How to make a golfer happy!
Hi Folks
I had a great time with a client the other morning at Antequera Golf. The session reminded me what a joy it is to do what I do – make someone happy! My client was having problems getting his swing rhythm right. His left arm just didn’t seem to want to co-operate in his swing. To compensate his right shoulder was moving badly. These movements had become habitual over the past few weeks and were becoming more difficult to correct. Also, as is usual, each time he played a bad shot it made the problem even worse.
These things had now become a ‘mind issue’ so it was time to seek my help.
It didn’t take long to change my clients thinking – as is normal with the RMG method – and I helped him come to believe that his arms were in fact his friends and not his enemy. By allowing him to accept help from these new friends his swing problems rapidly evaporated and he started driving further and straighter than he had for weeks. More importantly he was doing it repeatedly!
Of course, we had the odd duff shot which gave me the perfect opportunity to deal with the negative emotions this created. Five minutes and he was dismissing the odd bad ball as having no importance rather than it adding to his self-doubt as previously.
After only half an hour with me: he was grinning like the proverbial Cheshire Cat, the tension was gone from his upper body since he was now moving well, his confidence soared, and he was feeling the ‘electric buzz’ one gets from seeing almost every ball doing what you want it to.
When I left him he was working his way through a basket of balls driving them into the distance. I also left with a smile on my face and the ‘electric buzz’ I get from seeing someone happy. Sorted!
Cheers
Les
www.rightmindgolf.com
“If you think it will, it will! Even when you don’t want it to!”
