Playing Intentions/Focus

General Discussion
#1

Playing around with ideas for my playing intentions. I’m playing tomorrow and I’m going to focus on these two items to determine whether I was successful or not.

  1. Tempo. Count myself into every shot.
  2. Start line. If I hit my start line, I’m going to consider that shot successful. I’ll keep a tally. My goal is to have 80% or more of my shots start on my intended start line. I’ll walk into each shot, focused on hitting my start line.

Other feels I may play around with in different rounds:

  1. Focusing on my desired shot trajectory with each shot (eg. Walk into the shot thinking “fade, fade, fade, fade”)
  2. Focus solely on the quality of the face/ground strike with each shot
  3. Focus on a specific trajectory

What other ideas so folks have for focuses while playing golf that are NOT technique related (weight shift, wrist hinge, etc.)?

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#2

I definitely do your #1 and #2. Your Other #1 is similar to my “visioning”. I walk into shot envisioning trajectory and start line.

#3

Wondering what you’re working on or what your intention is?

I’ve been through all the attention focus types in past 2 years. I’m not 100% sure if this is neutral or external but I’m settling on a gaze on a single dimple on the ball. But sounding out Tour Tempo Tones in my head at the same time for tempo and timing.

This year I’m going to work on the “shot creates the swing” concept whereby I visualise a fade then I step up and hit a fade without any internal swing thoughts. Been reading up on this recently and listening to podcasts on same topic. However that will require a load of variability type practice at the range to acquire the feels.

#4

I also tried this when I played yesterday. No mechanical thoughts.

For full swing, my intention was to have smooth tempo and not try to swing too hard. Was very successful with this, and only caught myself breaking this once, when I was going for a par 5 in two.

For putting, my intention was to focus on center face contact.