What's your opinion of "easy and hard shots" in pool? Do you find yourself making the hard ones, yet missing the easy ones sometimes? Does this make sense to you?
I had the privilege and great opportunity to study golf under Hank Haney, world renowned golf instructor and personal coach to Tiger Woods (2004-2010).
Hank and I became friends and he started to frequent my club in Dallas that had pool tables. We played and talked one night - he mentioned that "if I was interested" he would be willing to teach me what he knew about golf if I'd help him with his pool game.
This was a start of a two year period that taught me more than just golf, it taught me how to teach. Golf and pool are very similar at the highest levels, pocket billiards, in many ways is a miniature version of golf.
Check out this video of Hank explaining one of my mental philosophies and how it applies to golf, and pool. This is one of the few mental teachings that he was able to pass on to Tiger Woods and helped him that year in some major tournaments.
Hank wrote this story in his book about training Tiger called 'The Big Miss' and I felt honored. Johnny Archer told me this was the only book he read "cover to cover," and was pleasantly surprised to see a fellow pool professional mentioned.
Here's the link, tell me what you think about "hard and easy shots" - do you differentiate between the two, or do you treat them the same......and if so, how?
LINK TO THE HANK HANEY UNIVERSITY OF GOLF - NO EASY SHOTS IN GOLF
I had the privilege and great opportunity to study golf under Hank Haney, world renowned golf instructor and personal coach to Tiger Woods (2004-2010).
Hank and I became friends and he started to frequent my club in Dallas that had pool tables. We played and talked one night - he mentioned that "if I was interested" he would be willing to teach me what he knew about golf if I'd help him with his pool game.
This was a start of a two year period that taught me more than just golf, it taught me how to teach. Golf and pool are very similar at the highest levels, pocket billiards, in many ways is a miniature version of golf.
Check out this video of Hank explaining one of my mental philosophies and how it applies to golf, and pool. This is one of the few mental teachings that he was able to pass on to Tiger Woods and helped him that year in some major tournaments.
Hank wrote this story in his book about training Tiger called 'The Big Miss' and I felt honored. Johnny Archer told me this was the only book he read "cover to cover," and was pleasantly surprised to see a fellow pool professional mentioned.
Here's the link, tell me what you think about "hard and easy shots" - do you differentiate between the two, or do you treat them the same......and if so, how?
LINK TO THE HANK HANEY UNIVERSITY OF GOLF - NO EASY SHOTS IN GOLF