Notebook Journal

Notebook Journal

Use a Golf Journal to Lower Your Scores

As I give more and more golf lessons, it amazes me how much money people will spend with me and as soon as they leave it is like the golf lesson never happened!

I suggest to all of my students to keep a golf journal. With a golf journal, we can get together at the end of the lesson and discuss what their homework will be until the next golf lesson. The challenge for me is that less than 5% of my students do this and then wonder why they are not progressing as fast as they would like.

I have attempted to emphasize how important this is by bringing a clip board with a lesson sheet on it. I keep notes on it throughout the lesson for myself as well as for the student. After the lesson, we discuss what is on the sheet and I then scan the sheet and email it to them for them to use, record in their own way or, I guess, trash.

You can improve your golf game and handicap much faster for under a couple of dollars! Although you can purchase a nice golf journal such as The Ultimate Golf Journal by Lisa Bach, you can accomplish your goals with a small notebook that you can keep in your pocket, attach to your push cart or put on the steering wheel of the golf cart while you play.

There is no secret to improving your handicap and shooting lower scores. The answer is that it practice, practice, and more practice. We have all had those moments on the driving range where we cannot miss and the next time out we cannot remember what we were thinking or working on to make the ball react the way we wanted. By keeping a golf journal, you can jot it down as it happens or after your practice session.

Whether you take lessons or not, it is important to keep a golf journal or a small notebook (less than a dollar) with you when you practice or play. It is important to note the flight of the golf balls. Do they start by flying to the left or right? Once they get to the top of their flight do they topple forward or to the left or right? What about the trajectory of your golf shots? Are they too low, or too high? Eventually after a couple of rounds of golf, you will start to see tendencies. If you do take lessons, this will be valuable information for your professional. As we all know, the golf ball sometimes tends to fly differently once we are on the golf course.

You will also want to begin keeping simple stats in your golf journal. I do this a lot by using a scorecard and using each line for a separate statistic. You will want to keep fairways hit or missed, greens hit or missed, up and downs that are converted and the number of putts that you take on each hole.

By keeping a simple golf journal with some of these easy suggestions along with others that you will come up with in your own, you will begin to see good and bad patterns forming. With this information, you can improve your weaknesses and lower your handicap.

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What is your BOS (kind of book, like notebook, journal, etc.) and what would you recommend?

I have things to add to a BOS, but I don't know what kind of book I want it to be. I'm thinking 3-ring binder, but I'm not sure. What's yours? What color is it? What would you recommend? All of my stuff is currently in a spiral bound notebook, but I want something a little more sturdy, so I'm thinking the binder with dividers and those sheet protector things. Thanks!

Great question! I look forward to seeing the answers and learning something new.

A three-ring binder is a good idea because if you write things down as you think of them, they will be all out of order and difficult to find. A binder will allow you to write what comes up and put it in the proper place so you don't have to shuffle later. Sheet protectors, dividers, and tabs are a great idea. A table of contents will help make life easy, too. Make sure you have a computer backup, because if you work on your personal masterpiece for years and something terrible happens, you will kick yourself for the rest of your life. Keep in mind that this book will not be completed for years, perhaps decades because it is a chronical of everything you will learn about the craft, and you will never stop learning.

You don't need to really read the rest: it's a detailed description of exactly what mine is and it probably won't apply to anyone but me. I offer it in case it gives someone an idea about something. Or maybe I just like to hear myself type.

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Mine is five recycled composition notebooks glued together and bound in some pretty paper I found at a craft strore (kind of looks like worn leather). It's got a copper pentacle on the front that I made from polymer clay and foil leaf. The outside design really isn't important to what's inside, but I like the feeling I get from it.

All the title pages and big bullet points are written in a cool font I took from my favorite Wicca series The Temple of Witchcraft by Christopher Penczak, again, just because I like the look and feel of it. The inner cover has pieces of paper cut and charred around the edges (just to look artsy) that say in big writing "An' ye harm none do as ye will."

I gave it a title as if it were the name of a coven. Actually, I wrote the entire thing as if it were a coven guide. I write it from a very personal perspective, and it kind of reads like a Wiccan educational book. My title is The Temple of Chaos Book of Shadows. I named my imaginary coven Temple after Penczak's series, the teacher who influenced me most, and Chaos because this "experimental try anything that seems right even if it kind of sounds absurd" brand of magick is perfect for my personality and the way I think.

I have a foreword that is a quote explaining chaos magick, along with a comment about why it's me and my signature.

The rest is divided into chapters. The first is Basics Specific to the T of C, in other words, my take on the principles of magick and Wicca that vary from group to group. First is "The Nature of Wicca," which is a list of guidelines and notes: The equality of all paths that harm none, shunning arrogant phrases like "The Craft of the Wise," don't whine about the burning times, books with bane spells are not Wiccan and should be read with a whole salt shaker, etc.

Next in the chapter is my specific layouts of directions (seems like every group has different ideas about which elements go where), my prefered altar layout, directions for casting and opening the circle, the words I chose to call the elementals and how I've taught myself to visualize them. I have descriptions of my prefered tools and why I prefer them.

The next section is ideas for rites and rituals, by month, year, and lifetimes. Then there is a few pages about diety correspondence, why I consider myself a monoist rather than a polytheist, and the ways that chaos magick deities and mythology differ from most traditions.

Next is a chapter on quantum mechanics, which I consider essential to understanding the way magick works. (This section is empty right now, because I'm trying to wrap my little brain around some very complex stuff.)

My favorite section is a chapter called "Mythbusters." I hate being superstisious because I think a big part of being Wiccan is seeking truth rather than believing whatever you're told. When I come across something that sounds like an old wive's tale, or just plain doesn't make sense, I design an experiment to find out if it's true or just something people accept as true because it's written down somewhere. For example, the full version of the Rede includes "Elder is the Lady's tree, burn it not or cursed you'll be." I'm doing an experiment, scientific method and all before I mindlessly repeat it.

I have a section documenting my pre-Wiccan magick, because I did spells intuitively as a kid, never realizing that this was something a lot of people did.

A MASSIVE sources list - every website, person, book, flier, calendar, anything that I've used to help me compile my book. Then a recommended reading list with little symbols denoting what kind of book each one is so I can find them at a glance. Then a list of not recommended texts, what is wrong with them, with the caveat that you should read them, but with a very, very skeptical eye. Smeg, no room, I'll email the rest.

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