17. It is our response to the challenge with the constant stream of instructions we give ourselves during play and the misinterpretation and over emphasis of the instruction out of the textbook that keeps us where we are

The Game is easy, we make it difficult!

Most of the major Golf ball manufacturing companies have in their employ, ball testing machines, the most famous being Iron Byron who I believe works for the Wilson Sports Company. Byron is a double lever robotic arm whose brain is a computer. He can hit golf balls all day long on the range to a consistent high standard that leaves all players for dead except the top Pro's.

If Byron was taken on to a tough championship course, he would then expose the Tour Pro’s weaknesses as he would consistently dispatch golf balls down narrow fairways with all manner of hazards set before him. 

Iron Byron, when taken to the course, now stands head and shoulders above the top Pro's as he never cracks under pressure. I need to mention before I move on that you must not think that Byron performs to this standard because he has fewer moving parts because we have identified that all the best players, the world over, have a technique that is, like Byron, a simple Two Lever action.

Byron succeeds because he is incapable of swinging a club any other way even if he wanted to but the fact is he doesn't want to because he is unconscious, oblivious of the ball and has no pre-conceived expectations or desires for a result. He does not feel the urge to "lift" the ball over a bunker or "keep it out" of the left hand rough, so he consequently never tightens with anxiety.

So as you can see we make the game what it is. It is our response to the challenge of the game with the constant stream of instructions we give ourselves during play and the misinterpretation and over emphasis of the instruction out of the textbook that keeps you where you are.

With golf, we only need to know so much in order to perform. Sadly, when we under perform, we try harder which is a condition instilled in us from birth. We are conditioned for failure when it comes to golf. We must therefore take a leaf out of Byrons book and see if we can find the switch that either turns our brains off when we step on to the course or at least discover a way to quieten down our conscious mind   to allow us to discover our true potential.