After your best round....

[rhodes81]

How do you avoid a letdown? What thoughts do you try and stay away from or what thoughts do you try and keep? I played my best round with my new irons on sunday and feel like it was probably the best mental round of my life. Now, I am sitting at my house and cannot get golf off my mind. In the past, this has lead to problems because I let my mind get in the way the next time out I over analyze everything. Lets hear some good mental advice.

[DaSportsGuy]

I just try and get the fact it was my best round off my mind and just continuing to improve my game.

Though, it's pretty easy for me to say that being that my best round was the last round I played before the snow rolled in to town.

I'm just hoping I haven't taken a step back over Winter and can pick up where I left off.

[Deryck Griffith]

Isn't having good round in your mind a good thing? I think positive reinforcement is a great thing and having the thought of a good round is MUCH better than having a blow up round on your mind.

I say, relish in all of the good thoughts that you are having in your mind and apply them (within yourself of course) during your next round.

[lumpuckeroo]

  Deryck Griffith said:

Isn't having good round in your mind a good thing? I think positive reinforcement is a great thing and having the thought of a good round is MUCH better than having a blow up round on your mind.

I would agree, I find that after a really good round, I tend to get in several more solid rounds. My strategy is to have the good round in my mind off the course and then clear my mind on the course, of course that can be easier said then done.

[Kcas77]

How do you like the 68's?
Back on topic just let your game do the work for you, just keep the flow going walk up to the ball and hit it.

[GaijinGolfer]

I avoid a letdown by staying in the moment. When I have a good round its a great thing, but as soon as I start my next round I put the previous round out of my mind and just focus on the task at hand.

[rhodes81]

I love the 68's! It's my first full set of musclebacks. I went to the golf store to buy the 58's but when I got in there and took some swings with both clubs, I just loved the feel of the 68's. The short irons are just perfect and the long irons are not nearly as punishing as you would think. The sole grind was one of the biggest things for me as my local courses are usually firm and I love a narrow sole for clean contact. I would recommend them to anyone that is a solid irons player. It doesn't hurt that they are absolutely beautiful. I had some Titleist 735's and was happy with them, but I love the weight of the mizuno's.

Thanks for the advice. I hardly ever get to the range and it leaves too much time with me at my house dreaming up changes to apparently ruin my golf game.

[James_Black]

The next time I went out golfing after my best round I had one of my worst ones!

Don't know why though

[MiniMoe]

after my best rounds I don't think anything mechanical. I remember how decisive I was, how good the shots felt, and how well I chipped and putted. I pay close attention to how well I read the greens so the next time I play I can draw on the experience.

[LBlack14]

I'd get hammered in the 19th hole so I forgot about it.

[montru]

I try to remember the kind of course management decisions I made that saved me shots etc

[r23]

I say don't look at scorecard until after your round, just relax ,play and have fun.

[Doctorfro]

I would say, try to stay medium. Although you want to revel in the pinnacle of your success, you have to remember that you're going to shoot higher scores than that sometime (not a time to get down on yourself either). Try to remember your swing keys from that day and keep that confidence going. Golf is a funny game. I've had good ball striking rounds and scored horribly and I've had bad ball striking days and I got up and down like crazy and made some putts to score low. Keep things in perspective and enjoy the journey that is golf.

[Ben]

  rhodes81 said:

How do you avoid a letdown? What thoughts do you try and stay away from or what thoughts do you try and keep? I played my best round with my new irons on sunday and feel like it was probably the best mental round of my life. Now, I am sitting at my house and cannot get golf off my mind. In the past, this has lead to problems because I let my mind get in the way the next time out I over analyze everything. Lets hear some good mental advice.

Think about each hole, each shot. I will write down all my "good" to "great" shots. Anything positive that happened, focus on those shots/putts, relive them. Anything negative, gone. Not a memory. This goes with any round, not just your "great" ones. There are bound to be rounds that aren't so hot, but, in those rounds there will be great shots. Again, write and relive. After a while all you are thinking about is good shots. Good shots will continue to come.

[WALRUS]

just treat every round like your playing to win a tournament or to beat whoever your playing with and usally everything else in your mind goes away... at least it does for me... competition is a beutiful thing

[WALRUS]

  r23 said:

I say don't look at scorecard until after your round, just relax ,play and have fun.

impossible... you just have to learn to embrace your score and realize that you have to do your best every shot regardless of what your score is at the moment

[r23]

  WALRUS said:

impossible... you just have to learn to embrace your score and realize that you have to do your best every shot regardless of what your score is at the moment

Nothing is impossible.

[James_Black]

  r23 said:

Nothing is impossible.

So your saying you don't think about how your doing when you play?

it's pretty hard not to be able to think about your score at all.