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Mind Golf - an experiment
June 5, 2009
You know, there is something truly amazing about a mind
that can learn so quickly that it can make massive leaps in
performance without any prior warning. No other creature on
this planet has the same unique abilities to think in the
way that we do and the size and infrastructure of our
mind-body intelligence is such that no other has advanced
as quickly and efficiently as we have.
I found that I could believe I was on the right track after
having started to link my work and research to golf and how
the way we think affects performance. Yet, I was still not
certain that I would be able to create ways to generate
that performance in others.
I tried mind golf out on my son first. He was nine years
old at the time. He was already a reasonable golfer for his
age and could score 45 to 52 shots around a par three
course. Now the average length of the holes was about 120
yards and, although it did not represent the ultimate
challenge for a nine year old, 45 represented a reasonable
score. However, both he and I knew that if he played his
best shots all the way around the course he could do
better.
We played mind golf on the drive to the golf course and
although fun, initially, it became too easy quickly and
therefore we dropped it in favour of a discussion around
when he could replace his set of second hand ad hoc clubs
for a new set. Sensing a way of keeping him interested in
playing and developing his golf I agreed a target with him
which I felt would take him at least two years to achieve
and yet was still a real incentive towards performance.
The agreement was: when he could score 35 around this par
three course I would buy him a brand new half set of clubs
(I got to choose which ones).
Bearing in mind that for him to achieve this score you can
see that he would have to improve by 10 shots on his best
score and 14 shots on his average. I felt confident that my
money was safe in my pocket for some time. What I wasn’t
prepared for was the deep and immediate impact the mind
golf game would have on his performance and how quickly the
human mind can take one piece of learning and adapt it
still further. He proceeded to play shots on the course
which he had actually described in detail in the car on the
way there. Apart from a struggle on two of the middle holes
he played better than he had done before. With two holes to
play he had scored 29 and just needed two par3 scores to
achieve a score of 35 and get his clubs. I had not been
telling him his total score as we went around which was
normal and for a short time I pondered on this second last
hole whether to tell him now before deciding against it.
His tee shot hit the flag and bounded off the green under
the lip of a bunker and after two bunker shots and a putt
he had scored a 4 (total 33).
On the last tee I told him that he had 33 and that if he
wanted the clubs he would need to score a 2 on this hole or
wait for another time. Again his tee shot hit the flag and
this time dropped straight down two feet from the cup. He
told me afterwards that the putt was easy because he had
seen the tee shot and the putt before hitting that tee shot
and therefore knew what was going to happen. Just one
exercise executed in the car had been taken on to the golf
course and used with exceptional results. I bought those
clubs with a sense of excitement not just for my son who
had improved his golf in such a giant leap, nor for myself
for seeing his joy. You can imagine my growing excitement
coming from the clear knowledge that I was on the right
track and I kept hearing the same words repeat over and
over in my head; “You know that if a nine year old can do
it then so can an adult.”
Keith Forbes Aug 2001
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