My little secret

I find it difficult to impossible to completely empty my mind, but I've learned to do something that allows me to make a stroke - not really a swing - without having words in my brain.

After I've visualized the flight path of the ball and set up in a way that will produce that (based on several million ballstrikes in my past), I look at the ball and start counting the dimples. While I'm counting, which takes some amount of concentration to actually focus on the dimples, without any further thoughts about anything - not my body, my hands, the shaft, the clubhead - the stroke takes place.

Sometimes, maybe once or twice per round, everything goes according to plan. Since that's about as well as Jones, Hogan, Woods, Nicklaus ever did, I'm content.