Because a round of golf takes several hours to complete, there is ample time for the players mental state to have a great effect on his or her performance. Many higher handicap golfers never produce a game when a card and pencil are involved, that in any when resembles their play when matched against a friend. The pressure of having to record a score that might prove embarrassing causes a tension capable of shattering a poor method but also reducing a good swinger to a nervous state that his true game doesn’t materialise.



Mental pressure plays a great part in the game of golf and affects people in different ways. Some react well to it, putting an edge on

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their game. On the other hand, and this applies to the majority of golfers, many good players simply “seize-up” the moment they have a card and pencil in their pocket. It is reassuring to learn that every golfer, whatever his or her level of competence is subjected to pressure.


Learn to relax, take in deep breaths and breath out slowly. Focus on your routine that you have practiced many times on the range. Always play within yourself. Never play a shot you haven’t practiced.


Most of all enjoy your golf and take what comes.


Jerry Newham took up golf in 1969 at the age of 14 and within a year had established his interest in learning the neccessary technique to

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maintain a consistent golf swing.


He later attended the world famous “Leslie King Golf School” in Knightsbridge, London UK. At the school he soon realised his potential as a player, and later as a world class professional teacher of Mr King’s great method.


Since Mr King’s death in 1995, Jerry has embarked on taking the method forward to produce a defined system in line with modern-day tournament players’ techniques.


Each year at his indoor golf academy based in Sussex UK, thousands of pupils from all over the country attend golf lessons in order to learn the ultimate way to swing.