Merlin method is living your life backwards. Start from what you want to happen and imaging the steps that will lead from your goal to present situation.
I have been reading "Golf Tuition Online" and thinking of the mental side of the game as well as how to learn a swing. Golf is very much a mental game. So it is important to take this in account when planning ones development program.
Merlin Method has been a tool that I use for planning future (in my work as a project director). Michael Campbell gives a tip to divide the round in to six holes and try to play the best score on each. AND to play each hole from the green to the T.
YES. Where do you want to be for the last put. From where do you hit to the green and so on. This is "Merlin Method" in practice. Nothing new there?
I have set a goal to drop my HDC from 47 to under 10 next season. I need to think what does this mean. What do I need to be able to play good golf? I can approach this by thinking of the two sides of the game:
1) Technical - the unconscious "me"
2) Rational - the knowing and controlling conscious "me"
I think that technical or motor skills are learned by repetition - by practice - and the need for conscious control decreases when we practice. Movement control becomes automated - unconscious. BUT we can me the control conscious again, if we want to. Often this will affect the flow of the movement. (Our body is a very complex nervous system and conscious decision may affect the control - or change of command.) BUT if we practice - to be aware of our movements - we can or sense them easier than always just letting our swing happen.
This is a tough call! When you are playing in the zone, you do not need to consciously control your swing. You have your bag of shots and system of evaluating length and "bang" you hit the ball. How do you play if you are not in the ZONE? How do you get there? This is where conscious control or sensing your movements comes important. Can you have key thoughts - checking points - and "not" mess up your game? ... TO become a good golfer, I think I need some tools to get me back in to the game.
Merlin method - what do I need to get a HDC 10?
I need to make 50% boogies and 50% pars.
I will make my goal to make a round hitting boogies (HDC 18?)
Before I can do that I need to make a round of hitting douple boogies (HDC 36)
At the moment my HDC is 47, but I have played only 5 rounds - so the first goal is to play a round just making douple boogies.
To play douple boogies I can use 3 - 4 shots in short game. There should not be any problems with bunkers. (I have enough shots to visit bunkers, too). When I hit the fairway, I can reach the green - or close enough - to make a douple boogie.
Looks like I have a road map to my goal. First step is hdc under 36. That should be in first thing in May, when the season starts.
From 36 to 18 feels like a big jump so I will give me two months:-) I should be able to play a round of boogies in the end of July.
Final goal should be reach in September, when our season ends. That is about two monts again. (With this rate of development I will win all the Tournaments in Jyväskylä:-)
I have been reading "Golf Tuition Online" and thinking of the mental side of the game as well as how to learn a swing. Golf is very much a mental game. So it is important to take this in account when planning ones development program.
Merlin Method has been a tool that I use for planning future (in my work as a project director). Michael Campbell gives a tip to divide the round in to six holes and try to play the best score on each. AND to play each hole from the green to the T.
YES. Where do you want to be for the last put. From where do you hit to the green and so on. This is "Merlin Method" in practice. Nothing new there?
I have set a goal to drop my HDC from 47 to under 10 next season. I need to think what does this mean. What do I need to be able to play good golf? I can approach this by thinking of the two sides of the game:
1) Technical - the unconscious "me"
2) Rational - the knowing and controlling conscious "me"
I think that technical or motor skills are learned by repetition - by practice - and the need for conscious control decreases when we practice. Movement control becomes automated - unconscious. BUT we can me the control conscious again, if we want to. Often this will affect the flow of the movement. (Our body is a very complex nervous system and conscious decision may affect the control - or change of command.) BUT if we practice - to be aware of our movements - we can or sense them easier than always just letting our swing happen.
This is a tough call! When you are playing in the zone, you do not need to consciously control your swing. You have your bag of shots and system of evaluating length and "bang" you hit the ball. How do you play if you are not in the ZONE? How do you get there? This is where conscious control or sensing your movements comes important. Can you have key thoughts - checking points - and "not" mess up your game? ... TO become a good golfer, I think I need some tools to get me back in to the game.
Merlin method - what do I need to get a HDC 10?
I need to make 50% boogies and 50% pars.
I will make my goal to make a round hitting boogies (HDC 18?)
Before I can do that I need to make a round of hitting douple boogies (HDC 36)
At the moment my HDC is 47, but I have played only 5 rounds - so the first goal is to play a round just making douple boogies.
To play douple boogies I can use 3 - 4 shots in short game. There should not be any problems with bunkers. (I have enough shots to visit bunkers, too). When I hit the fairway, I can reach the green - or close enough - to make a douple boogie.
Looks like I have a road map to my goal. First step is hdc under 36. That should be in first thing in May, when the season starts.
From 36 to 18 feels like a big jump so I will give me two months:-) I should be able to play a round of boogies in the end of July.
Final goal should be reach in September, when our season ends. That is about two monts again. (With this rate of development I will win all the Tournaments in Jyväskylä:-)