Learn To Avoid “Attention Traps”
By Dr. T. J. Tomasi, Keiser University College of Golf Senior Faculty and Director of Research
Robert Desimone, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has shown that your mind cannot attend to two things at once. And architects like Pete Dye know this, so they build very tricky layouts populated with multiple distractions such as water, forced carries, and railroad ties that are designed to draw your attention away from the target you’re trying to hit: “When you get them boys thinking, you got um…” said Dye because he knows that golfers who turn their focus to the trouble, lose their lock on the target. And that’s not good in a target game like golf.
Tour professional Billy Andrade can’t let the trees and the bunker distract him from his target, the fairway.
Here is the big Takeaway for Your game:
Even though the golf course is set up with “attention traps” specially designed to misdirect your focus, it is possible to train your brain to ignore the trouble and stay focused on your target. This is a skill you need to add to your repertoire if you want to be a good player. For the ‘how to,’ see my book The 30 Second Swing.
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