Blind Holes (11 April 2011)

Great turn out for last Monday's 'Blind Holes' round at Cottonwood GC. The weather was perfectly sunny and mild. The birds were singing (and the ones that weren't singing were busy pecking holes into the cottonwood trees along the course). Great weather for golfing!

The game of the day was 'Blind Holes', of course. Sneakily educational Coach Mary went about posting instructions on the tees and greens on the back nine of Ivanhoe course before hand. And each LUGGer had to comply to the posted instruction through out each hole they played. The instructions were all meant to enable our budding golfers to explore the various dominant sensory modes of thinking that worked best for them during a golf round. Some are quite counter-intuitive.... like this:

If you wonder what this has to do with golfing mind-set, try it and see. Sometimes it helps to focus on doing a task so much that one doesn't have time to worry about things one shouldn't worry about on the golf course - swing mechanics being a chief example, of course.

Since each of the LUGGers are their own individuals, some preferred one blind hole instruction over the others, though it doesn't hurt to explore them all. After all, how do you know what works best for you if you haven't tried all the various ways first?

Our next event is similar to the last. We meet, as usual, from 3:30-5:30PM at the Cottonwood GC driving range on Monday April 18th for our 'Note in the Hole' event!