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For golfers, confidence can act like a steroid, allowing the golfer to execute seemingly super-human feats of golfing excellence. Watching a golfer who is completely confident execute a difficult shot is awe inspiring. This is part of the world’s fascination with elite players who perform at the highest level.
In the most challenging of circumstances, these elite players pull off shots that no one else would even attempt and make them look easy. Elite golfers ooze confidence in all that they do, but even they are subject to poor golf when their confidence wanes. What causes these down spells? What is golf confidence and how can you have more of it? Let’s first start with a new definition of confidence.
When most people think of confidence, they think of traits that define someone who is confident such as bold, self-assured and gallant. I like to look at confidence as what it “lacks” rather than what it contains because in my book, confidence on the golf course is not a state of feeling a certain way, rather it is a state of not feeling a certain way. Allow me to explain.
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When you got up this morning and brushed your teeth, did you question whether or not you would successfully get the tooth brush to your target, ie your mouth? Were there any close calls? Did you come close but then jab the tooth brush into your nose?
No, you didn’t. During that time, you were completely “confident” that you would succeed in getting your tooth brush to your target with an amazing amount of precision and you have done it thousands of times, never once missing your target. Did you have to give yourself a pep talk to accomplish this task? Did you have to think to yourself, “I can do this, I’ve got this.” Did you have to think at all?
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