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Don’t Let ANTS
Ruin
Your Golf
Game
Overcoming your ANTS will improve your confidence,
lower your score and increase your enjoyment
of the game.
By:
Greg Liberto
Have you ever stood over the ball thinking only negative thoughts
about hitting a bad shot, and expected to play poorly?
ANTS is an acronym for Automatic Negative Thoughts.
It has been
statistically proven that nearly 90% of your thought process is
negative and occurs automatically. Golf and negative thinking are
a bad combination, let’s look at where ANTS might exist in your
game.
Before Your Round
- Do you focus on things out of your control
such as your opponent, the weather, how poorly you played this
course last time, or how fast the greens are today (and you hate
fast greens)?
During Your Round
- Do you stand on the first tee thinking
about everything except hitting your target? Do you see an
out of bounds (OB) sign, and worry about hitting it there?
Are you overly concerned with posting a number, and feel
you have no control over what you will shoot that day?
After the Round
- Is your 19th hole chatter focused on
all the shots you left out there, the bad breaks you got,
or how you are much better than your opponent, yet the
scorecard proves otherwise?
These are all classic examples of the
ANT Trap.
Your
negative thoughts and emotions have subconsciously
hijacked your golf game.
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