The Secret of An Amazing Golf Mind
posted in golf psychology |By James Hau
As you go along the road of learning about golf, you will find yourself one day saying , ” I’ ve got the secret now.” You must have said those words many times after taking a lesson or reading or viewing some instructional material. It is clear that the search for the secret is what binds golfers together , as everyone goes out looking to solve the big riddle with one change, one tip, one last alteration to make things just right. What about these secrets ? Is there such a thing ? Should you try to find a secret to your swing ?
I think golfers should indeed search for the secret while recognizing that the secret differs from golfer to golfer and changes over time, even for the same golfer. I define a secret as a key or cue that brings together the parts of your game in the right way. The real secret is to identify what the key is for you at a given point in time. You will need to reidentify what will help you the most as your game changes. Thinking about a full extension on the backswing may have been the key at some point, but now it might be thinking about the right hip turn. Down the road it might be something entirely different. This is also true for the best players on the pro tours.
What causes a swing tip to work great for one round, or for that matter, for one hole, then to go away and leave you swinging as poorly as ever ? This is one of the mysteries of the game. It may be because of fatigue, boredom, lack of opportunity to practice or play, or inattention to grip, setup or posture. Or you simply may be overdoing the secret that worked in the first place.
One of the nineteenth-century German philosopher , Johann Herbart, never played golf but he may have had a possible explanation for the short life of secrets. Herbart explained that people bring to each situation in life an “apperceptive mass “ - an accumulation of all our past experiences. This apperceptive mass is full of our old and new ideas, and changes as we learn new things. As our apperceptive mass changes, we see things differently. Take the case of re-reading a novel or textbook. You might come across passages or paragraphs that you highlighted or underlined the first time you read the book. Upon rereading it, you may be puzzled why you chose those certain passages to highlight and why you did not emphasize others. According to Herbart’t theory, your apperceptive mass has changed between the first and second times you read the book.
In golf , our apperceptive mass changes from day to day for golfer of all skill levels. Some day, the keys to a good round won’t lie on the mechanical swing side, but on the mental side. Other days for the same player,it might be a very mechanical swing key. The secret may be in the setup position , for instance.
The best way to manage your golfing secrets is to recognize that your apperceptive mass changes from day to day and to know where to search for your secrets. The simplest and best way is to jot down in a notebook your given thoughts on a day when your swing worked well. This can be your guide to refer to and may save you a lot of frustration, since there is so much to learn that you end up forgetting a lot of it and it ends up seeming new again, which in turn can make it more difficult to grasp.
To give yourself a better chance of finding the secret, come up with several keys for the mental side, the setup and the swing. Write them down , and when you set out to find them again, you will at least know where to turn. You will have put yet a little more order in your search to learn golf, a search that will continue as long as you play the game.
Do you know how it feels if you can’t drop your score anymore? Very frustrating…
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Andrew Scott, a regular golfer like you and me who plays in the low 80s was searching one year ago after undergoing apperceptive mass changes
He took dozens of lessons, changed his pros, started building up a new swing from scratch, hit hundreds and hundreds of balls on the range, bought new clubs… and the result?
His score did not drop at all!
Here’s the free video what explains how subliminal mental golf audios work:
Is this a new concept? It is a new concept for regular golfers. Tiger Woods and the top tour pros use subliminal mental training for a long time. Tiger Woods is said to be using subliminal messages since he was 13.
You can watch the free video here and get a free short game audio directly after watching the video:
