When I was younger I thought that pre-shot routines were the preserve of the very best tour pros looking for the finest of edges. I had no idea just how TRANSFORMATIONAL they can be to a player’s game AT ANY LEVEL – if you can create the best one for you! Consistent play comes from using a consistent process. Yet consistent doesn’t always mean consistently your best. Indeed the majority of routines I see (even those of tour pros) can be seriously improved upon, mainly because their purpose is not understood well enough. So what are they for?

Ever since I first saw Seve swing a golf club when I was a kid, I was mesmerised by the beauty of the golf swing. And so were my friends. We’d regularly go to the practice ground with as many balls as we could physically carry and only come back once we were able to wear our blisters with pride! Golf was all in the swing! One friend Ian Keenan, now a Challenge Tour golfer, worked on refining his own, beautiful swing. Others were hugely influenced by David Leadbetter’s work with Nick Faldo at the time, thinking that all of his success was down to his infamous swing changes. So they started re-engineering their swings based on various swing gurus’ “one-size-fits-all” swing methods. Even though it didn’t improve their games much, golf, it seemed, was all about developing the perfect swing.

I’ve been working and training as a mind coach for over 15 years and have been fortunate enough to witness many rapid transformations over that time. I’d like to continue to share with you the story so far of one of my most recent clients. He really is an inspiring example of what can be achieved when you get your mind on board! In Part 1 of this blog, I talked about his rapid rise to success, shooting under par to win a major club competition within just 3 months of starting to play golf!! We then how we worked on his routines to develop a consistent mental process, driving his scores down further. This is Part 2…

I’ve been working and training as a mind coach for over 15 years and have been fortunate enough to witness many rapid transformations over that time. I’d like to share with you the story so far of one of my most recent clients. He really is an inspiring example of what can be achieved when you get your mind on board!