Lesson 5 of 5
What To Do
Over these 8 modules you have built a lot: a routine, process goals, your Yard Card, affirmations, a reset plan, traffic light rules, a home course plan and a review habit. JJ says it does not matter what you learned if you do not apply it consistently. Every day.
JJ sees the same things in every golfer who keeps improving: 100% belief in what they practice and how they play, clarity on their strengths and weaknesses, a specific blueprint for their process, and consistency in their practice and routines. Your Personal Playbook is that blueprint. Keep it current, use it daily and update it as you learn.
How To Do It
Step 1: Do JJ's three daily tools
From JJ's Player Performance Program: set 3 process goals every day. Spend 15 to 20 minutes reflecting on your development with highlight reels of putts you made and positive experiences. Practice on the range going through your routine on every shot and grading yourself like the Mental Game Scorecard.
Step 2: Play one scorecard round a week
Once a week, play a round where the Mental Game Scorecard is your priority. JJ calls it the best way to get absorbed in your routine and the process.
Step 3: Journal
JJ's benefits of journaling: it clarifies your thoughts and feelings, reduces stress about uncomfortable situations, makes your goals clearer, boosts memory, strengthens self-discipline, helps you get past tough experiences and lets you relive positive ones for confidence. Write it by hand if you can.
Step 4: Keep your Yard Card current
Your Performance Yard Card goes in your bag. Update it when your routine, cues, affirmations or game plan change. It is your playbook on the course.
Step 5: Retake your assessments
Retake the Mental Game GPA every month and the module assessments every few months. Watch which areas climb and which need another pass through the lessons.
Open these forms to build your Confidence Bank and Yard Card
Performance Yard Card
Your affirmations, one performance cue and your motto on a card that lives in your yardage book.
Open the form
Post Round / Tournament Review
Review every round like a tour player: what went well, intruders, letting go of mistakes, and your plan.
Open the form
Post Practice Review
What I Learned Today. Commitment, routine, mechanics, body, nutrition, course and equipment.
Open the form
Your playbook tools
Performance Yard Card
Your affirmations, one performance cue and your motto on a card that lives in your yardage book.
Open the form
Mental Game Scorecard
Score your process, not your result. Four checks on every hole for a Process Score out of 72.
Open the form
Post Round / Tournament Review
Review every round like a tour player: what went well, intruders, letting go of mistakes, and your plan.
Open the form
Post Practice Review
What I Learned Today. Commitment, routine, mechanics, body, nutrition, course and equipment.
Open the form
Mental Game GPA
Grade yourself 0 to 4 on 29 statements across six areas and see where your mental game stands.
Everything you save here is stored in My Playbook.
When To Use It
- Every day with the three daily tools
- Once a week with a scorecard round
- Every month with the Mental Game GPA
Common Mistakes
- Finishing the course and never using the tools again
- Letting your Yard Card go out of date
- Only journaling after bad rounds
- Skipping the daily tools when you are playing well
Practical Exercise
Playbook Breath
Use this each night when you set tomorrow's process goals. Breathe in for 4 and picture tomorrow going well. Hold for 4 and say your motto. Breathe out for 4 and let today go. Hold for 4 and commit to your three goals.
Pattern: 4-4-4-4 seconds, 3 cycles. The voice counts each second for you.
Ready
Takeaways
- Apply it consistently. Every day.
- Three daily tools: process goals, reflection, graded range practice
- One Mental Game Scorecard round a week
- Journal to build confidence and clarity
- Keep your Yard Card and GPA current
Reflect
Use It Next Round
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