Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

The game was easy for me as a kid. I had to play a while to find out how hard it is.

I was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters. So it was a great thrill to play there.

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.

Visualization. It may be the most important part of your mental package.

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.