How your Ego or Self-consciousness can Play Merry Hell with your Game of Golf

Ego is one of the most destructive mental obstacles necessary to overcome to play golf consistently to one’s potential.

Unfortunately, our ego causes many very specific bad tendencies in our game. In  that we often keep blaming other things such as faulty swing mechanics or bad technique. Don't get me wrong, swing mechanics are important, but if golf is said to be 90 percent mental, perhaps one should look at one’s golf game from another perspective like understanding how to handle the self-sabotaging ego. Your ability to aptly handle your ego will not only help you to  improve your chances of scoring better immediately but will also boost your enjoyment of the game as well. To handle your ego in golf, you must first learn to recognize the symptoms of the ego sabotaging your game.

Let me first tell you just a few things about how our ego comes into play and how it is detrimental to our game. 

            Our ego leads us to focusing on either hitting a particular type of shot or shooting a certain score rather than enjoying the process and staying in the moment. You will either keep thinking about your previous good or bad shots or you may drift into the future either elated on account of playing well or in fear of having shot bad numbers

I would say the best thing for you is to go out and play golf as if there is no score. Play the  game one shot, and one breath, at a time. If your friends are overly concerned with your score, realize that it is nothing more than their ego in the way now. They are only concerned with making their ego feel better or bigger by comparing their score with yours.  

To be continued…..