Should Life Imitate Golf?

For golfers who might not understand Texas talk, let me put the advise in my telegram a different way.  Once you address the golf ball, hitting it has to be the most important thing in your life at that moment. Shut out all other thoughts. Pick out the target and take dead aim.  Everybody gets nervous on the first tee.  Take dead aim. This is a wonderful thought to keep in mind all the way around the course.

Not just on the fairway or on the green. Take dead aim at the spot on the fairway or on the green. Refuse to allow any negative thought to enter your mind and swing away.

A high handicapper will be surprised at how often the mind will pick you up and ball will get to the target even with a far less than perfect swing.  The expert player won’t be surprised.  The expert expects to hit the target.  The only surprise here is the expert sometimes allows disorganized thinking to make him or her become distracted from the primary object of the shot.  Which is to hit the target.

I can’t say it too many times.  It’s the most important advise in this book.  Take dead aim.

Make it a point to do every time in every shot and in every endeavor. Don’t just do from time to time when you happen to remember. Make it a habit.  Take dead aim!