If youve played golf for any length of time, you have undoubtedly encountered a situation or two which made you nervous. This phenomena is called tee box pressure, or TBP for short.
Perhaps its happened when you were getting ready to hit your tee shot off #1 with a dozen people watching. Maybe it was when you were paired with the top golfer in your club championship. Whatever the situation, one thing is sure: every golfer will find themselves dealing with TBP sooner or later!
WHY THE NERVES?
What is it about golf that gets us feeling this way in the first place? After all, when you step onto the golf course, there usually arent any lives at stake. In addition, whether you perform well or not on any given day, there are a billion people in China who will not care!
This is a complicated question which will have different answers for different people. Often times, we have too much of our egos wrapped up in the game. The more we invest in something (and we all know that golf can be all-consuming), the more we expect in return. When the game is on, we fear failure. With this fear in our mind, our muscles tighten. This, in turn, makes it harder to have...