Golf Game Strategy Development | Titleist Tips

Dr. Mo Pickens shares his perspective on one of the most important elements in golf game strategy – how to manage your thinking. You may not be able to strike the ball as skillfully as a tour player, but you have every opportunity to think as well as any golfer in the world.

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00:00 – Developing a Game Plan
00:25 – Managing Your Thinking
01:00 – Manage the Golf Ball
01:30 – Shooting the Lowest Score Possible
02:30 – Managing Expectations
03:08 – Reviewing the Game Plan

I think it’s important to have a game plan in the sense of how you’re going to manage your mind it doesn’t make sense to have a game plan for where you’re going to hit every shot because other than the t-balls you don’t really know where the ball’s going to end up so I think it’s important to to game plan from a course management standpoint with your t-ball but after that it’s more of being prepared with mentally the processes you’re going to go through throughout the day basically what I tell all the Juniors College Tour players anybody is their job is to manage their thinking which means you’re accountable for what comes into your mind you’re not just subject to another guy annoying you or the fact that I started three over through two or two over through five like you get to choose how you think everybody can’t hit it like the best players in the world but you can think the best way you know or just as good as anybody else in the world so manage my thinking means I have a process that I’m going to stick to and I’m choosing what comes into my mind second part of that would be to manage the ball and really what that means is it it doesn’t have to look a certain way it doesn’t have to feel a certain way uh it’s not going to be like every day cuz you’re not a robot so it’s managing the ball from like when I get calls from players and they’re like I missed it right all day and I’m like you missed it right all day you never hit a shot left no I’m well you should have scored well because you did a poor job of managing the ball a one-way Miss is very manageable it’s when you have a two-way miss that you get in trouble but so manage my thinking to manage the ball to shoot the lowest score possible and what that means is six is still better than a seven right and eight still better than a nine as bad as that might be um but sometimes you forget that especially like in college golf and you think your score is not going to count and you know you’re five over at the turn and other guys are playing well and then you know somebody has a triple late and your 77 counts and you could have shot 75 but you kind of bagged it coming in right and you didn’t stay into your process you didn’t really stay engaged in the round and so just realizing I’m gonna try to shoot the lowest score possible and that’s what the best players in the world do realize a six is still better than a seven even though they don’t want to make any sixes so it’s managed by thinking to manage the ball to shoot the lowest score possible that day because every day is going to be different and if we have a beautiful 85 degree day here at Sea Island with no wind the ball’s going to travel x amount of yards and if it’s you know happens to be one of those days where it’s in the low 60s and we got a hard North Wind and you’re playing the first hole into the wind the ball’s not going to go as far as it did the day before so you got to manage your expectations about okay every day I can’t shoot 66 sometimes 74 is a good score so that’s really what it talks about is especially a lot of younger players think I did this one day I should do that again you know I hit this shot this way I mean nobody thinks if you made a hole in one the last time you played a hole that you should make a hole in one the next day but other than that anything’s fair game and and so I just try to help them come up with a process of this is what I’m going to do that is my job my job is not to break par or to get off to a good start my job is to manage my thinking to manage the ball to shoot the lowest score possible that day or today