Assess, Don't Guess |
Taking time to assess where your game is
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| by Jeff Troesch |
 With September upon us, this is the time that
many junior golfers have slowed down their
golf involvement after a hectic summer of
tournament play. In some parts of the
country, high school golf is beginning, but
in many areas, play doesn’t begin until the
spring of 2008.
From a mental perspective, now is a great
time for the players to sit back and take
some accounting of what has been going well
with their game and what has been going less
than well. At times, in the middle of
competitive season, it seems as though
players are too busy to really work on
specific elements of their game. For some
it feels like there is a constant “bandaging”
of their game in order to get it ready for
the next event.
In order to get better, it is essential that
players take time to assess where their game
is and create a plan of action on how they
will get better over the winter. To that
end, we want to make sure the player is
assessing, not guessing!
Being back in school means less time to work
on the game, so it is important that the time
devoted to golf is spent wisely and the
efforts are productive and efficient. Make
sure that the assessments of the game are
specific, purposeful, and honest. Get
feedback from the friends who know your game,
from your parents, and from your instructor,
to get a comprehensive sense of where your
strengths and weaknesses lie. Then put
together a plan to attack those areas of
weakness and continue to build the strengths!
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