As you read these chapters, we will show you an assertive system of decision making that will enable your game to flourish and increase the enjoyment of this fine sport. We will help you enter the zone of freedom golf and experience a performance and joy that you have only imagined.

   This book is not about theory, but is a nuts-and-bolts approach as we play eighteen holes together. Each hole will discuss mental strategy, learning how to use your mind to create a relaxed spirit that frees up the golf abilities that may have been hidden until now. Playing a links-style course, each hole will address the following.

• Strategy designed for your game.
• A specific skill necessary for that hole.
• Unique application showing how following the rules of golf can improve your game.
• Mental and physical tips from the pro.
• A bag full of practice tips that have carry over value on the course.

   Golf is an integral part of life, and we will show you how your game will benefit by applying solid life concepts will improve your golf game and the joy you get from it. Using the unlimited power of your mind, you will learn how to define your personal game and discover how to maximize the efficiency and enjoyment of the entire experiment.

   As you follow us around the course, you will experience the freedom in your mind and spirit to experience the following.

• Freedom to totally enjoy each round of golf.
• Freedom to play decisively and confidently.
• Freedom to focus on the shot of the moment.
• Freedom to savor the journey.
• Freedom to play your game.
• Freedom to lower your score.

   In golf, the mind really does matter most. We honestly believe that, and have developed our individual games based on that principle. The tips and techniques given by magazines and television are generally good information, but if physical tips are not utilized within the context of smart decisions and productive internal rhythm, those tips can lead to confusion and negative results.

   Freedom Golf will show you how to merge the many aspects of this great game into a system of performance that maximize your skill set and unleashes your spirit into the true joy of excellent golf.

   All golfers have certain things that are more or less the same, or at least similar. Once on the green, putting ability isn’t age dependent or necessarily physical fitness dependent. An seventy-year-old with poor hearing can often be competitive with the twenty-five year old fitness guru. Chipping and course knowledge are two other areas of potential commonality.

   The drive, however, is often the great differentiator. The long hitter has a significant advantage when making their next shot 40 to 50 yards closer to the green. Not only that, but even if the shorter hitter used the closer tees, they will still be using two clubs higher than the player who hits it further.

   With that in mind, we will use two different golfers as examples and models in this book. First, the rather common golfer who hits drives in the 190 to 215 yard range. Second will be the golfer whose drives average in the 240 to 260 range.

   The first golfer is likely the average American male golfer whose score hovers right around a score of 100 and is thrilled to once in a while score in the high nineties. The longer golfer probably has an average score between 83 and 90. Interestingly, both golfers know in their hearts their scores can and should be lower by anywhere from 5 to 9 strokes.

   They try all sorts of tips or new equipment, but the barrier seems to be insurmountable, never to be broken.

   Freedom Golf will provide a specific plan to help those scores be not only achievable, but practical and real