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If you desire to become a ‘Player’ you must think and act like one! ‘Getting Lucky’ will not cut ‘IT’. Decide on your reasonable goals. Define ‘Small To Big’ and ‘Short To Long’. Own these!

Practise With A Proven Purpose. Don’t just go to the range to discharge a large bucket of bullets! There is really no point and it is generally counterproductive. Don’t practise bad or lazy habits!

Get physically, mechanically and repeatably sound. Then strive to always improve on that platform. Do you ever dream of ‘An 18 Under Round’? How about a ‘Par Round’? Don’t quit!

Golf Targets have one of three energy components … 1) Positive, 2) Neutral and 3) Negative.

It is worth knowing that a ‘Grade 1 Positive Target’ and a Grade 1 Negative Target’ are very different in their hierarchy. From personal ‘Playing and Teaching Experience’, your ‘555 Team’ has come to realize that a ‘Negative Energy Target’ is twice as powerful as its counterpart, ‘The Positive Version’. ‘Fear’ comes with a punch in the gut! Flinch and you are history!

If you are on the 7th Hole, a Par 3, 132 Yards over water to a tight pin, wherein you went swimming yesterday, your splash memory will be both strong and ‘Negative’.

‘Grit’ is intimate ‘Perseverance’, frosting as on a cake. You golfers are a ‘Stamina Machine’ combined with ‘Formula, System and repeatable Science-Based Skills’ … learned skills.

We are all products of our tested and proven environments. (see ‘Pre-Shot Routines and Bullet-Proof Skill Drills’)

The 555 Team and method provides superior value with a blended and appreciated ‘Customer Experience’. (see ‘The 8 Step Putting and Chipping Pre-Shot Routine’. If you need assistance send us an e-mail and we shall accommodate your needs.)

Your ‘Pre-Shot Routine’ is very effectively a ‘Now or Present Tense Task’. Strive to design and accomplish this discipline during every single procedure … Putter to Driver! This simplicity loads your ‘Mental Process Computer’ … loads and aims the gun! Get proficient and monotonous in your total game! Do not be capricious and ‘Short-Cut’ this essential ‘Pre-Shot Element’.

Understand ‘Process vs. Outcome Golf’! ‘Process Golf’ is a “Now Activity”. It leaves little or no room and mental capacity to indulge in ‘Fear Golf’. Get and feel ‘Confident, Comfortable and Consistent’!

‘Outcome Golf’ (Future Tense and State Of Mind) often falls prey to ‘Fear Golf’ and its inescapable ‘Tension’. Musculo-Mental Tension affects your ‘Strike Capability’. Tight muscles are slower muscles (see ‘Clubhead Speed’) that tend to not cooperate. (see ‘Clubface Aim, Clubhead Path & Plane’ … ‘Initial Ball Flight Line’)

Remember this reality? Your ‘Sweet Spot (Optimal Impact Point - Center Of Mass - COM) only starts advancing or moving towards the target in the ‘Bottom Half Of The Swing Circle’. In the ‘Upper Half Of The Swing Circle’ (Brace Hand above your Lower Rib Cage), that critical clubface location (Impact Point) is actually ‘Retreating’ or moving away from the target - aft! Make several ‘Slow Motion Swings’ and you shall actually experience what I am writing. No point in stepping on the ‘Golf Machine’ throttle at the wrong time heading in the wrong direction! This lack of timing your proper mechanics is a primary cause of ‘Ball Flight Curvature’ and disappointment. (see Clubhead Path and Clubface Aim’)

You can directly improve the quality of your contact by making shortened or ‘Abbreviated Swings’. These might be 25% to 50% shorter. Become persistent in this pursuit of perfection.

Monitor your ‘Strike Point Purity’ by looking at the ball marks left on the face of your golf club.

‘Stance’ is one of our five primary ‘Set-Up Components’. Being a ‘555 Golf Family Member’, you shall be familiar with ‘Posture, Grip, Stance, Ball Location and Alignment’.

I just read a seven page dissertation on ‘Stance’ … enough to cause a Ph.D migraine! Adequate time interval to eat bacon and eggs with toast or to take a restless nap!

‘Stance’ is about our ‘Lower Body Machine’ (LBM) … Feet, Ankles, Lower Limbs, Knees, Upper Limbs, which are comprised of Thighs and Hips. Our ‘Biggest Workhorse Muscles’ reside in this aspect. (see ‘Quads, Glutes, Hamstrings and Gastrocs’)

We have a ‘Go Mode’ and an ‘Analytical Fear-Based Hold Mode’. One cannot ‘Loose The Hounds or Horses’ until the gate is open. We are certainly benefitted by preparation, but too much salt and pepper on a meal is not a beneficial seasoning. It may create bitterness?

There is a big difference between being mentally and physically prepared (ready for action) and having reached or achieved perfect analysis and preparation. We can overdo the ‘Getting Ready Part’! Perfectionism can become a mild infection of our lives on the golf course. This overkill can obstruct dreams, goals and lives. Being preoccupied with preparation can prevent execution. To accomplish ‘Maximum Speed’ one must be trusting and prepared to ‘Let The Musculo-Skeletal Machine Go’!

Thought can incite Tension. Tension obstructs speed! Tight muscles are slow muscles. In fact Tension can prevent our taking any action at all. (see ‘The Yips’ and ‘Stuck’) Our conscious thought process cannot keep up with our muscular processes. We know that our ‘Subconscious’ really controls movement.

one should be very ‘Golf Ball Oriented’

You will be familiar with our world-known ‘5 Set-Ups’ … Posture, Grip, Stance, Ball Location and Alignment. (PGSBA) Number four on the list is, of course, ‘Ball Location’.

One must strike a golf ball on the ‘Sweet Spot’ (COM - Center Of Clubhead Mass). You will also know about our marking of the ball with a ‘Target Line and Red Dot’. (see Bottom Inside Cheek - BIC) Quality golf is very ‘Linear’. Sloppy strikes produce poor quality results. You shall struggle accomplishing ‘A To B Ball Flights’ and will be punished by poor score cards! You have to accomplish low scores ‘The Old-Fashioned Way’ … You Must Earn Them!

“Only those with great talent might become winners?”

Simply untrue!

Some of my and our best golf students and performers over more than half a century, were in no way the greatest talents but, they were good listeners, appreciated mentorship and embraced ‘Desire, Honesty and an Open Mind’.

These participants accepted our ‘555 Golf System’ … The 5 Set-Ups … Posture, Grip, Stance. Ball Location and Alignment. It was and is their bedrock from early to late!

There are numerous comments or phrases pertaining to your head position during the swing. One your ‘555 Team’ classifies as a ‘NO NO TERM’ is that we should ‘Keep Our Head Down’. This spinal ‘Kyphosis’ inhibits free and full spinal rotation or ‘Pivot Action’ as well as ‘Core Speed’. It is this golf teacher’s opinion that attempting to stop or eliminate this ‘Neck & Head Rotation’ can invite ‘Cervical Soft and Hard Tissue Injury’. (see ‘STI - Soft Tissue Injury’) You should regularly work on ‘Range Of Motion Exercises’ before and after your practice session or round.

It is useful to keep your ‘Dominant Eye’ focused on the ‘Bottom Inside Cheek Of The Golf Ball’. (see ‘BIC’) This will tolerably and safely control ‘Upper Spinal Rotation’. (see ‘Thoracic and Cervical Vertebrae’).