professor
Yep, took the words right out of my mouth.
Jeremy, I can sense that you're starting to get some rust off of your game and you're making excellent progress. Taking only one penalty in your last round would seem to indicate that you're also making better swings and managing your game better.
Just try to avoid sabotaging all of the work and effort you've put in with allowing your focus to be distracted by fixating on a number. Keep it simple. Control the things that you can control, and also accept the things you can't.
You can control the amount of pressure you put on yourself internally. You can control your focus. That's a lot easier to do when you're not worried about the end result.
Yet I also admit that most of us fight that same demon from time to time. But I also know that my best rounds the past year have come with me not worrying so much about my score, but focusing more on just controlling the way I think and not getting too high or too low whether it's a birdie or a double bogey.
It's one of the things that impresses me the most about the guys we watch on tv. None of those guys go out there expecting to shoot 62 on Thursday in the opening round of a tournament. They just get off to a good start, and then stay out of their own way and keep the good flow moving in the right direction.
But, they even fall victim to it, as great as they are. They follow up that 62 on Thursday with a 74 on Friday lots of times. Why? Because they either expect to shoot another low round, or they expect to struggle after such an incredible round the day prior.
The guy shooting 68's all four days is often the guy who cashes the biggest check Sunday evening. 😉
