Tag Archives: "My Life as a Golf Marshall"

Golf and Your Mental Game: Wasting Your Experience by Being Judgemental

Play 50 rounds of golf in a season, Marshall 8 hours a week in a seven-month season and then suffer through a rotten winter and you may gain a valuable insight. That past season and all those games were in the past and what did all the fretting and continually judging yourself accomplish? Most likelyContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: Wasting Your Experience by Being Judgemental“

Golf and Your Mental Game: Moving Beyond Acceptance to Radical Acceptance

I have said that acceptance of the bad shot may soothe the golfer’s mind. Fight that acceptance and you may be in for a mental struggle based on negative reactions you can’t let go of. Some psychotherapists embrace the theory of “radical acceptance”. Acceptance is acknowledging or recognizing facts that are true and not beatingContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: Moving Beyond Acceptance to Radical Acceptance“

Golf and Your Mental Game: The Wisdom and Cowardice of Fear

Suppose you are 200 yards from the green and over the creek you must go to reach it. You will need an awesome shot. The carrot is being dangled! You are fearful if you don’t have enough distance in the creek you go. If you come in too fast and low you’ll skid off theContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: The Wisdom and Cowardice of Fear“

Golf and Your Mental Game: Self Compassion and Acceptance: Fear and Loathing on the Golf Course

In a perfect world you make a bad shot and you accept it then you move on with a clear head and attitude to your next shot. Moving on to that next shot not suffering mentally takes practice and discipline. Unfortunately, many golfers I encountered as a golf Marshall have difficulty accepting a bad shotContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: Self Compassion and Acceptance: Fear and Loathing on the Golf Course“

Golf and Your Mental Game: Are You a Walking Zombie?

Are you a golfer that starts analyzing your next shot as soon as your shot has landed? Are you mulling that over as you walk up to the ball? Have you become a walking zombie clued out to your surroundings? If so is your single minded focus doing you any good? Are you on autoContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: Are You a Walking Zombie?“

Golf and Your Mental Game: Taking a Restoration Break

Just because you are on the golf course should not prevent you from taking a “restoration break” whether your game is humming along beautifully or is in flames! You most likely already do this at work or at home during doing chores or trying to beat a deadline. A restorative break is fuel for yourContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: Taking a Restoration Break“

Golf and Your Mental Game: Golf as a Necessity or a Luxury?

I say Bravo to you for being on the golf course. Why? Because I think you are setting aside several hours to (hopefully) enjoy yourself. Let’s call this an example of self-care. You have carved out time to play a game you love or perhaps are addicted to? Do you prefer being a “corporate hero”Continue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: Golf as a Necessity or a Luxury?“

Golf and Your Mental Game: Should You be Playing Golf at All?

Nourishing activities are those that restore energy and depleting activities make you worse. Assume you are on the golf course and you begin to notice the depleting moments outweigh the nourishing moments. If you are leaving a golf course in a worse mood than when you arrived should you ask yourself should you be thereContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: Should You be Playing Golf at All?“

Golf and Your Mental Game: Taking a Moment

This golf season working as a Marshall I saw quite a lot of reactivity to bad shots. Often it sets in before the ball has landed because the golfer knows trouble almost immediately after making contact with the ball the shot is a bad one. I wonder if we can step back and say somethingContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: Taking a Moment“

Golf and Your Mental Game: That Voice in Your Head That Never Shuts Up

Do you hear that voice in your head that is often judging, nagging, criticizing or analyzing? Can you silence this voice at least momentarily? Indeed you can and its through meditation where by practice you realize that voice is nothing but a barbarian at the gate and you are left in a rare moment ofContinue reading “Golf and Your Mental Game: That Voice in Your Head That Never Shuts Up“