It is very important to be aware that negative emotions play havoc with your performance. Otherwise, you will continue buying into why it is OK to be negative and miss out on shooting lower scores.

You can choose to repeat your negative emotions or transform them into neutral or positive emotions, which will enhance your performance. Everything you experience while playing golf is merely a fact. It is the negative emotions you attach to those facts that keep you from lowering your score. Changing your focus is the technique used to transform your emotional association to facts.

For example, if you putt and lip out, you can either be upset because you missed the putt or be happy because you did a lot of things right to be that close. You can be brave and let it rip or you can have fear and not go for a shot. If you don't go for it, you will never know if you would have made the shot or what you could improve to make it. If you miss, at least you can feel good about not giving into fear. Eventually, you will learn to make those shots.