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Tag Archives: mental game
Whac-A-Mole Golf
Sometimes I wonder if I need Whac-A-Mole lessons or an exorcist. My golf game is an unending sequence of one problem popping up after another. I hit a few drives to the right, realize I’m not finishing my swing, and … Continue reading
Norman Mailer On Golf
Yesterday I played in our regular skins game and had a round that was simultaneously one of my worst and one of my best. I started out with an encouraging birdie, and immediately followed that with two three putt bogies. … Continue reading
My Reasons To Like Golf
After much head scratching, navel gazing, and creative napping I’ve come up with my reasons to like golf. These reasons apply solely to me. Any resemblance to the reasons of others is purely coincidental, although not necessarily impossible. I mentally … Continue reading
Reasons To Like Golf?
I got to the end of The Game Before The Game a few days ago. It’s a book by Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson about golf practice strategies, and it ends by claiming that knowing what you love about golf is … Continue reading
Swinging Again
A few posts ago, I promised to stay away from the course for a while and wait for my game to heal. Well, I didn’t touch a club for two whole weeks. That wouldn’t have been a long time for … Continue reading
Posted in reflections on golf
Tagged Golf's Sacred Journey, mental game, Seven Days in Utopia, Texas Hill Country
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Concerto For Pitching Wedge And Bassoon
My major extracurricular activities in high school and college were band and orchestra. I was a fast, but gangly, receiver and would have been seriously broken when hit by the football players at my large Texas high school. (Think Friday … Continue reading
Posted in reflections on golf
Tagged Friday Night Lights, golf swing thoughts, Jack Nicklaus, Jamaica Farewell, mental game
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Channel Your Inner Fozzie Bear
Sam the Eagle acted as the moral guardian of The Muppet Show. He routinely expressed outrage and offense at bad jokes and behavior he thought beneath the dignity of the show’s high (at least to him) standards. The other characters on … Continue reading
Posted in reflections on golf
Tagged Fozzie Bear, mental game, Muppet Show, Muppets, Sam the Eagle
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Can I Fire Myself?
One of those McGladrey commercials has Davis Love III’s bad caddy telling him all the bad things that could happen on a putt, pointing out that his opponent just eagled, and then walking away wishing Davis luck. Davis just stares … Continue reading
Get Back In That Place
The last cut on Jerry Jeff Walker’s Viva Terlingua! album is London Homesick Blues, by Gary P. Nunn. As the Lost Gonzo Band plays the intro you can hear Gary mutter into the microphone as he gets ready to sing, saying … Continue reading
The Sand Crab Speaks The Truth
I came out of my funk with a start when I heard that rasping laugh. I’d been staring out the window too long and lost track of time. Now I had to pay for getting lost in my own black … Continue reading
Posted in The Sand Crab
Tagged Bob Rotella, golf books, golf writing, Jean Van de Velde, mental game, Rory McIlroy, The Golfer's Mind
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