Do you draw a line on your golf ball and use it to point to wherein you need your ball to roll on the green? If so, you may be diminishing your chances to hole out.
During a recent lesson with my PGA instructor, Dale Ketola, on the Grande Dunes Golf Performance Center, the focus become on placing and the intellectual game. Dale made me realise that I do not want the road which I presently area on my ball to point to the goal - the road, pace, confidence, and sense are all in my head.
Dale incorporates really high line golf technology into his lessons to show where players need improvement or if they are on the right track. Along with V1 software, BODITRAK and Flightscope, my very able instructor utilizes FocusBand with his students.
FocusBand is a mind-sensing neurofeedback device which shows when a golfer is thinking too much negative thoughts when playing the game. Sounds like it comes from the head of Gene Roddenberry, doesn't it? Several well known PGA Tour, LPGA and Web.com Tour players, such as Jason Day and Michelle Wie, use this apparatus...and now it is my turn to try it out!
We used this headband for the duration of my putting lesson to assist degree my unconscious thoughts whilst standing over the ball. Am I:
- Overthinking (Excessive Fear or Anxiety)
- Having Fear of Failure
- Frustrated
- In the Zone
Dale dropped a ball on the inexperienced (as though it landed in that perfect function) and watched as I executed my pre-shot routine.
The easy interface confirmed that, even as status over the ball ready to putt, my brain became "in the crimson area".
Uh, oh,...I was definitely thinking too much! But, what was I thinking of? That was for my instructor to determine as machines cannot give you that piece of the puzzle...yet.
It is his enjoy as a teacher and player that made me apprehend what I am wondering, sensing and a way to limit my thoughts to one visual earlier than hanging the ball.
I asked Dale what he does during his pre-shot putting routine. He says that, before taking his putt, he analyzes the green, then stares at the dirt in the bottom of the cup and puts that thought of the circle into his mind; he goes up to the marker, places his ball (with a small circle drawn on top) into position, aims and shoots.
At address, I want to, "Occupy my thoughts with what will appear, not how it will take place."
You can also relate putting to driving a car and how you don't consciously think of pressing down on gas or brake pedal or placing your hands on the steering wheel or turning your car to the left or right - you just know how to do it already and make it happen.
I learned quite a bit during my putting lesson at the Golf Performance Center - thank you, Dale! Now, I need to practice my new routine so that, when I get onto the course, my brain is in the "green zone" on the green!
A parting concept approximately the importance of placing...
After his sobering loss on the 99th PGA Championship, David Duval said of Hideki Matsuyama, "On a Sunday, I do not think you have to make a ton of 15-footers, but you have to make the 4 and 5 footers to win a golfing tournament."
Here is a excellent putt from Justin Thomas throughout the third round of the U.S. Open which allows prove that the thoughts is what receives the golfing ball to the hollow:
ARE YOU KIDDING? WHAT. A. PUTT! @JustinThomas34 #USOpen (🎥: @usopengolf) pic.twitter.com/foKFJsNo1K
— GOLF.com (@golf_com) June 17, 2017
What strategies do you use to "see" the ball to the hollow? Let's speak setting! Post feedback under in this golf blog and on Twitter @Golf4Beginners.
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