| The new recruit to the golf ranks will start to gather | | | | mind is tense then the body is tense too. The fearful |
| information on the various aspects of the game and | | | | mind is fixated on negatives and refuses to swing |
| central to all is the perceived big one, The Golf Swing. | | | | away with freedom, yet this is the only true path to |
| Personally I think that it makes more sense for most | | | | playing your best golf. |
| amateurs to spend the bulk of their time and energy | | | | Imagine how much better you would play if you |
| on the short game, but hey, it's their decision. | | | | were completely confident on every swing. Imagine a |
| As our beginner progresses they gather more and | | | | game where you did not worry once about missing a |
| more information from books, magazines, friends and | | | | putt or a fairway. Imagine playing golf with as much |
| perhaps the odd lesson. The intake of information | | | | relaxed confidence as tying your shoe laces. |
| may go on for years and in a great many cases the | | | | This law works for any swing no matter how good |
| average amateur actually has enough information to | | | | or bad it is, it will always perform better and give you |
| write some reasonable golf articles. In other words | | | | better results if it has the freedom to just "Swing |
| they do have some pretty good information. | | | | Away!" |
| Having information about what to do but not | | | | Human beings are the only creatures on earth that |
| knowing when and why to apply that information isn't | | | | have the ability to consciously interfere with their |
| much good to you. On the other hand if you have | | | | own natural performance and do so in a destructive |
| either bits of information or loads of it and you are | | | | manner fearful of results. It's ironic really that the |
| fixated on trying to get it to work mechanically with | | | | conscious analysis humans apply to the golf swing |
| conscious application is not going to work either. | | | | that is designed (they think) to make them play |
| There is perhaps one thing that I see missing from a | | | | better, is the very thing that ruins more score cards |
| great many golfers and is the reason why their | | | | and enjoyment than anything else. |
| swings will never work, no matter how much | | | | You must learn to trust what you have on any given |
| information they have or how well trained they are. | | | | day and swing away with mental freedom which in |
| The secret ingredient missing from so many golfers | | | | turn will allow your body to move (literally) with more |
| swings is Freedom. Without freedom of both mind | | | | grace and freedom. This will give you more accuracy |
| and body, the swing is an inhibited, tense and often | | | | and distance than any tense and nervous swing ever |
| times nervous movement, fearful of a poor swing | | | | will. |
| sending the ball into locations with dire (perceived) | | | | Where do you start? Any good mental game |
| consequences. | | | | program will have various elements designed to work |
| The body cannot work without mental freedom | | | | the different aspects of the Mental Game Of Golf |
| because the body is controlled by the mind. If the | | | | including Trust and Freedom of mind and body. |