Chapter 3 Fine tuning your nervous system

Arousal on The Tour.

When Sam Snead was breaking into the Golf Business at the Greenbrier in West Virginia in 1936, the Club Pro Organized a match to introduce Sam to some of the Top Players in the area. He paired Sam with two former national Amateur Champions, Lorsan little and Johnny Goodman and Former US Open Champion. Billy Burke, after the other three had Tee off on the First Hole. Sam describes the following scene, bending over. I had to take both hands to tee up the ball. The ball looked all blurred. As I stood over it, my nerves were hopping right out of my skin. And then I stepped away and did something I had been practicing. I just let my mind take a rest by not thinking of anything in particular. If I thought of anything, it wasn’t the crowd or the match, but sort of a mixture of all the good drives I’d ever made. Some people call it concentration.