Keep it simple coach....... the golf swing is not reactionary, the ball ain't moving........ binary is good........
Left eye dominant and right brain not relevant. Left eye is corrected by a different alignment. You can hit it right sided but have to aim with left eye. You aim with your dominant eye, regardless.
The Mickelson video is nice but not relevant here. He is determining what to hit and why. We are dealing with actual movement. When it's your turn to address the ball, what is your time to finish.
If its 10-15 you are right brain, more intuitive as you said, if its 15-20 seconds you are left Brain, more mechanical because you don't have a right brainers feel.
The real Key here is to know what YOU are and stay within your time limits to get a good mind to body connection creating a better shot.
But, as I said, if you get caught playing with 3 other golfers who are all different than you in those times than you(brain type) you are going to have a bad day.
And thats why people have favorite foursomes, their brain types match and their shot times match.
So pick your foursomes carefully.
The best advice from sports psychologists to deal with pressure on the golf course is to not change your routine. i.e. your time to finish a shot........if a little pressure causes you to rush or take more time it equals a bad shot, no swing fault, your fault.
Bottom Line is to know your shot routine time and stick to it. Shibumi Golf
PS... thanks for the video, it is interesting for pre-shot thinking
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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
Although left brain versus right brain is an easy binary, either or concept, I suspect its a metaphor for Level 1 vs Level 2 brain activity, as well as an oversimplified personality type analogy
The more intuitive you are, the more you play by feel, meaning you have practiced enough to unconsciously hit the ball to the correct distance. The less intuitive you are, the more mechanical you have to be, more engineerish like Dechambeau. That being said, left eye dominant and right brain dominant is a real binary different, as is near sighted, far sighted, one eye of each, and astigmatism, which is much more of an issue to have to work at to overcome.
Refer to the Phil Mickelson interview with Feherty, describing his version of the two different successful golfer types.
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so I don't disagree with the differences in humans and golfers, I do disagree with the oversimplification of left brain right brain is the reason. The world is seldom as simple as a binary answer, though humans can easily gravitate towards it, especially if you have a more Judgmental personality type. |