Sep

28

The greatest lesson in golf is that every stroke counts the same, a 300 yard drive or a three foot putt.

Well, if it is not enough that Tiger Woods hits 300 yard drives, I heard that he has over 325 straight putts made from three feet and in. As I recall, the average for a professional from three feet and in is 90%. By making 100 percent of putts from three feet and in is often the difference in winning a tournament and finishing lower on the board.

Greg Norman had a reputation of being a total perfectionist. At the height of his game he would win one tournament of every five he entered. He, like Tiger Woods, would play a limited schedule and only the gold-level tournaments against the strongest fields in the game. He had a workout regime that, like Tiger's, was of Olympic proportions. His workouts would last for hours and he was extremely methodical in every aspect of the game.

Norman was an excellent driver of the ball, leading the tour many times in total driving. Total driving is a statistic that combines length with accuracy. He was not content just to drive the ball far; his goal was to drive it far and straight.

One of his short-game practice drills was to start off with 25 putts from three feet and continue with 25 from four feet, then five feet, then six feet. That's 100 putts in total. He felt that if he had great confidence in making the short putts it took the pressure off the other aspects of the game and allowed him to be more aggressive on his birdie putts. This attention to the smaller aspects of golf made him a very lethal force.

Great traders and speculators pay great attention to detail. While paying attention to large matters, they also focus on the small things. This can make all the difference between ultimately winning and losing.


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