Your Pre-Shot Routine Is a Promise

Watch any elite player and you'll see the same choreography: same breath, same looks at the target, same number of waggles. Not because they're creatures of habit — because the routine is the one thing pressure can't take from you.

A good routine has three beats: assess (behind the ball), commit (see the shot), execute (no more thinking). If any beat is missing, doubt moves in.

Write yours down. Time it. Then protect it like your scorecard depends on it — because it does.