Having a precise target helps because it narrows your focus intently to a spot you want to hit the ball, rather than aiming ‘just somewhere down there’.įor example, rather than trying to just hit the fairway on a tee shot, I like to pick out a precise target on the line I want to hit, such as a tree limb in the distance or the corner of a bunker. When it’s in the trees or way off the green, that’s when you have problems. If your bad shot is still on the edge of the fairway or green then you’re able to make a score. I guess the rest were all varying degrees of mishits. One of the first things my coach told me when we started working together was, “Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, but the quality of your bad ones.” The great Ben Hogan used to say he hit only two perfect shots in a round. Picking a precise target when hitting a golf shot really improves the quality of your average to poor shots. It makes their misses that much better than if they were aiming ‘just somewhere down there’.
I’m sure the top goal-kickers in footy have a similar philosophy, too, by picking someone in the crowd behind the goalposts to narrow their focus. They pinpoint their serves to all corners of the service box, leaving their opponents helpless. The same goes for the best servers in tennis, like former great Pete Sampras and the ‘GOAT’ Roger Federer. Since he couldn’t overpower hitters anymore, he had to figure out their weaknesses and exploit them by throwing pitches that were centimetre-perfect. In the latter years of his career, he could paint the corners of the strike zone at will. One of my favourite athletes to watch was Greg Maddux, the pitching legend for Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves. In the movie, “The Patriot”, Mel Gibson’s character tells his son while shooting a rifle, “Aim small, miss small.” It’s great advice that carries over not only into golf but all sports. 2 Likes The tighter your target, the less severe your miscues become.
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