AVOID THE KNOCKOUT BLOW

“Everyone has a plan,” said boxing legend Mike Tyson, “until they get punched in the face.” What’s yours?

Iron Mike may only have been trashing the claimed strategy of his next opponent, but he was in fact making a rather fine point. Indeed he was echoing the much quoted wisdom of “no plan survives the battlefield”, originally proffered by a 19th-century Prussian soldier. “Only the layman believes that in the course of a campaign, he sees the consistent implementation of an original thought that has been considered in advance in every detail and retained to the end.” Thank you, Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke. Hopefully by now you’ll see where I am going with this… because in a golfing context, so many of us do a pretty good impression of that layman. We head out on to the first tee with a vague notion that whatever swing thought that…

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Golf Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Mar 2024 - Issue 418

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