Just a quick thought for today.
Have you ever noticed how you often play your best golf when you have some random thought stuck in your head throughout the round? Sometimes it can be a favourite piece of music which seems to be stuck on repeat. Unfortunately, it more often than not is the last thing you heard on the radio before you got of the car, such as that annoying radio commercial, or that song you really don't like. It doesn't always have to be music either, it can be anything at all really, and every time you make a swing on that particular day, there is that thought/song/commercial jingling through your brain.
You'd think it would be distracting wouldn't you? However the reverse seems to be true and, as I said earlier, we often play our best golf when seemingly "distracted" by this inane thought.
The answer is obvious of course. Clearly when our analytical mind is quiet and our brain is free to "play the radio" as it were, we tend to get out of our own way on the golf course and play a little more freely.
Unfortunately I can't seem to get the knack of tuning in to what I want to hear, and often end up with something hideously annoying, so this is my next goal; to learn how to "twiddle the dial" in my brain until my thought for the day is something I can live with.
Kudos to those who got the Frank Zappa reference in the title to todays blog. If I could tune my mental radio to the genius of Frank, I'd be one happy golfer duffing my way round.
Ten days until club champs kick off.
Still no practice to speak of. The more I try and change things the more they stay the same.....
Until next time
The Naked Golfer.
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