Transform Your Game with a Quiz Show Mindset

Can thinking like a quiz show contestant make you a better golfer? Join us to discover how the joy of solving puzzles and quizzes can transform your approach to the game of golf. Much like an enjoyable round of Pointless or a gripping episode of The Chase, each shot you take on the golf course can be seen as an individual puzzle. We'll dive into how adopting this mindset can shift your focus from the pressures of scoring and par counts, leading to a more enjoyable and liberating experience on the greens.

Imagine stepping onto the course with the same curiosity you have when tackling a tough crossword or a tricky Sudoku puzzle. By embracing each shot as a unique challenge set by the course architect, you'll become more present, engaged, and ultimately, a more relaxed and fulfilled golfer. We'll explore how this shift in perspective can enhance your game and bring a fresh sense of fun and freedom. Tune in to uncover how treating golf shots like quiz questions can make you not only a better golfer but also a more present and curious player.

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Speaker 1: 0:02

In this series of looking at the game in a way to see it differently, to get a different perspective. This particular lesson might seem really at a tangent with the game of golf, in the sense that I'm going to talk about something that is immensely popular. I live in the UK and that is quizzes, quiz shows, and not only quiz shows, shows on TV, but the amount of people. I'm sure if you listen to this at some level you probably involve yourself in doing some kind of quiz or puzzle solving whether it's Sudoku or whether it's crosswords. That's been up there. Crosswords have been around for hundreds of years, but shows in the UK. There are two particular shows that go out on primetime TV in the UK around about dinner time, five, six o'clock at night, five, six o'clock at night, and those two shows are Pointless and the Chase, and it's something that when I'm at home, me and my wife religiously sit and watch the chase and we sort of have competitions against each other about how many questions that we can get. She then watches programmes like Countdown, which she's far better at than I am, where it's more involved in sort of organising letters into words and figuring out math sums. I'm reasonable at the general knowledge stuff. But the point I'm making, a point I want to make, is that we love trying to solve puzzles, we love quizzes, we love pitting our wits against the challenge of solving a problem, solving a puzzle. But if you think about whatever your version of this particular kind of entertainment is, I wouldn't imagine that if you get a question wrong on the chase or pointless, or you can't get instantly seven across on your crossword puzzle, or you can't work out the latest Sudoku conundrum, I wouldn't imagine, if any of those things come along, that you spend time beating yourself up or questioning your identity or your capability to do that. You just get on and try and solve the next puzzle. You listen to the chase and you get one wrong, move on and try and solve and try and answer the next question. You don't dwell on the puzzle that you didn't solve.

Speaker 1: 2:30

The key to this is the way that we look at the game and when we go out on the golf course, if we get very involved in in score, if we get very involved in the illusion that the game is about par fours and par fives and par threes and dropping shots and things like that, in many ways all of that is just a mass hypnosis, a spell that we've fallen under because that is a perspective of what the game is that has been given to you by other people. Now, if that perspective is working for you, if being really focused on the score and being hung up about making pars and birdies is really working, well, that's great. As we've always said on the mind caddy, continue with that. But if maybe that's holding you back, how about if you saw the game very differently, in the sense that you went out for a round of golf and every shot that was presented to you was just an individual puzzle to solve, a puzzle that was set by the golf course, by the course architect and the conditions that you're in that day? If you went out with that mindset of every shot was a puzzle to solve, I'm guessing you'd really tune into the conditions, you'd really tune into the lie, you'd really tune into the pin positions, the demands of the shot, and you would get more and more absorbed in how you would solve that particular puzzle by aiming to hit the ball to a certain spot or aiming to shape the ball in in a certain way. You'd kind of get lost in each individual task and your value as as a person, would would not be dependent on if you didn't solve this puzzle. Well, well, you go and solve the next one and there's a real joy and freedom in seeing the game this way that you start with the first puzzle on the first hole and then you run out of puzzles to solve on the final hole. And when you do this and you get more and more people invested and involved in solving the puzzle of the shot, I think then you create a really curious mind. And if you have a curious mind, you have a mind that is absorbed in the present.

Speaker 1: 5:03

When I'm watching programs like the Chase for that particular hour of an evening, I'm pretty present to my experience. I don't sit there and think, right, I'm pretty present to my experience. I don't sit there and think, right, I'm going to try and be present to the chase now for another hour or for the next hour. I'm just present to my experience. I'm not thinking about other issues, I'm not thinking about problems with challenges in other areas of life. I'm just present to that challenge and that experience. And this is the heart of so much of where people go around. We go on the golf course and we try to be present. We try to play one shot at a time. We have all these cliches running through our mind and ultimately, if you're absorbed in solving a puzzle, if you're curious about how to do that, you will be in the present. You will be lost in action, solving that particular problem.

Speaker 1: 6:01

And I think when you start to look at it this way and you solve a particular puzzle, you solve a particular shot, whether it's a bunker shot, or you find a certain part of the fairway, you manage to hole a longish putt, whatever it may be. There's a tremendous individual pleasure, just like answering a question correctly is a pleasurable experience in itself. It's the same thing with golf and what this perspective does. It takes you away from the tyranny of score. It takes you away from that gameanny of score. It takes you away from that game that we've been given by others, where we can constantly feel like we're losing, we're about to lose something. We're about to lose something against the perception of power, whereas when you're out there to solve puzzles, it's just a whole different experience. Start on the first, solve as many puzzles as you can. If you didn't solve the last one, go and solve the next one. A wonderful way to play the game and tremendously liberating to do it this way.