Trust the Process/ Accept the Result?

[tnbama]

Please help me here- I am just getting back into playing after a several year layoff. I had a magazine a couple of weeks ago with an article about one of the pros winning the British (IIRC?) and he was talking about his interaction with his mental coach. Or maybe it was from the mental coach's point of view?

Anyway- now I can't find the article anymore. I wanted to see if the coach had written anything I could read. It was all about commiting to the process and accepting the results before you took the shot. It was about not looking at the leaderboard and concentrating on the process of the shot.

Does anyone remember that article?

[mikelz]

Please help me here- I am just getting back into playing after a several year layoff. I had a magazine a couple of weeks ago with an article about one of the pros winning the British (IIRC?) and he was talking about his interaction with his mental coach. Or maybe it was from the mental coach's point of view?

I didn't see that article.

Bob Rotella preaches the same thing in his book Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect . I got a lot out of that and I rarely hit one in a blind panic anymore.

[Franco!]

It was in Golf Digest.
Dr. Bob Rotella talking about Padrig Harrington, trying to sell his book.

[kc8kir]

I have heard the idea before though, that you should make every effort to make a good swing. If the ball does something odd, try to find the reason and work on improving, but down beat yourself down. A lot of luck is involved in golf, and blaming yourself for bad luck (like a bad bounce, or a tree branch) is just rediculous.

[tnbama]

It was in Golf Digest.

Thanks! that was the one-

[DavidFehertysBike]

For me, that whole system of trusting the process begins and ends with my pre-shot routine and set-up. Particularly alignment to my target is a important factor to me in how good of a result i will get from a shot. Aimed too far tho the right, ill sometimes hook or overdraw that shot, too far to the left and i push it or hit the ball off of the toe.

I know if i go through those things the way im supposed to and i feel relaxed as I can address the ball that shot is going to have a good result. If i do all of those things and still come off with a bad one it is usually because i picked the wrong club or some other mistake in course management. Its when im not comfortable with my alignment or set-up is when i get into trouble and hit bad shots from a ballflight POV.