By [1] Jaacob Bowden

If you’re like me or most people, I would imagine that there are times were you experience first tee jitters.

Although, I’m much more comfortable that I used to be, I still occasionally get nervous on the first tee of a tournament, especially if I haven’t been in competition for a while.

Here are a few quick tips to help get more comfortable:

1) Get to the Tee Early to Visualize and Get Comfortable

When I played in my first PGA-sanctioned event, you can bet I was a bit anxious before my round. However, I was able to mitigate those feelings quite a bit because I went out to the tee box early to “make friends” with the tee box and get comfortable.

As I got there, I noticed there was quite a gallery around the box. The public address guy was announcing the names and I felt some chills. To calm myself, I started visualizing myself up on the tee box and it being my turn to hit. Right away, I felt more tense, but then I forced myself to feel calmer. I knew that the more relaxed I could be, the better I would start. I kept going back and forth between calming myself and picturing it being my turn to hit until I could do so feeling calm.

When it came to actually be my turn, I focused on feeling the same way that I had just rehearsed. Sure enough, it worked and I made solid contact on my drive and started off the tournament with a good par.

2) Educational Kinesiology

A second thing I do when I feel nervous is to put my hand over my stomach. If you’ve ever heard of educational kinesiology, you’d know that by performing certain movements, things like acts of speech, hearing, vision, coordination, etc, are enhanced. As an example, by placing my hand on my stomach, I experience a drop of energy from my head to my stomach, which in turn helps ground me, clears my head, and puts me in a calmer and more relaxed state..and as I’m sure you know, hitting a shot under a calmer and more relaxed state will produce more consistent results than if you are amped up and all over the place.

3) Getting Grounded

A third trick I sometimes do when I’m stirring around in my head too much is to imagine roots growing out of my feet. When I focus on this for a few seconds, all of a sudden I’ll feel the bundle of energy stuck in my head drop down and I’ll enter a more zen-like state. As I mentioned in the previous example, playing in this state is much more conducive to lower scores.

Hope that can help you get your round off to a better start.

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