I got a new copy of The Cosmic Laws of Golf (and everything else) and finished it last night. I recommend it highly.
This is a typical mind-over-matter text, but is a quick read, and doesn’t spend a lot of time with esoterica that means little. Its focus really is meditation, and putting a golf focus on that meditation. I felt comfortable with the exercises the author recommended, and only got a little perturbed when he began trying to turn putting into pornography. I’ll let you figure that one out yourself.
Anyway, it is always tough to keep a focus when playing golf with frineds, but I did accomplish it a couple of times today with my negihbor. Especially on the last hole. My second finished pin-high to the left, just off the green, I could visualize my chip shot hitting just on the green and rolling into the hole, and that’s just what it did. I seldom birdie that hole, so it was a special bonus. What was interesting to me was that I had no conscious thought of visualizing the shot, it just popped into my mind.
It was my only birdie of the day.
I checked my scores and put some pressure on myself for tomorrow. I have to shoot an 81 or less to keep my handicap from going back up. The trend must remain downward!
I better do some meditating tonight.