Golfers Are Victims of Their Own Ideas

Many golfers are victims of what they think they should be doing. They are trying to swing and hit the ball the way they think that they should, based on what they have been told, or on what they have heard, or on how they perceive it should be done. They do this with no reality or awareness of what it is that they are actually doing. There is an ignorance of any factual and physical representation. If only they could actually see themselves, but then again they probably don't want to. Ignorance is bliss. Living in their own world of self illusion.

But that also begs the question of self denial and conviction that they know what they are doing wrong. Umpteen times the victims are desperate to do some particular move, or certainly say to others and themselves that they need to do such and such. This is projected without any understanding of how it might work and why the observation is merely superficial. Symptoms abound, and reaction to those symptoms causes more faults and takes the victims further along a path to nowhere. Yet obviously the self-fulfilling prophecy engenders even more false knowledge. This knowledge is far from any understanding.

No wonder golfers are victims. Faults and fixes, or faults and inability, and faults and more faults. Victims.

Pupils need something positive to go on. They need a proper starting point to the journey and not a choice of turnings once down the incorrect path. How to strip things back to a point where progress can be built from. This is not necessarily a reconstruction or a need to change things, which is something victims are scared of. Change is dangerous, it threatens the ego. Why not hold on to what you are doing and then try to make it work, because there must be an answer or a way of doing what one is doing yet change the results. A victim's mentality.

How about doing and building some better concepts and going from there. Pay attention to what one is actually doing and practise what one needs to do instead of chasing results. If things are correct then they can work. That may take time, and the connection back into the system should make things robust. This should be a more successful approach.

Let's not view this as change, and certainly not without reason, but see it as replacement. An external view and a willingness to understand and solve issues, whilst realising correctness is what is needed. This approach can gain improvement.

Let's not be a victim, but let's have an idea and a way of becoming oneself and at least trying properly. That is the challenge.