If you want to play better golf, you HAVE to learn mental preparation. Make a commitment to do this. It is the foundation of your game. You might get results the very first time you perform this exercise. (Do not be discouraged if it takes you several times, because the breakthrough will be worth the effort.)

Immediately after you have read the following suggestion, answer honestly whether you have ever done this. If the answer happens to be "yes", then ask "how long ago was it?"   I am certain that you can benefit from doing it again. This time it will be different because of the content within the request. Now read the suggestion.   

Before the course opens or after it closes, WALK (not ride) the length of 5 holes: 2 par 5's, 2 par 4's, then a par 3. The course should be close to empty as possible. Dawn or twilight is ok. No golf clubs please. Do wear a regular golfing outfit and shoes.

Do this absolutely ALONE, slowly and meditatively walking. It would be nice if you could have watched the Mental Golf video so that you have a recent lesson with self-hypnosis. If you don't have that experience, listen to relaxing music about 10 minutes before you go or in the car on the way to the course.  Do not take the music on the walk with you . I want this time to be the most quiet you have experienced lately.  

Watch your pace.

Notice that you control it easily as you go.  Ignore all distractions if there are any such as maintenance, traffic or cart path walkers. You are to walk in a path from each tee box down the fairway and up to the green just as your ball might take if you were playing one of your very best rounds of golf there.  Pay attention to all kinds of details, noticing that you feel the lack of the usual pressure to perform.  Breathe deeply and relax the whole time.   "What a great feeling" you think and say to yourself out loud.  The feeling of this emotional calm is physical, too, and you will be able to recall this memory at a later date.  Do a little self-hypnosis while you're there. Substitute one new good habit for one of your worst.  Turn over a "new leaf" right there.

	This is one exercise guaranteed to create personal power: learning a feeling, capturing it on mental film then duplicating the result. Quite often the MORE you are seeking to improve your mental game, the greater will be the result of this exercise. Look at it this way. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this emotionally reproducible feeling is worth thousands of pictures. Besides, you will eventually lower your blood pressure, too. This will be one of your own movie titles with you as the star. 95% of all golfers polled have never done this. If they do it once, they become regulars at this. It is a best kept secret.
The Chinese might say, you are like a tree with new roots.  Any weakness you might ever experience will be something you can override by this kind of carefully developed inner strength.  You have nourished your own mental stamina.  If you ever get "lost" emotionally, you can "find" yourself again through the benefits of repeating this exercise on the course alone.

It sure worked for me.............I chipped in the next day from 60 yards. I was glad for both of us it was while we were on camera for CBS!
  - E. Kageyama Pro and Instructor Honolulu, Hawaii