Preface: Golf – A Mental Game
Your mind determines how you approach the game from practice to how you
develop a mindset for facing conditions that demand certain things from your
body.
Arnold Palmer, 94 Tour victories, one of the greatest players in the history
of golf.
We tend to think of golf as a physical game. It does require a certain amount of physical ability. The top players are gifted athletes with exceptional physical skills. But the truth is, all movement is controlled by the brain. If a person suffers a spinal cord injury in the neck, all communications from the brain to the body below the neck are severed. The person would no longer be able to move their body.