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This video is the overview of the mental game.

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So the overview of the mental game, we're going to walk through the process of what you

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do on the golf course.

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So we have other videos in this mental game section of how to transfer practice, how to

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design practice programs on the routine, or on the range, all that stuff.

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But ultimately, it comes down to when you're on the course and you've got absolutely no

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feedback whatsoever.

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So for the sake of this video, I'm actually going to take away our trusty alignment

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rod.

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Because when you're on the golf course, you only get to rely on what you've practiced,

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internal feedback, external stuff is pretty much illegal.

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So what's the process of kind of going through the mental game on the course?

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Well most of the programs that I've looked at in that I've read, whether it's Vision 54

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or HardWired for Golf.

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There's a bunch of very good systems that kind of walk through this process.

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But essentially, you're going to have at least two different zones.

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So I'm going to have my analytical zone, which Vision 54 is going to call the thinkbox

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or the HardWired for Golf is going to call the caddy phase.

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Where basically, you're processing all the data.

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So you're looking at your lie, you're looking at the wind, you're looking at the trouble

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around you, you're trying to factor in and come up with the plan.

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So what shot am I going to be most comfortable with?

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What shot am I going to execute?

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That's going to give me the best chance of getting this golf ball into the next best place

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I can be.

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So this is all left-brain activity.

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This is all very analytical.

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This is something that you can learn to do pretty quickly, but it's not something that

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you necessarily have to have a consistent rhythm or timing to.

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You may find that you forget a few things, but if you look in the note section of this

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video, you'll see a lot of the different ideas that I like to factor in when going through

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this thinkbox.

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So once you're done with the thinkbox analytical zone, there needs to be a trigger from

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going from left-brain to right-brain.

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Because when you're actually swinging a golf club, you want it to be a very rich kind

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of deep experience.

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You don't want to have a lot of words or chatter in your head.

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I know that a lot of golfers have talked about having swing thoughts.

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When a tour golfer mentions that they had a good swing thought, what I really think that

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they mean is that they had a good swing feeling or sensation or vision or they had a good

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rhythm.

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It doesn't mean that they had the words running across their brain.

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So you need to have a trigger from going from analytical to right-brain.

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Right-brain is I'm going to be an athlete.

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I'm going to be an animal.

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I'm going to be unconscious or super-conscious depending on how you look at it.

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But I'm basically going to be over the ball and just kind of react.

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So once I've done all my processing, I'm going to have a trigger.

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Now whether it's kind of a specific thing you do with your club, whether it's I put

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on my glove and I'm committed to the shot, there has to be this trigger that's going

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to get me in this zone.

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In other sports say basketball, you kind of have this little routine that you use.

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And that routine starts with once you've caught the ball.

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So you basically need the spot back here in this analytical zone of, alright, somebody just

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passed me the ball time to go.

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Once I decide that I'm going to go, that's when my pre-shot routine really kicks into

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effect.

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Now the different pre-shot routines or the different ways that golfers tend to get most

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comfortable over the ball are going to different depending on what part of your brain

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you're using.

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So if you're a feel golfer, they will tend to have a very kind of mechanical process,

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but then they will get into this little moment of zen or stillness over the ball.

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And then almost like a martial artist breaking a board, they're going to explode into action.

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So that swing, even if it's a really graceful kind of Ernie Ellis type swing, it's going

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to come from this place of sillness.

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If you're a rhythmical golfer, what's going to happen is you're going to kind of hear

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the music in your head.

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You got this feeling of this tempo, right?

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You got this rhythm in your body.

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And basically you're going to try and move to that rhythm the whole time.

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So whether that's involving looks, whether that's steps, whether that's waggle is kind

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of like a Jason Duffner.

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Everything is going to be going off that rhythm.

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Lastly if you're a visual golfer, you want to stay out of your body and you're going

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to try and almost create this vivid image of seeing exactly the shot that you want

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hit.

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So there's my target, I've got that crystal clear image.

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You're going to get over the ball and I'm going to make sure that all my alignments match

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up.

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So I still am looking out there and I'm just imagining this target.

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I'm imagining this flight of the ball or whatever I see as a visual golfer.

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Once I have a crystal clear picture, I'm going to come back to the ball and I'm not going

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to spend very much time.

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Little golfers can stay a little bit longer over the golf ball.

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They can hang out here and they can kind of take what they need in order to feel comfortable

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for breaking that board.

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rhythm golfers have to stay on their count and visual golfers have to stay over here

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as little as possible so that they can clear the keep a clear picture of what they're

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trying to do.

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So then after I've done this little golf swing or hung out in the playbox or players

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on, I then have to go back to the analytical and the analytical is going to be the post-shot

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routine.

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So how do I process what I just did?

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If it's a good shot, what can I do to kind of reinforce and build a stronger mental pattern?

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Maybe I can do little things like take a deep breath, smile a little bit.

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I can actually tap different parts of your body if you're familiar with something called

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EFT.

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So I can help trigger my brain to store a memory that way.

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If I hit a bad shot, how do I not go into the past and say, oh, I always hit bad shots?

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How do I not go into the future and say, man, I'm going to play terribly the rest of

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this day?

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How do I just kind of take this moment in time?

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Let's process the data, say, all right, what could I do better?

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What did I do well?

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What can I learn from this?

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And then have the ability to then process it and move on.

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I always used because I value nutrition on the course, I would use taking a swing of water

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as the end of my shot.

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So basically, I would hit a shot and I would quickly kind of go through my process, sorry,

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what did I do?

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Did I not get the right feeling?

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Because I was a feel golfer?

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Yeah, okay, that's a better feel.

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All right, I can move on to the next shot.

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I'm excited about whatever challenge that's going to pose.

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Grab my water, take a drink.

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Let's go.

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I can move on.

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But you want to build your post shot routine so that you don't take whatever happened

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with this shot up there to the next shot.

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So that's kind of the overview.

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We're going to go through different pieces as to more details in that player zone, that

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catty zone, that think box, the play box, whatever you want to call it, we're going to

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figure out when to be left-brain, when to be right-brain.

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And how to take this swing that we've built on the range, ultimately onto the course.