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The Learning Cycle: Live by what you Trust, not by what you Fear.
Target Oriented Golf is a on-range golf coaching program, developed independent of and complementary to any instruction method you are using to develop technical proficiency. Clearly, you need effective technical instruction but the physical golf action happens in just 1.5 seconds, just like throwing a ball, yet golfers uniquely spend their golfing lives attempting to CONTROL their physical actions during this brief moment in time, just witness the multitude of training aids! This routine behaviour in your golfing life INHIBITS your performance. Many wonder why they struggle to play golf consistently on course regardless of how much they practice on the range. You must also be taught HOW to stop controlling your physical actions and trust them. Let me explain why this is so important on your ability to play golf in a sample chapter from my DVD:
Golfers must develop technical skills but unfortunately in that process many lose sight of the game, striving for consistency through physical CONTROL and repetition. When will you ever TRUST under competition pressure that which you continue to DOUBT in practice? When do you learn how to PLAY golf? Just as you trust your subconscious mind to drive a motor vehicle (where your life is at risk!), this unique coaching program will teach you how to putt and swing golf clubs with the same physical freedom, whilst your attention remains locked on TARGET not your swing, ball or score. Recent academic research findings highlight the benefits of learning Target Oriented Golf:
Even the researcher loses sight of the Target. HOW can you experience FEEL if you have no Target in mind as you execute? Go and throw a ball at a target? What are you LOOKING at? The TARGET. What are you thinking about? The TARGET. You are now in the Zone. Not difficult was it! Pick another and notice how you INTUITIVELY know how hard to throw the ball. The TARGET gives you FEEL. Remove it physically or mentally and you are lost at sea. Any self talk present as you execute your throw? No. Any CONSCIOUS control of your actions required? None. Anxiety? Zero. Hypnosis required? None. By attending to a target, you TRUST your PHYSICAL actions. You have NO choice but to do so. This is Target Oriented Throwing. Would you advise anything other than the TARGET be the focus of attention? Grip? Arm position? Takeaway? Throw thoughts? Water? That would be nonsense wouldn't it but unfortunately this is how the vast majority play because of the dominant mentality during their time in practice on the range. MENTALLY executing a golf shot is no different to the above exercise EXCEPT your eyes return to the ball whilst your ATTENTION should stay on target. Eye on the ball, mind on the TARGET. The target does not suddenly become anxiety inducing or less significant when you look away from it but now you must learn how to use a specific brain function rather than your eyes to maintain focus on it, your ATTENTIONAL FOCUS SYSTEM. After 15 years of research and developing Target Oriented Golf it was evident that Attentional Focus for golf has never before been explained in detail, let alone coached in practice on the range by psychologists or PGA coaches. It requires time and deliberate practice but my work will improve your golfing life ON and OFF the course. TRAIN your conscious mind on range and discover how to TRUST your swing on course.
Unfortunately, swing thoughts or a plethora of other erroneous OUTCOME oriented thoughts regarding your score, the water, out of bounds, bunkers etc. frequently occupy your attention as you swing and putt. The target is often NOT your focus and hence your frustrating inconsistency. A plethora of hypnotic suggestion CD's worldwide strive to improve your golf by bypassing your conscious mind whilst you sit in your armchair at home. This highlights why Target Oriented Golf was developed. It will help you UNDERSTAND, not bypass, your conscious mind and actively use it to change the way you PRACTICE at the range and PLAY on course. It will explain why your performance on course rarely reflects your technical ability shown on the range. Your sub-conscious mind is left in peace to do what it does best in ALL life skills you perform successfully - manage your physical actions without conscious interference. How you are learning and trying to perform at golf today? It is said "You can lead a horse to water but...."
Are you ready to experience the evolution of golf instruction and learn HOW to stop paying attention to your technique and start taking control of your conscious mind? Or do you continue to do what you have always done and wonder why consistent performance remains so elusive? What did Einstein suggest was the definition of madness?
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