A Word From Ben !!

We started on Project Benny of 1st June 2011 and here we are, almost 4 months into the endeavor to break 90 on or before 31 May 2012.  My handicap was 31 when we started and it is 29 today.

 If you are reading this, you would have seen the videos so there is no need for me to spend countless lines in this article beating myself up by telling you how far my physique differs from that of Tiger or Martin Kaymer.  I am your average fairly good-looking Joe, almost 50 and I started playing golf three years

Ago. I work pretty hard at the game and could not honestly see myself breaking 90 anytime soon much less within 12 months when Martyn suggested Project Benny.  My thoughts now are that, when I finally break 90, it will pretty much show that breaking 90 is within the reach of any average Joe receiving competent instruction.

 I have learned many things since we embarked on this journey but the most surprising and valuable lesson to date is appreciating the difference between what I do

on the driving range and what I ought to do when I play on the course.  It would have been the most natural thing for me to use the same approach on the course as I do on the range.  I was very surprised to learn that the most effective way to improve is to accept that I would train my body to accept the lessons on swing mechanics on the range and when I get out on the Course, I will have to trust that I have trained my body well enough for it to know what to do without being burdened by excessive swing thoughts.  This is where the pre shot routine quiets the mind to enable the mind and to trust the body in the execution of the shot, be it a drive or a putt.  Pretty Zen stuff – but it works.  Just like the Karate Kid in the movie, in golf you go through the motions day in day out practicing and then when the moment comes on the course, you should just let it happen and the bridging Tool to letting it happen is the pre shot routine. I now understand the Nike motto "Just do it!"

If you find this interesting, I could tell you more but really, I should

Leave wanting more.  Until next time . . . . Benny