The top Players in the world are so consistent because they force themselves to be consistent. As opposed to the Mulligan Player - who deep down inside knows that they have that extra golf ball in their right pocket - “In case of emergencies!” The Mulligan player will never reach the heightened state of play of a top Player because of this extra ball mentality - meaning you always know you don’t have to get your focus as sharp for every swing.
So we’ve developed a game for you to play on the golf course to allow you to discover how to sharpen your focus and develop a PLAN like a top Player. The idea was first brought up to me by Craig Shankland about 9-years ago as a way of helping a golfer become more consistent. He called it Worst-Ball. Since we’ve adapted the game for golfers that need to learn to stick with their PLAN, we now call this game Forced Mulligans. One word of warning before I go into how the game is played - This game is tough!
The best way you can play force Forced Mulligans is with a friend. Though you can play it by yourself, but it’s not as affective or as much fun.
When you play with a friend the rules are that you can Force the other player to take 1- Mulligan every hole. Now you may say “why is this so good?” Well, you can make them take a Mulligan after they hit a great drive, or an excellent approach shot, or even after making a 20-foot putt for par - And they have to then finish the hole using their Forced Mulligan ball.
What does this do? It forces the Golfer to learn to repeat a good swing on the golf course. Most Golfers (Monkeys) are trying to learn to repeat their swings on the driving range. And then you can’t take it to the golf course and you wonder “why can I hit the ball so good on the driving range and I can’t on the golf course?” And the answer is that you don’t have a good PLAN for a repeatable golf swing. You need to learn to play golf, instead of practicing golf when on the golf course.
So when you hit a great drive 250-yards down the right side of the fairway, giving yourself an excellent angle to attack the green, your playing partner now can say - “Hey, take a Forced Mulligan”. And then you have to go through your PLAN again and try to make the same swing. What happens to most Golfers (Monkeys) is you just tee-up another ball, feel the pressure of repeating your best shot and you end up choking - hitting a ball into the woods or popping up your drive 100-yards, never reaching the fairway. Then you turn around to your friend and say - “You’re a jerk, why’d you make me hit that again?’
You can’t blame the bad shot on your friend - you need to blame yourself for not being prepared. See this sort of game doesn’t faze the top Players in the world, they know they need to have a PLAN on every shot. They know when they practice on the practice range, they’re practicing to play better on the golf course. The average Golfer (Monkey) on the other hand, practices to get better on the driving range and then when you get to the golf course you “hope to hit good drives like I hit on the range” and once in a while you get one, but you can’t repeat it as much as you want to.
Golf is an “Everytime Game not a Sometimes Game!” If you understand this, you’ll play more consistent because you’re practice will based on your PLAN, as opposed to “just trying to hit the ball straight.” Forced Mulligans can be frustrating to play because your scores won’t be better when you play this game - they’ll actually be much higher than normal. Though the point of playing Forced Mulligans is more for you to start developing your PLAN and becoming a more consistent golfer. Then as you play a regular round of golf, because of your PLAN, you will start to see your scores improve, almost instantly.
So I guess you can say that when Mulligans are used in a constructive way, they can actually help you to become a more consistent golfer.
