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1 Natures of Golf ธรรมชาต ของก ฬากอล ฟ NILMANEE SRIBOON PH.D. IN SPORTS ADMINISTRATION THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY, RANGSIT CENTER, PRATOOMTHANI, THAILAND

2 introduction Golf is much more than a game Golf is a tool for achieving destinations in your life Nature has offered: - friendship - adversity (troubles), - expectations, - challenges, - competition, - pressure, - agony (torture/painful), and glory (distinctive/prominence/renown)

4 Traditional of Golf ประเพณ ปฎ บ ต ของก ฬากอล ฟ The Nature of the Game: - I pursue golf as life:1)golf as art; 2)Golf as experience; 3)Golf as meditation; 4)Golf as something greater or more important, or more powerful than what appears on one s scorecard. We can experience earth s most beautiful, peaceful, awe-inspiring, intimidating from natural surroundings. yet never mastered, never conquered, and never taken for granted. This is the authentic golf experience and this is what The Nature of the Game is all about.

6 confidence and competence ความเช อม น และความสามารถ Golf is a game of confidence and competence A player who lacks physical skills cannot transform overnight into a winner. If you trust a bad swing, it's still going to produce bad shots, so you have to attain a level of physical competence to play well. Your muscles have no capacity to remember anything. Memory resides in your head. Therefore, no matter how long you practice a golf swing, no matter how skilled you become, your muscles alone can't remember it and execute it when the need arises on the golf course. As a results, you had better to think right for you golf games. Accordingly confidence and competence are the important keys for achieving. Keep practicing for your perfect golf games with your heart and your head, not just for your muscle to learn. Please you do not underestimate the importance of the mind in golf.

8 1.Play to play great or not to play poorly เล นเพ อความย งใหญ หร อ ไม เล นท ด แย Confidence to play There's a fine line between playing to play great and playing recklessly if they get too concerned about being good, they might not free themselves up enough to be great. Back on your life, or that part of your life that was devoted to golf, and say, "Wow! That was great. what playing to play great is all about. It isn't: - to play a great drive more than they fear the rough. - making putts more than they care about three-putting. - chipping it in more than they loathe not getting up and down. You may have a conservative strategy for certain holes. The conservative strategy is what permits them to always make a confident, even cocky swing. Every golfer has the potential to be much better than he or she is, and using the mind is one essential way to improve.'

10 2. Love the challenge of the day, whatever it may be. ร กในความท าทายในแต ว นโดยไม สนใจว าอะไรจะเก ด Golf is a game of mistakes and unpredictable fortune. no one would ever miss a fairway, a green or a putt. On top of that, there would be no sudden gusts of wind, no unfortunate bounces, no imperfections in the turf. If you truly love golf, you must love the fact that no one shoots 50, that golf is an inherently imperfect game. If you spend your time fighting the fact that golf is a game of mistakes and trying to make it a game of perfect shots, you're really saying that you don't like golf.

12 3. Get out of results, but get into process. ไม ค ดถ งผลแต ให ค ดถ งกระบวนการข นตอนในการเล น Process goals are the "to-do lists" of players striving for excellence. Success comes from patiently and persistently doing the right things over and over The process is what gives you a chance to find out how good you can be. I will execute my pre-shot routine on every shot. I will stay in the present. I'll stop worrying about breaking 90, 80 or 70. I will not critique or analyze the shots I've taken. I will focus on each shot as it comes, and that will be the only shot I'lI will accept bad breaks and mistakes and be tough in adversity. I am going to be in a good mood and a great state of mind for the entire round today. I'll enjoy playing. I will trust my instincts and be decisive and committed. I will get looser freer and more confident as the round goes on, resisting the urge to get tighter, more careful and doubtful. I will love my wedge and putter today. I will maintain a constant, ideal level of intensity on every shot. I will play to play great.

14 4. Know that nothing will bother or upset you on the golf course ให ร ไว ว าจะไม ม อะไรมารบกวนหร อทาให เราเส ยสมาธ บนสนามกอล ฟ Know that nothing will bother or upset you on the golf course, and you will be in a great state of mind for every shot. When you see a golfer showing anger or irritation over a miss-hit shot, it is certainly that the player is not staying in the present. Anger and frustration as impediments to playing the game as well as you can, if you're angry, you're not focused on the only shot that matters, anger will introduce tension into the body and the tension will damage rhythm and grace. So making your effort to get your mind and body into the state where you play your best golf. Accept whatever happens to a shot and move on. Most people have been brought up in a culture that views acceptance as a weakness rather than a strength. It's viewed as giving in, giving up, not caring. In a society that talks proudly about "zero defects" and "zero tolerance." To an ambitious golfer, the natural tendency becomes refusal to accept mistakes. Not like in golf, it is because humans are flawed and the game is so difficult, mistakes are going to happen. Accepting them is not a weakness. It's an important part of getting stronger and mentally tougher.

16 5. Playing with a feeling that the outcome doesn't matter is always preferable to caring too much. เล นด วยความร ส กท ปราศจากความก งวลถ งผลการแข งข นมากจนเก นไป Mastering this concept goes a long way in determining two critical outcomes. One is how good a player is going to get at golf. The second is how much fun the player will have along the way. The biggest mistake most people make is to let how they play dictate their attitude. If the ball is going where they want it to go, they have a good attitude. If it isn't, their attitude is bad. They start thinking badly. When you're playing well, it's fine to go with the flow. But when you're playing badly, you need the discipline to control your thoughts and think only about the way you want to play. Mastering this concept goes a long way in determining two critical outcomes. One is how good a player is going to get at golf. The second is how much fun the player will have along the way. Of all the concepts I teach, staying in the present is perhaps the simplest. Yet it's one of the most difficult to practice. I have clients who tell me staying in the present is no problem for them. But then they say something like, "I came to the 16th, and I'm thinking, this is a birdie hole..." I have to stop them and point out the implication of what they've just said. If you step onto the tee thinking, "This is a birdie hole," you're already thinking two or three shots ahead of the present. Players who are truly in the present step onto the tee and think only of how they want to hit the tee shot. They don't think about what they ought to or will make on the hole. They think about the tee shot. They hit it. They accept it. They find it. They think about the next shot. They repeat the process until the ball is in the hole or until they have run out of holes. If your mind is truly in the present, you don't evaluate how you're playing, because that would mean you're thinking about the past. You don't judge or critique for the same reason.

17 6. Believe fully in yourself so you can play freely. ม ความเช อในความสามารถของตนเองซ งจะทาให เล นได อย างอ สระและสบายใจ Confident golfers think about what they want to happen on the course. Golfers who lack confidence think about the things they don't want to happen. That's all confidence is. It's not arrogance. It's not experience. It's simply thinking about the things you want to happen on the golf course. the more confident one will win nearly all the time. I don't know exactly why that's the case. I only know that our bodies react to the degree of confidence we've nurtured in our conscious and subconscious minds. Play a shot confidently, and the body performs at its graceful best. Play a shot while doubting your ability to pull it off and the body more often than not loses its rhythm, grace and timing. Confident golfers play like athletes. They walk onto the course as if they were going to a party that is full of people who like and admire them. Golfers who lack confidence step onto the course the way an anxious, uptight nerd would walk into that same party.

18 7. See where you want the ball to go before every shot. มองเห นเป าหมายท จะต ล กไปก อนท จะต ล กท กคร ง The more you're consumed with your target, the more your instincts and subconscious will help you find it. It's as if you have an automatic guidance system, like a heat-seeking missile. Not all missiles hit their targets, and you won't always hit yours. But if you're into the target, the ball will go there more often. You're less likely to miss-hit a shot, and your misses will be more playable. I don't know why the human organism works this way. I only know that it does.

19 8.Be decisive, committed and clear. ม การต ดส นใจท ด และม งม นในการกระทาอย างช ดเจน Trust is a must. When we hit a golf ball in competition, we want as much as possible to govern our bodies with our subconscious mind. That's because, in sport, the human body works most effectively when the conscious mind is shut off. Call it instinct, or intuition or the right side of the brain if you're more comfortable with those concepts than you are with the notion of the subconscious. Whatever you call it, you want it in control when you play golf. You want to swing thinking only of your target. To go unconscious, to play instinctively and intuitively, you must trust your swing, you must believe that it will work. That's easy to preach. It's harder to practice. I work with other players who can trust as long as they're hitting the ball well. As soon as they miss-hit a ball, their trust evaporates. They try to fix their swing, and they start thinking mechanically.

20 9. Be your own best friend. ค นเคยก บการกระทาเหม อนก บเป นเพ อนท ด ท ส ด nervous tension, that sense in your stomach that you're in uncharted waters, are to be feared. I think they're to be welcomed. You don't get butterflies on Saturday night if you're in 62nd place and the only thing at stake Sunday is the few thousand extra dollars they'd pay you if you shot 66 and moved up to 43rd. You get butterflies when you put yourself in position to realize a dream. Taking deep, slow breaths can be helpful. Visualizing what you want can be helpful. The calmer and clearer you can keep your mind, the more you can keep it focused on what you want, the more the butterflies will fade and fly in formation. Recognize that the physical sensations you feel are caused by adrenaline, which is a natural product of your body, a friend that will help you play better if you keep your mind clear. Be into the target and execute your routine. The fight-or-flight response needn't consume you. In golf, we're not fleeing and we're not going to hit anybody. Make the butterflies fly right.

21 10. Love your wedge and your putter. ร กท พยายามใช และควบค ม wedge และ putter. what separates the great from the merely excellent is not the length of their tee shots. What are the scoring clubs? They're the ones you use to attack holes, to try to sink the ball. That means, for most players, the clubs from the 8-iron through the wedges and the putter. Recognize that short shots are an integral part of the game you love. Stop berating yourself when you miss a green. Missing a green only means you've got a chance to make a birdie or par the adventurous way. Nothing will give you more pleasure than mastering your own insecurities about the short game and turning it into a facet of golf that helps you score and win.

22 Group discussion member group (gender, age, skill level, and purposes of participating) 15 minute talk present back to the whole class 3 5 suggestions how to improve ourselves to golf games for last longer relationship 2 minute presentation

23 End of presentation Thank you for your participation

STEWART MOORE: We'd like to welcome Jean Van De Velde to the interview room here at the 10th annual Dick's Sporting Goods Open.

PRE-TOURNAMENT INTERVIEW: July 6, 2016 JEAN VAN DE VELDE STEWART MOORE: We'd like to welcome Jean Van De Velde to the interview room here at the 10th annual Dick's Sporting Goods Open. Jean, two-time European