![]() ![]() The Quote: “What you got to do with Smails is, you cut the hamstring on the back of his leg, right at the bottom. “For serious golfers I’d recommend they practice in the rain that way there aren’t any curveballs coming your way,” says Green. “Players try to hit the ball harder and it puts more spin on the ball which sends it up in the air. In the wind, watch your tempo, advises Green. I don’t think the heavy stuff is going to come down for quite a while.” Spackler It’s the only one I ever used as a touring pro.” The pressure rises as you get closer to ten. “Take ten balls and place them a putter’s length all around the hole,” says Green. ![]() On the practice green, try to simulate pressure. There’s too many other things to think about when you’re playing.” Practise your technique on the range, and then on the course just play. If you hit it straight, take a 3-wood (or whatever). If you slice it, next take the club you would from the right rough. “On the driving range, pretend you’re playing a round at your home course,” advises Green. It’s a mirac- it’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!” Carl Spackler. The Quote: “Here he is, Cinderella boy, tears in his eyes, I guess. For him – and Stuart Appleby said something similar after he shot 59 – the ‘perfect round’ is one that on each shot he’s had nothing on his mind but that shot.” Tiger says he tries to do it every round. “Concentrate on every shot like it’s the only shot you’re playing that day. Greg Green, a pro from Sydney’s The Coast Golf Club who holds a psychology degree from Georgia Southern University, says you should place equal importance on every shot that you play. You hear golfers swear after bad shots, and call themselves idiots. The purpose is to get you back into a functional state and help preserve your self-image. To avoid carrying the baggage of a bad shot through to the next one, “Go through a process after you’ve hit your shot,” advises Niethe. The Quote: “Turds! Double turds!” Spaulding Smails (John F Barmon Jr) The plan encompasses target and club selection for each shot, the preferred landing area on every green, and hazards to be avoided.” “A good professional never plays a tournament round without examining the course and preparing a plan to play it. “Amateur golfers, particularly high handicappers, frequently play spontaneously, making up strategy on the fly,” writes Rotella. And do you know what the Lama says? 'Gunga galunga … gunga, gunga-lagunga'.” Carl Spackler ( Bill Murray) He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama, long - into a ten-thousand-foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. The flowing robes, the grace, bald … striking. So I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. The Quote: “So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over there in the Himalayas. Other good players tell me they feel almost as if they had a third eye on the left side of their head.” “ Nick Price told me that once he had picked out a target he could look back to the ball, but continue to ‘see’ the target in his mind. Focus on what you want rather than what you want to avoid.”ĭr Bob Rotella wrote something similar in his seminal work Golf Is Not A Game of Perfect: "Try and achieve that as you’re standing over the ball. There’s no internal dialogue, their peripheral vision disappears and they get into ‘The Zone’. “They get to a point when they’re relaxed and their focus is only on the smallest target. “It’s similar to Olympic shooters,” says mental performance coach David Niethe. The Quote: "Hear nothing, feel nothing… relax, find your centre, picture the shot, Danny, let it happen, and be the ball.” Ty Webb ( Chevy Chase) ![]()
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