[O.B.Left]

If you tossed me a basketball today, some 30 years later, I'd shoot with no hesitation and no thought for my form -- I'd just be looking at the front of the rim trying to make it. If we played a pick-up game, I'd just be reacting to situations and PLAYING -- zero thought about form.

Thats ultimate goal for the golfer too I believe Brian. Its very difficult to get there, however. No one stays there permanently. Not even the Worlds number 1 it would seem. But golf is a fickle game and even a hacker has a few shining, albeit brief moments of basking in its glory.

It can be like trying to hold water in your hands.

I know of a few instructors , writers etc who discuss this thing......the " zone" or whatever you want to call it. Bob Rotella, Sean Foley etc.

One of my absolute fave's alludes to it in his mission statement in fact. With a mention of how to get there even, contained within a few sentences;



" I Teach.......

MOTION

1. Learned Mechanically
2. Aligned Geometrically
3. Performed Subconsciously "


His name? Why Lynn Blake of course.


P.S. Like basketball , golf can be, at its simplest, just you, (your brain) and your pressure points. Point, shoot. Like throwing bean bags or something. TGM reduces down to this simplicity, but it takes a serious amount of work to get there. You were there in basketball, few are regularly anyways at golf. But it remains a goal, THE goal for me anyways. In the end ultimately, we are not scientists , we are artists, performers.