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#695 Why Your Brain Holds You Back: The Protective Instinct in Putting
You read the green correctly, make what feels like a committed stroke—and the ball stops a meter short. The problem may not be your technique. It may be your brain.
In the Puttalyze System, we call this the Protective Instinct: the nervous system’s natural tendency to choose a movement that feels safer and requires less energy. Even when your conscious mind knows the required distance, subconscious motor control can reduce the stroke through tiny adjustments—a slightly shorter backswing, slower transition, or reduced acceleration.
These changes may be almost invisible, but they reduce ball…
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