Five Secrets to Be a Success Golfer

Here's a list of five things that you should utilize for good performance in anything you do (yes, anything!):

A customized and sport-specific physical training program: Note: Beer curls are not considered specific. Professional instruction in your chosen sport: I personally have an après-ski instructor. Proper mental skills: Enough said. Training equipment: Please, no Speedos. Talent to enjoy the sport

All of these have to be blended into reaching your goal of playing your best. When this process is learned and practiced, it is called integrated performance enhancement, or "you da man," as I call it.

If you're going to play on the highest level, you have to have some balance between talent, physical conditioning, mental awareness, instruction, and good ol' perseverance. Simply going out and buying new drivers that are touted to hit the ball 50 yards farther is not going to cut it. Remember: You have to have proper mental skills; use them in this case. Promise me.

Today's golfers are getting into great physical shape. Gary Player was the first guy on the tour who I saw preaching the benefits of being in good shape. Even as he approached 70 years old, a milestone he reached in November 2005, he could do most things the kids on the regular tour can do, except perhaps catching some big air on a snowboard.

Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, and other top pros are into rigorous physicalexercise programs that will keep them strong into the later stages of the year, when a lot of players tire from so much wear and tear on the body. Both Tiger and Vijay can hit the ball into the next zip code, and that's not bad for incentive either.