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Let's Face It, The Game Is Absurd

You can play lights out and hit the ball exactly as you imagine and yet get nothing out of your round. And other times it seems like it's a struggle to get get the ball airborne and yet you score like Seve Ballesteros in his prime. You practice until your hands bleed, play 3 - 4 times a week and score worse.

There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to the oddity of this grand game. You want the ball to go left so you have to aim right. You want it to go up so you have to hit down on it. Even in the way you address the ball it's ridiculous. What other sport/game do you not face your target when playing it? We face 45 degrees away from it!

The Golfing Gods

You make a perfect swing after selecting the perfect club and the wind gusts as soon as the ball leaves your club and knocks it offline and short 10 yards of your target. These absurdities don't even touch the human aspects of the game like slow play! Guys who take a full minute in their pre-shot routine and then stand over the ball almost paralyzed. Long enough to be sculpted...

You got your whiners, players with serious anger issues, the token "change rattler", guys who peel their glove off in your backswing, step on your line, walk around while your putting, leave the flag directly behind the hole when you're putting, don't putt out 3 footers then talk later how well they played that day. And on and on it goes...

So Why Play this Stupid Game?

You see, what we trade for these all to brief moments of golfing nirvana is disproportionate, to say the least. Yet this still doesn't dissuade us from playing this game. Why? While individual reasons may be personal there is one universal theme that underlies our obsession with golf.

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It's called flow. The game takes a long time to become proficient at yet along the way we ALL experience some flow. A book called Flow was written by a Russian with a name too long to type, and it is a detailed, all be it exhaustive analysis, of why people do anything in life.

It's All About Flow

A long as we have a relationship to the game that allows us to embrace the absurdities and understand that golf is not a game of perfect, then we can more fully enter this "flow". We will consistently experience the joy that got us playing the game in the first place.

So this month's newsletter, although it isn't filled with specific tips like usual, is critical for your game. I recommend reading other inner game books and developing a mindset that lets you fully accept all parts of this great game. Not just the good shots and low scores.

Your flow will increase and, interestingly enough, your scores will improve along with your fulfillment and joy...

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