Narrow Your Focus

Something that I would encourage all golfers to do when playing is to narrow down their target area when taking aim. What I mean by this is to not just aim for the fairway or the green. Pick a spot in the distance. For example when standing on the tee, pick out a branch in the distance to aim for. When going for the green, don't just aim at the green, pick a spot behind the green. For example a branch or the corner of a building. If you can go at the pin, aim for the top of the pin or the bottom. Make that target area as small as possible. If you do this you will hit more fairways and more greens.

I don't know about you but, when I am playing well all I see is what I want to do. When I am playing badly all I can see is the trouble. If you get into the habit of only seeing what you want to do you will have more chance of achieving it.

I remember a story about one of my hero's Ben Hogan. It goes something like this. Hogan played a new course and did not know where to go. On this particular tee he asked his caddie, "where do I hit it here". The caddie replied, "at that tree down there". Hogan replied "what part of the tree", the caddie said, "that small branch on the left side of the tree" and Hogan said "what part of the branch".

Narrow that target area down. It works..

Cheers
Maurice