Why things are clicking, we are unique.

Greetings,

Anybody that follows my sharing here knows I have struggled of late. @Tom Saguto recommended a few books, one of which I got on Audible, "Play Your Best Golf Now". Which deals with the space between our ears 😛!

Well that turned out to be a big eye opener for me in the swing and my approach to what we do here. Certainly in my season of life, 65 & 1/2 with metal junkyard in right shoulder. I again had to remember that we are not all robots and must tailor the things talked about and learned here, MUST be incorperated to our unique swing. I can't get as much tilt in my swing because of the certain restrictions from shoulder. But knowing that has been a boon.

So the funk I was in the past weeks is continuing to trend in the right direction and as I have stated in a different post (Lag Shot Training), it is tempo that is major key for me. Yesterday played 1st round (actually 2nd round, since had a bye in 1st round) of Senior Match Play ( 20 total players). I posted that last week in regular Match Play (has 38 total players) had a come from behind win @ 3&1 finish.

Yesterday was another confidence builder and really beleive if I hadn't started to incorperate principles from "Play Your Best Golf Now" would have been a different outcome. We were pretty evenly matched, I got 1 stroke on the #1 handicapped hole. Again was down early on by 2 but battled back, yet still went into back 9 down 2 holes. But the different mind set had me focused on the comeback. Was down by 2 with 7 to play. Played the next 5 holes @ 2 over and that in the middle of that run brought it to even with 3 holes left. Final hole a Par 5, hit a nice drive, layed up in front of ditch and then hit a 5 iron into a right greenside bunker. Missed the par save after a decent out and bogeyed the hole, but opponent doubled. This is where I believe things in the brain come into play. He was struggle putting and when I was on the come back trail I drained a couple of long putts and was just missing some long putts earlier in the round so was on putting for sure. And it seemed that he struggled more as I started draining a few to come back and really he really had a hard time with putts that should have been made. I mechion this because I was in the funk with that also in the long game when I was struggling and it compounds itself. Was kind of enlighting to watch it from the otherside but took no pleasure in it, but seen where I was.

The win came when he missed a short bogey putt and I had to hit a 7 footer for the win, back of the cup never a doubted ( not being prideful) but that is the difference when you have the right mideset. WOW, what a big difference my mindset and "Think Box. Play Box" has made in me overall.

It has helped me to see in this short time what I know works and what I can incorperate from here to enhance my game. When you think things can't get better from this forum and @Tom Saguto they just do.

Looking forward to regular league play today.

Hope this is an inspiration to someone out there.