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Zen Master Series Putting Tips
Posted by Big G under Buyers Guide, Features, Golf Putters
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| Mark Shervill is a qualified P.G.A Professional, a master practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a Zen Master. His philosophy has been exercised to great effect in his golf coaching methods with many other professional sports disciplines. “Blending the Mind and Body to produce a unique learning experience enables us to unlock your hidden potential and release the positive golfer with in” says Mark. Here he outlines briefly his teaching approach as a P.G.A European Tour Coach and his belief that the Zen Oracle provides the key to strengthen our inner golf game. | |
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In Zen there is always a feeling of awakening that is something quite natural, something startlingly obvious, which may occur at any moment. If it involves a difficulty it is because it is much too simple. What are you looking for? Here you are about to read more information about the art of putting. Stop! Good putters think good putts. I suggest, before we go any further that you stop reading and get comfortable and think about all of the putts that you have ever hit and I want you to pick the best putt that you have ever hit out of the library of your mind and take yourself to that moment. Relive and remember where you were exactly, the specific hole you were on, the people you were with , the weather that you were playing in, the whole situation. Was your putt a left to right break or right to left? Did you get that feeling or voice in your head “I fancy this one”, before you even hit it? Relive it. Spend time going over and over it in your very own theatre of your mind to completely associate yourself with that great putting moment. |
| How do you feel? I should imagine now that you are feeling good, having just made that again. This is the first secret of your success. There is a good putter inside you; we just have to get out of the way and let him free, to believe in your ability. So many golf coaches have written about the things that we do wrong…”change this, change that. This will make it right”. The general reaction to this type of advice is to steer a path somewhere down the middle; adopting a variation between some of the methods just boggle the mind and produce a confusion and doubt. Some of us have tried so many different putters in the search for the magic wand. We get a new putter that works for a while then; it becomes as cold as the old one. We wonder why we are not consistent. “The more that I know the more confused that I become” I hear so often. When the power of your self-belief overrides those niggling doubt, that’s when you can stop looking for that magical fix and start to rely on your subconscious ability to execute the shot - precisely. Remember - remove doubt = realise results.
“Now we can set yourselves free and start to unlock your potential.” We call the action we use to putt a stroke. The very word suggests we already need a relaxed mind and body to perform. If you take that great putt you holed in the theatre of your mind, how relaxed were you then? This is how I arrived at endorsing the Zen Oracle for my own game and in my coaching. The first time I tried the Zen Oracle Putter was at the Volvo PGA Championship at Wentworth 2004 as part of my coaching duties. It was impossible to ignore the interest and buzz players were getting from it. I was impelled to picked one up and immediately started to just release the ball out of the aperture or Zen Eye. My principle putting philosophies has always been to look for ways that silence all the internal “chitter chatter” in the mind and to produce a free flowing athletic action. And, in the Zen Oracle I could recognised how this important aspect was perfectly incorporated into this great innovation. I had cracked it. The perfect tool for me to work with ; not only to produce better putters but to make players stop thinking and come to their senses. “It’s perfect”. The results have followed and, just as the name Zen suggest, the players I work with have developed a clearer quieter mind that transcends throughout their game. Working with the Zen Oracle Putter will instantly install the second secret of your putting success - “freedom”. Developing freedom “Keep it simple, keep it free and putt to hole it!” |
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“We don’t play golf to relax.
We putt to hole it. That is basic information, but far too often I hear golfers on the green talking bout getting it close enough. If it goes in it is a bonus. Next time you play I want you to commit to holing it. Before you even hit your putt I want you to have a clear, in focus picture of how your ball is going to roll to the hole and in. The power of visualisation is a tool that all great players use to produce clarity that will then increase their believe resulting in their mind and the body charged with the freedom it needs to make the putt. The Zen Oracle provides perfect practice for this necessity. By practising the release drill, out of the Zen Eye, you will build a stroke that will release your putt to the target, making you a free athletic putter. So you can enjoy holing putts on the coarse with the same magic wand that you practise so effectively with .Leave a Reply
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August 5, 2007 -
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