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    Just Hit The Damn Ball!: How To Stop Thinking and Play Your Best Golf
    Just Hit The Damn Ball!: How To Stop Thinking and Play Your Best Golf
    Just Hit The Damn Ball!: How To Stop Thinking and Play Your Best Golf
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    Just Hit The Damn Ball!: How To Stop Thinking and Play Your Best Golf

    By Dave Johnston

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    Just Hit The Damn Ball! is a practical guide to help golfers at every skill level move beyond swing mechanics and develop their natural ability. Every golfer has experienced the indescribable feeling of a perfect shot. How much would your game improve if you knew the recipe to help you re-create that shot? Helping you discover the formula is the fundamental goal of this book.
    Your golf game is a by-product of habitual ways of thinking and acting. Over time, these patterns define our comfort levels. We run these rituals automatically; they remain outside our conscious awareness - until they are interrupted. How do you feel when your favourite parking space is occupied or your well-trained Starbucks barista has been replaced?
    Habits are essential to help us navigate smoothly through our day, but they can create an invisible barrier, commonly referred to as the glass ceiling. A conscious awareness of your habits is the first step to shattering the mental boundaries and unlock the vault to constant improvement.
    This book uses basic principles of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as an alternative to traditional instruction methods, based on fault-finding and error correction. The basic premise is, that our obsession with technical perfection is the greatest barrier to improvement – especially for the mid to high handicap golfer.
    The majority of golfers do not have the time, resources or dedication to hit thousands of balls under constant supervision, but you can learn to develop the habit of reinforcing the memory of your best shots. Developing this skill is the starting point, to shattering the glass ceiling and playing better than you ever thought possible!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 14, 2014
    ISBN9781310152658
    Just Hit The Damn Ball!: How To Stop Thinking and Play Your Best Golf

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      Just Hit The Damn Ball! - Dave Johnston

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      INTRODUCTION:

      THE GLASS CEILING

      Your swing is your swing.

      Jackie Burke Jr.

      The 20th century golfer is the penultimate research scientist. Like a modern day alchemist, the rabid golfer experiments tirelessly to uncover the combination of elements that will unlock the vault guarding the secret to a consistent game.

      The Golf Gods tantalize us with the illusion that the missing piece of the puzzle is out there somewhere. Golfers have an insatiable thirst for knowledge. Amazon.com lists over 1,240 instruction books. YouTube boasts 13,000 videos on How To Cure A Slice. These numbers are multiplying daily at an exponential rate.

      It would appear that every instructor has a different version of the golf bible.

      Any golfer with a computer has free access to unlimited resources on every aspect of the game, from swing mechanics to physical conditioning to mental secrets of the world’s best players. Esoteric knowledge is no longer the exclusive domain of scratch players and elite instructors.

      Drivers with self-adjusting screws allow a golfer to compensate for a chronic slice or hook, without taking out a second mortgage to enlist the services of a highly-touted teaching professional.

      Smart phones with built-in, high-definition cameras are capable of slow motion playback. Within minutes a golfer can see the critical flaws in his swing. With all this knowledge (literally) at one’s fingertips, you would think the average golfer would score in the 80’s consistently.

      According to the National Golf Foundation, the 2012 median handicap for the average male golfer in North America is 16. Only 10 percent of golfers score below 90 consistently. This figure hasn’t changed appreciably in 40 years! My search for an answer to this paradox was the tipping point for writing this manuscript.

      SAME OLD, SAME OLD...

      Upon reviewing my lesson notes compiled over the past 31 years, I’ve noticed a disturbing pattern. My regular clients take a series of lessons every spring, practice regularly and improve. During the summer, the golf clubs are often relegated to the basement, as kids activities, family holidays and home renovations assume top priority.

      Often, I wouldn’t see the student again until the following spring. In the majority of cases, the first two lessons of the new season were devoted to correcting the swing faults that were supposed to have been exorcised the previous year!

      This ritual repeated year after year with alarmingly regularity. (The image of a mouse on a treadmill pops into my head as I write these words.) When the student had time to practice, the new technique produced significant improvement. After an extended layoff, however, the old habits re-emerged.

      Most once-a-week golfers do not have the time or resources to invest in regular lessons. Resigned to this fact, you may abandon any hope of improvement. You just play for fun right? Score doesn’t really matter, does it?

      My approach is based on fundamental concepts of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) as popularized by Anthony Robbins. (Don’t worry, it’s not as scary as it sounds). You have untapped natural ability. The key to your best golf is learning how to unlock your mental vault and access your innate swing on demand. One of the biggest roadblocks to improvement is our automatic tendency to dwell on apparent flaws in technique.

      Based on my experience, most golfers find it easier to think negatively; we have been conditioned to look for mistakes. An awareness of critical flaws is necessary for improvement, however, our obsession with fault-finding leads to the embedded belief that our natural instincts betray us and must be constantly

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