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How About That Swing? “For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration” - Bahgavad Gita
ave you ever had the perfect game, or more probably, the perfect hole?
The kind of hole that right off the tee, you felt incredible and were setup just perfectly for a birdie or maybe even an eagle? I mean the kind of hole, say 350 yards out, up about 20 yards from the pin? Then you chip up and you’re about two feet away, then tap it in for a birdie? Well, what happened and why don’t you do that on every hole? Let’s talk about it. We know the pros do it. We know it’s possible. Why don’t we do this on every hole? The answer is found in both concentration and confidence. The most difficult thing we have to do on the golf course is concentrate, or just focus on the ball for the split second we are going to connect the club head with the ball. The trouble is, we start letting other things creep into our mind and they build up and then, right at the start of out backswing, they flood into our mind and “hmmmph”
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we top the ball or hit it fat. But why? Well, it’s SO easy to explain and SO hard to execute: but it’s about blocking everything out from the ball forward in my opinion and that is not so simple. Let me explain. I was typically so concerned with where my ball ended up, that I found I had developed that habit of thinking about where I wanted the ball to go after I hit it. I noticed the more I seemed to concentrate and try to hit the ball correctly, the worse I did. Then, a strange thing happened one day. I was a bit angry with myself and I felt, “damn, it does not really matter what I do, so I’m just going to hit the ball. I don’t care about any practice swings at all!” During these types of shots, replete with its fits of anger, I jumped off the cart, ripped the club out of my bag, promptly walked over to the ball, addressed it, and swung, all in the matter of about 20 seconds. Imagine my surprise when, the ball flew perfectly and went where I needed it to be. «
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