September 25, 2002

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Quick Tips:

One Shot At A Time

A dangerous trap that amateur golfers often fall head first into is thinking forward to a pivotal hole they know they will face later in the round or thinking back to a bad shot they\'ve already played. Thinking ahead to a tough, feature hole, a par-3 surrounded by water for instance, will only make it tougher when you eventually arrive there. Thinking back to a bad shot you\'ve already played will only put negative thoughts in your head and diminish your chances of making a decent swing. You need to stay in the present, thinking not of what has gone or what is to come but what you are doing now.

If you finish a hole with a six or seven strike it from your memory and concentrate immediately on the next hole. Imagine that hole is the 1st and that you were hitting the ball well when warming up before the round. Once you hit a shot or complete a hole forget it. Whether you start your round, 3,3,3 or 7,7,7 those previous scores should be irrelevant. Hit one shot at a time and as soon as you see your ball land start to think about what you are going to do with your next shot.

Often you will find that as your game improves and your scores start coming down you will be tempted to start calculating well before you reach the 18th tee what you need to do in order to beat your best ever score. This is one of the worst mental mistakes you can make as you will shatter the concentration you built up earlier in the round and introduce a million ifs and buts into your head. That can really only lead to disaster.

Remember:
1. Set yourself realistic and specific goals.
2. Pick a target, visualize the shot you want to play then let your autopilot take over.
3. Think and speak positively.
4. Play one shot at a time.

Richard

Richard:
This is an article about the Ryder Cup, which, as you know, takes place weekend after next. Personally, I think it\'s becoming the most popular golf tournament in the world. I hope you can use it.
Mac Steveson

Copyright 2002
\". . . Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming over there\"
The words of that patriotic song--\"Over There\" written by George M. Cohan in 1917--were for our citizens and soldiers in World War I. The Yanks are coming over again--for a different kind of war.
On September 27-29, the 2002 Ryder Cup matches will be played at the Belfry in Sutton Coldfield, England. This Ryder Cup was postponed for one year because of the terrorist attack against our nation on September 11, 2001.
TV coverage will be extensive:
* Friday, Sept. 27--USA Channel 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
* Saturday, Sept. 28--NBC 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
* Sunday, Sept. 29--NBC 7:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
(All times EDT)
This will be the 34th Ryder Cup tournament, matching the best golfers from the United States and Europe. It has become one of the most tension-filled and exciting sporting events of the year.
It all began in 1927, and the overall won-lost record is tilted in favor of the United States; however, in recent Ryder Cups, the European team has won two of the last three tournaments.
The U.S. leads in the series history with 24 wins; the European team has won seven times. Two tournaments have ended in a tie. Europe won in 1995 and 1997, while the U.S. won in 1999 (14 ½--13 ½).
2002 Teams
U.S. Team European Team
Curtis Strange--Captain Sam Torrance--Captain
*Paul Azinger Thomas Bjorn
Mark Calcavecchia Darren Clarke
Stewart Cink Niclas Fasth
David Duval Pierre Fulke
Jim Furyk Sergio Garcia
Scott Hoch Padraig Harrington
Davis Love III Berhard Langer
Phil Mickelson Paul McGinley
Hal Sutton Colin Montgomerie
David Toms Jesper Parnevik
*Scott Verplank Phillip Price
Tiger Woods Lee Westwood
*--Captain\'s picks
Being a Ryder Cup captain isn\'t just an honorary position. Curtis Strange will choose the team pairings on Friday and Saturday. And Strange decides which eight players on the 12-man team will play in the two-man team matches.
Captain\'s decisions are underrated in importance; the right or wrong player choices can make the difference in victory or defeat.
On Friday and Saturday, all of the matches are two-man team contests. There are eight team matches on both days; two different formats are used:
* The first is called a \"foursome\" match in which players hit alternate (every other) shots. One player on each team tees off from the even-numbered holes and the other tees off from the odd-numbered holes. Then the players hit alternate shots until the final putt is holed.
* \"Four-ball\" matches make up the other format. In this match, all four players play every hole just like they would in normal competition. And then the best individual score (low ball) from each team is all that counts.
On Sunday, there are twelve singles matches. So, there are eight team matches on both Friday and Saturday--four matches each day using the two above-mentioned formats and twelve singles matches on Sunday. Each match counts one point for the winning team. If a match is tied, each team receives half a point.
There are a possible 28 points, so a team must have a minimum of 14 ½ points to win the Ryder Cup.
On the PGA Tour, medal play is the method used for scoring. In the Ryder Cup, every match is determined by a match play format. An example is the simplest way to describe match play: If Player A and Player B start on a par four and Player A takes a double bogie 6 and Player B makes a par 4, then Player B is one-up. In the same match, in medal play, Player B would have a two-stroke advantage.
In match play, it doesn\'t matter how many strokes you win or lose by; the outcome of every match is determined by how many individual holes a team or individual (in singles) wins.
Pressure in Ryder Cup matches is different from anything the pros experience on the PGA and European Tours. Contestants are playing for their countries and teammates and friends and families; during the rest of the year, everything is individual and players don\'t have anyone to worry about but themselves.
The Masters, U.S. Open, and British Open are prestigious and exciting and tension-filled, but none of them compare with the Ryder Cup. This has become one of the most outstanding sporting events in the world during the last two decades. This year won\'t be any different. The guess here is that the matches will go right down to the wire.
Book Review: Golf for Lefties
By Chuck Bednar
When it comes to golf instruction, are you shunned because you\'re a southpaw? Do you strive to improve your game; only to find that being left-handed means being left out? You are not alone, as thousands of golfers across the country have searched tirelessly for years for a solid, how-to book that isn\'t just for righties.
Enter Golf for Lefties by Bill Burr [Masters Press, 1997].
Burr\'s book, while not necessarily unique, stands apart from most similar books in that it was crafted primarily with left-handed golfers in mind. And while that alone would guarantee book sales, readers will be gratified to know that Burr\'s Golf for Lefties is a strong entry into the golf genre, not just a gimmick.
Burr wastes little time in his concise (the book is just over 100 pages long) yet effective approach to the book. It isn\'t as flashy or as elaborate as Tiger Woods\' How I Play Golf, but it is far more efficient. Burr conveys tips that are easily on par with those found in Tiger\'s book, and he does so in less than one-third as many pages. Even the illustrations, while fewer in number and not are polished as they could be, rival those of any other instructional text on the market.
Golf for Lefties covers all the bases - the elements of an effective swing, using the driver, swinging with the irons, mastering putting and the short game, and so on. In Chapter 2, he shows readers the four \"measurable qualities\" of the golf swing, and includes helpful pictures to clarify how these qualities can be tweaked to improve a swing. Then in Chapter 8, he provides instructions on which situations require the use of which short-game clubs - including the sand wedge, pitching wedge, and nine-iron. Later on in the book, he even shows the reader how to make the bunker shot become \"one of the easiest shots...in the game of golf.\"
Even if you\'re not a left-handed golfer, odds are you will find something in this book to improve your game.
However, Burr clearly created this work with left-handers in mind, and his audience will undoubtedly appreciate the obvious effort he has put into this task.
Whether discussing the overlapping grip in Chapter 3:
\"The left hand grip is one where the grip is placed primarily in the fingers...your left thumb should rest comfortably to the right of the shaft, and the \'V\' formed by the thumb and forefinger will point toward your left shoulder.\"
Or the mechanics of the driver\'s backswing in Chapter 6:
\"The ideal turn will have your back facing the target. A good swing thought is \'left pocket back.\' This move will ensure that the hips are turned as far as required, and will also bring the shoulders to the best position.\"
You can count on Golf for Lefties to be a solid how-to book that truly lives up to its name.
The two features that really but this book over the top, at least in this reviewer\'s mind, are the final two chapters. In Chapter 10, Burr includes a series of practice drills lefties can use to improve their game. Each of these exercises - which include the Free Arm Swing Drill, the Flat Right Wrist Drill, and the Gravity Drill - includes a brief description of the drill and an illustration showing how to execute them. The eleventh and final chapter is a glossary of golf terms - a feature that really should be included in more golf books and a welcome sight for anyone who has ever wondered exactly what the heck a \"chili-dip\" or a \"worm burner\" is.
Even if you\'re not a lefty, but especially if you are, I highly recommend a trip down to your local library or bookstore for Golf for Lefties. The instruction is solid, the approach is unique, Burr\'s direct writing style is refreshing, and the inclusion of the drills and glossary are extras that really but this strong how-to volume over the top.
Richard\'s Thoughts
All of us are confronted with fears that hold us back-consciously or subconsciously. None of us are born with these fears, but they arrive for the environment from which we are exposed to. Your actions stem primarily from fear and worry.
Salespeople are confronted with these fears all the time. Whether your fears are of getting some disease, loosing your house, flying an airplane, or changing your golf swing...fear can be a diving force that is always there. When your life changes and you are faced in a new environment, and situations change, you can be forced into a new set of fears.
Probably the most common of all fears is the fear of the unknown, fear of rejection, fear of loss, fear of disapproval. You have to deal with all fears to be able to succeed in life. It has been said that fears are like fires, they are easiest to extinguish when they are small. You must banish them from your subconscious or they will add fuel to that fire. To rid yourself of any fear you have to face it to banish it from your life forever. I had a good friend that was in the Army\'s Special Forces. He said that many of them were scared to death of snakes in the jungles of Viet Nam. What did the Army do to rid them of these fears? They had snakes in cages, and made all of the solders handle the snakes until the over came the fear. You have to face a fear before you can overcome it. When I was a boy, down home, we had a neighbor that during the summer time when you would ride up to his house, under these large live oak trees, with long, curving, low hanging limbs, there would be large burlap bags tied to these limbs handing all around under these trees. What this gentleman did was during the summer; he would catch rattle snakes in the woods, and store them in the bags until some one from Florida would come by every month or so and buy them. They would then take the snakes to Florida and milk them for the venom. I was terrified of the snakes. Well one day, Charlie reached in the bag, pulled out a rattlesnake about four feet long and let me hold it. He taught me the proper way to hold the snake and how to protect myself from them. Almost instantly my fear of snakes disappeared. Now, I\'m not going to tell you that today I catch rattlesnakes for a living, but to this day, long as I can see a snake, I am not scared of them!! Now I have to admit, I am not as comfortable with them as Charles was. He would go into the woods after one (like if a snake would crawl across the road in front of him), on his hands and knees, raking thru the leaves trying to find them. Honest, I saw him do this once!
You can obtain your desires if you overcome your fears and change your habits. Once I wanted to start a new business and was very excited about it, but my mind told me it would not succeed. It was the fear factor. I went ahead and started the business anyway, because I felt this was the thing to do. Things did not go very well, at first. Manner of a fact, things went terrible at first. But after I had built a firm foundation and had overcome the fear, things turned around and did quite well financially. This enabled me to identify the fear that had been present in all my business decisions in the past. Today I laugh at the limits I was living under then, and how easy it was to change.
Anytime that you have to make an important decision and it appears to be difficult, take a piece of paper, divide it in half and writhe out the pros and the cons. More than likely, the \"against\" side will have more objections listed on it, than the \"like\" side. This way you can go over each of those objections or fears, and answer them and not use them as a reason for not doing something. Usually our reasons for not doing something are based on weak excuses. If you are afraid of doing something, your mind will find a way to make sure that you don\'t do it, and will even stand in your way and prevent you from doing something that it perceives you do not want. Be sure to address all your fears first and then take that piece of paper in your hands once again. Whether you want to start a new business, or improve your golf score, you have to chase your fears away and consciously decide to take a chance in life. Believe me, it is usually well worth the trouble and risk.
Like the man named Sharp said: The choice is yours!
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