Easiest Golf Tips Ever. Part 6.

This past week I shot my lowest round in nearly 2 years. I don't have any concrete explanation except:
A) The plane was broke so I hit a few balls and played nearly 5 rounds in about a month.
B) I retain the memory of being a decent player even though I can't always do what I used to.
C) The plane was broke so I blah blah blah.

I went to Wooden Sticks and shot one over, 73. No do-overs, no gimmes, no mulligans.
I've mentioned before that my front nine scores have been decent. 38, 37, 39, etc, but I usually lose focus somewhere on the back nine and crap the bed. My previous best score this year was last week at Bayview where I shot 77.
This round was different and here comes this weeks Easiest Golf Tip Ever.

Play each hole like it was the first hole. Literally.
The reason I was able to keep playing well is that I remembered some advice a certain Mr. Nick Price gave me a few years ago at a skins game.
I had the chance to ask him one question while driving him to the locker room in a cart and so I said, "The hardest thing for amateurs is keeping a good round going. How do you keep going low once you get on a roll?"
He said simply pretend each hole is the first. He went on to explain that on the first hole, your not even par, under par or 7 over. Your just starting and so your attitude is fresh. He said when your playing, especially when you know your playing well, approach every hole as it if was your first.
Interesting?
I thought of that the other day when I was deep into the back nine and only a couple over. Instead of worrying about what score I might shoot and how I knew I was playing well, I just pretended to start over each hole.
I finished, birdie, bogey, birdie for 73.

Try this the next time your playing. Start fresh each hole and see if you don't play better and more importantly keep playing well.