Improvement Ideas for Playing Shots Players with your D/I (Dominance/Influencing) style are typically quite determined and enthusiastic when they're over the ball about to play a shot. These are great strengths unless they go overboard and create excessive tension and interfere with concentrating on the shot at hand. The following strategies will help you relax, focus and make the best use of your shotmaking ability - Focus on the target rather than overloading your mind with swing mechanics. Dr. Bob Rotella, mental coach for some of the world’s greatest players, advises - "For every 40 shots you hit working on your swing, hit at least 60 where you're thinking about your target - look at the target, let your mind react to the target and then trust your swing without thinking of mechanics." Tiger Woods echoes these thoughts - “I look at the target and mentally pull it back into my hands. Then I let my subconscious react and my swing just happens.” Both Jack Nicklaus and Ben Hogan are legendary for how they managed their mental processes when playing shots. Read how both placed great emphasis on focusing on the target and visualizing their shots - Jack Nicklaus - "For me, playing a shot is 50% mental picture, 40% percent setup and 10% swing. That 50% mental picture may surprise you, since so much is said and written about the swing, but unless I've pictured the shot going to a specific target, I have little chance of hitting the shot I want." Ben Hogan wrote that he visualized shots sitting in a chair with his eyes closed and mentally feeling the club in his hand, seeing himself going through his pre-shot routine, actually feeling his swing and the impact of the club hitting the ball, and then seeing the flight of the ball all the way to the target.