乔丹教你高尔夫赢的哲学

-   10招让你赌必胜

10 Rules For Maximizing Your Competitiveness

http://s6/middle/4f2e6187ta1bb537c7225&690

    刚从北京高尔夫俱乐部对抗赛归来，今天在开场连着3洞都+2的情况下，打出了83杆，自以为成绩不错了，晚宴上见到了几位博友，哪知道他们都打出80小几杆。最近有幸和多位高尔夫博友在球场交流，才知道高球博友里确实藏着很多单差高手。说到差点，其实差点（handicap）这个词就是赛马比赛中的赌注词汇。难怪我们打高尔夫的人，哪个没有赌过球呢？以高球大国美国为例，有2600万高尔夫人口，根据2002年美国《高尔夫》杂志的调查，有72%的人会在打球时赌上一把。而2006年《高尔夫文摘》杂志的线上调查显示，93%的参与调查者曾赌过球，86%的人认为他们在赌球时打得更好。哈哈哈，这还是在美国，面对本性好赌的国人，估计这个比例一定高得惊人！其实，从某种意义上来说，那些职业高尔夫赛事又何尝不是一种赌博呐？前一阵子，博友间互相叫板、PK时，我们是不是常听到：你以为XX地方的球手都是你的ATM机呀？

http://s10/middle/4f2e6187ta1bbcbd2bc69&690

    既然赌球时，球手们会打得更好，更认真（哈哈哈! 主要是赌球时，写手们都没有用武之地了）。那么我们球友间的交流时，小赌怡情，比如，赌一下小费等，还是不错的；至少使得大家认真对待每一杆，也会基本杜绝把球场当场练习场那样一个位置打好几颗球的恶劣行为。

    几年前就知道篮球巨星乔丹是高尔夫高手，特别是高尔夫球场上的顶级赌球高手，不信你读读下边的新闻：http://sports.sina.com.cn/golf/2009-10-08/23044622464.shtml。就连职业高手都甘拜下风。乔丹对高尔夫情有独钟甚至从他的婚姻中也不难看出。1989年9月，乔丹与妻子胡安妮塔在拉斯维加斯的一座小教堂里秘密结婚，而他到“赌城”的主要目的是参加一项高尔夫比赛，只是趁这个机会顺便结了婚。难怪乔丹的朋友开玩笑说，乔丹在公众场合脚上穿的如果不是乔丹鞋，那肯定是一双高尔夫鞋。其实，作为一个差点为3的业余高手，乔丹从奇才退役后也萌生过参加职业高尔夫比赛的念头，当他和巴克利说起此事时，招来后者的一通嘲笑：“别胡说八道了，要知道你将面对的可是肯尼·佩里和维杰·辛这样的家伙。”乔丹从此打消了成为职业高球手的想法，但那并不妨碍他把退役后的大部分时间花在高尔夫球场上的PK中。另外，老虎等多位顶级球手都是乔丹的“常务”赌友。不信你仔细读下文。

http://s15/middle/4f2e6187ta1bbca06813e&690 

    乔丹教你十招赌必胜的原文请参考：http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2009-11/10_rules_michael_jordan#ixzz1KFFmepN。时间有限，本人只翻译提要了。

1. Focus on the little things. 关注细节 或者细节决定成败

During my basketball career, I always told myself to focus on the little things because little things added up to big things. I equate making putts with making free throws, and my biggest mental challenge shooting free throws was in my second year, 1986, when I came back from a foot injury for the playoffs and had a 63-point game against Boston in the Garden. I had to make two free throws to send the game into overtime, and all I focused on was the basics -- I'm not gonna be short. I'm gonna extend and reach for the rim -- all the fundamentals that I had worked on at home and at practice for all those years. Golf is no different. Don't assume, for example, that any putt is good. Make sure you putt every three-footer with conviction.

And keep score every time you play. I do.

2. Have total confidence in what you can do. 要有百分之百的信心

If you have 100 percent confidence that you can pull off a shot, most of the time you will. I'll never forget the time I was playing with Seve Ballesteros in Valencia [Spain]. It was just a fun round, but very competitive, of course. Seve misses a green, and his ball ends up right up against a tree. He has absolutely no backswing, and I'm thinking he's out of the hole. Next thing I know, Seve's on his knees with some kind of iron in his hands, and he's choking down all the way to the hosel. He chips this thing, and it bounces onto the green to a few feet, and he makes par. Unbelievable!

Tiger's the same way. One time we're at Isleworth playing for a little money, and he has me 1 down on the 17th hole, a par 5, and I'm getting a shot, so I think I'm in good shape. We get up to his ball, and he's 267 yards from the green, downhill lie, and he's in a divot. I'm thinking he's gotta lay up.

Not Tiger. He takes his 5-wood, puts it back in his stance and just wails it. The ball took off like a freakin' laser, right onto the green. The guy makes eagle, and I'm saying, "This is crazy."

But that's Tiger.

3. Don't think about the prize; think about the work.

   不要只想着奖励，要专心想着打球

At my basketball camps every year, I award the kids shoes if they make a certain number of free throws or if they complete an around-the-world or something like that. But I always tell them that if they're thinking about the prize, they should be thinking about the work. Prepare, practice and perfect it. Do the work, and the prizes will come.

4. Keep it simple.  采用简单的方法 或者越简单越好

There are a lot of correlations between basketball and golf, especially on the mental side. Whenever I played a big game, I tried to stick to things I knew I was capable of doing. I do the same in golf. I've seen Tiger hit that stinger, and I know it's doable for me, too, but it isn't a shot I've practiced much. Why would I try that in the heat of the moment?

My instructor, Ed Ibarguen, has me focus on a specific target before every swing. One of my biggest problems is, sometimes when I see water right I try extra hard to stay away from it. And what happens? You end up going right in the water. That's because you're focusing on the wrong thing.

Eddie tells me to pick a blade of grass on my line or a building in the distance and to blindfold myself to everything else. That's keeping it simple, and that works especially well in pressure situations.

5. Control your emotions until the round is over.

   控制自己的情绪直到比赛结束

   Celebrating during a round can be a good thing if it inspires you to keep doing great things. But be careful not to overdo it. Sometimes, celebrating too much adds pressure and makes you feel like you've got to live up to it the rest of the round. Worse, your celebrating can motivate your opponent. My enjoyment doesn't come until the round is over. Most of the time, anyway.

When I made my first hole-in-one, last year at Turnberry near Miami, it lived up to expectations: After a hole-in-one, you don't really care about the rest of the round. It was a great shot, 205 yards into about a 30-mile-per-hour wind with a 3-wood. I hit it kind of low, but it never left the flag. Took a couple of checks and went in. It was an unbelievable feeling. But I probably shot 95 after that.

6. Use tough losses for motivation.

    让低谷期的失落感转化为前进的动力 或者 化悲痛为动力

Turning negatives into positives has always worked for me. I think back to when I was cut from my high school basketball team as a sophomore. That was the biggest disappointment of my sports career, but it only made me work harder.

When I was 12 years old, playing baseball, we had to play a three-game series against a team from Texas. If we win, we go to the Little League World Series. We lost the first game, 4-3, and the next game I pitched a two-hitter, but we lost, 1-0. Honestly, I wasn't that disappointed about the Little League thing, because getting that close to the World Series was quite an accomplishment. But all of the disappointments you have as a competitor can ultimately provide motivation to help you move up the ladder.

7. Competitors always want to have something riding on the outcome.

    PK总要有些赌注 或者 比赛总得图点什么

It isn't the amount of money, it's something to keep the focus at its highest. Whenever I meet people, they always have this idea that I like to play for big money. My line is always: I play for whatever makes you nervous. That's enough to give me a competitive edge. It could be five dollars. It could be 10. It could be a shirt in the pro shop. It doesn't have to be for $500,000 or a million. Sometimes it might be enough if we're just playing for pride.

The first time I ever played with Tiger -- at Medinah, I think -- I was a little nervous. We had a little something riding on it, and obviously you're thinking he's probably analyzing your swing, and you aren't focused on what you're supposed to be doing. You aren't relaxed. So that's what I'm doing, and I shot 88. The next time, I say, "Look man, you killed me the last time we played. I shot 88. How many are you gonna give me today?" So he says, "I'll give you five a side." We're playing at my home course, which at the time was the Merit Club [outside Chicago]. This time I'm feeling pretty confident. No jitters. I know he isn't paying attention to me, so all I have to do is play my game. And I fleeced him. Beat the [crap] out of him. ... Actually he played pretty good. He shot 65 to tie the course record at the Merit Club. But I shot 73.

8. I love trash-talking, and there's an art to turning it into a competitive edge.

    我喜欢闲扯，这也是一门艺术 (什么艺术，就是分散对手专注力的场外招，哈哈哈！）

Trash-talking is a means of (1) giving you confidence, and (2) taking your opponent's mind off what he's trying to do and putting a little more pressure on him. I don't talk trash to demean people.

I don't talk about their parents or any of that. But I do love talking trash no matter who I'm playing. President Clinton is the only U.S. president I've played golf with, and I talked trash with him, too. Why wouldn't I? Talking trash, especially with someone like that, is giving him a better understanding of who I am. He wants to experience what it feels like to hang out with Michael Jordan, and that's me.

I enjoy moments like that. I love competitiveness. So why would I do anything less?

9. Nervousness is not a bad thing.

   紧张感并不是坏事

I was nervous a lot of times before games. The key is, does that nervousness go away once the ball is thrown up because of your preparation and your routine. Once the game got started, I was back in my routine.

Golf can work the same way if you put in the work to prepare. Yeah, you're going to be nervous on the first tee, but all it takes is one good shot, and that nervousness goes away.

If you have doubts, nervousness will expose that. At some point you say, I know I can play this game. I'm gonna keep it simple. Fairways and greens. Make bogeys when I feel like I can't make a par.

10. Learn from Tiger's competitiveness. 向老虎学习！

He plays golf, and I played basketball. But he'll do anything to beat you.

下边这个例子很好：

http://s10/middle/4f2e6187ta2ebcb1dd799&690

One day we were playing with a friend of mine, Jacob Brumfield. He played pro baseball [with four major-league teams] in the '90s. Jacob was so trash-talking Tiger that when we got to the 18th hole, Tiger told him he'd play every shot on that hole from his knees and Jacob could play normal. Now that is confidence. That's the kind of stuff I'd do in basketball.

Understand that Jacob is a 3- or 4-handicap who drives it about 270. So Tiger got to tee it up for every shot on the 18th hole, but he played them all from his knees -- every shot! He tied Jacob on the hole with a bogey, but that was just as good as beating him.

有一天，老虎与我和我的朋友Jacob Brumfield同组打球。Jacob以前也是篮球运动员。Jacob在比赛中不断闲扯，直到最后一洞发球台，老虎居然提出自己跪着打完最后一洞，盘口是与Jacob平打。这种自信心，我乔丹在篮球场上也不过如此。

要知道Jacob是一位差点3，开球270码的高手，并非等闲之辈。老虎跪着开完球，然后跪着打完每一杆。最后以+1的战绩与Jacob打平。

http://s14/middle/4f2e6187ta2ebd1d4525d&690