1. Never be outworked. Always put in 110% of your effort and you won’t be outworked. Be willing to give everything that you have while competing.
2. Don’t focus on your statistics. Sometimes an off-day can throw off your statistics. So just focus on making the next day a better day.
3. Remember that being the biggest or strongest doesn’t make you the best. The smarter, aggressive, more prepared person will be better – every time!
4. Have a purpose in everything you do. This will help you not go on “auto-pilot”. Use your practices as a way to prepare you for competitions.
5. Stop comparing yourself to other people. Instead, compare yourself to yourself! Am I better than I was yesterday? This way you can track your progress in a healthy way
6. Be thankful for the opportunity. Competing is something you GET to do, not something you HAVE to do.
7. Be aggressively patient. “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” So just remember big changes or a lot of progress takes time – Make a commitment with yourself to do whatever it takes as long as it takes.
8. Compete for yourself. Don’t live your life for your friends or your parents. Even though there may be pressure for you to be a dr lawyer engineer make sure that it is something that you want, because failure weighs ounces yet regret weighs tons. Compete because you love it.
9. Never Never Never give up - Winston Churchill. Even if you don’t win, make it really hard for the other people to win. Always put up the best fight you can.
10. Keep things in perspective. Faith, Family and Academics come before golf. At the end of the day, academics might send you to college if golf can’t. And your family is going to support you no matter what. So, remember what’s important.