Extract from- Golfers, you're Being Coached to Fail!

Worlds Professional Golf Tours are full of excellent players who have a limited, conscious, understanding of how they actually do it. In fact, because they are not overly conscious of what they do is the reason they are the world's best players.  

When we take a skill to a high level, we must pass through 3 stages which are as follows 

1. Unconscious Incompetence; you don’t know what to do so obviously can't do it. 

2. Conscious Incompetence; you now know what to do but still can’t do it. 

3. Conscious Competence; you know what to do and can, to a degree, do it. 

For most, the third stage is the end of the road but the best take it one stage further and become what is called Unconsciously Competent; the holy grail of excellence.

This is where you operate on auto pilot whereby you know what to do and do it without thinking. Simply put, this is performing the physical action without thinking consciously of a multiplicity of movements. 

It is a point worth noting that there have been many cases of world class players who made themselves just Consciously Competent again because they started tinkering with the mechanics. I could cite several cases but that is not what this book is about.