andrew scott jensen

I hope this blog finds you well.  I am back in Vancouver for a two week break before heading to Victoria to start 6 consecutive weeks of tournaments.  Needless to say, I am very excited to start playing events in Canada.  I have never appreciated my home country as much as I do know after being away from it for so many months.

As my previous blogs have shown, I am not exactly where I expected to be after the California and Mexico swings.  I am very disappointed in my performance under pressure, and am struggling to maintain my confidence.

I have had some good talks with the people that I can trust the most about my game, career and life.  The encouraging words are pouring in, and it really helps.  I do feel a turn around in my mentality heading into Victoria.  The consensus of what people are telling me is to stop over-thinking everything and just believe in myself and trust what got me to this level.  This is really helpful.

My coach has assigned me my homework for this break and it was a little bit shocking but perfect at the same time.  I need to read the books that helped me free up my game to achieve the success of last year, and to keep my chin up!

My personal assessment of the recent failures is due in large part to poor goal setting.  Serious goal setting is something I practice for all areas of my life: personal, spiritual, professional, financial, etc..  I lost the plot this year so far.  All the goals I have set have been golf related and thats it.  Doing this tricked my sub conscious to believing that all my worth as a person was golf related.

Clearly, there has been many failures on the course so far this year.  My poor goal setting forced me to thinking that I was a failure because of all my golfing failures.  In spite of the poor play on course, my life has been great.  I have seen and done so many great things in the past 5 months.  I need to slow down and re-gain my perspective of this whole thing in order to start playing good golf again.

I will use this time off to re-assess the year and stick to the original goals set in the fall for my first year on tour.  I think that sticking to these goals will sharpen my focus and also soften the blow of a bad round or a bad tournament. I will also re-assess my personal goals.  Doing this will help me see that I am not a failure and that I have done things of worth outside of my poor play on the course.

I need to stay positive if I want to succeed out here!