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Fighting your inner demons

Golf is 90 % mental. Well, after playing 2 - 4 rounds of 9 holes every day, I think it's also physical. Not just mental:-)

Looks like golf is all about accepting ones own abilities and fighting own demands or fears. I remember the fear of bad impact - not hitting the ball well. (It was yesterday). First it was at the range - when I learned to hit the ball there - then I was thinking of missing the ball at a practice round. Next it will be competition. Once you win your fear, you fill find something new to be afraid of. (And finally it will be fear of making a good round:-) Or fear of loosing you perfect swing?

When today was an incredible practice round. I was mentally in control. I did not hit too hard and felt like I could control the base of my swing. I felt like I was playing golf - not shooting lottery shots and wondering where fill my ball end up.

I am not saying that every shot was perfect. I lost 3 balls. BUT the feeling was good.

(Signed up for a 3 person scramble competition next Saturday

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10 000 swings before spring

Just realized that if I do 100 swings a day, I can make 10 000 swings before the greens will open in Jyvaskyla, Finland. I can do the 10 000 swings, but probably I can hit only about 1000 golf balls. I visit the range only once a week. But if I use my shots carefully concentrate on each ball, I think that is enough to learn a solid, basic swing. I am sure that I know most of the basics. Now I just need to get the right touch and feel to the swing. Just a feeling about golf as a social game - it might be so that people are together, but still just concentrating on them self? We all have our own goals and play an individual game. So golf might resemble our society a lot more than I first realized. This must be why the game appeals to middle aged males like me. Also someone said that one should talk too much during a round - so that's easy/natural for Finns, too.
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Have some cake - it's my birthday!

Today is my 48. birthday. For my birthday I just finished 11 email lessons of golf with Lawrie Montague at Golf Academy. http://www.golf-school-australia.com Get the lessons! I'll add a quotation from Lawrie's email: "Thankyou for your comments on my lesson series and you're right the lessons are simple and for good reason, golf instruction tends to be ambiguous and complicated, and really it's not that difficult to learn how to hit better, more consistent golf shots and ultimately lower your scores. Hannu as long as you truly develop an understanding about what you are trying to do and then follow-up with consistent thoughtful action golf becomes less of a mystery. Good luck to you and your adventures in golf and please let me know how you're travelling down the track." Consider this a "slice" of my birthday cake to you:-) Hannu - learning and living (Modified from McLuhan's "learning a living)
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