The Most Important Secret
to Improve Your Golf Swing
… and Your Golf Game
by www.Sedona.com
There are more than 26 million golfers in the United States, and many of them undoubtedly would like to improve their golf swing.
In fact, only 22 percent of golfers regularly score better than 90 for 18 holes, according to National Golf Foundation (NGF) research. And although the average 18-hole score for all golfers is 100, only 6 percent of men and 1 percent of women say they score better than 80 on a regular basis. Meanwhile, most golfers say they’d be satisfied if they could only shoot 85 on an 18-hole regulation course regularly.
Needless to say, many golfers are eager to know what they can do to cut a few strokes off their score. Is it a matter of perfecting your posture? Getting better clubs? Changing your hand position, knee stance or knowing how to hit into the wind? All of these things may help, but they pale in comparison to the number one thing you can do to improve your golf game: get your mind into the right place.
Getting Into the Zone
Great athletes always have a secret for getting into “the zone” before a game. “The zone” is the place where you have stellar concentration and focus, where you imagine yourself easily coming in below par on every hole, and where you’re actually able to make it happen.
“Our emotions affect all forms of athletic performance, especially golf,” says Hale Dwoskin, CEO and director of training of Sedona Training Associates. “Most experts agree that the mental or inner game of golf is often the difference between success and failure with the game.”
Yet, succeeding at golf is not just a matter of psyching yourself up. It’s a matter of being able to release your negative feelings -- the nerves, second-guesses and anxiety about how well you’ll perform -- and being able to release them when it matters most … just before and during your golf game.
“There are several ways to improve your game with releasing as opposed to simply trying to psyche yourself up,” Dwoskin says. “Here are just two: One way of inwardly preparing to take strokes off your game is to picture yourself making the perfect stroke with perfect control and then releasing any and all feelings that come up within you contrary to your being able to execute that in life. You can also simply think of times in the past that your game was less than perfect and let go of wanting to change what was and be open to a better outcome now.”
The Sedona Method, a simple, do-it-yourself tool, can easily show you how to let go of the limiting emotions that are sabotaging your golf game. So profound is the act of releasing that you will easily improve your golf swing and your golf game overall. The Sedona Method is actually the perfect gift to give to golfers in your life, as mastering this emotional strategy will put them leaps and bounds ahead of their golf buddies.
As Dwoskin says, “The more you release on your game the lower your score will be, and the more you will enjoy playing every hole no matter how you do.”
Source
CYPGolf.com | 
