“My biggest problem is relaxing over the golf ball. How can I do that?”
To be confident and to play at your best, you have to be relaxed. You can relax by learning the natural, correct way to breathe by expanding your abdominal area when you inhale and by contracting it as you exhale. When you are tense, the tendency is to breathe high in your chest. This creates tightness in your shoulders, restricting your backswing.
Many good players incorporate a deep breath into their pre-shot golf routine to automatically relax themselves. If you are anxious or tense, you might want to take more than one deep breath and say to yourself as you exhale, “Let Go and Relax”.
On the golf course, some players use music to quiet their minds and relax their bodies. Pro
golfers Fuzzy Zoeller, Brad Fabel, and Mark McCumber are often heard whistling. To relax your body between shots, hum or whistle a tune that you find pleasant and soothing. As you approach your ball, listen to your favorite song inside your head, in your “mind’s ear”.
If you have an active mind and are prone to performance anxiety, use your imagination to relax your mind between shots with pleasant images of things you like to do. You are limited only by your own interests and imagination. Make it enjoyable using details of seeing, hearing and feeling the activity. Fred Couples has relaxed using images of himself lying on his sofa with a remote control in his hand.
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