Hi, this is B.J. Barger from Alexandria, Virginia. In addition to joining Fred on an awesome

golf smarter adventure to Prague, I'm a member at Laurel Hill Golf Club, and I play lots of golf with

LPGA amateurs and American singles golf. This is Golf Smarter Number 488 published on May 12, 2015.

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First off, I never take a practice swing at the golf ball.

I would select a club.

My practice swings are behind the ball on the target line, and they may not be full. I may take a full casual practice swing rip on a tee box just to make sure that I'm loose. When I set up to hit a shot, I'm going to tee it up, make sure my feet got a comfortable place to stand. Then I'm going to stand behind the ball and this all takes just a moment. And I'm going to look, I'm going to see where I want my golf ball to start where's my start line from there it's how do I want my ball to curve if I'm going to play a little fade or a draw I mean I'm going to visualize that so if I want it to start somewhere that's one thing I can aim the face as best I can to start the ball there if I need to curve it I need a clubhead path going a slightly different place the more my face starts it because you need a differential between face and path to curve it. I need a clubhead path going to a slightly different place than more my face

starts it because you need a differential between face and path to curve the ball. And as a

golfer, you have to learn how to take conscious thought through the right experience and

repetitions. So it jumps the fence into subconscious so that communication isn't smoke signals.

And it's not even old analog phone that it's high-speed fiber optic,

because when the communication from brain to body become high-speed fiber optic,

now people can say they're really not thinking about something because their conscious doesn't know they're thinking.

It's so fast that they look and react. That's rubbish. You play that way because the conscious is one from

slow, calculated into subconscious look and react behavior that's trained in.

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