[YodasLuke]

I think this is true any time your playing well.

I have spoken to Dr. Bob Rotella on separate occasions. He came to our GA Section PGA to speak. Once, we were talking at lunch about thinking well on the course. Mainly about the checklist with which you're consumed prior to executing the stroke. It's sort of a pilot's checklist. There are things that you have to do before flying the jet. A seasoned pilot can jump in the cockpit after twenty years of flying, and do as many as thirty steps in the blink of an eye. I, on the other hand, would need the instruction manual and about an hour. Without it, I'd miss something. Dr. Bob said, "you can't make a bad golfer great by just changing his thoughts." In other words, what I heard was, you have to change alignments and thoughts.

I can't tell you how many times I've had a student in a lesson say, I'm thinking about too much. My question is always, "why?" We'd speak about a number of things (3-F-5), but never did I say to assemble them all in your head and keep them during the stroke. It is a checklist, meaning you CHECK things off. There's nothing wrong with having A!! swing thought. But the checklist is done. You need to trace the plane line, OR focus on delivery path, OR whatever you need. Don't grab the tail of all 24 components at once. The lion will bite you.