

To Play More Accurately, Change Your Focus?
Mar 17, 2024
07:40
When it comes to improving technical aspects of your playing, it's easy to assume that this is mostly a physical issue. Where the solution is to do more practice, and more "correct" repetitions.
But what if part of the problem was mental?
A 2009 golf study (and many others both before and since!) suggest that what we're thinking about when we're playing can affect our accuracy quite a bit. And that the thing we think we should be thinking about may actually be the least helpful!
Get all the nerdy details here:
To Play More Accurately, Change Your Focus?
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