I think one thing that's very important in golf is to stay in the moment. Now, what's the moment? You're out on a golf course for four to four and a half hours. At a tournament, it's usually a little slower, people are taking a little more time and you have to expect that. But how many minutes in four and a half hours, or three and a half hours, or four hours do you really need to concentrate? And the answer is some place between twenty-five and forty minutes. Let's say I go out and I shoot seventy today. I'm only going to concentrate for about twenty-eight minutes in that four hours. The rest of the time I'm going to enjoy the views, I'm going to enjoy the company and I'm definitely going to enjoy the surroundings. Now, the way I look at it is you have to give yourself a point where you tell yourself the next twenty, thirty seconds is mine. Now Arnold Palmer, when he was in his prime, he would analyze the situation, pick his golf club and everything, talk to his caddy and then he'd step back and Arnold Palmer would tug his pants. Everybody thought his pants were falling down. Well, I think what that told Arnold Palmer was that the next twenty, thirty seconds are mine and everything else can just leave the area. The next twenty, thirty seconds are mine. One of the guys that I liked to watch was Ray Floyd, Raymond Floyd, a great player his whole life. A marvelous individual. I got to caddy in a group, I didn't get to caddy for him but it was a real thrill as a young man to sit there and watch Raymond Floyd play golf. And before he hit a shot, he'd tug on his cap. He had that visor, he'd pull on that visor and that told his caddy and everyone else around him, the next twenty seconds are mine. And Raymond Floyd did a lot with that twenty seconds and you can too. So learn to concentrate in bursts. If you try to concentrate every minute for four hours, you're going to wear yourself out and you're not going to have any fun.
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