Are you intensely focused while competing and mindlessly practicing? I'd love to be mindless while in competition. Fear is the mindkiller.
Fear is the-little death that brings total obliteration
Very true.
Little update on this thread since I last posted here. I modified my practice basket so the chains are only about 7 or 8 inches across. This is both extremely frustrating and also VERY helpful. One big advantage that I've noticed is that it has really honed down the concept of "painting the pole". If I'm not perfectly in line with the pole through my hole putt, I'm missing. On a full sized regulation basket its was a lot tougher to tell if I was really on line or not. I also started using the "All In" game. These two things together have helped tremendously. Also, playing all in on a basket with an 8 inch target is borderline sadistic. The "All In" game has really helped dial in my focus while practicing, so that I'm really paying attention to every single putt in a way that was hard to do previously. I'm finally starting to turn a corner with all this practice and actually see some results during regular play. I hope it translates to my next tournament, but I don't have anything on the books for quite a while