[Overpaid Slacker]

Timothy Galway summed up BeyGon's points years ago in a book entitled "The Inner Game of Golf". Galway had been a tour tennis pro, and written a book "The Inner Game of Tennis". He took up golf, applying essentially the principles of IGT, and was a scratch golfer within a year.

He emphasized that in golf, you initiate all movement, unlike in other sports (such as tennis or baseball) where something is coming at you, which gives your "conscious" something to do/react to. No distractions, no multivariate analyses going on immediately prior to your initiation of the action... You've picked your club, checked the wind, aligned your shot, and then it's just you, waiting for you.

In golf, you're standing there, waiting to take a shot, with your "conscious" telling you "keep your head down. chin up. left arm straight. easy grip, etc.", essentially pestering your "subconscious", which, if left alone, knows how to swing the club.

He also made the point that, unlike in tennis, every mistake you make shows up in the final score, and determines your winning or losing. Whereas you can lose several points in tennis and still win, or you can say that your opponent just played a Heck of a (lucky) game to beat you.

Great book -- recommend it to many golfer friends.

JP