From around the green, always chip or pitch or putt to make it. You're not trying to get it close. You're trying to hole it. Nothing will give you more pleasure than mastering your own insecurities about the short game and turning it into a facet of golf that helps you score and win.
ROTELLA'S RULES
10 things a player must do in every competitive round:
1. Play to play great. Don't play not to play poorly.
2. Love the challenge of the day, whatever it may be.
3. Get out of results and get into process.
4. Know that nothing will bother or upset you on the golf course, and you will be in a great state of mind for every shot.
5. Playing with a feeling that the outcome doesn't matter is always preferable to caring too much.
6. Believe fully in yourself so you can play freely.
7. See where you want the ball to go before every shot.
8. Be decisive, committed and clear.
9. Be your own best friend.
10. Love your wedge and your putter.
Sport psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella teaches athletes how to use their minds to reach their potential. In addition to being a consultant to more than 20 PGA Tour players, including Davis Love III, Brad Faxon, Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke, Rotella has written five other books, including Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect, and is a longtime Golf Digest Professional Advisor.
Adapted from The Golfer's Mind: Play to Play Great, by Dr. Bob Rotella with Bob Cullen (192 pages, $23). Copyright (©) 2004 by Robert J. Rotella. Published by The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc., N.Y. Printed by permission.
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