Does thinking of a Happy Place, like in Happy Gilmore, improve your golf game?

Question

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Answer 1

Definatly not. Golf is about careful concentration. Although if your already blowin' it I suppose that it couldn't hurt to try.  

Answer 2

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Answer 3

yep, when you get relaxed your form becomes more fluid.

I can't play at all when I'm tense or (not in my happy place)

Answer 4

No, because Happy Gilmore did a whole lot more then that to improve his golf game. He had a fight with Bob Barker and did a whole lot of cursing in front of the cameras. He was a ice hockey player as well who did a whole lot of fist slapping. You have to be as funny and cool as him first.

Answer 5

haha mite sound dumb

but yes it really does  it just calms u down and u focus ur game more  

Answer 6

well whatever is around me if im playing golf is relaxing so it is my happy place

Answer 7

golf is defiantly a mental game

if you think too hard then you'll end up playing worse

if you think for the best you can do better

the most important thing is to be relaxed

Answer 8

No because its all a joke. A good way to improve your golf game is to not   get angry  

Answer 9

Thinking of recent happy shots appears to help my concentration and confidence. It is when I think of mistakes on certain holes which causes me problems.

Answer 10

everybody's different.  It just might.  There are some PGA Tour guys (Jason Gore and Rory Sabatini comes to mind) that keeps a pic of their kids on their bag tag, which would be their "happy place".  

There are some people, like Tiger, who play better when they're mad.  Focused determination is what I've heard it called.  In Tiger's instance, I've read in a Golf Magazine article where he hits a poor shot, drops f-bombs for 10 steps (the most his dad allowed him to be mad when he was younger) before he gets to his ball, then BAM- all that matters is the next shot.  

Pia Nielsson and Lynn Merriot are golf intructors who write for Golf Digest, and they wrote one article that said to play one nine negatively and the other positively, regardless of how you're doing.  Can you focus your anger to give you that drive to turn your round, um, around? LOL  Or do you play better if you always give yourself the benefit of the doubt?  

One thing to note, however, is that not many people out for a casual round like the temper-tantrum, club- throwing, expletive- laced attitudes.  So if you play with people who are out to just have fun, you might not want to do that experiment until you're out alone on the course.

Answer 11

I would say that anyone who is happy on a golf course will play better than being angry.

Have a good one...

Answer 12

listen ............

i think i hear a splash after your drive

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Answer 13

No

Answer 14

No defiantly not your either good or c**p ! thats a great film though

Answer 15

Playing a round of golf...I am in a happy place, and I can tell you for certain, that it doesn't mean that your game is going to improve...on the flip side, a positive attitude will always make the round enjoyable.

Answer 16

my game only improves when i am angry

Answer 17

it might work for you, but it doesn't for me...i tried.  it just distracts me too much and makes me thinks about other things going on.

Answer 18

Drunken golf sounds good, although I've never even played golf while sober.

Answer 19

absolutely. I get happy everytime i think about it. Then i play better. it is all mindset.  

Answer 20

  I am a golf professional, author and a Psychologist (Ph.D.).  In one of my books, I did research on great putters. I found that some players actually made a little smile before they putted ( they were unaware that they were doing it.  If you smile, your brain releases endorphins and gives your body a feeling of well being. Your brain does not know why you are smiling but you will feel relaxed, happier and more confident as you make your putt.  It works!

Answer 21

There's no doubt that golf is a game played inside the head as much as on the grass.  Every golfer has the experience that with tension in the mind and body, or constant mental chatter we play way below our potential.

There are many great books out there dealing with this side of the game.  "The Inner Game of Golf" is a particularly good one.

At http://www.golfinthemoment.com there are a number of articles exploring the mental side of the game and a class that can be taken to allow golfers to experience focus and freedom from thoughts.

Tiger Woods is a great example of someone who wins because of his mental strength - that is probably the strongest part of his game, and no matter what level we play the game at we are denying ourselves better scores and more enjoyment if all we practice is the technical side of things.