Since the beginning of the game, along through the years, golfers have developed a mind that separates them from the world of truth and the world of reality. It is a mind that tries too hard and wears itself thin when the pressure of the game gets lofty.
This mind, even if high in intelligence, is incompetent and feeble during the heat of some competition. This is the mind that wonders from the past to the future and is busy with self talk. I, for one, have experienced this mind and how trying too hard with my golf game will not succeed under pressure.
I have also experienced things just happening the right way, at the right time. At least they do when you have the sense to let them alone.
It seems to me that as golfers we must all go through trying too hard, before we can tap into the just happening the right way without any effort. How else will you know that it's you in your own way? It's as if things are going to happen whether you agree to the way the outcome appears to be unfolding or not.
After starting a round of golf with a few bad holes, you can try to get in the way of the outcome early and say, "this is not the outcome that I want." If you have ever experienced your mind getting involved with thinking and acting upon these thoughts, you will often find yourself just making a bigger mess of things.
When you tune yourself to the moment, the way things are going, everything works out the way it needs to. Sometimes you may even look back in admiration at how you achieved a great shot or a great round with a feeling that your part in the outcome was not as big of a part as you may have thought. Your goal, although important, is not as important as how you get to it and the moments of what happens as you are getting it.
Think about the hitting of a great golf shot. There is a certain feeling that leads up to it and I don't have a name for it, but often it's better than the feeling right after that perfect shot. It's as if even if you could make things work out perfectly you couldn't have done it any better.
The outcome is something that should not concern you when you are in the process of heading toward an outcome. Simply work with things as they are. The bottom line here is to believe in the power within us and use it without any questions as to why it works on one occasion versus any other.
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