Tag: Intuition
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A Robot Never Misses (And What It Reveals About Your Game)
The Golf Labs robot can replicate Tiger Woods’s swing or a weekend hacker’s slice. Set the parameters, press start, and it delivers the exact same shot—perfectly—every single time. The Golf Labs robot has been the industry standard for testing equipment for over 30 years. It’s how manufacturers know if that new driver really adds 10…
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Thinking About Your Stroke Makes You Putt Worse
Ever stand over a putt, thinking through every detail of your stroke, only to pull it badly? There’s a cognitive reason for that—and the research backing it up is fascinating. Psychologists and neuroscientists have been studying golfers’ brains for decades in an attempt to better understand why we can make a pure roll that finds…
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Course Management: Before the Shot, Not After
Most golfers believe course management means avoiding trouble. Don’t three-putt. Don’t make double bogeys. Stay out of the water. This thinking isn’t wrong—it’s just incomplete. These are outcomes, things that happen after shots are played. Real course management happens before you ever address the ball. Consider the three-putt. The obvious solution is becoming a better…
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Think During Your Routine, Not Your Swing
Today I was paired with Doug and his wife Lea in one cart, and Ted with me in the other. All three of my playing partners were excellent golfers with great swings and a clear understanding of what it takes to play the game. Such a pleasure to play with. They taught me a lot.…
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The Perfection Prison
Golf is a game of misses. Even the best players in the world are simply managing their mistakes far better than the rest of us. They also recover from a miss in astonishing ways. Ben Hogan said golfers should be satisfied with hitting just a few shots per round that feel absolutely perfect. Faultless golf…
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What if You Didn’t Need to Think?
You’ve seen it a hundred times. A golfer misses a long putt by two feet, reaches out one-handed without a thought, and it finds the center of the cup. No read. No routine. No effort. It always seems to go in. Golfers joke about it: “I’ve made more putts one-handed than I can count.” But…