Body Language, How to Stay Positive Playing Golf
Body Language for Lower Scores, Control Mental Attitude, Save Shots
Poor body language on the golf course affects your ability to hit the ball well, your decision-making and your scores. If you let yourself down by showing disappointment you will fail to achieve your target. Stay positive and keep your chin up to save shots and lower scores.
Body Language Affects Ball Striking
Every golfer sets out on a round hoping the day will go well. Their last round might have been a good one, or they might have a new swing thought to try out, but normally they are full of hope. Look at most golfers on the first tee and they are smiling, excited and happy.
Yet aafter a few holes, all too often their body language has changed. Their head has dropped, the shoulders are slouched, and a worried, hang dog look, appears on their face when they reach for a club. They have failed even before they swing.
Keeping the same positive attitude throughout the round is vital for consistent shots. Timing and rhythm are important ingredients for good golf shots, but a change of body language changes the rhythm and timing of the swing. Another bad shot, the shoulders become even more slouched, and golf is then impossible.
Decision-making and Golf Club Selection
To play well you need to be positive about every aspect of a golf shot. Letting negative thoughts overcome you affects your club selection. Rather than positively deciding on a club, and taking it out of the bag with conviction and certainty, an indecisive golfer will dither about which club to hit and will be unable to commit to the shot.
Once you decide on a club, you must take it out of the bag with certainty, and make your practise swing positive as though you are looking forward to the shot. Look upon it as a great challenge. It doesn’t matter if you don’t manage to pull off the shot, hit it positively and enjoy it.
Keep Your Chin Up to Save Shots
With a poor attitude, and bad body language, you waste shots on the course. Your putting will suffer, probably leaving many putts short of the hole. The strike of your chips shots will not be crisp, and your drives will start to lose power.
Reflect back to the job you do for a living. Supposing a deal looks as though it won’t come off, or you are about to lose a sale. Do you just chuck the towel in or do you look for a way to retrieve the situation. Even if it doesn’t happen, and the deal breaks down, at least you have given it your best shot. You go back to the office, maybe talk about it with your boss and come up with a strategy for next time you get in the same situation. And you may well feel down for a time, that's understandable, but while the deal is still on you will, or should, stay positive.
To score low and save shots on the golf course it is essential to retain the same attitude you had on the first tee. Stay positive, keep your head up, and walk round as though you are in control.
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