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Performance Tip brought to you by Mark Fairbank – BSI Mental Coach and Head of Golf Performance
N
o matter how good a player is, they
with better
will hit bad shots and they will have
importantly
bad holes during their round. The key
regain cont
to keeping a tidy scorecard, is how well we
our process
bounce back after each bad shot or a bad hole.
through thi
A similar ph
shot during
in the trees,
overly aggre
to undo the must make
look to exec confidence
attempt som
hardly pract shot with a A common mistake is believing that bouncing
unravel on t
back from a bogey or double bogey means
with an und
that we should try make a birdie on the very
Following a
next hole to get the shot back as soon as
decision me
possible. Unfortunately, this leads to an
control of o
inevitable downward spiral of more bogeys or
and bounce
worse. In an attempt to make birdies to bounce
will inevitab
back on the scorecard, we make bad decisions,
the scoreca
take more risks and attempt to hit shots that we have a low percentage of pulling off, this all leads to more bad holes and ultimately our round unravelling further. Bouncing back means we follow a mistake or bad hole,
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hole doesn’ immediatel
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