Golf Swing Thoughts

▷▷▷Golf Swing Thoughts

When we play golf, we're awake. The implication of that obvious statement is that our conscious mind is running full tilt looking for something to think about. This tendency can be ruinous to your golf game, but if you pick the right swing thoughts, and use them wisely, they can help you immeasurably.

A swing thought is something that will help focus your mind on what it is you're about to do. The key to developing helpful swing thoughts is being sure what is meant by the phrase, "what it is you're about to do."

It refers to what the goal of your swing is. It does not mean what you have to do to achieve that goal. Let's say you want to be sure you hit the ball on the center of the clubface. Good things happen when you do that. In order to achieve that centered contact, you might think to keep your right elbow tucked, or think something about your turn, or any number of things that are important for bring the clubface into the ball the way you want.

The swing thought you should not adopt is, "Right elbow in," or something like that. This interferes with the subconscious mind. It will be very simple to over-do the right elbow being in, or put too much emphasis on it and let a different aspect of your swing go haywire.

The swing thought you should adopt is, "Center hit." That's what you want to have happen. By thinking of that alone, you give your subconscious mind the freedom to order your body through the motions that provide that result.

Focus on the goal. Let the means take care of itself. Harvey Penick famously advised, "When I ask you to take an aspirin, please don't take the whole bottle." There are lots of ways you can manipulate the clubface, and most of them are wrong. There is only one center of the clubface, which means you can go ahead and take the whole bottle, because it has only one aspirin in it. You can't go wrong.

Other good swing thoughts might be, "Ball first, ground second," which I can't remind you about often enough, or "Beautiful tempo." Those are goals, not processes.

The second thing to do with a swing thought is to use it only when you need to. When you use it every time you hit the ball, it gets stale, and its effect wears off. That's why most swing thoughts work only one day, or maybe not even that long.

If your swing thought is, "Center hit," use it on your opening drive, and your first shot from the fairway, then let it alone. Coast for a few holes on the confidence gained from getting a center hit on your opening shots. Later in the round, if you have a tee shot to a tight fairway, or an iron into a green where a good shot will ensure a par and maybe set up a birdie, think, "Center hit," again.

The rule would be, use only when you need it - when you start to feel some anxiety about the shot you face. You're going back to the words you know you can rely on, and that you can trust. That's the best recipe for eliminating anxiety - not by working through it, but by sending your mind to a positive place.

Finally, you have to believe. I mean, truly believe. My 11-year-old grandson uses "Center hit" when he plays. A few times per round he says it out loud to himself (another good idea) and every time he says it he hits the ball flush, because he believes it will work.

If your swing thought is just something you say, or something that you hope will do the job for you, it's useless to try. You have to have the confidence that your swing thought is the trigger for your subconscious mind taking over to achieve the goal your swing thought demands.

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