The next time you are on the driving range, pick one fundamental to work on, but make that your only technical objective. Make the rest of your session about visualizing and feeling different shots. Try to hit hooks, slices, draws and fades and train your body in the feeling of those shots. Have a clearly visualized shot shape in your mind, with a very precise target.

This is a far more effective way to practice. The golf swing is too complex a movement to be broken down technically beyond the fundamentals. We need to let our minds teach our bodies how to play the game and not the other way round. The best thing we can do is to develop positive visualization and feel for the shot we are about to hit. Essentially, we will learn to heighten our senses for good golf. If we can incorporate this into a solid pre-shot routine, we will become more focused and commited to our objective and more confident as a result.

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