| Unless you're a beginner at the game of golf, golf | | | | the bathroom light on the wrong side, simply |
| is a mind game. | | | | because that's where it was in my old home! |
| Now I know what you're thinking. You're crazy! | | | | Now just apply this to your golf swing. How often |
| Golf a mind game? The object of the game is to | | | | have you tried to correct a swing fault, just to fall |
| get a little round ball into a hole in the least | | | | back into your old routine? Still don't think of golf |
| amount of strokes. It's a physical game, not a | | | | as a mind game? |
| mind game like chess. | | | | When a pro changes their swing, it takes months, |
| When you first learned how to play golf, your | | | | if not an entire year for them to change. And |
| body and mind had to learn the hand-eye | | | | they have the benefit of having their own swing |
| coordination necessary to hit the ball. | | | | coach and being able to hit hundreds of balls |
| In order to successfully be able to hit the golf ball | | | | every day. |
| consistently, our body and brain had to assimilate | | | | So when someone tells you or you read that it |
| a motor engram. A motor engram is a | | | | will take time and practice to change a bad golf |
| memorized motor pattern used to perform a | | | | swing or habit, they're right and they have the |
| movement or skill that is stored in the motor | | | | science of motor engrams on their side! |
| area of our brain. This makes golf a mind game. | | | | Golf a mind game? You better believe it! If you |
| Riding a bicycle, typing on a keyboard, putting a | | | | don't you'll never improve. |
| key into a lock, and learning the position of a light | | | | But 10,000 repetitions to cure one swing fault? |
| switch, are all motor engrams that we have | | | | What if you have lots of swing faults? What can |
| learned. | | | | you do to accelerate this learning process? |
| Science tells us that it can take up to 10,000 | | | | Fortunately, a discovery was recently made so |
| repetitions of a movement to unlearn one motor | | | | that you can quickly and easily learn swing |
| engram and replace it with another motor | | | | changes. |
| engram. 10,000 repetitions! | | | | Usually when you implement swing changes, you |
| We've all experienced this. Here's a simple | | | | feel awkward, uncomfortable, and self-conscious. |
| example. Have you ever moved into a new house | | | | But you can now eliminate all these feelings! |
| or apartment, and the light switch in the | | | | Instead of 10,000 swings, you can feel |
| bathroom of your old home was on the left and | | | | comfortable and confident in 1 minute! Just think |
| now it's on the right? How long did it take you to | | | | of what this could do for your game? Your swing |
| learn to reach to the right to turn on the light? | | | | faults could be permanently corrected in a matter |
| Probably many months. I've lived in my current | | | | of minutes. |
| home for 5 years, and I still sometimes reach for | | | | |