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That made me think of a show that was on the golf channel where they tried to make Charles Barkley into a respectable golfer. Despite a highly competent coach

• kenjackson 16y ago
  With Barkeley there was something else going on. Barkeley is an extreme example, read this: http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,2056371,00.html http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,2056371,... This in particular was useful to read: "That was the weird thing about Barkley. You did fix him. On the range and on the simulator, he had 300-yard drives. He couldn't take it to the course. He had the mental full-swing yips, and you had him killing it. Yeah, the change was that before he couldn't do it on the range. Now he can do it on the range, but still can't do it on the course. So he's playing left-handed now. He's actually pretty good. It's bizarre that a professional athlete wouldn't be physically able to do it. He is physically able to, he isn't mentally able to. It's bizarre when somebody shoots less than 50 percent from the foul line, it's bizarre when Chuck Knobloch can't throw it to first base, it's bizarre when Rick Ankiel throws 18 pitches in a row to the backstop. But it happens." I had to look up Rick Ankiel. Interesting story of what sounds like a complete mental breakdown of a skill. Tiger Woods seems to be going through a minor form of this now.