Positive Golf Kudos ---

Lorena Ochoa has certainly had an impressive year with eight victories, including the outstanding win at the ADT Championship where she hit "the shot of her life" on the final hole. But there is even more to Ochoa than her athleticism and her "multidimensional game." Supporting all of that is her super mental game that is quite worthy of Positive Golf Kudos. An article in a recent issue of Golf World pointed out some of her positive attitudes, skills, and practices. For one thing, she is devoted to improvement, focused on the process, and cheerful in her demeanor. Former U.S. Women's Open champion Catherine Lacoste said this of Ochoa: "I always sense that Lorena is smiling at the ball." She is positive to the core, and this filters into her approach and her actions, and even her reactions to unfortunate outcomes. Her work with sport psychologists has helped her to "take the long view of her 11th-hour failures." Here is some of her wisdom in relation to letting go of mistakes and not letting them linger and hold her back: "You just have to take the bad moments and take them as a good thing, as part of the process...I'm a simple girl in a way that I just put things in the trash and move forward." This is the kind of thinking that has taken her to the top and can inspire other golfers in developing a success-oriented mindset. It is Ochoa's positive mental attitude, in addition to her positive generosity of giving a portion of the $1 million for winning the ADT Championship to a relief fund for flood victims in Mexico, that inspires our Positive Golf Kudos.

Here's to a great golf mindset!

Rick Semple
Positive Golfer
Co-Founder, TheHeartofGolf.com
http://www.TheHeartofGolf.com