Golf Training is About Focus

Golf is more than a matter of swinging a club at a ball. The reason golf training is so challenging is that every golf swing is a mental and physical game you play with yourself. At the same time, if you spend too much time thinking about every aspect of your swing when you are playing golf, you will find yourself struggling to maintain consistency.

You must prepare for each golf swing, yet not over-think each golf swing. When you stand before the ball, ready to take your swing, you have to concentrate on how and where you want to strike the ball with the club, but you want it to come naturally enough that you do not analyze the entire swing.

The key idea is that you must focus on striking the golf ball in a fluid, accurate motion, yet without letting your mind get cluttered with too many of the tiny variables of your swing that should have been worked out already during your golf training practice.

Only someone who has done so much golf training as to be able to strike the golf ball with a perfect swing each time without giving any thought to the swing should ever start taking into great account such minutia as the weather conditions, grass density, elevations, and par. Instead you should make a decision about how to handle those small things before even approaching the golf ball.

Once you are at the golf ball, you should be concentrating only on how you want your club to strike the ball. If you take even a brief second-guess right before or during your swing, you will end up with very inconsistent results. Your golf training should teach you to make a decision and then give 100% effort toward that decision regardless of any last second thoughts that will enter your mind.

So golf training is about learning to focus your mind. Make decisions and stick to them. Analysis and corrections should be made in your mind after viewing the results of the decision you've made, not during golf play. You may be surprised just how much better a golfer you are after reading this.