The flushed shot

After countless hacks the ever-illusive golf shot approaches. It can be coming at any moment. Our thoughts, our focus, our flow, our aura all contribute to the potential to execute a flushed golf shot. A high handicap golfer stays at it chasing this feeling. Our yardages don't typically coordinate with the perfect shot, and when it finally lands you airmail it 20-30 yards past the green. Yet that feeling of contact, the divot flying in the air, the ball soaring through the sky, that's what us high handicappers dream of. But you blasted it past the green, yeah but it felt good though. You take that home with you feeling like you now can't play for the mishits. I believe that's the biggest step to lowering your handicap. Play as if you're a great ball striker, because if not you are playing with an expectation of failure. Now let's not get it twisted, if you don't practice enough and don't play enough, you'd be delusional to believe you're going to consistently flush your long irons, your hybrids, your wedges. You won't. Delusions of grandeur is what this sport is about though. At times we execute a shot that pro's feels consistently, and it makes us believe we can grasp it. Unlike basketball where you can't accidently dunk it once, or football where you're not going to accidently run a 4.5 40 yard dash. Golf provides us with the glimpse of what it feels to be a professional and that is what I yearn for.