Repetition of a solid pre-shot routine is the key to better golf
Golf is a game in which we need to be able to learn to switch from enjoying our surroundings and our playing partners into a highly focused state which connects us with the shot required. Learning how to practice this key part of the mental game will help us become better players.
Unless we are able to give every shot our best effort and attention, we will not get closer to playing to our potential. The thing to recognize here, is that this “relaxed concentration” is something we can learn and and improve every time we play. Eventually, it will become part of our subconscious and we won’t even realize we are doing it.
The shot routine will help you do this. This is one of the integral parts of playing better golf and is one of the fundamentals of my <a target=”_blank” href=”http://www.golfstateofmind.com”>mental game audio teaching.</a>
If you think about how you learnt to drive, there were several “checks” that you went through, every time, before you put your foot on the accelerator. After driving for a while, those “checks” became automated and now you don’t have to consciously think about doing them. This is the same way that learning the pre-shot routine will help your golf.
The more we can practice it, the more we can automate it, and the closer we will get to being optimally prepared to execute every shot as best we can.
The steps of a sound pre-shot routine are:
1) Analyze
2) Visualize
3) Feel
4) Commit
5) Execute
Remember, repetition of the routine is the key to making it an automated subconscious process, and you a better golfer. Try to do it as often as you can on the course. This will not only help to improve the way you approach a golf shot, but knowing that you have performed these necessary steps will improve your confidence over the ball. Then all you have to do is concentrate on making a solid strike on the back of the ball.
David MacKenzie is a mental game golf coach and golf publisher and lives in Surrey, England and San Francisco, CA. He has a MA (Hons) from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
A competitive golfer for the past 15 years, David has discovered that the mental game is the key to playing golf to your potential, and there IS a way to learn it. After in-depth research and numerous interviews with Tour pros, Club pros, amateurs and sports psychologists, he created this mental game audio teaching. He strongly believes this will go a long way in helping golfers of all standards improve their scores and take more from the game.
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