Crazy, how much pressure we place upon ourselves, for what I’m sure is a leisure activity for nearly everyone here. I believe it though.
I am trying to follow the ethos of the OP, by playful experimentation and seeing what happens. Move the ball back, what did that do? I liked that feeling! What caused it? Was it this? That? That. O.K… and so on.
Got my brightly colored headband on—my GF/soon-to-be fiancee loves my hair longer, and I hate it in my eyes. I don’t want the easy excuse for making a bad shot. So, headbands. “Sweaty Betty”'s are great, with room in the back to pull longer hair through. Absorbent, too. Which is a concern here.
Point is, I’m trying to positively cultivate a bit of the indifference to others’ view of my performance, a la Jayne and his hat from Firefly. If I know already I’m not going to impress anyone, I can stop being concerned about the reaction of other people to my learning process. (I’m not deliberately trying to bother people at all.)
Helps when I start digging little straight hemispherical ditches, directly towards the target. I guess I took that Adam Young ‘hammer a nail into the golf ball’ image too literally, and decided hammering down and forward was the way to go. LOL.