Hold your chest straight ahead and hold the follow-through - remember to stay accountable for that ahead of the result. 

As we touched on before, over excitement or anxiety about the result will make you target orientated and will make it very difficult for you to stay interested enough in the ball until you've made contact with it - probably the most critical element of a golf swing of any sort.

As I outlined last week, you are more likely to miss by a lot through poor distance judgement than pulling or pushing a ball wide of the target so we'll focus on that first.

Golf is all about limiting the variables and lends itself repeating processes as we always get to aim straight and straight is always where we want to go (there are exceptions of course if we are good enough to shape the ball by design or are trouble somewhere). 

So, pace of swing (fast or slow), rhythm (fast or slow) should be consistent. 

Like chipping, if you are a fidgety type of person who tends to do most things briskly you should swing a golf club briskly.

If you are a relaxed person who is in rush at any time you will swing a golf club slowly - don't fight what you are as your system is in tune with that.

Length of swing should be the only variable when swinging a putter. 

Length of backswing and follow-through should be similar if you have good rhythm, you simply lengthen both ends as putts get longer and shorten both ends a putt get shorter remembering not to compromise the chest straight ahead/hold the follow-through process.

You can't just know how hard to hit a putt. 

If Greg Norman came to Gibraltar Country Club having never played here before, all he would need is two or three putts on the putting green and he will have reset all his gauges. 

Not because he is Greg Norman as such but because he has so much internal data, built through unfathomable amounts of practice on every conceivable surface, that all he needs do is recalibrate everything to the pace of these greens and the rest takes care of itself. 

As a club golfer, you don't have that so everything tends to be your 'best guess' and you will get some wrong and some right.

Wet grass, dry grass, cut greens, woolly greens, uphill, downhill, downwind, into the wind - you have to compute all those things to be

a very good putter - baby steps, just be aware of your process, try to learn from every putt and gradually 'touch and feel' will come.

I recently started to play guitar - have started about seven or eight times in the last 10 years - gave it away after a week all times until

now. 

My fingers of my left hand were killing me, my fingers were too fat to fit between the strings killing every chord and nothing coming out was sounding even remotely like a tune.

I am used to just being able to do something as I can give anybody a game at any sport and expect everything to be that way. 

Then, I re-read that when practicing a skill just put in 10 minutes a day every day, knew its benefits already but you don't often heed your own advice stupidly. 

I did this with guitar for about three weeks, way longer than any previous attempt, by which time for some reason my (same) fingers started to fit between the strings and would arrive in a given position that made a predictable sound and I was beginning to be able to sequence a few 'moves' that led to a pattern and therefore something recognisable as a song. 

Enthusiasm then feeds off a small win and you're off. I will only ever be an intermediate player at best but now I can play some songs and have some fun.

Ten minutes a day, keeping your process, rolling balls differing distances will have the same effect on you - you will develop a few tools that mean distance judgement will 'just happen' - then it's fun!

Good luck with that - more next week.

* Tony White is the golf operations manager at Gibraltar Country Club, Bowral - why not book yourself a lesson or two as the rest of your golfing days could be made longer and that much more enjoyable. 

Tony can be contacted on (02) 48628615 or you can visit www.gibraltarbowral.com.au