Short-Sided Again

You know you can hit the shot—so why does your reliable swing disappear when the score matters? A bad bounce, one missed putt, or a flash of doubt can turn an ordinary hole into a fight with yourself.

Short-Sided Again gives committed recreational golfers a practical way to interrupt that spiral. You will learn to read the moment clearly, choose shots that respect your real pattern, reset after trouble, and build confidence from behavior you can repeat.

Inside, you’ll find:

• A reality-based first-tee approach that replaces rigid score expectations with decisions matched to the game you brought today
• A simple method for separating useful facts from the stories and predictions that sabotage the next shot
• Golf-specific emotional reset skills for anger, fear, embarrassment, rushing, and the urge to win a stroke back immediately
• A clean commitment process that moves from target and ball-flight picture to one clear cue over the ball
• Course-management principles for dispersion, hazards, dominant shot shape, playable misses, and smaller bogeys
• A recovery sequence for ending the previous shot, stabilizing the next choice, and rejoining the round after a blow-up hole
• Practice routines that train transfer, pressure response, changing targets, and trust instead of rehearsing one comfortable range pattern
• A performance-record method that captures committed swings, wise targets, useful misses, and reliable resets—not only perfect outcomes
• Journaling prompts and repeatable habits that help mental skills survive real rounds without requiring on-page worksheets
This book is for mid-handicap and weekend golfers who have enough skill to play well but lose strokes to overthinking, emotional reactions, risky targets, and confidence swings. It is especially useful for players chasing a scoring milestone or trying to bring their range game to the course.

Take a steadier mind to the first tee and make the next available shot your best decision of the day.