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Take Your Shot Alreadyby Vince PoscenteAuthor of The Ant and the Elephant, Invinceable Principles and The Age of Speed Flying in the face of golf logic... speed is good. And not in a Gordon Gekko-like delusion. Slow is the enemy of better results. Whether you're a golfer or not, here's what I mean. Back in the day of Byron Nelson, Sam Snead and Ben Hogan the trend was to step up the ball and hit it. Then, coinciding with televised golf, Jack Nicklaus made popular his amazingly slow style of play. Although golfing is naturally a slow sport you can actually improve your game by speeding it up. Using speed to improve your results is counter intuitive in many ways. Haste makes waste or slow and steady wins the race are popular principles that aren't necessarily true. According to a November 8th, 2008 Wall Street Journal article 18 Holes in 45 Minutes, Smith says, "Many players, especially those bogged down by second thoughts and deliberations, will score better with a faster pre-shot routine. Play a few rounds with no practice swings, or discipline yourself to take no more than 10 to 15 seconds from pulling the club to hitting. It will probably feel uncomfortable at first, because change is always uncomfortable. But it's worth trying to see what happens." What are key points to this approach?
Christopher Smith's lowest score is 66 in 48 1/2 minutes compared to the typical round of four hours. He admits that speed golf is not going to take off anytime soon. But our instinctive belief that thinking spoils good golf is congruent with his insights. For the rest of us not obsessed with little white balls and a big driver the message is still relevant. In the Age of Speed it's better to let go of all the things that you think you should do. Shorten prep time, relax and take your shot. Until next week it’s full speed ahead,
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PGA Instructor Christopher Smith, the world's fastest speed golfer, is on a mission to get slow golfers to think twice or rather, not think at all.