GOLF

Before following up on last week’s assignment on “ways to forget”, remember that this week’s PGA Tour event is 90 minutes up the road in Charlotte.

Quail Hollow is an unbelievable venue and here is why. It’s a beautiful piece of property and spectator friendly. It’s easy to watch golf despite being one of the toughest for the golfers.

If you could not make Augusta or Harbor Town, this event is available on short notice. If you attended both Augusta and Harbor Town, but have not visited the Wells Fargo Championship, the walk around the course is enough return on your investment in my opinion.

The course meanders through beautiful hardwoods and a gorgeous housing development. When visiting in the past, I not only was dreaming about playing golf shots with or against the best players in the world, I found myself dreaming about being able to become a member of a club like this in order to play or practice daily.

In addition, there are houses and estates at Quail Hollow that are so gorgeous, they inspire financial goal setting and dreaming. Go to www.pgatour.com for short notice tickets and take your cell phone with you.

Last week’s assignment was to look up different techniques on forgetting quickly.

Learning how to forget quickly may be more valuable than a great memory. It’s been said that the greatest players have total control over short term memory. The greatest players are always looking ahead without regard to the past.

So here are just a couple of ways to develop “forgetting skills”

1. Don’t celebrate emotionally.

2. When one gets angered, then ties emotion to the event, it is seared into my memory unintentionally. Do not celebrate bad shots with internal or external words or gestures.

3. Don’t tell stories or try to have conversations about the off line, off centered shots which brings up detailed descriptions.

Mental competency skills are hidden and out of view. The unseen skills inside the mind of a golfer has great value.

Ideas and thinking take place before every single golf shot. These ideas, thinking, along with a mindset, have great influence on the swing that produces the golf shot.

This spring will be devoted to the playing mentality and unseen golf principals, so stay tuned.

Tom Carson, 77, had his first hole-in-one on number 13 at Mid-Carolina Club on April 24. Tom hit a pitching wedge from 85 yards that landed on the green and rolled right in to the cup.

There are several different golf camp opportunities this summer for golfers ages 3–15 of all skill levels.

The Irmo-Chapin Recreation Commission will host two different ones, the first being Crooked Creek Park’s camp July 22– 24 and the second is at Seven Oaks Park camp July 29–31, both for ages 6–16. For more information on either of these camps, call (803) 345-6181 or (803) 772-3336.

George Bryan Golf Academy will also host two camps, the junior camp is for ages 6-15 and will take place June 24– 26 and the Pee Wee Camp for ages 3-6 will be July 15– 17. For more information, call (803) 781-2063.