Remember: the more times you have imagined how something can be done and the more intensively you do it, involving all your senses, the greater your chances of being able to do it when it becomes necessary.
How to transfer focus and play under pressure Place yourself in the center and change your focus from the more risky result oriented type of golf to the more security-oriented type of golf. Makes sense to me, you may respond, but how am I going to do it, especially if I’m under pressure? Playing under pressure and avoiding a "rubber-arm" is first and foremost a matter of experience - however not only experience. Some do have a stronger mentality than others. But everybody can become stronger mentally. What it takes to train a person's psyche differs from person to person. Although there are some general rules that I will briefly mention here. The purpose is solely to give you some idea of how you can construct your own mental exercises. You can tell by your senses that you are under pressure. In other words, pressure affects your senses. Your emotions become stronger, your thoughts faster, your heart pumps more adrenalin out and your body becomes tense. Your entire body is on red alert, which is not the best condition for playing excellent golf and making wise decisions. In reality, it all begins with your thoughts. The thought of not making that crucial putt, of not making it over a hazard or not making your par is the kinds of thought that sets in motion physical and emotional alertness. Therefore, you need to take control of your thoughts. The most efficient method to do this is mental training. The principles are simple, but not always easy to carry out. To solve the issue, there is one golden rule. If you have a thought that causes some inexpedient state, there is only one way to get rid of it, and that is by replacing it with another more constructive thought. If you have a thought that is causing stress and negative feelings, you cannot just tell it to go away. It won't. It will probably get worse. It is not enough that you tell yourself to think positively and forget the double bogey you made on the last hole. No, what you need to learn is to replace the unconstructive thought with a constructive one. Picture how the existing thought contains a certain mass of energy. The new thought, which is to replace the old one, must have more energy than the existing one. You cannot push away one pound with a half a pound. So how does one consciously give energy to a thought? You can do so by constructing a thought or chain of thoughts that will set in motion one or all of your senses. Imagine something you hear, something you see, something that you physically feel, and something that you emotionally feel. The more senses you can awaken by a conscious thought, the more energy it will create. The following is an example of how you can make some of these elements a part of your
Focused Golf. ŠFinn Havaleschka
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