🔥 Sometimes Be Stubborn
Why sticking to your guns after a bad shot might be the smartest move you make.
Golf is a game of adjustments — but ironically, one of the worst things you can do is adjust too quickly.
We’ve all been there. You hit one bad shot — maybe a pull hook into the trees or a chunked wedge that barely makes the fairway. Your brain immediately goes into panic mode: “What did I just do? Was it my grip? My backswing? My tempo? Should I try that new tip I saw on YouTube last night?”
Pause.
Breathe.
Now here’s the advice you won’t hear from most swing gurus:
Sometimes, the best move is to be stubborn.
🎯 Trust the Work
If you’ve put in the reps, if your gameplan is sound, if you’ve been swinging with purpose — one bad shot isn’t a trend. It’s just a bad shot.
Being stubborn doesn’t mean ignoring reality. It means giving your preparation the respect it deserves. Don’t let a single mishit erase a month of practice. Don’t throw out your swing DNA just because you clipped a tree limb on hole 3.
💡 Smart Stubbornness
There’s a difference between being blindly stubborn and strategically stubborn:
- Blind stubbornness ignores feedback.
- Smart stubbornness says: “I’ve trained for this. One bad outcome doesn’t mean the plan is broken.”
Let’s say your plan was to hit a soft draw into every par-4 today. You hook one early — ugly. The temptation is to scrap the draw and start fading everything. But if that draw has been your bread and butter all season, why abandon it now?
Stay the course. Course correct only if the issue repeats with a pattern — not just panic after one miss.
🧠 The Real Lesson
Life’s no different. You make a decision — career, parenting, a bold new menu item at the club (guilty) — and it doesn’t go perfectly the first time. The easy route is to doubt, pivot, or self-sabotage. The brave move? Stay with it. Let it breathe. Don’t assume failure from one bad bounce.
🏌️♂️ One Shot Isn’t the Whole Round
So the next time you hit one fat, thin, or into someone’s backyard (oops), don’t scramble to reinvent your swing mid-round. Be bold enough to say:
“That wasn’t me. That was just one shot. Let’s move on.”
Because sometimes, being just a little stubborn…
is exactly what gets you to the 18th green with your head high.
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✏️ What’s your most stubborn golf moment that paid off?
Drop a comment or send me a message — I’d love to hear your story.
– Hung
Coach. Father. Brisket whisperer. Still working on my fade.