Golf coach Connor Stirling Peterson explains how to reset when your swing falls apart. Focus on just making contact, use a brief routine to reset, and visualize the ball's flight. The players who separate themselves aren't thinking differently, they're just working through it better.
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So you could do all the practice you want, you get into the tournament, something happens. Yeah, no, that, that's great. And one of the things I always kind of talk to kids about is like what you have, like how you feel about your game that day is like part of like what you have for that day. And like part managing it when it's bad is like, okay, I don't have it, something feels really weird. It's like, can I just figure out how to make contact? Can I like have a prayer of like starting this ball like somewhere online? Do I have some concept of like which direction it's going to curve? And then you can kind of start to piece together. It's just, um, you know, I think it's interesting because like everyone has the same thoughts. It's how we like relate to those and how we kind of like work through it. I think that that separates the good golfers from maybe the not as good golfers. Um, but no, that's cool to kind of like go through and, and dig into. So we're playing a lot of— spend a lot of time on the golf course.