The Sweet Spot - Golf Podcast What Can You Control In Golf?
Mar 2, 2026
A practical dive into what golfers can actually control: preparation, routine, and post-shot reactions. They explore practice quality, course strategy, warmups, and nutrition. Conversation covers building consistent pre-shot habits, managing emotional responses, and accepting uncontrollable variability like wind and bounces.
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Prepare Deliberately With Purposeful Practice
- Control your preparation because it drives on-course performance.
- Practice deliberately: design sessions, simulate rounds, test variables (toe/heel, club changes) and progress from variability to stability before competition.
Use A Short Functional Pre Shot Routine
- Control your on-course routine to stabilise performance under pressure.
- Make it functional and repeatable (analysis, setup, execution) and keep it short — consistency beats long deliberation.
Routine Reduces Overthinking And Boosts Consistency
- Routines reduce conscious overthinking and create rhythm that supports automatic execution.
- Adam cites research: consistent, rhythmical routines correlate with better outcomes and tournament earnings.
