It's a funny thing when you hear someone say, "His heart's just not in it," or, "I don't know what he was thinking there, it was clearly not the shot to hit."
These innuendoes have more to them than we think -- they are simply more intuitive in nature than we ever thought.
Some very interesting studies have shown that with EKG's hooked up to spots on a persons scalp and around the heart, scientists and doctors have been able to monitor the rhythms and waves to essential areas. They have found that if someone is anxious, worried, troubled, or if their attitude is angry or flustered, they have no waves coming from the heart. One might conceivably say that they are thinking with only their head and not their heart. Or, their heart is not really in it. Or, I don't know what they were thinking when they hit that shot.
I have watched many a player throw away a lead or an entire tournament for that matter and assumed that the player wanted it very badly, but could not pull it off in the clutch. I have heard announcers say, "he's all heart," when in actuality their heart may not have been communicating with the mind with any heart wave coherence.
The only way that we could experience one of those so called, "out of body experiences," of a mind, heart connection is when we are completely in the body. Coherent communication mind and heart goes a lot further than just those to organs. In fact, every cell marches to their beat. That which has often been described as an outer body experience is really the connection of both that get every cell in the body feeling euphoric.
When I first learned of this connection I never would have possibly imagined that the problem was with the heart. To the contrary, I would have thought it must be with the mind. If we were to take a look at the greatest player in the game today and hook him up to this EKG machine perhaps we would be able to stop our speculation of how he is changing his swing and that he is taking some huge risks in order to draw the golf ball. I too have been one of those instructors that will look at a player like Tiger Woods and come up with my own speculations. I noticed about three years ago he started to lay the club off at the top of his backswing.
I'm a big advocate of this position at the top. I believe it is the more superior position to sling the club down from back to the ball. I speculated that Tiger may have even picked it up from playing golf with one of his friends, Annika Sorenstam. I could never buy into the other theory that was passed around -- he has been trying to draw the ball. I could surely be wrong. After all, it is purely speculation.
However Tiger's been playing golf since he could walk. I think he knows how to do anything he wants to a golf ball.
Take this as speculation on the part of the writer -- I do not know when Tiger's dad got sick with that terrible disease, but I do know that he had been sick for awhile, perhaps right after the opening of the tour season three years ago.
That seems to be about the time that cancer will sometimes take someone from us if they are a fighter like Earl Woods.
That was Tiger's worst season on tour. After his first win that season, it seemed he struggled with every little thing -- it was as if his heart wasn't in it.
