You should not worry about the bad strokes you play in your practice session.  There are no penalties to be incurred on the practice ground.  You are out there not so much to prevent bad shots as to create good ones.  That is the positive approach which you can only pursue by carrying on with the swing-shape pictured in your mind.

  When the good shots start to flow, as they will if you resist the inclination to steer the ball after one or two failures, take note of the "feels" you experience.

  Let me repeat that the object is to produce the good shot, not to manipulate the club head out of the swing-shape in a mistaken attempt to avoid repeating a bad one.

  I will illustrate the point by recalling the calamitous experience of the great American golfer, Arnold Palmer, who failed to qualify in the first tournament of 1961 through taking 12 at the eighteenth hole.

  Palmer sent two balls out of bounds on one side of the course, then two more out of bounds the other side at this disastrous hole.  Afterwards he admitted that he must have "over-corrected" after the second one went out and this "over-correction" brought him a similar penalty on the other side of the course.

  This great player, day in, day out, relies implicitly on his swing.  For once it let him down badly at a vital hole in a tournament.  Yet it seems that after the first ball flew out of bounds he still made no effort to correct it in any way.  After the second failure he felt compelled to try something with his chances in the tournament slipping away.  What happened?  In his own words he "over-corrected".

  Palmer, of course, did not panic or try to alter his swing.  He was quickly back in the old groove in the next tournament, and the next.  I am certain that had these shots gone astray on the practice ground, and not at a crucial stage of a big money tournament, he would have made no attempt at correction leading to over-correction.  He would have set to work on his delivery until the good shots were flowing again.

Here's how to end your frustration and maximize your golf potential.

Your golf swing will have effortless power.  Producing amazingly long and straight drives that blow by your golfing buddies by 30 yards on every hole.

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