You might have heard the saying that the perfect is the enemy of the good. That is certainly true in golf. <\/p>\n
The self-induced pressure to hit your best shot every time leads to poor decision-making and poor performance. <\/p>\n
Sometimes you do hit a perfect shot. When I hit one I say to myself, “How did that<\/em> happen?” And I move on.<\/p>\n All I strive for is to hit acceptable shots. Strike the ball fairly cleanly, with decent shot shape, to a place that’s pretty close to where I wanted it to go. <\/p>\n Long game, short game, putting, that’s what I’m aiming to do. <\/p>\n When my round is over, my satisfaction is having hit more shots than not which fell into that box, the more the better. The score will take care of itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You might have heard the saying that the perfect is the enemy of the good. That is certainly true in golf. The self-induced pressure to hit your best shot every time leads to poor decision-making and poor performance. Sometimes you do hit a perfect shot. When I hit one I say to myself, “How did … Continue reading Acceptable Golf Shots<\/span>