Seeing, Thinking, Feeling and Doing

What you see, think, feel and do are sometimes very different, this is especially true of golf.

What you see Camilo Villegas do is most likely not what you think he is doing.

When you think your swing looks like Tiger Woods', it most likely is not what you are doing.

We all have a friend who thinks he sounds like Frank Sinatra and goes to the trouble to prove it. We all know that he doesn't sound like Frank and hope that the neighbours don't call the cops for noise pollution when he belts out "My Way".

Why? Simply because the dude cannot hear himself sing. In like fashion, most of us balk when we hear a tape recording of ourselves singing.

It is no different in golf. If we do not use feedback mechanisms to show us what we are doing when we are doing something, we will never be able to identify the correct kinaesthetic feel that produces the correct swing motion. If we cannot identify the feel, then we will only have fleeting moments of precision.