What if the reason you're struggling to achieve your golf goals isn't a lack of talent or effort, but the goals themselves?
Like countless golfers, you probably started this season with high hopes and ambitious goals.
π― Break 100.
βοΈβπ₯ Break 90.
π Reach single figures.
π Win a competition.
The problem is that most golfers either struggle to achieve the goals they set themselves, or they know they're capable of reaching them but lack a clear plan to get there.
In this episode, I sit down with James Wood, founder of Goof Golf, to unpack his recent experience of playing his first ever competitive round at The Creator Cup.
Ahead of the event, James had set himself a number of goals. But when the day arrived, things didn't quite go to plan.
Together, we explore what happened, what he learned from the experience, and why many golfers unknowingly set goals that are either unrealistic, unhelpful, or disconnected from what they actually want from the game.
Through a live coaching conversation, you'll discover:
β’ The most common mistakes golfers make when setting goals
β’ Why outcome goals alone rarely lead to lasting satisfaction
β’ How to build goals that support both enjoyment and performance
β’ A simple framework for creating a healthier relationship with golf
β’ Practical ideas you can apply immediately to your own game
This conversation also serves as a preview of an upcoming free online workshop that James and I are hosting together:
A Better Relationship With Golf
π―A Goal Setting Workshop for Golfers Who Want to Enjoy Golf More and Improve More Consistently
In the workshop, you'll learn how to build better goals, create a practical plan for achieving them, and discover why the happiest golfers often approach the game very differently from everyone else.
ποΈ Reserve your free place:
https://www.golfyourselfhappy.com/goal-setting
π Date:
Wednesday 5 August 2026
β° Time:
8pm (20:00) BST (UTC+1)
Connect with Kris Lynch @ Golf Yourself Happy:
π Website - https://www.golfyourselfhappy.com/about
π₯ Join Happy Hackers - https://www.golfyourselfhappy.com/happy-hackers/free-community
π» LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kris-lynch-a9166037/
π± Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/golfyourselfhappy/
Connect with James Wood @ Goof Golf:
Hi and welcome back to another episode of the Golf Yourself Happy podcast with me, Kris Lynch, your founder and your head coach here at Golf Yourself Happy. I am a golf health coach specializing in emotional and mental well-being and helping everyday recreational golfers like you.
To work through some of those challenging feelings, emotions, and behaviours that crop up while playing golf. You know, the familiar ones like frustration, negative self-talk, maybe even the occasional expletive yelled at the top of your voice after you've chunked an approach shot into a ditch.
We've all been there, haven't we? And I find that there is no better remedy
to overcome or to have an outlet to discuss some of those feelings like there is within a community.
And so with that in mind, I invite you to join me and many others in the Happy Hackers Club, which is a free online WhatsApp community designed for everyday golfers who love the game but do not love the feelings that come with playing the game.
Within it, we have several subgroups to talk about general golf chat, general life chat, to celebrate the wins, or to have a vent about your latest frustrating round of golf if that's what you need right now. It's totally free to join. The link to join us is in the show notes, so I look forward to seeing you there. Now, before we begin this episode, however, I'd like to ask you one very simple question.
Why do you play golf? Because every year, countless golfers like you and I set ourselves ambitious goals, like breaking 100, like breaking 90, like trying to get down to single figures.
And whilst there is absolutely nothing wrong with those goals, I find that many golfers spend very little time asking themselves three important questions. One, are these actually the right goals for me? Two, how am I going to achieve them? And three, are these goals helping me to enjoy the game more? In today's conversation, I'm joined by James from Goof Golf.
James very recently competed in the Creator Cup in what was his first ever competitive round of golf. And ahead of the event he had set himself three goals for his round. And as you'll hear, he had varying degrees of success and some setbacks in achieving those goals.
So in this conversation I coach him through what good goal setting looks like in golf for everyday golfers, why so many of us focus exclusively on outcome goals and how a different approach to goal setting could help you enjoy golf more whilst continuing to improve at the same time.
And if what you hear in today's episode wets your appetite to learn more about goal setting in golf and to go a bit deeper on the subject, then you'll definitely want to join us for the Golf Goal Setting webinar, which myself and James will be hosting on Wednesday, the 5th of August. It is totally free to attend, and the link to register with all the details and how to sign up is listed below in the show notes. I hope you enjoy the episode.
Let's tee off now and hear from James at Goof Golf.
James Wood (:Hi, so I'm James from Goof Golf. We're a golf brand that's been around for around three years now. And we basically started to try and help raise awareness around mental health. I've had my own personal challenges in the past and I wanted to do something that was creative, that steps outside of my day job. I could do something to help people that had similar problems that I did. A lot of my issues manifested through sport. And I found that through my own personal therapy sessions at sport was something that
was something that I probably didn't deal with that well when I was younger and it kind of hurt me a little bit later in life. So then I found golf. Golf was something that I found a little bit more calming, a little bit more of a way to express myself in a more controlled way. And I'm just starting to learn how to control those feelings a little bit more and use goal setting to help my enjoyment of sport in general in competitive and non-competitive environments, which...
Hopefully you will be able to help me with that.
Kris Lynch (:Nice one, James.
I share a love of golf for some similar reasons to the ones that James just mentioned, but ultimately where he mentioned goal setting, think...
It has been my own personal experience and it has been my professional experience as well. That goal setting is something which for golf, for sport, for life, for work, for all sorts of different things is such a valuable skill it can, crucially if done the right way, it can really lead you towards happiness and fulfillment and achieving goals that are the right goals.
for you and not just somebody else's goals if that makes sense
James Wood (:So I think what draws me with it is mainly around that goal setting element. Not everything has to be at the professional standard. A lot of us are very active in our spare time and we're always going to be at that amateur sort of status. I there's lots of stats around goal for the percentage of people that will only break 90 or 100 or 80 in their life. And if you centre around that goal a little bit too much then you get a bit too consumed about it and your enjoyment is based purely off performance. not...
based off lots of other things that you should be thinking about when you go do these activities. That's what draws me to Golfy Self Happy
Kris Lynch (:Definitely.
And as you mentioned there, think where I've in the last couple of months just very recently launched Golf Yourself Happy on the 1st of April, My tagline is happiness first and handicap later, which is not to be confused with saying we don't care about people getting their handicaps down or having performance related goals. But I think to the point you just made, if we can maybe
focus or switch things around a little bit, right, by seeing, can we prioritize golfers identifying their why for playing golf? What do they want to achieve out of playing golf? Then that will go a long way to having a healthier relationship with golf, which in turn should as a, as a by-product deliver performance gains as well. Because in my experience, I don't know about yours, James, but golf culture and golf
media etc does this thing where it tries to sell a narrative that says if you get better at golf then it will lead to happiness whereas I'm saying let's try and flip that the other way around.
James Wood (:Yeah, especially with
how the handicap system works is like when you shoot your handicap, you're supposed to have had a good day. So that basically means that every time that you go out, you're probably going to have a very high chance that you don't shoot your handicaps. Then your brain's going to tell you that you've not had a good day. And there's probably lots of things that probably went on that were bits of personal enjoyment, but you're so focused on hitting that handicap number or improving that handicap number.
Kris Lynch (:completely and you know,
by all means, we can have that goal that are based around winning things or getting your handicap down or shooting a certain score, sure. But if we've got other accompanying goals that will actually ensure that you're going to get some enjoyment of the game along the way,
and don't feel like a sense of failure on the journey.
James Wood (:Yeah, for sure. And I think for us, the kind of starting point for this whole thing is to have a Goof Golf, X Golf, yourself happy, like intro seminar that people can come along to and see how you would build that up in terms of a framework and how you can use these tools to help you better enjoy that thing. what sort of stuff have you got to say about seminar, Chris?
Kris Lynch (:so we'll start
trying to understand or asking people to reflect on why do they play golf.
And it sounds like a very simple question, James, but believe me, in my experience of working in this industry, it's just a question that does not get asked enough or at all. And so by asking that quite personal question, let's face it, then it prompts...
you to think about, okay, why am I doing this? Why am I playing golf generally? And what my, know, cause that will go a long way to understanding what your goals should look like. I think then in terms of the types of goals that we will then be looking at. So,
We've already spoken about outcome based goals which tend to look like things like get down to a single figure handicap or break 90 or break 80 or something like that. But I think.
Before that, we want to introduce the concept of identity goals. So who do I want to be as a golfer? What kind of golfer do I want to be? Do I want to be a competitive golfer who's in it for mostly competitive reasons, or do I want to be a calm golfer who's an enjoyable person to play with? And then...
So you start with identity, then we're looking at process goals, which is, where a lot of golfers kind of miss out or don't know to or think to inject these kinds of goals is effectively this layer is like the plan.
and the stuff that you actually actionably do to get you towards your goals. So whatever the outcome is that you want to arrive at, again, if it's like a performance-based thing, like a handicap, for example, well, you might need to have a plan to work on a development area of your game, like short game, for example, or it might be mental reasons. It might be sort of more mental game-based stuff. So it's about saying,
process is working on a very specific, tangible thing that will actually move you towards your outcome goals. Is this making sense so
far?
James Wood (:Yeah, it's making loads of sense. I think one of the best things we started with was that golf was identity because we all play the game in a different way. And that's one of the reasons what draws me to golf in the first place is no person swings the same, no person thinks the same, no person will see like the hole in the same way.
Kris Lynch (:I would hope that you'll emerge from this session with an actual clear set of goals for yourself.
or if not, you're certainly a lot closer to being or feeling empowered and up-skilled to be able to then set better goals. Maybe have a better understanding also of what to focus on during your practice and in the rounds of golf that you play. Feeling more confident in managing pressure.
And yeah, leaving with a simple plan for the very next round that people play after attending our goal-setting session. And with that being said, James, maybe this is a good lead-on because you, played in the Creator Cup, is that what it's called?
James Wood (:Yeah, that's right. it's something that was created with a bunch of leading creators in the UK by Sepp on golf, which here was fore brothers and all those lot where it brings amateurs together to compete in the big league, where you can end up at the big finals that's abroad. And first round for a lot of people was this weekend. It's not the most pressured match because if you lose, you still go into a losers bracket. But for most people that are going to play, it'll be the first time they play that form of competitive golf with strangers, maybe at a strange golf course.
It's definitely quite a highly pressure environment if you're not used to being in there. Especially for myself, I don't play a lot of competitive golf. I'm not a member of a golf club. I just play at different clubs where I can with other friends. Obviously sometimes there could be a competitive element while we're playing. If we're playing like a fake match or we might be playing for some money or for the bar bill at the end of the thing, but never played a straight up competitive match play match. Like you're in the Ryder Cup, every putt means something. You're not sure whether to give someone a putt or not to give someone a putt.
There's lots of different thoughts that going through your head in this new kind of situation. And for me, I thought it was really important to go into it with a good set of goals so I could see an outcome at the end of it rather than just a scoreline, which is what a lot of people are going to look at when they go release. There's the first thing you're going to get asked is did you win or did you lose? But because of the relaxed nature of the competition, I think that's not what people should be taken away from it. It's just if you won or you lost, it's what you can learn.
while being in the competition, is quite important.
Kris Lynch (:Yeah, to me it already sounds like you're applying a pretty healthy outlook and mindset on that because like you say, I think most people for various reasons gravitate towards like, you know, it's as simple as did you win or did you lose? That's what people seem to care about or ask about. But I think part of this...
whole thing that we're doing together is to try and reframe it and actually help people just think in a healthier way because as I think you've already said in this conversation that it is more to golf than just winning. And actually I'm really a big one for quotes but Arnold Palmer, one of the greats of the game once said that winning isn't everything but to want to win is and I just think that's a cool quote because you we can show up with and want to put our best foot forward but at the same time
for example, if we set the right goals for ourselves, then we're setting ourselves up for success with a version of success. It doesn't have to look like winning. It's a version of have I set a goal for myself that is actually easy to achieve or is it is it going to promote my my enjoyment? And actually, so with that, just before I quickly ask you what the three
goals that you set yourself for that round on Sunday were I know I've just done saying, did you win or did you lose? But what was the outcome? And kind of irrespective of whatever the outcome was, how did you feel walking off the course on Sunday as compared with when you went on it?
James Wood (:So you can see that I can't stop smiling because of the result, not because it was a good one. So we lost five and four against Ollie and Henry. And I played with Joe, who is an Open Stance Golf on Instagram. Oddly enough, I'd never met Joe before we were playing as well. I reached out to him across Instagram to see he'd want to play in the Creator Cup because we're both based in the Southwest. So it was another new person to meet on the day. And yeah.
Kris Lynch (:Mm-hmm.
James Wood (:So we lost one before we didn't actually win a hole the entire time. We did lip out for two holes in the front line and I missed a four footer for Birdie and lots of things happened. But yeah, we did end up getting absolutely stuffed on the day. But walking off the course, the thing I was happy about was that I'd met three great people in the day. I had a really fun day. It wasn't stuffy at all. It wasn't awkward.
They gave us lots of tips about the golf course because it was their home course. They didn't have to do that because it was a competitive thing. They were showing us lines, saying where not to hit it, where to hit it. And it was just a really good, friendly atmosphere. And even after we finished the match, something I wasn't sure if we were going to do, we didn't just walk off the course. We finished the rest of the holes out. And suddenly me and Joe started playing a million times better. Funny that as soon as the match finished, I think we won like maybe two out of the last five holes or four holes.
Kris Lynch (:Mmm.
Yeah.
James Wood (:On the last, I got a birdie as well on the par 5 on the last. So I kind of walked off with the best possible golf feeling, even though we'd lost the match. There was not a lot of positives to take from the competitive side of it, but I so many other positives to take from everything else about it.
Kris Lynch (:It's funny that isn't it how when the minute that the stakes are lower, you know, and the match has been wrapped up by then, all of a sudden the kind of the chains fall off and then all of a sudden we start, you know, dropping in birdie putts from downtown and stuff like that. It's a strange one. I mean,
What did you learn from participating on Sunday? Because if I'm hearing you right, this was, so did you say this is kind of like the first time that you've competed in that kind of environment?
James Wood (:Yeah, first time I've ever done any form of competitive golf ever. As I've said, just played for friends, not been a member. I've never turned up to Saturday medal or a Sunday medal or a club champs or anything, or something that people listening might have played in themselves. So it was a brand new environment for me. And how I was feeling on the afternoon when we going to go play is to put no pressure on myself and put no pressure on my partner. I just wanted to make sure that Joe had a good, positive day.
I'm sure he won't mind me saying that he said at the start he was a little bit nervous as well. And so we were both quite open with how we were feeling. And yeah, that was my main objective for the day was to just keep everything as positive between the two of us as possible. And hopefully that would come up a good result. It didn't mean I'm going to call back to your Arnold Palmer quote, one that I've not heard before. There was definitely that want to win there. I think sometimes that casualness can seep in when you're trying to...
Kris Lynch (:Mm.
James Wood (:calm yourself down and you're trying to talk yourself out of maybe winning or wanting to win but that want to win was definitely still there for both of us. And yeah, that's really something that I'm gonna take away from this chat that we've had right now is no matter what we say about how we feel in these situations where we're playing golf is like, we have that identity, we have that want and then you walk off the course like I did on the weekend that I was still happy with what I'd achieved and...
there's definitely some better goals I could have set myself. If I think back to when we were playing, there was a certain point where I was definitely overthinking what was going on because I was thinking not really about my golf game. I was more thinking about how I was going to react to shots before they'd even happened. That's probably would be one of my main takeaways is that I probably could have focused on my golf a little bit more at times. Yeah, that's probably the first one.
Kris Lynch (:Hmm.
Okay, say more about that if you don't mind. Expand on that if you can.
James Wood (:Yeah,
no, sure. So the three goals that I set myself, one was an enjoyment goal. And that enjoyment goal was to try not to say sorry to my partner because we've all been there in the Pairs golf thing. I'd hit a bad shot. The first thing you think, I've got to apologise for this. So we basically set up a rule at the start was to not say sorry. And there was a lot of opportunities where we did hit bad shots and we felt like we were having to resist apologising.
Kris Lynch (:Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
James Wood (:rather than just being as free as we could and just being like, oh, that was a bit crap. I apologize for that. Or if it felt like we weren't moving on from the bad shots, we were just waiting for that next time to hold in a bit of the motion. And I did actually end up breaking that rule at one point. And it wasn't because of the golf shot. It was because I was so consumed in everything that was going on. I didn't check the shots that I had on certain holes. So I picked up for a boney putt.
Kris Lynch (:Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
James Wood (:that I didn't realise was actually a par putt because I had a shot and we could have tied a hole and it was like the fifth or the sixth or something like that and we ended up losing the hole. So that was the time that I had to say sorry to Joe because I was so focused on everything else that was going on. I wasn't thinking about the actual match itself.
Kris Lynch (:Mm.
The key thing with this, think James is it's to reflect on the force of habit because I think in day to day life, how many times do you find yourself apologizing to someone as a response to something when you've actually done nothing wrong?
James Wood (:I'm like English, British, whatever you call it. I apologize for not holding the door for someone that was miles away.
Kris Lynch (:There we go.
Exactly right. I think we can... So what I'm trying to say here is the act of setting yourself a goal is a valuable thing in this context because you're drawing attention to something. You're bringing your presence towards that thing which is...
to my mind, almost like the first step towards breaking the habit of a lifetime, But at the same time, we needn't beat ourselves up for doing something that's very automatic, because literally habits by definition are automatic behavior patterns. it's totally okay that you didn't get a 100 % hit rate on that don't say sorry every time in
in the match. So that was this don't say sorry one. What else did you have?
James Wood (:So I had a golf goal for the day for me which was to hit six greens in regulation. So for context, I play a 14. So it's always a debate of what the average golfer actually is. I would describe myself as a pretty average golfer. Like I said, I can make a birdie. I've had eagle putts. I can make a par on almost any golf hole that I could play. But it doesn't mean that the bad stuff is going to creep in. So six greens.
seemed like a realistic target to do. I ended up in regulation play anyway. I ended up only hitting two. That doesn't mean that there was some that were just off the edge of the green or whatever. There might have been close to four or five if you're talking about fringe golf. But in terms of the actual stat, I only hit two out of six. So again, you could chalk that up as a deliberate failure. Did it change the way I played on the day? Not really. It's not like I was that conservative in my approach.
Kris Lynch (:Mm-hmm.
James Wood (:It's obviously the match play element, obviously trying to go at certain flags and if you know your opponent's in trouble and things like that. So yeah, so that was the golf element of my goals on a particular day.
Kris Lynch (:Mmm.
What was your logic to setting that specific goal? Why that metric specifically, 6GIR?
James Wood (:So, that's the first thing that popped into my head because I thought in a match play sense it's the thing that could potentially put the most pressure on our opponents. Because if you're sat there with the green and red and have a birdie putt, then it means that if they have had one error in shot or they've got to the green late, then you're probably going to put yourself in a good position. Especially against the type of people you're to play in this competition with similar handicaps, is that if you're in that position of power of two putts for a par, then it immediately puts pressure on your opponents, which as I'm saying it now,
It's like that's almost a negative reason to pick that goal because I'm focusing on something that would have an impact on my opponent rather than be a positive for me. So if I would have switched it and been like, okay, so what means that I'm playing good golf? So I normally play my best golf if I've got the ball the fair way. So why wouldn't I pick a goal that's more associated to me rather than one that is associated to potential opponents or other people?
Kris Lynch (:Okay.
Mm.
Yeah, yeah, like that. Okay, fair. I appreciate I'm sort of skipping ahead here because there's a third goal. You know, to what extent did you find during that round that you were able to come back to these goals, that they were present and you were conscious of them, or did they slip from your radar at times?
James Wood (:They're definitely present and conscious through the first two holes and then as soon as there was a position where there was more thought going into other stuff, so the third tee shot was a blind tee shot. So as soon as we got into a situation where there were other elements at play and you lose focus and you start having doubts, that's when it first started to slip really. And that's where both myself and Joe started to struggle in the match, obviously because we were thinking a lot more about...
where we were having to play and bits of uncertainty. So then from that third hole and then all through the front nine, when we started to chase the score a little bit more, that's when I found that the actual thinking about the goals and the tracking of the goals was just falling off, which is then why that kind of not say sorry thing, slept in, crept in, sorry. And then I went and introduced the third goal that I had, which was to try and find a way to like reset on each tee box.
Kris Lynch (:Mm.
James Wood (:because that's obviously the good thing about match players, like each hole is an individual, all the other ones shouldn't matter. And what I wanted to do is have this kind of physical reset that I could do on each tee box and then get in the mindset for it. And I didn't do that at all, like whether it was just because I felt rushed or I didn't think about it properly. So that just didn't happen, which was a shame.
Kris Lynch (:Have you any sense of what you might have done differently in hindsight?
James Wood (:In hindsight, don't think I would have set three goals. I think I was trying to be almost too clever in the way that I was approaching it. I just trying to split things up into categories and sound real smart about it, about golf and mental and enjoyment and all these things. They're all good buzzwords that I was quite happy with the goals I'd set. But I think if anything, I probably overcomplicated it. And instead of having those three distinct goals, literally just having the don't say sorry goal would have been more than enough.
or just having the goal for a related goal for that particular day or just having the mental goal for that day. think having all of them in play at one time was probably a bit much maybe.
Kris Lynch (:Okay. and any reflection on, know, regardless of how many goals, let's say that you might go into a round of golf with in future, have you any thoughts on how or what you would do differently to make sure that you're locked into them and focused on them throughout the entirety of the round.
James Wood (:Yeah, I think what I'd probably do is potentially write it down on a paper school card or something like that. So there's a visual cue to it. And in that sense, definitely wouldn't put it on my phone. Again, we can talk about that in any future podcasts about using your phone on the gov course. That's a whole other conversation, but I actually have an analogue way of writing it down and referring back to it. Whether you put a note on your bull marker or your school card is probably the best one really.
Kris Lynch (:Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
I like that a lot on that last point and it makes me want to ask you, is it not the case that in... so you played match play on Sunday, right?
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but technically you don't need to keep a scorecard going really in the match, you know, it's, this is almost like a hack or a tip for anyone out there straight away is if you're playing in a scenario which effectively doesn't strictly speaking require you to keep track of personal score,
James Wood (:Okay, bye.
Kris Lynch (:you might want to avoid doing it. And the reason for that is because that can, especially when you're playing in a team setting,
The selfish act, if you like, of still keeping your own score whilst you're meant to be thinking about the team could actually, again, I don't know about you, James, but I've been guilty of that myself in the past where it's like, I know I'm playing with a partner and we're meant to be doing this together, but really I actually care about my own performance more and I care about theirs to the extent that I'm going to want to still keep track of my score. So I think...
you know, that's just something to leave people with and have a think about. But the writing things down as well, you know, that's great. think that's, and it's important for me to say that with this sort of stuff, there tends not to be a one size fits all approach, okay? So writing stuff down might work for you, James, and you're not gonna know that until you try it next time.
but certainly it's a good practice because there is something physically there that you can refer to that is like an anchor that's dropping the anchor and that's really part of your reset when you you get to the next T for example and that brings you back to it and back back to the present so
Have you any questions for me or anything else that's kind of on your mind as it relates to golf and goal setting at this stage, James?
James Wood (:My main question to you really is what makes a good goal to you? What characteristics does a good goal need to have?
Kris Lynch (:Yeah, so are you familiar, James, with the SMART goal? Yeah, so I would definitely say to somebody out there watching or listening who is not...
familiar with goal setting really, the SMART framework is one of the most popular ones that gets referred to and it's because it's an acronym it's easier to remember. those five letters stand for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound. So.
If you look across those five things, basically what we're seeing is we need to have a goal which has the right level of detail and that it's a clear goal and not wooly and fluffy and doesn't actually, when you read it back to yourself, doesn't actually mean anything. Because if you can't make sense of your own goal, then no one else will. The measurable thing is typically what you want to see is
something in the goal that after a certain period of time of having tracked it, you're able to actually measure it to determine whether you've achieved it or not. So there's this expression that goes, if you can't measure it, then you can't manage it. So can I quantify in numbers, for example, or if it not even numbers like,
It could be a feeling as well. Like, how did I feel at this point in time versus how do I feel three months down the line after tracking that goal? So that's how you would measure it. I think to my mind, the A and R of it being achievable and realistic are sort of similar or they're quite closely aligned. So essentially what we're seeing here is like, does the goal that you're setting
Are you setting yourself up for success or failure because of the extent to which is a realistic goal? Because you might say that again, let's just use a handicap goal for a second here. I have in the past said out loud, I wanna get down to single figures. Well,
Is that realistic? Well, it's definitely not realistic if I've not got a time frame in mind. And it's also not realistic if I'm never willing to practice and work on certain aspects of my game that nine handicappers do well. So that's the achievable and the realistic point. And then, the time frame as well is if you don't...
hold yourself to account and almost in a good way apply a little bit of pressure to yourself by putting a deadline on when you want to achieve that goal by then again you're not really giving yourself well it's how long's a piece of string then basically you know so yeah
And having a plan, James, as well. So there's this one thing that, again, this goal setting stuff that we're introducing today, the session that we'll do, okay, we've identified your goals, what's your development plan?
what's the plan that goes with those goals to actually, and that's maybe where the process goals come in that I was talking about before, because they are kind of anchored in your plan and the stuff that you do to get you towards your goals.
Kris Lynch (:Today's conversation wasn't intended to give you a full goal setting framework.
Instead it was intended to introduce some ideas, challenge some assumptions.
encourage you to think differently about what success in golf might look like.
But understanding goal setting and actually building meaningful goals for yourself are two very different things.
And that's exactly what we're going to be doing together in our upcoming live goal setting webinar for everyday golfers who want to enjoy the game more whilst enjoying performance gains at the same time. And together on the 5th of August will help you understand why you play golf, identify the golfer you want to become, build practical process goals.
Create meaningful outcome goals and leave you with a clear plan for your next round and for the rest of the season, hopefully, for that
And so whether your ambition is to lower your handicap, compete with more confidence, enjoy the game more, or simply develop a healthier relationship with golf, we would love to see you there. So make sure, mean time that you're subscribed to this podcast on your preferred viewing or listening platform of choice.
We'll be releasing a few more episodes between now and the 5th of August, I'll constantly be referencing the webinar before then. Make sure you visit the link in the show notes immediately, though, to go straight in and book your free place. Get registered now for the webinar. But until the next time we see each other, please always remember to put your happiness first.
And your handicap later. See you soon, folks.