Target Oriented Golf, with Colin Cromack

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Golf, Sports, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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GS#442 June 24, 2014 442: The key to performance and flow in golf is understanding how to keep your conscious mind away from attempting to control your physical actions. Colin Cromack of Target Oriented Golf returns for the first time since 2008 (ep#137) to discuss how to train your eyes, mind and body for success, and then putting Golf Psychology into practice. Swing with precision and play with real freedom.If you are a dedicated golfer somewhere between beginner and Tour Professional wondering why your best golf performances remain so frustratingly elusive, the Target Oriented Golf program systematically explains how to focus your mind for golf and demonstrate how to put the comprehensive theory into practical procedures you can practice at home, on the range and enjoy out on the golf course. No NLP. No EFT. No 3 Principles. No hypnosis. This is ALL golf instruction.This episode is sponsored by Indeed. Please visit indeed.com/GOLFSMARTER and get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT. Terms and conditions apply. For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golf Smarter number 442 from June 24th, 2014.
0:05.0	Welcome to Golf Smarter Mulligans.
0:08.0	Your second chance to gain insight and advice from the best instructors featured on the Golf Smarter podcast.
0:16.0	Great golf instruction never gets old.
0:19.0	Our interview library features hundreds of hours of game
0:23.1	improvement conversations like this that are no longer available in any podcast app.
0:28.3	What target-oriented golf is about is helping a person establish that visualization of the target
0:34.4	as they're executing their action. So if their conscious mind is occupied with the visualization of the target,
0:40.3	then it allows a non-conscious mind to swing the gold club.
0:43.3	And it will do so because you're giving it a clear statement of intention.
0:47.3	Your conscious mind has a clear picture of what it's trying to achieve,
0:51.3	and it allows the non-conscious mind to follow through.
0:53.3	The non-conscious mind cannot carry through. The non-conscious mind
0:55.0	cannot carry out that action if you don't have a clear target in mind. And that's the reason
1:00.7	why many people struggle with this concept of target orientation because they look at their target
1:07.0	threads but they don't see it. And because they don't see it, when they look back at the
1:11.9	wall, their attentional focus shifts away from target onto the ball, onto the takeaway,
1:17.8	onto the water, onto the out of bounds, onto whatever chooses to jump in becomes the focus of
1:24.1	your attention at that time, and the non-conscious mind responds accordingly.
1:34.0	Target-oriented golf with Colin Kromack. This is Golf Smarter. Welcome back to the
1:41.4	Golf Smarter podcast, Colin. Good morning, friend. I'm delighted to be here again.
1:46.0	It has been a long time since the first time you and I spoke, which was episode number 137 back in July of 2008.
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