02/20/2024
🧠 INTENTION and ATTENTION 🧠
How do you know if you've played well or not? Purely on the score outcome? How you struck the ball that day? Your total putts? Avoided hazards? You felt good? You maintained your energy through the round? You kept a level head?
And better yet, how do you decide what your practice will look like between rounds? Is there something you can do better or different?
1. Determine your INTENTION
2. Measure your performance
3. Give ATTENTION to your intention by assessing
4. Make an improvement plan
These two scorecards are 10 strokes different (85/95), 2 months apart (Aug/Oct), two different courses (VA/WA), and from two different tee boxes (5,847yds/6,115yds).
✨️DETERMINE YOUR INTENTION✨️. I just want to have fun with my mom on the course. I want to focus on a consistent pre-shot routine. I want to practice positive self-talk when things don't go as planned (guaranteed to happen). I want to score between 87-92.
If your INTENTION is to SCORE better, it may be helpful to keep track of your stats. It's a great way to assess your entire game to see what needs more work. I ✨️MEASURE MY PERFORMANCE✨️ by keeping track of:
💚Number of putts
💚Number of fairways hit, and which direction did i miss
💚Number of greens hit in regulation
💚Hazards/OB
: 36 putts, 8 fairways (no trend in misses), and 8 greens in regulation. : 37 putts, 6 fairways (more misses left), and 3 greens in regulation.
If you have a different intention for your rounds (fun, positive mindset, routine), how do you objectively measure your performance? Maybe a scale from 0-10 or of faces: 😁🫠🥲😮💨😤🤬 ?
✨️GIVE YOUR ATTENTION TO YOUR INTENTION✨️ by assessing: Both of my rounds had similar number of putts, but a big difference in accuracy off the tee as well as into the green. Based on this, I'd ✨️MAKE AN IMPROVEMENT PLAN✨️ to shave a few strokes off putts (eliminate 3-putts), get more accuracy off the tee, and work on direction/distance into greens.
1. Set your INTENTION
2. Measure your performance
3. Give ATTENTION to your intention by assessing
4. Make an improvement plan
What's your intention for your next practice or round???