Asking the right questions

Golf tips and golf “fixes” are not getting you where you want to be. “Tips” and “fixes” may briefly quiet down the endless process of seeking the easy solution, but soon another problem or question arises in the place of the one that’s just been fixed. We have some “wired in” drive to keep seeking new variations of the same old answers, hoping that the next answer will be the “one” that really works. At some point you may sense this pattern of looking for quick fixes is not going to work. At that point you may wonder "What, then, are the most important questions I should be asking about golf?”

What can really start to make a difference is asking yourself “Who keeps asking these endless questions?” “Who keeps trying to improve?” We’re looking for lower scores and longer drives, but we’re looking for the wrong things if that’s ALL we’re looking for. That does not mean that those things cannot be our intention. But understand that you are never going to hit the ball as far as you want, or make as many putts as you want.

At some point, we will realize that we cannot find what we’re looking for in golf, because what we’re looking for is what we already are. So, one of the most important questions becomes “How can I realize who I am? Try turning your thought back on themselves to try to find who is asking the questions. Because we reject the idea that inner peace is ever possible, we inevitably turn again to the standard approach that the world has taught us, which is to believe that we will feel better about ourselves when we play better and when the right advice.