| If you have hit good golf shots at some time in your | | | | game exists in your unconscious resources, why not |
| golfing life, you already have the unconscious golfing | | | | access it through your mind with golf hypnosis rather |
| ability to repeat those shots and score well. So, how | | | | than just learning to swing the club again. You already |
| well could you score if you played to the best of | | | | have a blueprint for a great golf game, why not |
| your existing golfing ability? Well, you can if you get | | | | follow it rather than tear it up and start again? |
| the very most out of that ability before you decide | | | | If you've been following the annual saga of swing |
| to change your golf swing again. | | | | changes from current British Open and US PGA |
| One way to find out how well you can score with | | | | champion, Padraig Harrington, you'll know that the |
| your existing unconscious golf swing is to add up the | | | | same thing occurs with the very best golfers. That |
| lowest number of shots you've ever scored on each | | | | said, Padraig tends to change his swing when he |
| hole - your eclectic score. Ideally assess your scores | | | | seems to the rest of us to be playing his best golf |
| on a course you play regularly. Now to add some | | | | ever, rather than after a bad round! I read recently |
| reality to it, forget about any hole-score that included | | | | that he justifies this by saying that it's in his nature |
| holing a long shot, chip or bunker shot, unless that's a | | | | to seek to improve his swing every year. He backs |
| part of your regular game! I've just done that and | | | | this up by saying, "The reason I improve is I actually |
| I'm astounded to find out that my eclectic score | | | | stop and start rebuilding every year and change |
| around Beaconsfield's par 71 adds up to 50, even | | | | things. I think guys who stay constant are on a |
| after adding 3 shots to allow for 3 rather improbable | | | | slippery slope to retirement. It's all about pushing |
| eagles on par 4's that resulted from holing long shots | | | | yourself to get better." |
| or driving the green. So, even if I on average I play | | | | Now unless you have the consistency and are |
| one shot above my best on every hole, I should still | | | | approaching the level of success regularly achieved |
| go round in 68 on average - 3 under par! I think I can | | | | by Padraig Harrington, I suggest that you focus using |
| cope with that, although my friends will struggle with | | | | your golf mind on getting the best out of the swing |
| the permanent silly grin on my face. | | | | you already have. There's no harm in seeing your |
| So given that I have the capability of scoring that | | | | regular golf instructor, if you need to, to make sure |
| well, why is it that whenever I used to have a bad | | | | you haven't slipped into bad habits. Remember that |
| round, I'd head for the practice ground to find out | | | | the destructive shots you hit are more likely to come |
| what was wrong with my swing or visit yet another | | | | from your conscious thoughts than from your |
| golf guru to try and change it? I'm sure that sounds | | | | unconscious golf swing. |
| like many of the golfers you know as well. If a similar | | | | |