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A golf coach tells junior golfers to stop obsessing over strong starts. Even great opening holes lead to mistakes later, so focus instead on staying calm and managing errors through the rest of the round.
A golf coach tells junior golfers to stop obsessing over strong starts. Even great opening holes lead to mistakes later, so focus instead on staying calm and managing errors through the rest of the round.
If you're a junior golfer and you believe that you always have to start your round strong in tournaments to be able to shoot a good score, you're always gonna struggle. And the reason for that is, think about the amount of pressure that you're putting on yourself as a golfer. You're saying, if I don't play good in the first few holes, then I'm gonna have a bad day. Now, first of all, that's a lie. You play plenty of good golf and then on the backside crap the bed. So it's important to understand that you're probably gonna play bad golf at some point throughout your round. It's at the beginning of your round, well, that means you just manage your mistakes. And if you get through that all right, you probably got something pretty good for the rest of the round. Probably gonna be able to shoot something all right. At the same time, you start off really good, you should have kind of a sense of like, okay, cool, let's just make sure that we don't do anything dumb for the rest of the round. And that'll help you have a lot more even-keel approach to how your game goes. Either you start off great, awesome, that's cool. You start off bad, all right, cool, we just need to figure out a few things. Or we start off mediocre, that's fine too, just keep on keeping on. You're never really gonna get in too much trouble making a
