In the book Golf Is Not a Game of Perfect by Rotella is going through that facts and thoughts that golf isn’t a perfect game. Golf is hard as it is with the playing portion but the hardest part of the game is the mental part. Maintaining a positive mindset is so important because without it your game will crash into pieces. You need to be able to regroup after hitting a bad shot or not worrying about it and forget about it. You can’t dwell on the bad things. You need to get over it.
If you don’t trust right now, you will have to go through a period of conscious awareness until you learn the difference between the feeling of trust and the absence of trust. You will have to work at developing thoughts and habits that promote trust. You will have to learn to focus your mind on your target and your preshot routine rather than on swing mechanics. (p. 44)
This quotation explains how trusting what you’ve built in your golf swing is so important. You can’t go out to the first tee on a tournament and try something a bit different. To play well, you need to trust what you’ve practice. When playing at a high level, you’ve already hit hundreds of thousands of golf balls and those golf balls you hit were leading you to this moment where you show what you have worked on. So trusting what you know and what you learned will lead you to success in golf.