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This tip is about clear keys. Clear keys are used by many really good players. I'm one
of them. There are days when I just cannot shut out the negative but I want to accentuate
the positive, and a clear key helps me do that. Now, I work *** my game, not only
so I'll play well but so I'll maintain a quality golf game. And that is my response. I work
on my grip. I work on my set up. I work on my ball position. I work on my swing plan.
I work on those things so that when I go play, I'll have a very positive response. Now I
get up on the first tee and I look out there, and this is the difference between a driving
range and the golf course, is all of a sudden, out of bounds appears on the left. A lake
appears on the right. Sometimes when you're swinging the club, it's very easy to think
don't go right, don't hook it, I hope I don't sky it or I hope I don't embarrass myself
in front of this crowd. What a clear key does is if you've got a good response, it allows
you to shut out the negative and the way it works is this. Once I've analyzed the shot,
picked my target, selected the club and on the first tee probably taken a deep breath,
I go into my pre-shot routine, I take dead aim, I square my body to the club, and then
as I swing the club I might repeat smooth as peanut butter. And when I do that, it knocks
out all of the negatives. Everything that I have prepared to do will happen. Now, make
your own clear key and have a few because after a while, they get stale. I used that
clear key to win the True Temper Championship in Tennessee years back. Unfortunately, three
weeks later that smooth became crunchy. So I had to change my clear key. You can go back
to a clear key but have a few and use them, but remember they only work if you have a
good solid response, one repetitive move.