Golf Smarter number 447, originally published on July 29th, 2014.

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It goes from the realm of, yes, I could make a hole in one, too, how is it going to happen?

What you do is what I call shrinking the green.

Let's say you're playing to a green that is a circle, and the flag is in the back left of the green.

If you were to draw a little cross on that green, making four quadrants, and that tin happens to be in the upper left quadrant,

I want you to shrink the green as if it's just that quadrant.

And what that does is it takes your focus from being a very wide area

to a more specific area around the hole.

And with practice, that area can get smaller and smaller

until you're focusing on a very small part

of the green, eventually, just the hole.

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Welcome back to Golf Smarter, Darren.

Aloha Fred. How are you?

I'm fine and happy to hear Aloha again.

I wish you were here in Hawaii with me. I could say it in person, but you're only 2,500 miles away, so I'm skipping a jump.

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