{"id":3939,"date":"2011-05-11T09:17:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3939"},"modified":"2011-05-11T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T15:17:25","slug":"tv-golf-great-example-of-focus-on-fundamentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/tv-golf-great-example-of-focus-on-fundamentals\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Golf Great Example of “Focus on Fundamentals”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even Pros Rehearse to Get Back on Track<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To reach the college level, prospects must execute the basics as if they were second nature.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Watch carefully.\u00a0 When professional golfers make a great shot, they twirl their club and begin briskly walking toward the landing spot, chasing the ball and envisioning the next swing.\u00a0 They know when they’ve hit a perfect shot and they can’t wait until they get to the next one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, what happens when a golfer hits a poor shot?\u00a0 He or she stands and takes two or three practice swings before handing their club to the caddie and heading down the fairway.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 They know that their fundamentals broke down at some point and they are trying to take corrective action then and there to remind them of what they should have done properly to execute a better golf shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Everything an athlete does, good or bad, can be traced back to their execution of fundamentals.\u00a0 To be truly superb at their craft, an athlete must dedicate hours upon hours of time honing their skills in an attempt to make every movement in competition a repetition of their position’s fundamentals.\u00a0 And, when they fall short of their expectations or potential,\u00a0watch, because they will get back to the basics ASAP.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We hear stories about how the very best at their sport are the first ones to arrive and start practice sessions and the last to leave, putting in more time than the average athlete.\u00a0 Cal Ripken, Jr. was famous for his practice regimen.\u00a0 The same can be said for the legendary Jerry Rice, Wayne Gretsky, Larry Bird, Martina Navratilova, \u00a0Ted Williams, Anika Sorenstam, Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.\u00a0 In their prime, no one could out work them and the results were that they pushed through the competition to become the\u00a0very best because of an uncommon adherance to practice.\u00a0Yet, we’ve seen these same extraordinary people hiccup and make\u00a0uncharacteristic\u00a0mistakes.\u00a0 And nearly every time, we can watch them quickly adjust in an attempt to return to the correct hand position, footwork or follow through.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Competition for college scholarship offers\u00a0is more fierce than ever before which puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the aspiring college student-athletes to\u00a0maintain a high degree of focus on their fundamentals every time they enter into a competitive setting.\u00a0 It cannot be overstated that\u00a0the best are the hardest workers and are endlessly refocusing their efforts on the little things which in the end catapult\u00a0them from inconsistency\u00a0to consistency and from ordinary to greatness.<\/p>\n

At NSR<\/strong>, our on-the-ground scouts are constantly searching for high school athetes with the dedication to acquire consistency.\u00a0 Flashes of fundamentals tell us that an athlete is a work in progress, but that he or she does have a grasp of the basics.\u00a0 Consistency, however, tells us the work has been put in and that the athlete is on the track to becoming a college student-athlete.\u00a0\u00a0If you would like to be evaluated by an NSR<\/strong> scout,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even Pros Rehearse to Get Back on Track Watch carefully.\u00a0 When professional golfers make a great shot, they twirl their club and begin briskly walking toward the landing spot, chasing the ball and envisioning the next swing.\u00a0 They know when they’ve hit a perfect shot and they can’t wait until they get to the next … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}