21 Golf ?s Of Christmas - SAQs - What Should I Look For In My Golf Game?

Now that is a 'Right Question' and definitely a 'Should've Asked Question' for many, many golfers.

Remember how we discussed 'Right Answers' versus 'Right Questions' a couple days ago?

Since I mentioned 'Open Your Eyes' and 'Open Your Mind' yesterday, asking 'What Should I Look For In My Game?' logically follows.

I'd say, in making sure you 'Open Your Eyes', look for two main things in your Golf Game:

1 - Honesty and 2 - Simplicity

What are you talking about, Joel? 

Here's a story (embarrasing to me and fuuuunnnyyy).

As I drove up Harrison Avenue near

Rybolt Rd. in about 1979 in my 1968 Plymouth Fury VIP 4-Door Sedan given to me for High School Graduation by my first stepfather who'd bought it for $100 spray-painted blue with the black vinyl roof with a dent running down the driver's side from the front headlight to the back bumper which can be explained by one nice man named Brian whom most of you get your morning news from on local radio here in Cincinnati (I hope run-on sentences do not offend you, but you see, I have some serious meat in this particular personal experience), I learned what it meant to lie...to myself.

You see, as the old Jackson Browne song, which got a bunch of air-time in that car's 8-track, says - I was 'Runnin' On Empty' - again.

Right after I passed under I-74 headed east, I pushed my head and eyes as close to the driver's-side window as I could.  I wanted to get the gas gauge needle to go as far to the right as I could.

It did.

To me.

I felt better.

I relaxed.

About halfway up the hill, I realized.

I lied.

To myself.

There was no more gas in that Plymouth because of where I put my head and eyes.  I had just made it seem that way to me. 

And I felt better.

What an absolute lie, I had just told...to myself. 

I was deceived.

And the kicker?  I had believed it!

We often do that to ourselves, golf-wise.  We 'deceive' and do not even realize we 'deceived' - nor that we believed the 'lie', also.

I mean this.  What is the truth about your Golf Game?  I'm sure things seem a certain way to you, but do you really know the 'golf truth' about yourself?

You say to yourself, I can hit this 5-iron 180 yards to that back-left flagstick on this shot.

Now I pose my 'Right Question'...Can you?

'Yes', you say.

'Okay', I say, 'How often?'

'I don't know'.

Do you see the 'lie' you just kinda' told to yourself, and believed?

This may take a few minutes to intellectually digest - I'll wait - so you can 'Open Your Mind' leisurely.

In fact, until tomorrow.

We'll talk more tomorrow, about: Looking for Honesty and Simplicity in your Golf Game as you 'Open Your Eyes'.

Thank You.  You'll love this tomorrow.