Coach:
Tiger was tremendous because he has such a gifted creative imagination
Tiger:
But I could never control it
I
couldn’t fathom someone saying, visualize the golf shot
When I
visualize I see this ball going every which way, my creative mind would
not see a golf shot doing this or this. My mind would not let me do
that, it would be all over the place . YOUR MIND, THAT IS YOUR CONSCIOUS
MIND, WILL BE ALL OVER THE PLACE IF YOU HAVE NOT LEARNED TO FOCUS AND
USE YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
So he
said I want you to feel it, use you hands, your fingers, your body
awareness to harness your creative activity that way, and come up with
an answer, and he was very instrumental in teaching me how to control my
creative mind
Coach
...The genius of Tiger Woods is his creative imagination and short game
I tend to
have these black-out moments, where I don’t remember. I know I was
there, but I don’t remember actually performing the golf shot. IN THE
ZONE – LOSS OF FEELING OF SELF CONSCIOUSNESS
Coach -
The athlete in the peak performance zone, is really in a heightened
state of awareness, MAYBE REDUCED STATE OF AWARENESS and absorbed focus,
there is an element of relaxation response that goes on in there, and they are always in the here and now, with a kind of a clear
uncluttered mind, absorbed in the moment, letting the performance
happen, rather than thinking about – or helping the performance happen
