Thoughts to Build On

Chapter 15

Practice (In Your Imagination) Makes

Perfect

The only way you can really become an expert
in almost any endeavor is to practice intensively in your
imagination. That's what the professionals do. And a
professional either does it right-or he doesn't get paid.
That's what the experts do-and that's how they got to be
experts.

So practicing in your imagination is not some

kind of hocus-pocus. It is the proper (and now accepted)

use of the soundest psychological and physiological prin-

ciples.

In goll you couldn't possibly think of all the

things you must do to make a perfect drive, stroke or putt

-while you are doing them-any more than you could

consciously direct each intricate movement of your hands

and fingers while playing the piano or typing a letter.