I'm here at Bali National Golf Club. This is the 16th hole,
beautiful hole behind me. Large expanse of sand down the left side.
Bob has written into us at Search 4 Scratch Program.
And Bob used to have a hooking problem and went and had some instruction and
they adjusted his grip and sorted out his ball flight,
but now he tends to hit the ball more to the right than he'd like.
Gets him into trouble and creates a bit of fear there.
So he feels like when he stands over the ball,
that the ball is going to the right. And Bob,
I know this feeling very well. I've had that many times in my life, where,
I want to hit the ball down the line and the ball was going out to the right.
And what I learned a long time ago was a very simple mental process that can
help a lot. And that is to understand how wide your fairway is in your mind.
So that concept simply means, if I look at this fairway here,
there's a large expanse of fairway, and I might be thinking to myself, well,
I want to hit at that bunker in the distance.
But what I would like you to think about Bob, is a set of goalposts, you know,
soccer, goalposts, or football, depending on what sport you like.
But I want you to think about a set of goalposts. I want you to think about it.
Let's say there are soccer posts and they are X amount wide.
And I want you to think about that. And in your mind,
you can blow that up and make that bright colored and so on.
But what you need to be able to do, Bob, is when you stand behind the golf ball,
you need to be able to see those goalposts out there.
You need to be really clear in your mind because you've got to understand that
the old golf shot used to go to the left.
And then when the professional made the adjustment and corrected that for you,
in your mind left was where everything was situated. So,
your goalposts in your mind were left. Then you made the adjustment.
Now everything looks right to where it used to go.
So what we need to do is just calibrate in your mind, that adjustment process.
In other words, it's been corrected. You don't hit it left anymore,
but now there's a lot of places to the right where it can go,
which is why there's a bit of fear because before you knew where it was going to
go, a lot of the times you'd hook it to the left.
So we've got to get that right.
And we've got to give that right place a better right place in other
words, in relationship to the left place, if that makes sense. So,
what we've got to be able to do is move the goalposts from over to the
right and move them to a better place. And you can do it in lots of simple ways.
One of the ways I teach it, and there are different ways you can do this.
You can get a scorecard and get a sharp pencil and push a hole through the
scorecard. And you can stand there and look through the scorecard, Bob,
and go look through the hole.
And it would just show you a very small place up there and you can adjust that
and go, that's my goalpost right there. That's what I'm going to focus on.
Right? The second thing you do,
is you can get the handle of the golf club and just put the handle of the golf
club out there. And then with your finger,
you can just reference a place in the distance,
a couple of one edge of the bunker into the other edge,
because what I want you to focus on Bob is not one target.
I want you to focus on two. I want a left side of the target and a right side,
and I want them to be quite narrow because if they're narrower and you get a
miss off a narrow target, it doesn't miss very wide. However,
if the target's wide and you miss, you can miss big. So aim small,
miss small. Aim small, miss small.
So stand here like this, pick my target.
I don't worry about all these other the sand expanse.
I'm looking in the distance and I look for something and I can see a bunker out
there. It may be a set of bunkers, but I can see the left side of that bunker.
And I can see the right side of the bunker. And I say,
that's my goalpost right there. That's my goalpost.
And that's what I want to focus on.
So I'm standing behind the ball and I can almost point there.
And I picture the goalpost. Now this is important.
I picture a set of goalposts and I picture my ball going through those
goalposts. Then I stand up here. And when I've got that picture,
clearly in my mind, I want to keep that picture.
So as I walk into hit the golf shot, I'm still looking at the goalpost.
I can still see them. Now,
I align my club to the goalposts and I get those sorted out there.
Keep my goalposts in mind. I set up, I look back,
I can still see the goalposts in mind. And then I make the swing
And I hit the shot. And what happens, because I'm narrowing the focus up.
I can hit the shot more on line, less to the right. So in this case, Bob,
the goalposts have been... Because everything used to be left.
And then you made the adjustment, the goalposts, because it's a big target.
They just move too much to the right. So a calibration in your mind.
Bring the goalpost to where they need to be.
And just start focusing on your ball going there. Now it won't do straightaway,
but keep at it,
and it will start to move and the golf swing calibrate with the alignment in
your mind of the set of goalposts. And you'll hit better shots. Bob,
thanks so much for your question.
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