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Golf – What distinguishes the professionals?

  • 2019-03-14
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Putten. Foto: Michele De Paola/ Unsplash

For decades, golf can be counted in the category of upscale amateur sports. With great ambitions, many a hobby golfer strides across the green and steadily improves his handicap over the years. Nevertheless, it is not possible to come anywhere near the scores of absolute professionals. But what characterizes them to make such performances possible?

The emotional self-control

Experts repeatedly cite the emotional control of competitive golfers. Through years of training, they are able to adjust not only physically to the game. In addition, the mental component plays an important role in the pressure situation of the game. Due to the high precision required at the holes, the influence of this self-control is likely to be much higher than in other sports. The pressure of the game arises on the one hand because of the sporting and financial dimensions. In major tournaments, the prize money of first place is enough to ensure a retirement in financial luxury. At the same time, golfers carry the investments of their own sponsors on their shoulders. Fans can also be financially involved in the game, for example by placing sports bets, which is now also possible on the Internet. All the important information on the best providers can be found at Sportwetten-Online.com.

The absolute routine

On the other hand, it is the daily training that gives golfers their strength. While amateur players can only spend the clearly limited periods of their free time to approach the sport, the possibilities for any professional expand. The latter spends many hours on the green on training days, performing the same movements over and over again. This extreme form of routine allows him to subsequently recall the same movement patterns even under pressure.

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Golfer on the tee

With long experience on the green and playing practice created before each tournament, professional golfers have a valuable advantage on their side. The crucial percentages that an ambitious amateur golfer cannot train for can be captured by the many hours on the green to push one’s performance to the next level.

The right strategy

By no means do golf pros on the course detach themselves directly from all the other parameters that play a role around them. They have a sense of the opponent’s form and his possible tension. However, it is not only the opponent that is taken into account when drawing up a plan. Furthermore, one or the other important conclusion can be drawn from the weather conditions. Other golfers devote themselves with such meticulousness to their material in order to achieve the perfect conditions for themselves. If a professional were to slack off at this point and reduce the effort with which all these points are kept in view, this would sooner or later also show in his performance. The comparison between a golfer and an executive seems to prove its correctness once again at this point. Only through the urge to work in a concentrated manner and the overview of all important processes are professionals able to deliver their best performance. Like an entrepreneur, they cannot slack off at any time without this being directly reflected in their results. For many, this is probably the appeal of the sport.

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