Proving Yourself

Golf is a never satisfying game. You will never see a good golfer that says “I am satisfied with my game today”. There are many reasons behind this: many clubs to master, changing condition, physique variation, etc… however all good golfers will agree it is a never-satisfying but fun game.

Being fun is the key. It is fun to hit a long and straight shot, it is more fun when this long and straight shot landed where you want it to be, over the pond but before the bunker. It is unbelievable fun when you add a little draw into this shot and it flies long and curve along the fairway, over the pond and before the bunker, and split the fairway in half. Once you have tasted the fun from this, you want more and try to reproduce this whenever you want, so you work hard on it, controlling your shots. In the end, you immerge yourself into the zone, where nothing else matters.

There is, however, another approach many golfers take. They constantly try to prove themselves. Proving yourself is a great motivation, but never a key to the ultimacy. Proving yourself pushes you to achieve what you think you can, without knowing the reasons why you can’t. You work on the belief, instead of the technique; you build up the confidence, founded on top of pile of artificial intelligence. In the end, you have to get over proving yourself, then you still have to train yourself to control the shots, after that you need to learn how to consistently reproducing the same shots, all of these before you could discover the joy and fun in the process.... Following this pattern, it is a long way to go.... before the joy and fun could bring you to the next level of clarity and performance.

Let the fun lead you to the ultimacy. You will be a better skilled golfer; You can prove yourself all that you want then.