Control Your Nervousness by Controlling Your Movements (May 2007)
With Ed Grant
By controlling your movements you control your pre-shot routine by a great deal. Before a shot often fast players get slow, and slow players will get fast. The reason they do that is because they are getting conscious. They're stopping their pre-shot routine because they get into another pre-shot routine, and they have to learn it all over again for the first time and they increase their chances of failure. Make sure when you're under pressure that you control your movements, that they are exactly like the ones when you are not under pressure. Don't walk down the fairway twice as fast. Walk at the same rate you usually do. Don't take three looks at the hole instead of your normal two looks. Don't take five waggles instead of your normal three waggles.
