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[cb24]

"hit the ball" works for me

[Matty T]

heavybladed, on 04 November 2012 - 07:13 PM, said:

Matty T, on 04 November 2012 - 07:13 AM, said:

Thrillhouse, on 03 November 2012 - 11:38 PM, said:

Swing hard in case you hit it.

Thanks Thrillhouse, I now have to explain to my co workers why I was laughing so hard.


To the OP. I dont have a thought during my swing. It is during my set up I tell myself to be smooth. After I choose my shot and line it up, it is just fire away. I do really well with it.

I pretty much envy people like you who can do that. Maybe I'm not naturally talented enought for that method. I seem to require engagement of my conscious mind (distraction?) while swinging a club in order to keep at bay the urge to KILL THE BALL.

I don't know how I do it. I have always been very mechanical in since that I feel how the mechanics felt in my practice swing and majority of the time can recreate it without thinking about it.
I still have to fight the urge of killing the ball. Slowly but surely that urge is leaving me.

[JaxBeachNole]

I have always leaned on the side of a Rotella/Stockton where I prepare to hit a shot through a routine of thoughts and evaluate what type of shot I am going to hit, figure out the setup I want and then get up and go. However after the most fustrating golf of my life last summer and fall I threw everything out and started over as much as possible (of course as a WRXer it meant new clubs, bag, shoes, hats, tees, etc).

I began to have a lot more luck with an active mind during my shot. I recently got some clarity on what I was doing from Utley's book, "when you have the strong local station tuned in, you aren't hearing the static and chatter from the other weaker stations on the dial."

Basically if your thinking actively about one thought (in my case a couple thoughts) then it's harder for those 80 other thoughts to come in.

[jlt73]

my swing thought is "SLOW DOWN"

if only I'd listen to myself more often

[heavybladed]

xabia, on 06 November 2012 - 02:10 PM, said:

Right now I have wayyyy tooo many things going on in my mind and thats the problem. I try and keep it really simple usually"

Stably base
Even tempo
Release the club

But right now my mind is littered with thoughts about goathumping and takeaway path and getting a fuller backswing which is leading to a john daly past parallel thing and its just kind of a mess.

My biggest problem right now is I forgot how to swing hard without swinging too fast

Yeah, goats have never done my game a bit of good either. Great point about  swinging hard without swinging fast. The feeling I have when I'm really hammering them is that my upper body is sort of pulling up and away from my planted left foot.  The term "turn" has done my swing a complete disservice. I've found I need to be all about impact position.

[dlam]

Not really employ swing thoughts when I play
Mostly during practice .
If I do think of swing i do it just before I take the club out of the bag, once I take the club out it's all feel.

I will put the club back in the bag if i have doubt or too many swing thoughts and reset.

[RRFireblade]

Always.

Typically only one at a time.

Varies alot, could be a thought of the day or it may be a thought for the required shot at hand.

The games mostly mental , hard to imagine not taking your brain into "the box".

[Willie Malay]

Yeah: "hit the ball"