Coming of Age as a Golfer

Great Expectations – Your Coming of Age as a Golfer Let’s set the stage of your latest great expectation.  The last time you played it was the round you had always hoped for.  Everything went your way; you don’t know why but you’ll take it anyway.  And today should not be any different.  After all you are the same person, the same golfer, playing the same golf course in relatively the same conditions, with the same regular group of individuals who are wanting you to see a repeat performance today. This is where the great novel called your golf game takes an unexpected turn.  Your ball developed the dreaded disease of lipercy, your driver went searching for its ancestors in the tress, and your irons might as well have been made out of the park bench at one of the Par 3’s because no matter how you bent the club in frustration it was only good for sitting on.  How can this be?  How can you be the greatest thing since Sarazen invented the legal sand wedge and become the lowliest of hackers the next time out?  Same person hitting the same clubs and doing the same thing.  Or were you doing the same thing? If this sounds familiar, chalk up the day to your great expectations of repeating a score from the past without understanding what the past included, nor having a plan or process in place to repeat any part of the past.  I tell all my clients…