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Professional golfers perform at a high level under pressure because they’ve found their comfort zone. Amateurs, on the other hand, tend to experience brief periods of comfort coupled with bouts of anxiety. The longer amateurs can extend the comfortable periods, the better they tend to play. For as long as the game has been played, there has been a focus on score. But thinking about score tends to make players uncomfortable, and it’s why we condition our tour professionals to take their focus off score and concentrate on the process. Before successful players arrive at an event, their fitness and nutrition are great and their ballstriking and putting are repeatable and controlled. But a new checklist is needed when arriving at the tournament. They need to get a feel for the course and develop a plan for managing it. They’ll adjust their sleeping schedules based on tee times and dial in all other necessary elements. Recently, one of the PGA Tour players we work with, John Mallinger, went out for a round here at Virginia Country Club. He was working on some swing keys and wasn’t feeling comfortable on the course. He played the front nine in 33 and the last eight holes in 10-under for a remarkable round of 59. Rather than give some deep explanation for his 26 on the back nine, Mallinger talked about how comfortable he felt on each swing and how big the hole looked. It was his comfort and commitment to each shot that allowed him to shoot that low number. He took that feeling to his next tournament, where he posted two rounds in the low 60s. Jamie Mulligan is chief operating officer and a PGA professional at Long Beach’s Virginia Country Club. He has twice been recognized as Teacher of the Year by the Southern California PGA. |
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