Overthinking your swing will hurt you

Overthinking about what you must do during your golf swing is a failure of many a golfer whether a beginner, good amateur or top tour player.

Thinking is beneficial when planning your strategy for each hole but overthinking your actual swing during a round will become detrimental when you can’t shut down those conscious thoughts just prior to striking the ball.

Overthinking is when you put too much time into conscious thinking about how you are playing a shot, swing mechanics, second guessing, projecting outcomes, mentally reviewing past shots, or over-analysing what you need to change from other missed shots.

Over analysing becomes a mental interference when your thoughts start to cause your body to freeze.

Overthinking starts way before you tee it up on the first tee.

When I played in the hope of a nice cheque, I just had one main swing thought which I kept…