Ever wonder why at times your skill level improves but your score does not. When a golfer hits this stage the problem itself may not be in the swing motion because your ball striking is solid or you are putting well. As a player you may have hit an invisible mental wall. If you have hit the mental wall, I think of it a ceiling, or if your like me and you constantly bang your head against the wall give this article a read at Mike Pedersen’s Blog.

After reading this article I was surfing around and saw that Tiger shot a 62 at the Target World Challenge that he hosts. In the press room after the tournament he was quoted as saying:

Whether it’s this event or all the way up to a major championship, it’s still the game. I want to get a ‘W.’ That’s why I enter the tournament.”

Reading that quote it makes me think that Tiger is not only superior in his physical aspects of the game but he approaches the game mentally totally different than everyone else. Virtually all golfer have a ceiling or invisible wall that they mentally are having touble getting past. Once they break the ceiling or wall they improve rapidly until they hit the next wall.

What make Tiger different, in my opinion his ceiling is so low it is called a floor. To me he has a base that wants to acheive at a minimum. If he does not acheive the expected base level he will analyze his game find the weakness and fix the problem as fast as he can so he can get back to his expected level of play. However if he is playing better than expected he changes nothing sticks to his game plan and keeps playing. This makes him extremely difficult to beat when he is executing his game plan.

One of the keys to improving your golf scores is to keep expanding your comfort level which in turn lowers the mental ceiling.

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