Golf Tip: 10 Steps to Avoid Disaster on the Tee Box
Tune out all the mental and physical distractions and get focused on your shot.
While I’m still bent over the ball on the tee I start clearing my mind. As the tee goes in the ground I listen for the sounds of the birds and the wind in the trees. I tune out the inevitable human noises in the background.
Now is the time when I dial in a pure relationship between me, my club and my ball. The three of us have a job to do and nobody can help us so we need to work together. I can’t focus on that job if I’m also carrying on a conversation with my playing partners, chatting about the weather or whether or not Tiger Woods really treated Stevie Williams like a slave, or thinking about playing better than I did last week.
One deep breath in and then slowly out while I’m teeing up the ball generally does the trick for me. When I stand up, it’s me, my club and my ball, out there and ready to go to work.
5 seconds.
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