The principle of golf is simple, it is our minds overthinking that can make it a much harder game than it needs to be. The object of the game is to hole the ball in the least number of shots as possible. It doesn’t matter if this is your first ball off the tee or your sixth ball on a hole that you are struggling with, the point of the game never changes, you must get the ball from where you are at present into the cup in as few shots as you possibly can. It is when your game is difficult that it is hardest to think rationally and logically and sometimes this may mean accepting that it is better to either drop a shot or take a longer, less direct route to get to the green. Staying in the present is the best advice any golf coach could give you because the balls that you hit before this one have gone you cannot change them now; however awful their result was and the balls after this one don’t count because you cannot say 100% that your game plan will work out. Just keep thinking, ‘How can I get this ball into that hole efficiently’.