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