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There are many articles and books written on golf game visualisation.  It seems the top sportsmen and women use this technique to help there results, but it doesn’t always work for amateurs; why is that?

Here is an explanation of visualisation in the golf game and how to use this technique to your advantage.  The professionals use it by looking into the future, either short term, medium and or long term.  Short term visualisation is done at the time in golf where you are about to hit your shot i.e. practice swing time.  Please don’t think the tour golfers are just practising their physical swing which they do 1000 times a week,  they are using visualisation with their practice swing seeing and more importantly feeling the shot which they are about to hit.  Medium term visualisation can be done before the golf round, on the practice area before you go out or an hour or so before you arrive.  It involves visualising in your head, maybe at breakfast time your full round of golf successfully played, seeing and feeling each shot on your round to come.  It is important in this technique not to visualise the impossible shots, it must be something achievable for your own standard.  If you are playing off 28 handicap, then don’t visualise hitting your drive 300yds with a fade round the 25 yard wide fairway dogleg to leave a 110 yard wedge approach shot.  It must be achievable shots, chips putts and score for your own standard.  Long term visualisation is seeing yourself in the clubhouse or handing in your score as a better player.   For 28 handicaps, seeing yourself as a 22 handicap by the late summer and for the 4 handicaps see yourself as a 2 handicap player.

If you find general visualisation a difficult concept to understand it may be easier to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.  If for example you have a simple flat straightforward chip and run shot and as you are practicing your pre-shot routine (visualisation) and find you are not getting a good result in your minds eye, then tackle this by standing back and watching your favourite tour player play the shot, watch the result and go back to visualising the same with your pre-shot routine.  This however can not be done in the middle of a competition round as it would cause so much slow play you’re playing partners and the rest of the competition would be furious.  It can only be done when the course is quiet and no one waiting on you to finish the hole.

If you do get chance to practise this I would be interested you sharing your results with us here in the comments or if you wish to publish and article here email to the administrator and we will endeavour to publish this for you.

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