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I believe Carey Mumford would agree -- he doesn't advocate any conscious swing thoughts during the execution of the swing during actual play. It's not that he doesn't want your mind unoccupied, because that would be very difficult to do; rather, he wants you to occupy your mind with a non-mechanical, non-instructive thought -- a nursery rhyme, for example.

Many of us have actually experienced what lagster refers to after we have dumped one in the water and we just throw down another ball and -- without "trying" or "thinking" -- we hit a great next shot.

I think all this stuff is uncharted territory in golf among other human performance related activities. There has to be something going on in the mind of the tour players that ain't going on in the minds of others. I know that they have better mechanics and coordination than most. But I like to believe that we all have abilities that we just can "let out."

RWH . . . where have you been man? You have been conspicuously absent. Are you in trouble with the law or something?