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I live in Wilton between Iowa City and Davenport. I play Eastern, Duck Creek, Prospect Park, Middle Park in Davenport and Fuller Park in Muscatine. If you look at my profile you can see the rest of them, but those are the ones I play the most.
- to prevent the least opportunity of turning an easy shot into a bad one, take the easy shot as seriously as you would the more challenging one.no matter how easy the shot looks, focus like a professional golfer would in a tournament. never forget that the greater the opportunity you have to make a simple shot, the more frustration and disappointment you will have by ruining it.
- sometimes you can start to play badly because your opponent is having all the luck, and is outhrowing you, so don't let that influence you. all you can do is play your best, and try to use your opponent's form to pull out the best in you. you never learn when you win, so losing has that hidden bonus.
- hey, your score is toast, so what have you got to lose?
- when Lefty was little, he honed his mad-scientist creativity by challenging himself on the course, dropping balls behind trees and bushes or into divots. "these are shots you need in your bag, so master them on off days," Grayson says. since there's no pressure, they're easier to pull off, and you can call back on the memory another day, and say, "i got this shot!"
-going into any round, accept the fact that you will mis-throw five or six shots. bad shots are part of the game for all players. understand it, and don't beat yourself up over it.
- even uglier-than-your-mother-in-law rounds produce a few good throws. remember them in detail — how they felt, the flight of the disc. according to Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel prize-winning psychology professor at Princeton University, focusing on the highlights of a given activity activates "the remembering self" — the part of memory that fondly recalls events that seemed largely unpleasant at the time. picking two "happy" shots can turn an ugly round into a pleasant memory