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Mental Routine

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Let’s build your mental routine. The easiest place to build a solid mental routine is on the practice green. Every mental drill that follows applies from putter through driver.

Target Focus

Golf is one of the few games where we set up to a target and stare at the ball while we swing to the target. Most players set up to a ball with a goal of hitting it "out there." That is exactly what they do; they hit the ball "out there" somewhere. Precise targets on the green would be a spot the size of a blade of grass from three to four feet and proportionally larger the further you are from your target. With a driver, pick a spot that is about a one foot radius in the fairway or on the horizon.

Let’s begin with a target focus drill where you stare at the target while you putt. I’ll teach you to bring the target back to the ball in your mind’s eye.
Set up on the practice green three feet from a hole. Stare at a precise blade of grass in the back of the cup. Begin stroking putts as you stare at the blade of grass. Be certain you are narrowly focused on the blade of grass. Notice how good your performance is when you maintain a precise, narrow focus on that blade of grass. Notice when your focus leaves the blade of grass and goes to the hole or some distraction, you begin to miss the putt.
Focus on the blade of grass and feel your stroke as you do. That is your natural stroke.

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