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Golf RhythmsFriday, September 02, 2005After such inconsistent play during my last 2 rounds, I decided to go check out my Biorhythm Chart for the dates I recently played. I figure if Tiger referenced biorhythms in an article for Golf Digest, it can't hurt to check them out.Tiger shared, "I don't know whether our biorhythms get out of sync, some muscle memory is depleted or that computer between our ears suddenly crashes, but every player has days when consistent ball-striking is a foreign concept. I know I've had my share." Biorhythm charts illustrate the principle that we are influenced by physical, emotional, and intellectual cycles. Many people report that they can improve the quality of their lives by monitoring the highs and lows of these cycles and acting accordingly. For example, you might try to schedule important exams during your intellectual highs, avoid talking to your significant other during your emotional lows, or arranging the lineup of your baseball team around their physical highs. The Emotional cycle tracks the stability and positive energy of your psyche and outlook on life, as well as your capacity to empathize with and build rapport with other people. The Intellectual cycle tracks your verbal, mathematical, symbolic, and creative abilities, as well as your capacity to apply reason and analysis to the world around you. The Physical cycle tracks your strength, health, and raw physical vitality. Combined, these attributes help determine your ability to succeed at tasks and to obtain what you desire, your motivation to act, and the drive that allows you to continue a difficult pursuit, and your presence of mind that you need to make crucial decisions. In golf, these 3 attributes come into play on every shot. Your intellect helps in choosing the right club and target and taking wind and terrain into account. Your emotions influence your ability to react constructively to bad shots or bad luck. Your physical ability affects your strength and proper swing technique. In theory, if all your cycles are peaking, you're "in the zone." I personally don't know how much credit these rhythmic cycles warrant, but I enjoy checking them every couple years on a particularly good or bad day just to see if the charts match the day's result. I've been surprised at how much the charts do mirror the outcome on those days. I particularly remember the day I was introduced to biorhythms after Mark Spitz won his 7th Gold Metal swimming in the Olympics some 30 years ago, when all his cycles were at a peak. And I'll never forget the day I checked a friend's chart after learning he had committed suicide, and found that each of his cycles were at the rock bottom that day. I've had similar experiences of my own, although never to those extremes. Having each cycle peak or bottom on the same day is quite rare, but when checking my biorhythms today, I learned that all three cycles had just peaked for me a couple days before playing so well at Cypress Ridge Golf Course last week. I played so effortlessly that day. I was relaxed yet focused. The ball just went where I wanted.  I then crashed and burned only a few days later at Blacklake Golf Resort, just days before all three cycles bottomed. I hit several balls out of bounds, I choked when playing through slower groups, I couldn't putt, I didn't even enjoy playing.  Anyway, I found it interesting to once again find these charts provide such an accurate visual representation for the results I've recently experienced on the course. Regardless, I still don't have enough confidence in this "theory" to place much importance on it, but understanding that my physical, mental, and emotional strengths vary from day to day does help me better accept my inconsistent play on any given day at the golf course... Golf is not a game of perfect ;). About Biorhythms Free Biorhythm Charts Golf Biorhythms Study |
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