Why Golfers Fail to Reach their Potential and What You Can

A Poor Return on Effort
Golfers struggle daily with their game, investing many hours on driving ranges to lower their scores. Spending money on latest golf club technology, taking golf lessons, reading golf magazines, watching dvd's by the experts. Still success eludes them.

The Simple Cause and Effect Nature of Golf Improvement
Your golfswing functionality and level of thinking is the CAUSE factor of your performance. The results you achieve are the EFFECTS. This universal law means results can improve when you understand and identify critical factors (Causes) that influence your play.

Critical to Improvement Elements
Repeating the same action over and over simply will not do. You need to identify CRITICAL TO IMPROVEMENT (CTI) elements that affect your outcomes. Then you'll figure out what improvements will dramatically reduce your mistakes during a round thus enhancing your performance.

Golf Success is in the Details
Actions to slice a drive into trees can be explained. Here's three simple reasons why you slice the ball consistently:

1. Was the club-face open at impact
2. Was the path of the club-head either inside to out or outside to in.
3. Was the angle of approach of the club-head too steep or too shallow.

A slight change in these causitive factors will change your results.

Do You Understand What You're Doing?
Do you focus attention on where the ball is going rather than the cause of a slice? Do you focus emotional energy on your outcomes? This can shift your attention from critical factor/s that help to improve your golf swing.

You Are What You Think About
Golf lessons won't make one bit of difference without changing your thinking about results. You have to "believe it first, to see it" rather than “see it first, to believe it."

Start thinking with clarity about WHAT you want everyday and you'll eliminate thoughts of bad shots.

Five Things to do in 2006 to become a more successful golfer
1. Focus on developing a different shot to the one you've been hitting. eg If you have a tendency to slice then start thinking about hooking your shots.

2. Top golfers work on Critical-to-Improvement elements that make a difference. What are yours?

3. Practice more on weaknesses and less on strengths. It's harder to work on the shots that give us grief.

4. Be an optimist, the number one quality of successful golfers (in fact anybody) is optimism, or a positive mental attitude.

5. Improving your golf swing is based on thousands of trials. The more trials the higher the probability that you will discover what works and what doesn't. When you find what works EUREKA!

Lawrence Montague, Director, Australian High Performance Golf Academy on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. See www.golf-school-australia.com or www.mindonthegame.com

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