Mechanical Post Swing Routine

As I stated earlier, after you hit a poor shot, set up again where your ball was and make the swing you wanted to make feel the correction.

This will override the undesired short-term memory of the swing and your nervous system and help abate some of the anger and frustration. Don’t rush through your swing. Correction. Other players in front of you will be hitting and you should have ample time.

If you’re on the Tee pause after everyone else’s hit and take your practice. Swing correction have realistic expectancies and patience.

Be sure to practice deep diaphragmatic breathing and quieted movement to increase the recall of the corrected swing. Your in swing thought. Focus should be on your target. Good tempo and balance.

In summary, all behavior occurs as a chain from your day to day routines, to the way you set up to hit a golf shot.

Some of these routines are positive and move you towards good performance.

Other routines are negative and produce undesired performance.

These routines are so insidious. It takes concentrated focused strategies to change the links of the ingrained old routines.

I’m sure every one of you has a set routine and the way you drive from your home to work or school on a day-to-day basis, you have driven that route so many times you can picture it and probably feel you could almost do it with your eyes closed.

At other times, you might use that same route to go to another destination. There have likely been days where you find yourself continuing on towards your work or school location, instead of your intended destination, you have simply groove the links of the chain of your day to day patterns, once a chain of behavior starts, it will continue unless a thought or behavior interrupts it.

Golf routines are no different. You already have physical and thinking routines in your golf game. They may change depending on the conditions of your play, but they do exist.

These routines may not be the most desirable, but they repeat out of habit.

You also have well-established practice routines that may be to rake and hit one ball after another. Or it may be to focus your attention. Only on mechanics, you may never consider posture, grip, alignment, or targets during your practice sessions. No matter what these routines are, they will show up on the golf course. If they aren’t routines that take you from abroad to narrow focus, get you relaxed and into your target. And that are non-mechanical serious. Changes need to be made both in the way, your practice and play.

The only way you’re going to have success on the golf course is to practice these routines off the course on the practice range. Then the same routines must be practiced under increasingly stressful conditions with the blind trust of knowing that if you follow your routine, you can get the best possible outcome, regardless of what your intrusive thoughts might be telling you.

Recall what Jack Nicholas said when he described his approach to his routine and I quote plain willpower, you just have to force other thoughts aside, make yourself think exclusively about your aim and alignment and your ball position and your posture, make yourself do what you know is right in those areas and make yourself keep on doing it time and time again, even though it doesn’t seem to be working, if you have enough resolution, they will ultimately begin to work.

There are many factors from tension to thinking that can intrude on your routine and produce an undesired outcome. The following chapters explore many of these factors and teach you specific corrective skills to get you back to a desired performance chain.

Please continue with: Chapter 3 Fine tuning your nervous system