Golf Essentials For Women

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

GRIP, LOFT AND LIE!

Sometimes I think that we pay attention to so many other things on and off the golf course that we forget the importance of these items. If you are like me, my husband Dave purchased my irons for me as a wonderful birthday present. I have played my Callaway's for years and never really wondered if I have the right loft or lie. I just wanted to get those babies out to the course and play!

The other day I just found out that my good friend Bobby Marson opened up a new business doing just this, then light bulb just went on! Even though I love my clubs, but do my clubs really love me back? Because they are just "off the rack" are they the right size for me? How does the loft and lie affect my swing? Those are all the questions I am going to ask Bobby when I go for my fitting. If you are in the Central Florida area, you need to go see him also. We spend so much money on clubs, balls, lessons... why not start with the one thing that makes the ball fly and see if just a small change can make a big difference.

Now let's move on to the grip. One day this past summer I pulled out my seven wood and saw that my thumb had so nicely worn a bare spot on my grip. How did this happen and I hadn't notice? Well, I guess I just don't think about my grips the way I should. This is where you and the club unite! Worn grips are just the worse. I am guilty of letting my grips go longer than I should but why? Lazy, forgetful, who knows!

Let's think about this, I want to get back to a 12 handicap but I don't do what is necessary for my clubs to cooperate. What would happen if I was out on the course, the club slipped out of my hand and hit someone? How could I explain to them, oooppss so sorry I should have regripped my clubs sooner. We all have to plan to be a better golfer. Grip, Loft and Lie is the place to start.
Please call my friend Bobby at 239-825-7901 or email pga6201@yahoo.com. Or your local golf fitter. It may change your whole game..........for the good!

Donna Craig
Golf Essentials for Women

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"Half Full or Half Empty?"

The whole goal of the mental game is to create a mental state that optimizes your brain's chemistry, which in turn increases your ability to perform. If you have fear or doubt that you can make a golf shot, you lower your chemistry and decrease your chance of making a successful shot. .

You can transform your negative emotions into positive ones by creating a mind-set that your glass is always half full. You don't want to play with a glass that is half empty. The liquid is in the middle of the glass, but there can be two different emotions to the same fact. One is positive; the other negative. It is up to you to decide if your glass is half full or half empty.

If you believe that your glass is half full, you will have a higher level of chemistry than if you believe that your glass is half empty. As simple as this concept sounds, it can make the difference between making the shot or missing the shot because it makes the difference between whether your chemistry is high or low.

The way you create the mind-set that your glass is always half full is to look at how your probability of success influences your emotions on every golf shot you face. If you have an easy shot and you're confident that you can make it, your glass is half full. However, if it’s a very difficult shot, many golfers feel that their glass is half empty and worry about missing the shot.

A way around this up-and-down swing of emotions is to select only positive emotions when looking at your probability of making the shot. Even if it’s only 1 in 100 that you can pull the shot off, you have a choice of focusing on the 99% of not making the shot or the 1% of making the shot if everything goes right and expect everything to go right. Your only other choice is to look for a safer shot if one is available.

If you decide to go for it, you can raise your chemistry by focusing totally on the 1% probability of making the shot and expecting to make it if everything goes right. That’s the key. You have to focus totally on expecting to make the shot if everything goes right and not even think about the 99% probability of not making it.

No one is a fortune teller and you don't know what will happen. However, if you train your tape that your glass is always half full and expect to make the shot if everything goes right, you will elevate your chemistry to a very high level. As a result you will make a lot more shots playing with a glass that is half full, instead of half empty.

The nice thing about it is that it's your choice and it will reflect in your score.

For more mental golf tips: http://www.mentalkeys.com/golf_tips60711.htm

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