When people write about the high level professionals, they tend to speak of the visible outside of their game - their technical swing. These same authors rarely tell you about the spirit of golf golf secrets of the trade.
So what about Jack Nicklaus and 90% of golf in mind?
When I started golf in the late 60s, I remember hearing about Jack Nicklaus television on the golf course being 90% in mind. However, when I avidly read his first book, The Greatest Game of All published in 1969, I found very little information on the psychology of golf. In fact, two thirds of the book was biographical and the remaining third was on the golf swing. Perhaps that was what the public wanted to hear or what Herbert Warren Wind, his co-screenwriter, wanted to write. There was not much on the psychology of golf at Jack's Golf My Way published 5 years later.
Surely Ben Hogan Secret was about swing mechanics?
I recently found a similar contradiction about Ben Hogan in an article I read somewhere online. Now, I am interested in the ideas of Ben for a few years back when I bought my EXPLANAR swing trainer. I had a series of lessons with its inventor Luther Blacklock place at Woburn Golf and Country Club. Now, Luther was a true defender of the art of swing Ben Hogan and has published a thoughtful instructional DVD entitled The Lost Fundamentals of Hogan. Luther illustrates these basic principles, such as lost looking, swinging and dressing just like the great man.
So what is the contradiction? Well, the article I read suggested that, according to Bob Rotella, one of the greats of golf psychology, he has interviewed Ben Hogan shortly before the death of Hogan in 1997 and asked that Hogan's swing secret true. Rotella Hogan said that the secret technique was something to do with the way he cuts the wrist at the top of backswing.
Hogan went on to say that the real secret its starting to win major championships came when he eliminated all thoughts of his swing tournament and puts more emphasis on imagination and instinct. I would describe that, relying on his unconscious mind. Hogan said he told people about his swing secrets because that's what they wanted to hear.
Well what about the other top professionals
So how other senior professionals are being similarly distorted in this way? The two that I played with long ago, certainly are Tony Jacklin, a four-ball in 1970 and Nick Faldo in an open amateur competition called The Stag Hertfordshire, Moor Park in 1976 - just before entering the circuit. Oh, I am a name dropper, not Tony spoke I. lot about his cocoon of concentration when he won his majors, but most what I read about him refers to his swing and his life in general. There is very little about his mental strength and techniques of psychology Golf.
When I played with Nick Faldo, he was mentally very impressive and no one who saw him win tournaments and major championships would doubt his mental strength and concentration., however, when all the media attention was on his change of swing and everyone was surprised when he appointed a psychologist to help golf at the Ryder Cup team when he was captain.
Even with Tiger Woods, and no, I do not played with him, we are again on the swing and prodigious length off the tee for his amazing mental resilience, her obvious use of self-hypnosis and the fact that he had a mind coach for a very early age Jay Brunza.
So who's removing secrets the spirit of golf?
For some reason the media golf do not think this is so important to promote the psychology of golf as the secret of golf success. I wonder if the manufacturers of golf equipment that you want to know about this secret either.
About the Author:
Andrew Fogg, the Golf Hypnotist, is an enthusiastic golfer, hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner. He is a practicing golf psychologist and author of a soon to be published book "The Secrets of Hypnotic Golf" and a series of golf hypnosis MP3 programmes.
Visit his website for information on how to get the most success, pleasure and enjoyment from the wonderful game of golf. More specifically, it's about how to improve your golf by working on the 90 percent of the game that's played in the 6 inches between your ears.
Sign up for the free Golf Hypnotist ezine at http://www.golf-hypnotist.com/ and get your free 25- minute "Your Own Virtual Caddy" golf hypnosis MP3 that goes with this article.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com - The Mind Golf Secrets The Golf Equipment Industry Does Not Want You to Hear
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