The golf ball on the ground can make us do things. Stupid things.

Golf is so easy. All you have to do when you swing at the ball is reproduce your practice swing. Easy!

But the ball gives us other ideas. Bad ideas.

Here’s a good idea.

When you take your practice swing, all see below you is turf. That’s all your mind is perceiving.

So, when you swing at the ball, see the ground on each side of the ball and fill in the ground under the ball with your imagination, and swing at all that, just like you did when the ball wasn’t there.

Now you’re back to what was going through your mind during your perfect practice swing, and you can easily reproduce that practice swing and just let everything else take care of itself.

The ball is still there, you can still see it, but you have given your mind the command to see the ground instead.

(There’s only room in your mind for one thought at a time, and that thought needs to be what to do. What not to do, as in don’t think about the ball or something like that, is entirely irrelevant.)

So instead of focusing on the ball, focus on the ground beneath the ball. Easy!