf is obviously what you do when your mind is on something NOT golf related, or as someone mentioned above, when you are in the "I don't care mode," which means that there is no fear of failure.

Conscious thinking interferes with what you have trained your subconscious to do, and less than ideal performance usually results. Therefore, you must, in practice, think about mechanics to help improve them, but you must also practice hitting shots as you would on the course, with no mechanical thoughts and with no fear.

As conscious humans always have something on their minds, you MUST have something on yours when you play on the course, that is non golf related, so as to allow the subconscious swing that you now have, good, bad or indifferent as it is, to perform. By doing this, there will be no stress and no interfering mechanical thoughts and these short putt misses will disappear.

Getting emotional about a golf shot reinforces that shot. So, you must get emotional about your GOOD shots and remain nonplussed about the bad ones. Anyone who gets angry about a bad shot, reinforces that bad shot. When you conscious says "Don't pull the putt left," your subconscious hears, " Pull it left." Leaving "Don't" out of one's golfing vocabulary, will also help one's score.

Dr. B.C.

[Mightiestmik]

If you can take the mind out of the game, you'll do better. Try no score card (I tried and cannot do it).

No score card works well, just keep track of how far off par you are. I've been doing that recently and have been playing much better, just lets me focus on golf instead of adding up all the numbers each time I look at the score card.

[leftylucas]

I have to agree to a point, one of my best rounds was a very quick one where we were in a hurry to finish before dark. I wrote my score down after every hole but did not pay any attention to it and just played quick golf. After the game was over I realised I had broken 80. Who knows what the pressure would have done to me if I would have realised that my score was about to tie my best ever. I can see it now, a quintuple on 18.