The new golf season is finally upon us! I know the Trinity Golf team is very excited for another chance to play what might be the best sport in the world for another three months together. When I last posted, we had just come off a disappointing ending to our season at the 1A State Championship. A third place finish behind Kerr-Vance Academy and Cape Fear Christian Academy was not what our team had envisioned prior to that tournament. However, to steal a quote from Coach Mumford, this baseball coach, "This ain't last year."
Our goal as a team this year has nothing to do with how we play, but how we think. We will train ourselves to think in two ways: positives and affirmatives. One could say those are the same thing. They aren't, but when put together, the two can be as effective as any golf shot. Positive thinking is visualizing the best possible scenario for a shot or hole from a given situation. We can't be sitting in the middle of the woods thinking to ourselves, "My round is done and I don't care anymore." Positive thinking would be to say, "I'm going to give myself a chance to putt for par. I need to punch out and then put a 7 iron on the green." That is part one; part two is to think in affirmatives, or to use another word, confidence. We have to be standing over three foot putts saying, "I'm going to put this in the back of the cup," instead of, "If I make it I think I break 45." We must be confident and positive for each of our shots this season to be successful. We hope you are looking forward to this season as much as the team is and an update will be posted following each of our matches. Thanks for following the Trinity Golf Team.
