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**Tusethede** · 11-02-2010, 02:07 AM

I would say that positive thinking gives you a chance to succeed. Negative thinking pretty much guarantees failure. Golf is a hard enough game that the negative thoughts can trigger poor results nearly all the time.

I would however differentiate positive thinking from confidence. You can't fake confidence (not to yourself anyway). You can say however much you like that you're going to succeed, but if you don't believe it you probably won't. Confidence is the feeling that you are going to succeed. It's a nice feeling, but not one that can be generated just by wanting it.

The other thing I'd say is if you're standing in the fairway 150 yards away, looking at the green, thinking "i'm going to hit the green" is not a good thing to think. For a start, if you don't hit the green, your confidence will take a dent. Much better to think about your target, together with something like "I'm going to give myself the best chance that I can to hit the green". If you miss, you still gave yourself the chance, so you don't have the incongruence to worry about and also it's more dissociated from the result and focused on the process. The process we can control. The results happen as they happen.

11-02-2010, 02:07 AM	#25
Tusethede Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 437 Senior Member	I would say that positive thinking gives you a chance to succeed. Negative thinking pretty much guarantees failure. Golf is a hard enough game that the negative thoughts can trigger poor results nearly all the time. I would however differentiate positive thinking from confidence. You can't fake confidence (not to yourself anyway). You can say however much you like that you're going to succeed, but if you don't believe it you probably won't. Confidence is the feeling that you are going to succeed. It's a nice feeling, but not one that can be generated just by wanting it. The other thing I'd say is if you're standing in the fairway 150 yards away, looking at the green, thinking "i'm going to hit the green" is not a good thing to think. For a start, if you don't hit the green, your confidence will take a dent. Much better to think about your target, together with something like "I'm going to give myself the best chance that I can to hit the green". If you miss, you still gave yourself the chance, so you don't have the incongruence to worry about and also it's more dissociated from the result and focused on the process. The process we can control. The results happen as they happen.
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