Do you know where your eyes are looking when you’re standing over a putt? It’s an important question, because if they’re fixated on the wrong spot, you’re damaging your stroke even before it starts. According to an eye-tracking study presented at the 2012 World Scientific Congress of Golf, highly skilled golfers tend to lock their focus on one specific point on the ball. Less-skilled golfers, by contrast, are guilty of allowing their eyes to dart in all directions, focusing on many spots on and around the ball.
The goal, then, is to improve focus and establish, as some instructors refer to it, “quiet eyes.” For that, we turned to Dr. Joan Vickers, a cognitive neuroscientist, who provides a valuable technique called Quiet Eye Training that has benefited athletes for years.
