Working on your golf mind game is essential to improving your golf because it impacts every part of your game. You can go out on the course and hope for the best which often leads to frustration and beating yourself up. Or you can get strategic and adopt an approach to working on every aspect of your game.

So, what are those things that will give you the most improvement. It all starts with your golf mind game which you will see impacts and involves your thinking, your body, movement and physiology, how you manage your emotions, strategy on the course, what shots you play, how you play, course management, minimising risk, managing your emotions and building strong golf routines.

In our previous articles we have already given you two strategies that if practiced and added to your game can make a huge difference.

Lets do a recap.

The first strategy was learn to learn to breathe through your golf swing. Many amateur golfers hold their breath over the ball and or try to force their golf swing mistaking force equals distance. Breathing in on the backswing and breathing out through the downswing, through the ball and to the target.

This is the key to finding your natural rhythm.

The second strategy was Dont Hit The Ball. Most people who focus on hitting the ball either pull up too early, they play to the ball not through the ball and that is a real key distinction.

The next golf mind strategy is...Play To A Small Target.

When you are standing behind where a ball lies and you are making decisions about what shot to play and where you want to play to, what is important is not where the ball is right now but where you want it to land.

Many golfers beat themselves up over where the ball is and lose focus on the next shot and where they are going. So, where do you want the ball to land next.

This is about making a crystal clear decision about where you want the ball to land and picking a small target and also picking a line you are going to play to and through as you play to that particular target.

This will make a huge difference to your game playing to your target. Pick a target that is very much within your capability because you dont want to be overplaying, you don’t want to be over-hitting the ball.

So, play to the target.

Practice these strategies out of competition. Add them to your golf practice program. Most people will find they learn faster by running through new learning in slow motion. Your brain learns super fast, it also learns best when you focus on what you are doing right. Catch yourself every time you do something right, acknowledge it. This is how your brain and neurology identifies what you want. Also, get out on the golf course and practice, one strategy at a time.