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| By Chuck Evans
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It's been a busy week but fun and informative. First I had
the opportunity to spend some time with Camilo
Villegas - the "Cobra" - and while it was a lot of work we had time to talk
about some of the things that he does in preparation for a tournament.
Camilo is a very mature 24-year-old and has a great outlook on life and golf.
When he was asked about Harbour
Town and the tough conditions, he replied that, "Yeah it was tough but it
was also a lot of fun."
If we had asked a lot of other players the general response would have been
much more negative.
The lesson to be learned here is that you
can't do anyting about playing conditions: you take what Mother Nature is
dealing out and make the best of it. There's no use in getting down and
complaining because everyone else is playing in the same conditions!
We also spoke about No. 10 at Augusta,
where you need to draw it around the corner to take advantage of the down slope,
and he told me that in a practice round the guy he was playing with doesn't like
to draw it. This other player hit five tee shots trying to draw the ball and
none of them drew! In fact, they all wound up in the tree line on the
right side!
And this lesson simply means that as a player you have to play to your
strengths. Don't try to hit shots that you are not comfortable with nor shots
that you have not practiced.
As players we all can get consumed with swing mechanics, weather conditions,
and trying to hit the perfect shot. Ben
Hogan once said that he only hit four-to-five shots a round exactly
how he wanted! If the best players in the world don't hit every shot perfect
then why does the average player expect to?
The goal is to minimize the error percentage, not hit it perfect every
time.
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