"Reading the Lie" Golf & Your Groove
Golf is a game of variables. Changing weather and course conditions, among other things, means that no two rounds or two shots will ever be the same. These are factors beyond your control. There are, however, a few absolutes in the game of golf that you can control every time you face a shot on the golf course: The most important being the ability of Reading the Lie of your ball.
Reading the Lie refers to when/how the ball is at rest and/or the number of strokes it took the ball to get to where it sits. A player who knows how to read the lie has advantage in playing the shot for success.
By taking control of your pre-shot evaluation, a player gives him/herself a head start whatever the conditions on the course. So fitting and why I love athletics, adventure and multi-sports…they parallel life so significantly and beautifully.
Congruent and divergent with reading the lie, the circumstance, situations or transitions you may find yourself in, you always have a choice to evaluate and make choices accordingly and get your groove back. The other option is to mentally and emotionally check out, go into autopilot, blindly grabbing any club and swinging at the ball not knowing the direction of the lie and hope you end up where you want to go.
Reading the Lie in life involves awareness. Making cognizant choices and trusting yourself that you know and have all you need to navigate through the variables, conditions, rough patches. You have some control in your pre-shot evaluation. Are you reading the lie and making adjustments? The answers are there for you, if you choose to quiet the outside noise, look, listen and read the lie.
How are you playing your 18 holes in life? Are you reading the lie or are you on autopilot?
Labels: Awareness, Change, Cognizance, Evaluation, Golf, Tiger Woods, Transformation, Transition
posted by Rachael Cadden @ 12:30 PM
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