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One of the ways that I was able to keep my game together after making mistakes was my ability to give myself instant objective feedback. These two rounds, I can say clearly that I did this better than at any other time in my golf career. 1) recognizing what was off, 2) doing so without any negative emotion.
For example, after an iron shot that was hit solidly, but below my expectations, I would run through the golf swing again, feeling the swing and comparing it with the ball flight. I would quickly realize the mistake, perhaps turning up with my hips rather than around or turning more with my arms than my shoulders in my backswing (so the club get stuck behind me). After misses like these in the past, I may have first been frustrated by the result. Instead, I was able to analyze first and once I knew the issue I was able to move on.
There were other times too, where I didn't know what the problem was. This is often been much worse of a problem, one that I would grind on and end up making another mistake by thinking too much over the ball. I realized that when I don't have an answer immediately, that means I don't know it. Meaning that its something I can look at later, if I'm missing shots in the same way, but otherwise not to worry about it, since the worrying causes more problems that the actual problem that I don't have the answer for.
In either case, looking at misses with less frustration and more objective analysis, lead me to make subtle adjustments on the course that kept my shot making within a narrower range. Meaning that my misses were far better than normal overall and I hit more quality shots than normal.
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