If you played competitive golf as a junior golfer, whatever level, you can\u2019t help but look back and think about the mistakes. The stuff you could\u2019ve done better. The advice you\u2019d give to your younger self that would save yourself some stress.<\/p>\n
Turns out, even the best players in the world think about this. Or at least Ludvig Aberg does.<\/p>\n
When I bumped into him on the range at last week\u2019s FedEx St. Jude Classic, I asked him a simple question:<\/p>\n
If you could go back in time and give some advice to yourself as a junior golfer, what would it be?<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, I have two big things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Take note, junior golfers\u2026<\/p>\n
1. Don\u2019t run away to the driving range<\/p>\n
It\u2019s so tempting, when golfers start playing poorly, to run away to the driving range. To press pause on everything until you figure it back out.<\/p>\n
Ludvig says that was his instinct, too. And it\u2019s what he would do over.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always had a tendency to spend too much time on the driving range. I would play bad and want to go to the driving range and work it out. Now I\u2019d tell myself to play through it. Keep playing. Figure it out on the golf course; learn how to play with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
2. Surround yourself with better players <\/p>\n
The right environment can elevate a junior golfer farther and faster than perhaps anything else.<\/p>\n
Ludvig is the proof. He was the product of a junior academy in Sweden, and he said the process of learning from other junior golfers helped transform his game for the better. Looking back, it\u2019s something he would tell any junior golfer to do even more of.<\/p>\n
\u201cSurrounding yourself with better players. Playing little matches with them. That\u2019s so important. You learn from them; it pushes you to become better. I did that a lot as a junior golfer, but I would tell myself to do even more of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you played competitive golf as a junior golfer, whatever level, you can\u2019t help but look back and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[459,1438,44,1250,4413,1388],"class_list":["post-54716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-article","tag-fedex-st-jude-championship","tag-golf","tag-golf-instruction","tag-junior-golf","tag-ludvig-aberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}