Golf Sense, Practical Tips On How To Play Golf In The Zone
by Roy Palmer
If you have played golf for even a short time you have hit shots that came off the club perfectly, high and straight, to the target with very little effort. You may have even experienced short stretches on the golf course in which everything seemed easy. Of course we have also followed those perfect shots with a low hard hooks that ended up out-of-bounds.
Roy Palmer helps us understand what makes us take a great swing one time and such a poor swing the next in his book “Golf Sense, Practical Tips On How To Play Golf In The Zone”. Through a series of self observations, and practical exercises he illustrates that “less is more” when it comes to the golf swing. By eliminating unnecessary movements in our pre-shot routine we are able to relax, quite our minds, and begin to focus on feeling the correct movement.
One exercise that worked for me as soon as I tried it was “Poised For Success”. The author suggests that we stand in golf posture address and image a sting attached to the top of your head pulling you up so you get taller at the same time image the ground pushing your feet up. Try it for yourself and tell me if that doesn’t help you get into a great athletics position.
This book is a insightful and refreshing look at the mental approach to playing your best golf. The author challenges us to evaluate our concepts on how to move our bodies and face bad habits we may have developed in the golf swing. By staying away from useless swing thoughts and technical mechanics we are taught to focus of the fundamentals of movement that allow us to get into The Zone. In the end we can all be better golfers by putting the ideas in the book into practice.
