The Lost Art of Playing Golf by Gary Nicol & Karl Morris

Author:Gary Nicol & Karl Morris [Nicol, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sports Publications
Published: 2019-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Yet when you start to look at the game through the lens we have suggested a new world opens up.

If you see the game in terms of creating golf shots you then get to drill even deeper and start to be able to put a plan together of how to beat your opponent – the course designer.

You start to love the opportunity to study a golf hole and come up with a way that you as an individual can give that very course designer a run for their money.

One way you can get really good at this is that course designers create many optical illusions of reality.

For example, if you stand on a narrow tee it can create a perception of a narrower fairway than is actually the case.

Perhaps the greatest mind that has ever competed in the game of golf was that of Jack Nicklaus.

He used to walk golf courses backwards.

To the both of us, this makes absolutely perfect sense.

Our suggestion would be that first of all you look at the golf course you play most regularly, starting at the back of the 18th green.

As you stand at the back of a green we guarantee as you look at that green and then scan the fairway for the best approach you will see the hole in a totally different light.

You raise the curtain and reveal some of the illusions your course designer has employed to make you approach the green with trepidation. You will be stunned as you look at the course from a different perspective.

Think about what we normally do habitually. We play a hole and knock the final putt in and then bury our heads as we stalk off to the next tee. We almost never take the time to really look at the structure of the hole from the back of the green.

From this perspective the intention of the designer is laid bare and you can see the opportunities of how you can best approach the green and then what the green demands of you when you get there.

When you become fascinated at the way golf courses are laid out and the way that you can design your shots to defeat the course designer, you then genuinely embrace the art of playing golf.

You will probably find as you look from the back of the green you will start to visualise the potential shots you can hit in. You will be stretching your imagination muscles.

The very same principle applies as you walk backwards all the way up the hole.

You will again see how the course designer has used the contours of the land to make a hole look challenging.

Of course, many holes are genuinely challenging and do require you to hit quality shots but with this training approach you will start to see so many more options.

Do the exercise all the way up to the tee – look backwards and look forwards.

Start to put together your own strategy.

Once you play a hole and you execute the plan

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