Don’t Fight the Course

photo credit: danperry.com   Do you fight the course when you play?  Golf is not about “fighting the course,” it’s about being in the most effective physical and mental playing condition.  Golf is about mental discipline, it’s about taking on the course’s problems and making a minimal amount of difficult shots.

Do you honestly think you are going to ”destroy” a 7,200 yard course just because you can drive the ball 300 yards?  Any Tour Pro will tell you that playing well means having a good “plan of attack.”  Risky shots are not part of a Tour Pro’s vocabulary.  Maintaining good judgement on each shot is so much more important than breaking distance records. 

Your job on the course is to minimize risky shots not to embrace them.  Leave risk-taking up to the Hollywood stuntmen and Phil Mickelson!