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1. If you don’t learn to love the short game and the mental game, you will never reach your potential as a golfer. Attach your ego to your putting, chipping, and mental game, not your long game because that will change every day while the short game and the mental game can remain consistent (p. 86). 2. Golf is a completely new challenge every day: Make up your mind that you will shoot the best possible score with whatever game you brought to the course that day (p. 41). 3. Never take gimmies. Hole every single putt every time you play (p. 82). 4. Spend at least 70% of your practice time on the short game. Otherwise, you’re not truly committed to becoming the best golfer you can be (p. 88). 5. If you worry about hitting a bad shot, you’re almost certain to, so you might as well think confidently and see what happens (p. 127). 6. Conservative strategy; Confident swing (p. 147). Our mantra for this year. 7. The quality of your practice is more important than the quantity (p. 222).   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Practice Ideas: <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">When putting, play two balls: Don’t read the first one but read the second one. See how the two compare over the course of the round. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Write out ahead of time what shot you will hit for the entire front nine at St. Ives. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Pick a yardage beyond which you will lay up on par 5’s and stick to this.