Discussion for Chatter counts

Thanks. Good article. I will make internal positive chatter a habit from now on.

Positive chatter is better than sarcastic running your own game down for sure. Learn to kill ALL mental chatter through you set up and swing and do it on autopilot having made the plan. Now its time to execute the plan. You cannot do it effectively whilst talking to yourself in your head.

If only I could get time to chat to myself, unfortunately have been experiencing the running commentary of playing partners…...

That running commentary can be fun or a pain. Learning how to tune out whilst you are concentrating for the shot is rather important.

Anyone that talks whilst I’m on the job simply gets a whip on the arse…...

I like total silence when I’m performing..

yeah I see agree with this method

if you cdont belive you can make the shot you wont…you can talk yourself into some pretty amazing things

at a pub many of us going for the ‘lower chick” thinking miss blonde bombshell in the corner is unattainbale..yes we can talk oursleves into that situation (probably through alcholol though)

yet golf in many ways has a drug type feel to it…have met many golfers who even use the term addicted

anyways I playwith 3 guys most sundays and they can all play (around 10-15 handicaps)...they too often get negative on themsleves..and suddenly they have a moose (thats a ten)

I was at a coaching forum a few years back, Ric Charlsworth ran a hockey session (it was a game)...100 positive words were said to the athletes ….10 negatives were thrown in randomly along the way..each athlete remembered word for word the negitive feedback given…..yet couldnt remeber many positives

each athlete them went back and focussed on those ten positives(using internal chatter to remind themselves…as each tahlete had them printed on a piece of paper and they had a few minutes to analyse them)...the perfromance in the second session was far above the first

golf being a hole by hole sport gives you plenty of oppurtunity to use this very easy and sucsessful method

I carry a little sporting quotes book in my bag that has famous positive spiorting quotes..I often flick through it while waiting for other groups…believe me it works

look there will be times when youre thinking yep I will nail this 4 iron and you wont….but % wise you rarely nail the 4i ron anyways if you dont think you can…its all about increase the likelihood of nailing it

Anyone that talks whilst I’m on the job simply gets a whip on the arse…… I like total silence when I’m performing..

Do you get the feeling there’s a teenage boy in his bedroom somewhere with chafing palms?

I carry a little sporting quotes book in my bag that has famous positive spiorting quotes..I often flick through it while waiting for other groups…believe me it works

You use motivational quotes to play good golf…? Do you have an iPod playing the theme music from Rocky as well? Maybe one of those posters with “Determination” and a picture of waves crashing against a lighthouse. You could mount that on your buggy real easy like.

“Risin’ up, straight to the top… Have the guts, got the glory
Went the distance, now I’m not gonna stop… Just a man and his will to survive …it’s the eye of the tiger…”

Any coincidence the World #1 was named Tiger by his Dad? I think not.